Extracellular signalling molecules articles within Nature

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    In zebrafish embryos, active complexes of Wnt5b and its membrane-bound receptor Ror2 are transported between cells via cellular protrusions called cytonemes to initiate paracrine Wnt5b signalling in cells that do not endogenously express the receptor.

    • Chengting Zhang
    • , Lucy Brunt
    •  & Steffen Scholpp

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    Structural studies on the complex containing G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2), neurotensin receptor 1 (NTSR1), Gαq and the arrestin-biased ligand SBI-553 provide insights into these interactions and a foundation for the design of arrestin-biased ligands for G-protein-coupled receptors.

    • Jia Duan
    • , Heng Liu
    •  & H. Eric Xu

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    A technique to detect the release of N-terminal fragments of Drosophila adhesion G-protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) provides insight into the dissociation of aGPCRs, and shows that receptor autoproteolysis enables non-cell-autonomous activity of aGPCRs in the brain.

    • Nicole Scholz
    • , Anne-Kristin Dahse
    •  & Tobias Langenhan

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    Untargeted metabolomics demonstrate that apoptotic brown adipocytes release a specific pattern of metabolites with purine metabolites being highly enriched, and inosine is identified as a metabolite released during apoptosis regulating thermogenic fat and counteracting obesity.

    • Birte Niemann
    • , Saskia Haufs-Brusberg
    •  & Alexander Pfeifer

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    FERONIA prevents polyspermy in Arabidopsis by enabling pectin-stimulated nitric oxide accumulation at the filiform apparatus after the first pollen tube arrives, which disengages LURE1 chemoattraction to prevent late-arriving pollen tubes from entering the ovule.

    • Qiaohong Duan
    • , Ming-Che James Liu
    •  & Alice Y. Cheung

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    Osteoclasts secrete small extracellular vesicles that stimulate osteoblasts, promoting bone formation via receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand (RANKL), thereby linking bone formation and resorption.

    • Yuki Ikebuchi
    • , Shigeki Aoki
    •  & Hiroshi Suzuki

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    Fibroblast-specific Il-11 expression causes heart and kidney fibrosis and organ failure, whereas IL-11 inhibition prevents fibroblast activation and organ fibrosis, indicating that IL-11 inhibition is a potential therapeutic strategy to treat fibrotic diseases.

    • Sebastian Schafer
    • , Sivakumar Viswanathan
    •  & Stuart A. Cook

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    The biochemical activity of Notum as a carboxylesterase that removes an essential lipid moiety from Wnt proteins is uncovered; the interaction of Notum with glypicans is required to ensure localization at the cell surface, and Notum may provide a new target for therapeutic development in diseases with defective Wnt signalling.

    • Satoshi Kakugawa
    • , Paul F. Langton
    •  & Jean-Paul Vincent

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    β-adrenergic receptor signalling in adipocytes stimulates energy expenditure via cAMP-dependent increases in lipolysis and fatty-acid oxidation, and this signalling mechanism is thought to be disrupted in obesity. Here, the cAMP-responsive CREB coactivator Crtc3 is shown to promote obesity in mice by attenuating β adrenergic receptor signalling in adipose tissue.

    • Youngsup Song
    • , Judith Altarejos
    •  & Marc Montminy

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