Cells (Dec 2020)

Rho GTPases Signaling in Zebrafish Development and Disease

  • Marie-José Boueid,
  • Aya Mikdache,
  • Emilie Lesport,
  • Cindy Degerny,
  • Marcel Tawk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9122634
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 12
p. 2634

Abstract

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Cells encounter countless external cues and the specificity of their responses is translated through a myriad of tightly regulated intracellular signals. For this, Rho GTPases play a central role and transduce signals that contribute to fundamental cell dynamic and survival events. Here, we review our knowledge on how zebrafish helped us understand the role of some of these proteins in a multitude of in vivo cellular behaviors. Zebrafish studies offer a unique opportunity to explore the role and more specifically the spatial and temporal dynamic of Rho GTPases activities within a complex environment at a level of details unachievable in any other vertebrate organism.

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