Signaling mechanisms controlling cell fate and embryonic patterning
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2012ISSN
1943-0264Source
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in BiologyVolume
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During development, signaling pathways specify cell fates by activating transcriptional programs in response to extracellular signals. Extensive studies in the past 30 years have revealed that surprisingly fewpathways exist to regulate developmental programs and that dysregulation of these can lead to human diseases, including cancer. Although these pathways use distinct signaling components and signaling strategies, a number of common themes have emerged regarding their organization and regulation in time and space. Examples from Drosophila, such as Notch, Hedgehog, Wingless/WNT, BMP (bone morphogenetic proteins), EGF (epidermal growth factor), and FGF (fibroblast growth factor) signaling, illustrate their abilities to act either at a short range or over a long distance, and in some instances to generate morphogen gradients that pattern fields of cells in a concentration-dependent manner. They also showhow feedback loops and transcriptional cascades are part of the logic of developmental regulation. © 2012 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press all rights reserved.