Search Results - "Yam, Patricia T."
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Signaling mechanisms of non-conventional axon guidance cues: the Shh, BMP and Wnt morphogens
Published in Current opinion in neurobiology (01-12-2013)“…Highlights • The morphogens Shh, BMPs and Wnts are also axon guidance molecules. • Shh, BMPs and Wnts do not guide axons via their canonical signaling…”
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Long-Range Guidance of Spinal Commissural Axons by Netrin1 and Sonic Hedgehog from Midline Floor Plate Cells
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (20-02-2019)“…An important model for axon pathfinding is provided by guidance of embryonic commissural axons from dorsal spinal cord to ventral midline floor plate (FP). FP…”
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14-3-3 Proteins Regulate a Cell-Intrinsic Switch from Sonic Hedgehog-Mediated Commissural Axon Attraction to Repulsion after Midline Crossing
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (21-11-2012)“…Axons must switch responsiveness to guidance cues during development for correct pathfinding. Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) attracts spinal cord commissural axons…”
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Sonic Hedgehog Guides Axons through a Noncanonical, Src-Family-Kinase-Dependent Signaling Pathway
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (14-05-2009)“…Sonic hedgehog (Shh) plays essential roles in developmental events such as cell fate specification and axon guidance. Shh induces cell fate specification…”
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Polarized Dock Activity Drives Shh-Mediated Axon Guidance
Published in Developmental cell (20-08-2018)“…In the developing spinal cord, Sonic hedgehog (Shh) attracts commissural axons toward the floorplate. How Shh regulates the cytoskeletal remodeling that…”
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Integration of shallow gradients of Shh and Netrin-1 guides commissural axons
Published in PLoS biology (01-03-2015)“…During nervous system development, gradients of Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) and Netrin-1 attract growth cones of commissural axons toward the floor plate of the…”
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Boc Acts via Numb as a Shh-Dependent Endocytic Platform for Ptch1 Internalization and Shh-Mediated Axon Guidance
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (19-06-2019)“…During development, Shh attracts commissural axons toward the floor plate through a non-canonical, transcription-independent signaling pathway that…”
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Cellular Functions of the Autism Risk Factor PTCHD1 in Mice
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (06-12-2017)“…The gene ( ) is mutated in patients with autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disabilities and has been hypothesized to contribute to Sonic hedgehog…”
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The Ciliary Protein Arl13b Functions Outside of the Primary Cilium in Shh-Mediated Axon Guidance
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (10-12-2019)“…The small GTPase Arl13b is enriched in primary cilia and regulates Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling. During neural development, Shh controls patterning and…”
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Numb positively regulates Hedgehog signaling at the ciliary pocket
Published in Nature communications (25-04-2024)“…Hedgehog (Hh) signaling relies on the primary cilium, a cell surface organelle that serves as a signaling hub for the cell. Using proximity labeling and…”
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Sonic Hedgehog Guides Axons via Zipcode Binding Protein 1-Mediated Local Translation
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (15-02-2017)“…Sonic hedgehog (Shh) attracts spinal cord commissural axons toward the floorplate. How Shh elicits changes in the growth cone cytoskeleton that drive growth…”
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Actin-myosin network reorganization breaks symmetry at the cell rear to spontaneously initiate polarized cell motility
Published in The Journal of cell biology (24-09-2007)“…We have analyzed the spontaneous symmetry breaking and initiation of actin-based motility in keratocytes (fish epithelial cells). In stationary keratocytes,…”
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N-cadherin relocalizes from the periphery to the center of the synapse after transient synaptic stimulation in hippocampal neurons
Published in PloS one (01-11-2013)“…N-cadherin is a cell adhesion molecule which is enriched at synapses. Binding of N-cadherin molecules to each other across the synaptic cleft has been…”
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14-3-3 proteins regulate protein kinase a activity to modulate growth cone turning responses
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (20-10-2010)“…Growth cones regulate the speed and direction of neuronal outgrowth during development and regeneration. How the growth cone spatially and temporally regulates…”
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β-arrestins Are Scaffolding Proteins Required for Shh-Mediated Axon Guidance
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (24-07-2024)“…During nervous system development, Sonic hedgehog (Shh) guides developing commissural axons toward the floor plate of the spinal cord. To guide axons, Shh…”
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Extracellular phosphorylation in axon pathfinding
Published in Nature chemical biology (01-11-2019)“…The growth and guidance of axons dictate their trajectories and are critical for neural-circuit formation. Research in this issue uncovers a new mechanism for…”
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Intracellular fluid flow in rapidly moving cells
Published in Nature cell biology (01-10-2009)“…Cytosolic fluid dynamics have been implicated in cell motility because of the hydrodynamic forces they induce and because of their influence on transport of…”
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Myosin II contributes to cell-scale actin network treadmilling through network disassembly
Published in Nature (London) (20-05-2010)“…Myosin II in cell motility In animals, most cells when on the move migrate using a crawling motion, in which the front of the cell is propelled forward by the…”
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A human DCC variant causing mirror movement disorder reveals that the WAVE regulatory complex mediates axon guidance by netrin-1-DCC
Published in Science signaling (01-10-2024)“…The axon guidance cue netrin-1 signals through its receptor DCC (deleted in colorectal cancer) to attract commissural axons to the midline. Variants in DCC are…”
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Genetics of mirror movements identifies a multifunctional complex required for Netrin-1 guidance and lateralization of motor control
Published in Science advances (12-05-2023)“…Mirror movements (MM) disorder is characterized by involuntary movements on one side of the body that mirror intentional movements on the opposite side. We…”
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