Locking the Fate: How PROX1 Represses Plasticity and Liver Cancer.

IF 1.2 4区医学 Q4 BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Cellular reprogramming Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI:10.1089/cell.2025.0013

Seung-Won Lee, Jungsun Kim

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Abstract

A Transcriptional Ridge in the Waddington Landscape. The Waddington landscape model, proposed in 1957, provides a powerful framework for understanding cell fate determination (Waddington, 1957). As development progresses, cells become restricted to distinct fates, separated by high "ridges" that prevent identity switching. A recent study in Nature Genetics uncovers such a ridge in hepatocyte lineage specification (Lim et al., 2025). Lim et al. report that prospero homeobox protein 1 (PROX1) acts as a hepatocyte-specific safeguard repressor, ensuring lineage stability by actively suppressing alternative cell fates and preventing cholangiocarcinoma development.

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Cellular reprogramming CELL & TISSUE ENGINEERING-BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

6.20%

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审稿时长

3 months

期刊介绍： Cellular Reprogramming is the premier journal dedicated to providing new insights on the etiology, development, and potential treatment of various diseases through reprogramming cellular mechanisms. The Journal delivers information on cutting-edge techniques and the latest high-quality research and discoveries that are transforming biomedical research. Cellular Reprogramming coverage includes: Somatic cell nuclear transfer and reprogramming in early embryos Embryonic stem cells Nuclear transfer stem cells (stem cells derived from nuclear transfer embryos) Generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and/or potential for cell-based therapies Epigenetics Adult stem cells and pluripotency.