A microRNA miR-34a-Regulated Bimodal Switch Targets Notch in Colon Cancer Stem Cells

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Highlights? miR-34a regulates colon cancer stem cell asymmetric division ? miR-34a generates a sharp threshold response ? miR-34a converts Notch signaling into a toggle switch ? Binary Notch levels specify self-renewal versus differentiation     

Quiescent and Active Hippocampal Neural Stem Cells with Distinct Morphologies Respond Selectively to Physiological and Pathological Stimuli and Aging

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Highlights? Notch signaling defines morphologically distinct hippocampal stem cell populations ? Radial and horizontal hippocampal stem cells depend on canonical Notch signaling ? Different neural stem cell subpopulations respond selectively to neurogenic stimuli ? Aging results in a reversible transition of stem cells to a quiescent state     

Division-coupled astrocytic differentiation and age-related depletion of neural stem cells in the adult hippocampus

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Highlights? The neural stem cell pool declines over time during aging ? Neural stem cell activation prompts rapid asymmetric divisions ? After undergoing division, neural stem cells differentiate into astrocytes     

Uncoupling VEGFA Functions in Arteriogenesis and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Specification

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Highlights? VEGFA short isoform supports endothelial/arterial development of the dorsal aorta ? ETO2 maintains high levels of VEGFA medium and long isoforms in the somites ? VEGFA medium isoform instructs the blood program in blood stem cell precursors ? ETO2 specifies blood stem cells in a non-cell-autonomous manner     

Sprouty1 Regulates Reversible Quiescence of a Self-Renewing Adult Muscle Stem Cell Pool during Regeneration

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Highlights? Pax7⁺ skeletal satellite cells regenerate muscle in their endogenous environment ? Quiescent satellite cells express the RTK inhibitor Spry1 ? Spry1 is needed for satellite cells to return to quiescence after muscle injury ? Deletion of Spry1 in satellite cells depletes the muscle stem cell pool     

Retinoic acid production by endocardium and epicardium is an injury response essential for zebrafish heart regeneration

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Highlights? Cardiac injury induces structural and molecular changes in zebrafish endocardium ? Endocardial and epicardial cells at the site of injury synthesize retinoic acid (RA) ? The extent of this injury response correlates with a species' regenerative capacity ? Regenerative cardiomyocyte proliferation in zebrafish requires retinoic acid signaling     

Trachea-Derived Dpp Controls Adult Midgut Homeostasis in Drosophila

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Highlights? Trachea-derived Dpp/Bmp is required for midgut homeostasis ? Dpp expressed in tracheal cells reach intestinal cells through visceral muscles ? Dpp signaling is activated in enterocytes (ECs) in the Drosophila adult midgut ? Dpp signaling stabilizes ECs to restrict intestinal stem cell proliferation     

Sustained PU.1 Levels Balance Cell-Cycle Regulators to Prevent Exhaustion of Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cells

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Highlights? PU.1 prevents hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) exhaustion ? PU.1 is a master regulator of cell-cycle genes in HSCs ? PU.1 binding mediates chromosome looping in HSCs ? Positive autoregulation via a ?14 kb enhancer sustains PU.1 levels in HSCs     

Repeated,Long-Term Cycling of Putative Stem Cells between Niches in a Basal Chordate

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Highlights? Identification of a niche for germline and somatic stem cells in a basal chordate ? Stem cells repeatedly migrate between aged or damaged niches into developing niches     

Short Telomeres in ESCs Lead to Unstable Differentiation

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Highlights? ESCs with short telomeres do not stably differentiate and can resume proliferation ? Critically short telomeres impair Nanog regulation during ESC differentiation ? Short telomeres elicit genome-wide DNA hypomethylation and altered H3K27me3 levels ? Impaired DNA methylation and differentiation are rescued by Dnmt3b or telomere elongation     

ER Stress Causes Rapid Loss of Intestinal Epithelial Stemness through Activation of the Unfolded Protein Response

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Highlights? ER stress is induced at the stem cell to TA cell transition in the intestinal epithelium ? ER stress causes loss of stemness in intestinal epithelial stem cells ? Loss of stemness depends on eIF2alpha signaling ? PERK-eIF2alpha signaling is required for normal stem cell differentiation     

Fertility and Germline Stem Cell Maintenance under Different Diets Requires nhr-114/HNF4 in C. elegans

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Highlights? C. elegans fertility on different diets requires nuclear receptor nhr-114 activity ? Somatic NHR-114 is necessary to maintain germline stem cells under different diets ? NHR-114 might mediate a detoxification response that preserves the germline ? Bacterial tryptophan metabolites may underlie diet-sensitive nhr-114(?) sterility     

A subpopulation of adult skeletal muscle stem cells retains all template DNA strands after cell division

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Highlights? Pax7^Hi quiescent stem cells constitute a metabolically low “dormant” subpopulation ? Both Pax7^Hi and Pax7^Lo quiescent stem cells are serially transplantable ? Only proliferating Pax7^Hi cells segregate old DNA strands to the renewing stem cell ? CO-FISH demonstrates that template DNA strand cosegregation engages all chromosomes     

Syndecan-4 Phosphorylation Is a Control Point for Integrin Recycling

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Highlights? c-Src phosphorylates syndecan-4 in response to extracellular stimuli ? Syndecan-4 phosphorylation and engagement regulate Arf6 activity ? Syndecan-4-mediated Arf6 activity regulates differential integrin recycling ? Syndecan-4-mediated integrin recycling controls FA dynamics and cell migration     

Tet Proteins Connect the O-Linked N-acetylglucosamine Transferase Ogt to Chromatin in Embryonic Stem Cells

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Highlights? Ogt forms a complex with Tet1 and Tet2 in the nucleus of embryonic stem cells ? Ogt preferentially associates with promoter regions in proximity of TSS ? Ogt shows >90% of colocalization with Tet1 at methylation-free CpG-rich elements ? Tet1 is required for global Ogt chromatin recruitment regulating its activity     

Protection of Neuronal Diversity at the Expense of Neuronal Numbers during Nutrient Restriction in the Drosophila Visual System

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Highlights? Diet sensitivity of neural proliferation is a property of developmental timing ? Early diet-dependent neural proliferation determines neural stem cell pool size ? Late diet-independent neural proliferation preserves steroid-induced neurogenesis ? Reveals strategy for adapting the size of the developing brain to nutritional conditions     

A cis-Acting Element in Retroviral Genomic RNA Links Gag-Pol Ribosomal Frameshifting to Selective Viral RNA Encapsidation

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Highlights? A retroviral RNA packaging element (GRPE) overlaps the Gag-Pol ribosomal frameshift site ? Without two stem loops in GRPE, genomic RNA encapsidation is decreased >50-fold ? Downregulating the translation termination factor eRF1 produces defective virus particles ? GPRE links ribosome frameshifting and effective retroviral packaging     

Epigenetic Regulation of miR-184 by MBD1 Governs Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation

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Highlights? MBD1 governs the proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) ? MBD1 controls the expression of miRNAs, including miR-184, in NSCs ? MiR-184 represses the expression of Numblike ? Numblike rescues the effects of abnormal MBD1 and miR-184 expression