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Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway
The Notch signaling pathway consists of transmembrane ligands and receptors that can interact both within the same cell (cis) and across cell boundaries (trans). Previous work has shown that cis-interactions act to inhibit productive signaling. Here, by analyzing Notch activation in single cells whi...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6345567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30628888 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37880 |
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author | Nandagopal, Nagarajan Santat, Leah A Elowitz, Michael B |
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description | The Notch signaling pathway consists of transmembrane ligands and receptors that can interact both within the same cell (cis) and across cell boundaries (trans). Previous work has shown that cis-interactions act to inhibit productive signaling. Here, by analyzing Notch activation in single cells while controlling cell density and ligand expression level, we show that cis-ligands can also activate Notch receptors. This cis-activation process resembles trans-activation in its ligand level dependence, susceptibility to cis-inhibition, and sensitivity to Fringe modification. Cis-activation occurred for multiple ligand-receptor pairs, in diverse cell types, and affected survival in neural stem cells. Finally, mathematical modeling shows how cis-activation could potentially expand the capabilities of Notch signaling, for example enabling ‘negative’ (repressive) signaling. These results establish cis-activation as an additional mode of signaling in the Notch pathway, and should contribute to a more complete understanding of how Notch signaling functions in developmental, physiological, and biomedical contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-63455672019-01-28 Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway Nandagopal, Nagarajan Santat, Leah A Elowitz, Michael B eLife Computational and Systems Biology The Notch signaling pathway consists of transmembrane ligands and receptors that can interact both within the same cell (cis) and across cell boundaries (trans). Previous work has shown that cis-interactions act to inhibit productive signaling. Here, by analyzing Notch activation in single cells while controlling cell density and ligand expression level, we show that cis-ligands can also activate Notch receptors. This cis-activation process resembles trans-activation in its ligand level dependence, susceptibility to cis-inhibition, and sensitivity to Fringe modification. Cis-activation occurred for multiple ligand-receptor pairs, in diverse cell types, and affected survival in neural stem cells. Finally, mathematical modeling shows how cis-activation could potentially expand the capabilities of Notch signaling, for example enabling ‘negative’ (repressive) signaling. These results establish cis-activation as an additional mode of signaling in the Notch pathway, and should contribute to a more complete understanding of how Notch signaling functions in developmental, physiological, and biomedical contexts. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2019-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6345567/ /pubmed/30628888 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37880 Text en © 2019, Nandagopal et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Computational and Systems Biology Nandagopal, Nagarajan Santat, Leah A Elowitz, Michael B Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway |
title | Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway |
title_full | Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway |
title_fullStr | Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway |
title_full_unstemmed | Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway |
title_short | Cis-activation in the Notch signaling pathway |
title_sort | cis-activation in the notch signaling pathway |
topic | Computational and Systems Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6345567/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30628888 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.37880 |
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