The cytoneme connection: direct long-distance signal transfer during development

Glutamate signaling at cytoneme synapses

(2019) Hai Huang et al.   SCIENCE

Drosophila FGF cleavage is required for efficient intracellular sorting and intercellular dispersal

(2019) Alex Sohr et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Non-conventional protrusions: the diversity of cell interactions at short and long distance

(2018) Sara Caviglia et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Specialized Intercellular Communications via Cytonemes and Nanotubes

(2018) Yukiko M. Yamashita et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Emerging role of contact-mediated cell communication in tissue development and diseases

(2018) Benjamin Mattes et al.   HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY

HIV-1 cell-to-cell transmission and broadly neutralizing antibodies

(2018) Jérémy Dufloo et al.   Retrovirology

Wnt/PCP controls spreading of Wnt/β-catenin signals by cytonemes in vertebrates

(2018) Benjamin Mattes et al.   eLife

Developmental dynamics of butterfly wings: real-time in vivo whole-wing imaging of twelve butterfly species

(2018) Masaki Iwata et al.   Scientific Reports

Feedback regulation of cytoneme-mediated transport shapes a tissue-specific FGF morphogen gradient

(2018) Lijuan Du et al.   eLife

A macrophage relay for long-distance signaling during postembryonic tissue remodeling

(2017) Dae Seok Eom et al.   SCIENCE

An apicobasal gradient of Rac activity determines protrusion form and position

(2017) Africa Couto et al.   Nature Communications

Cytoneme-mediated cell-cell contacts for Hedgehog reception

(2017) Laura González-Méndez et al.   eLife

Butterfly eyespot organiser: in vivo imaging of the prospective focal cells in pupal wing tissues

(2017) Mayo Iwasaki et al.   Scientific Reports

Viruses exploit the tissue physiology of the host to spread in vivo

(2016) Xaver Sewald et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

EphrinB1/EphB3b Coordinate Bidirectional Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interactions Controlling Liver Morphogenesis and Laterality

(2016) Jordi Cayuso et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

A new mechanism for spatial pattern formation via lateral and protrusion-mediated lateral signalling

(2016) Zena Hadjivasiliou et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Godzilla-dependent transcytosis promotes Wingless signalling in Drosophila wing imaginal discs

(2016) Yasuo Yamazaki et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The missing link: does tunnelling nanotube-based supercellularity provide a new understanding of chronic and lifestyle diseases?

(2016) Amin Rustom   Open Biology

Editorial: Molecular Dynamics at the Immunological Synapse

(2016) Andrés Alcover et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Communication between distant epithelial cells by filopodia-like protrusions during embryonic development

(2015) Sagar et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Reduction of T antigen causes loss of hematopoietic progenitors in Drosophila through the inhibition of filopodial extensions from the hematopoietic niche

(2015) Takashi J. Fuwa et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Lgr4 and Lgr5 drive the formation of long actin-rich cytoneme-like membrane protrusions

(2015) J. C. Snyder et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Brain tumour cells interconnect to a functional and resistant network

(2015) Matthias Osswald et al.   NATURE

Nanotubes mediate niche–stem-cell signalling in the Drosophila testis

(2015) Mayu Inaba et al.   NATURE

Filopodia-based Wnt transport during vertebrate tissue patterning

(2015) Eliana Stanganello et al.   Nature Communications

Myoblast cytonemes mediate Wg signaling from the wing imaginal disc and Delta-Notch signaling to the air sac primordium

(2015) Hai Huang et al.   eLife

Long-distance communication by specialized cellular projections during pigment pattern development and evolution

(2015) Dae Seok Eom et al.   eLife

Live Cell Imaging of Butterfly Pupal and Larval Wings In Vivo

(2015) Yoshikazu Ohno et al.   PLoS One

Coordination of Patterning and Growth by the Morphogen DPP

(2014) Simon Restrepo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Local Control of Intestinal Stem Cell Homeostasis by Enteroendocrine Cells in the Adult Drosophila Midgut

