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Emerging roles of metazoan cell cycle regulators as coordinators of the cell cycle and differentiation

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : FEBS Letters

Source : FEBS Letters, Volume 594 (2020)

Url : https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Emerging-roles-of-metazoan-cell-cycle-regulators-as-Kimata-Leturcq/ecfff75f80ac2a62b6b44fbea1d8a1b5fdcd1daa

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Biotechnology

Department : biotechnology

Year : 2020

Abstract : In multicellular organisms, cell proliferation must be tightly coordinated with other developmental processes to form functional tissues and organs. Despite significant advances in our understanding of how the cell cycle is controlled by conserved cell‐cycle regulators (CCRs), how the cell cycle is coordinated with cell differentiation in metazoan organisms and how CCRs contribute to this process remain poorly understood. Here, we review the emerging roles of metazoan CCRs as intracellular proliferation‐differentiation coordinators in multicellular organisms. We illustrate how major CCRs regulate cellular events that are required for cell fate acquisition and subsequent differentiation. To this end, CCRs employ diverse mechanisms, some of which are separable from those underpinning the conventional cell‐cycle‐regulatory functions of CCRs. By controlling cell‐type‐specific specification/differentiation processes alongside the progression of the cell cycle, CCRs enable spatiotemporal coupling between differentiation and cell proliferation in various developmental contexts in vivo. We discuss the significance and implications of this underappreciated role of metazoan CCRs for development, disease and evolution.

Cite this Research Publication : Y. Kimata, Leturcq, M., and Dr. Rajaguru Aradhya, “Emerging roles of metazoan cell cycle regulators as coordinators of the cell cycle and differentiation”, FEBS Letters, vol. 594, 2020.

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