Filopodia: fickle fingers of cell fate?
Epithelial cells often produce extensions, known variously as filopodia, cell feet or cytonemes, which can extend across many cell diameters to directly contact non-adjacent cells. Do they function in morphogenesis, cell-cell signaling or both?.
Bryant
P J
PJ
Developmental Biology Center, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
D000818:Animals; D002450:Cell Communication; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D053823:Hedgehog Proteins; D019476:Insect Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D007365:Intercellular Junctions / Q000502:physiology; D009024:Morphogenesis; D011554:Pseudopodia / Q000502:physiology*
D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D053823:Hedgehog Proteins; D019476:Insect Proteins; C064196:dpp protein, Drosophila; C077245:hh protein, Drosophila