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ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2017

The PAR proteins: from molecular circuits to dynamic self-stabilizing cell polarity.

Charles F Lang, Edwin Munro

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed.

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  17. A PAR6-aPKC-LGL structure reveals how LGL antagonizes aPKC.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Charles F LangDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Edwin MunroDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA emunro@uchicago.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5535-5675

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENETICS AND REGULATIONT32GM007197 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ROTHMAN-DENES, LUCIA B. B · 1985 to 2020
$17.0M
Dynamics and regulation of actomyosin contractility in the C. elegans embryoR01GM098441 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MUNRO, EDWIN MARSHALL · 2011 to 2020
$2.9M
Mechanistic origins and dynamic control of epithelial zippering and neural tube closureR01HD088831 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MUNRO, EDWIN MARSHALL · 2016 to 2020
$1.6M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD088831NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098441NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007197
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PAR proteins constitute a highly conserved network of scaffolding proteins, adaptors and enzymes that form and stabilize cortical asymmetries in response to diverse inputs. They function throughout development and across the metazoa to regulate cell polarity. In recent years, traditional approaches to identifying and characterizing molecular players and interactions in the PAR network have begun to merge with biophysical, theoretical and computational efforts to understand the network as a pattern-forming biochemical circuit. Here, we summarize recent progress in the field, focusing on recent studies that have characterized the core molecular circuitry, circuit design and spatiotemporal dynamics. We also consider some of the ways in which the PAR network has evolved to polarize cells in different contexts and in response to different cues and functional constraints.

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Cell PolarityAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsProtein DomainsSignal TransductionCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsC. elegansDrosophilaPARPolarity

Identifiers

PMID28974638
PMCPMC5665476

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