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ReviewFEBS letters2018

The multipotency-to-commitment transition in Caenorhabditis elegans-implications for reprogramming from cells to organs.

Erik A Spickard, Pradeep M Joshi, Joel H Rothman

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Review in FEBS letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Do cells use passwords in cell-state transitions? Is cell signaling sometimes encrypted?Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften · 2020
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  7. A high-content imaging approach to profileDevelopment (Cambridge, England) · 2019
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  8. Wound healing, cellular regeneration and plasticity: the elegans way.The International journal of developmental biology · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Erik A SpickardDepartment of MCD Biology and Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5024-3559
Pradeep M JoshiDepartment of MCD Biology and Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
Joel H RothmanDepartment of MCD Biology and Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Funding

Developmental reprogramming and transorganogenesisR01HD081266 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI Joel H. Rothman · 2015 to 2026
$3.0M
Plasticity in an embryonic gene regulatory networkR01HD082347 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA · PI ROTHMAN, JOEL H. · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD081266NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD082347
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In animal embryos, cells transition from a multipotential state, with the capacity to adopt multiple fates, into an irreversible, committed state of differentiation. This multipotency-to-commitment transition (MCT) is evident from experiments in which cell fate is reprogrammed by transcription factors for cell type-specific differentiation, as has been observed extensively in Caenorhabditis elegans. Although factors that direct differentiation into each of the three germ layer types cannot generally reprogram cells after the MCT in this animal, transcription factors for endoderm development are able to do so in multiple differentiated cell types. In one case, these factors can redirect the development of an entire organ in the process of "transorganogenesis". Natural transdifferentiation also occurs in a small number of differentiated cells during normal C. elegans development. We review these reprogramming and transdifferentiation events, highlighting the cellular and developmental contexts in which they occur, and discuss common themes underlying direct cell lineage reprogramming. Although certain aspects may be unique to the model system, growing evidence suggests that some mechanisms are evolutionarily conserved and may shed light on cellular plasticity and disease in humans.

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AnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCell TransdifferentiationCellular ReprogrammingMultipotent Stem CellsTranscription FactorsCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsTranscription FactorsCaenorhabditis eleganscellular plasticitycellular reprogrammingtransdifferentiationtransorganogenesis

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PMID29334121
PMCPMC6385892

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