(2014) Alessandro Scopelliti et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The ESCRT machinery regulates the secretion and long-range activity of Hedgehog

(2014) Tamás Matusek et al.   NATURE

Cytoneme-Mediated Contact-Dependent Transport of the Drosophila Decapentaplegic Signaling Protein

(2014) S. Roy et al.   SCIENCE

Hedgehog and its circuitous journey from producing to target cells

(2014) Isabel Guerrero et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Communicating by touch – neurons are not alone

(2014) Thomas B. Kornberg et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Exosomes as Hedgehog carriers in cytoneme-mediated transport and secretion

(2014) Ana-Citlali Gradilla et al.   Nature Communications

Vertebrate Hedgehog is secreted on two types of extracellular vesicles with different signaling properties

(2014) Neha Vyas et al.   Scientific Reports

Cytonemes and the dispersion of morphogens

(2014) Thomas B. Kornberg   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

Hedgehog on the move: a precise spatial control of Hedgehog dispersion shapes the gradient

(2013) Ana-Citlali Gradilla et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Involvement of Delta/Notch signaling in zebrafish adult pigment stripe patterning

(2013) H. Hamada et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Blastocoel-spanning filopodia in cleavage-stage Xenopus laevis: Potential roles in morphogen distribution and detection

(2013) Michael Danilchik et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Trafficking of the EGFR ligand Spitz regulates its signaling activity in polarized tissues

(2013) J. Steinhauer et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Specialized filopodia direct long-range transport of SHH during vertebrate tissue patterning

(2013) Timothy A. Sanders et al.   NATURE

Cytonemes are required for the establishment of a normal Hedgehog morphogen gradient in Drosophila epithelia

(2013) Marcus Bischoff et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Balancing Hedgehog, a retention and release equilibrium given by Dally, Ihog, Boi and shifted/DmWif

(2012) Aphrodite Bilioni et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Planar Polarized Protrusions Break the Symmetry of EGFR Signaling during Drosophila Bract Cell Fate Induction

(2012) Ying Peng et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Mechanism of Evenness Interrupted (Evi)-Exosome Release at Synaptic Boutons

(2012) Kate Koles et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Active Wnt proteins are secreted on exosomes

(2012) Julia Christina Gross et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Drosophila S2 Cells Secrete Wingless on Exosome-Like Vesicles but the Wingless Gradient Forms Independently of Exosomes

(2012) Karen Beckett et al.   TRAFFIC

Cytoneme-Mediated Delivery of Hedgehog Regulates the Expression of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins to Maintain Germline Stem Cells in Drosophila

(2012) Patricia Rojas-Ríos et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Morphogen Gradients: From Generation to Interpretation

(2011) Katherine W. Rogers et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Intercellular Bridges in Vertebrate Gastrulation

(2011) Luca Caneparo et al.   PLoS One

Dispatched mediates Hedgehog basolateral release to form the long-range morphogenetic gradient in the Drosophila wing disk epithelium

(2011) A. Callejo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Specificity of Drosophila Cytonemes for Distinct Signaling Pathways

(2011) S. Roy et al.   SCIENCE

Dynamic Filopodia Transmit Intermittent Delta-Notch Signaling to Drive Pattern Refinement during Lateral Inhibition

(2010) Michael Cohen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Polarity proteins and Rho GTPases cooperate to spatially organise epithelial actin-based protrusions

(2010) M. Georgiou et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Trans-Synaptic Transmission of Vesicular Wnt Signals through Evi/Wntless

(2009) Ceren Korkut et al.   CELL

Intercellular transfer mediated by tunneling nanotubes

(2008) Hans-Hermann Gerdes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Cytonemes and tunneling nanotubules in cell–cell communication and viral pathogenesis

(2008) Nathan M. Sherer et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY