10-year anniversary
The past decade has seen dramatic changes in the field of molecular cell biology, in terms of the techniques that are available to researchers and our conceptual understanding of how cells function. Some fields, such as stem cell research, have rapidly evolved, and others, such as signal transduction, have matured with the realization that there is considerable crosstalk between pathways, which are organized into integrated networks. Crosstalk between fields has also increased and it is now clear that many proteins or complexes traditionally assigned to one process or subcellular location can have a role in other contexts. New techniques have advanced our ability to both follow cellular processes in vivo and manipulate processes with exquisite spatiotemporal resolution. Together, these advances and others have facilitated rapid progress in our understanding of how subcellular processes are orchestrated and integrated with the surrounding tissue during development and disease.
The articles in this Series revisit key topics that were covered in the first year of Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology and emphasize the conceptual breakthroughs and shifts that these fields have made in the past decade.
2011
October 2011 Vol 12 No 10
Proteins on the move: insights gained from fluorescent protein technologies
Atsushi Miyawaki
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Studying protein dynamics in living cells
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 444–456 (June 2001) | doi:10.1038/35073068
October 2011 Vol 12 No 10
A decade of molecular cell biology: achievements and challenges
Asifa Akhtar, Elaine Fuchs, Tim Mitchison, Reuben J. Shaw, Daniel St Johnston, Andreas Strasser, Susan Taylor, Claire Walczak & Marino Zerial
May 2011 Vol 12 No 5
The spatial and temporal organization of ubiquitin networks
Caroline Grabbe, Koraljka Husnjak & Ivan Dikic
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Themes and variations on ubiquitylation
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 169–178 (March 2001) | doi:10.1038/35056563
April 2011 Vol 12 No 4
Signal integration in the control of shoot branching
Malgorzata A. Domagalska & Ottoline Leyser
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Signal processing and transduction in plant cells: the end of the beginning?
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 307–314 (April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35067109
2010
December 2010 Vol 11 No 12
Asymmetric cell division: recent developments and their implications for tumour biology
Juergen A. Knoblich
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Asymmetric cell division during animal development
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 11–20 (January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35048085
November 2010 Vol 11 No 11
Clocks not winding down: unravelling circadian networks
Eric E. Zhang & Steve A. Kay
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Multilevel regulation of the circadian clock
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 1, 59–67 (October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35036078
October 2010 Vol 11 No 10
Revitalizing membrane rafts: new tools and insights
Kai Simons & Mathias J. Gerl
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Lipid rafts and signal transduction
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 1, 31–39 (October 2000) | doi:10.1038/35036052
October 2010 Vol 11 No 10
Sensing and controlling protein dynamics
Katharine H. Wrighton
October 2010 Vol 11 No 10
The importance of 'self-eating'
Katharine H. Wrighton
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