Vol. 17, No. 12(December 2012)

The cover art of this month is the second part of the series from the November issue. It describes how cellular slime molds assemble into a dragon. The cellular slime molds normally are individual of an amoeba-like unicellular organism. However, when they starve, tens of thousands of cells aggregate in one place to form a cluster. The cluster hugs the ground like a slug, searches for the right place for making spores, and forms a fluting body (lower part of the ground). When placed in starvation conditions, the cellular slime molds begin to secrete cAMP, which stimulates nearby slime molds to secrete pulses of cAMP. Once they secrete cAMP, they become inactive for a while. As the result, waves of cAMP propagate as they swing in a spiral form (upper part of the sky).

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Genes to Cells © 2012 by the Molecular Biology Society of Japan and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd

Volume 17, Issue 12, 2012.

Original Articles

Pages: 939-951 生体内で再生する樹状突起の高解像度イメージング：局所でのフィロポディアの崩壊と異なる神経細胞由来の突起間接触 High-resolution in vivo imaging of regenerating dendrites of Drosophila sensory neurons during metamorphosis: local filopodial degeneration and heterotypic dendrite-dendrite contacts 佐藤　大祐、須山　律子、木村　賢一、上村　匡 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12008

Pages: 952-961 MicroRNA9は発生期の脳においてHes1の発現動態をコントロールすることによって神経幹細胞分化を制御する MicroRNA9 regulates neural stem cell differentiation by controlling Hes1 expression dynamics in the developing brain Siok-Lay Tan（陳　素麗）、大塚　俊之、Aitor González、影山　龍一郎 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12009

Pages: 962-970 DNA複製を介したDNA鎖切断に応答して起こるCtIPおよびATR依存的なFancJリン酸化 CtIP- and ATR-dependent FANCJ phosphorylation in response to DNA strand breaks mediated by DNA replication 逆井　良、坂井　亜紀子、飯森　真人、清成　信一、松岡　和明、掛地　吉弘、北尾　洋之、前原　喜彦 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12011

Pages: 971-981 cIAP1/2はRANKリガンドによって誘導される破骨細胞形成をNFATc1発現を抑制することで負に制御する cIAP1/2 negatively regulate RANKL-induced osteoclastogenesis through the inhibition of NFATc1 expression 山口　憲孝、横田　麻美、田口　祐、合田　仁、井上　純一郎 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12012

Pages: 982-993 WD40リピートタンパク質をコードするシロイヌナズナVERNALIZATION INDEPENDENCE 3遺伝子のミスセンスアリルbouquet-1変異による分裂組織形成の昂進 Enhancement of meristem formation by bouquet-1, a mis-sense allele of the VERNALIZATION INDEPENDENCE 3 gene encoding a WD40 repeat protein in Arabidopsis thaliana 高木　直人、上口　智治 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gtc.12014