Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-06-10Epub Date: 2026-06-02DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.002
Nuria Domínguez-Iturza, Vahbiz Jokhi, Kwanho Kim, Ashwin S Shetty, Daniela J Di Bella, Milagros Pereira Luppi, Wen Yuan, Catherine Abbate, Paul Oyler-Castrillo, Nalini A Oliver, Vaishnavi Venkat, Xin Jin, Sean Simmons, Joshua Z Levin, Juliana R Brown, Paola Arlotta
{"title":"Molecular cues from distinct neuron classes drive differential myelination in the neocortex.","authors":"Nuria Domínguez-Iturza, Vahbiz Jokhi, Kwanho Kim, Ashwin S Shetty, Daniela J Di Bella, Milagros Pereira Luppi, Wen Yuan, Catherine Abbate, Paul Oyler-Castrillo, Nalini A Oliver, Vaishnavi Venkat, Xin Jin, Sean Simmons, Joshua Z Levin, Juliana R Brown, Paola Arlotta","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oligodendrocytes deposit different amounts of myelin in each neocortical layer, but the regulatory process remains unclear. We present a single-cell map of oligodendrocyte lineage cells purified from different layers of the neocortex across developmental stages. We find that each layer contains a similar compendium of oligodendrocyte classes and differs primarily in the proportions of maturation states, suggesting that oligodendrocyte heterogeneity cannot explain layer-specific myelination. We show that signals from different classes of pyramidal neurons can control oligodendrocyte maturation and the differential distribution of myelin across cortical layers. We generated a ligand-receptor interactome to predict interactions between projection neuron types and oligodendrocyte states, across cortical layers and time, and validated candidates in vivo. We find that neuronal expression of Fgf18, Ncam1, and Rspo3 promotes cortical myelination. This work provides a comprehensive molecular description of oligodendrocyte development in the mouse cortex, pointing to mechanisms whereby neuron-class-linked signals modulate myelin distribution in the neocortex.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":" ","pages":"1303-1318.e8"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13322639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148148912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tumor-intrinsic FDFT1 determines coordinated macrophage anti-tumor immunity.","authors":"Rongchen Shi, Yulan Huang, Pengfei Zheng, Dapeng Zhang, Qing Qin, Fan Zhang, Meng Wang, Kun Zhao, Minli Yang, Xu Guan, Renchao Deng, Hongming Miao","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Macrophage anti-tumor efficacy requires coordinated inflammatory activation and phagocytic function, whether a tumor-intrinsic metabolic regulator simultaneously determines both macrophage anti-tumor mechanisms remains unclear. Here, we screened and identified that farnesyl-diphosphate farnesyltransferase 1 (FDFT1) drives the dual inhibition of macrophage activation and phagocytic function and promotes tumor progression. Mechanistically, tumor-intrinsic FDFT1 directly binds to STAT3 and facilitates the later phosphorylation, which induces PD-L1-dependent suppression of macrophage phagocytosis. Concurrently, FDFT1 binds to and stabilizes cholesterol 25-hydroxylase (CH25H) to promote the secretion of 25-hydroxycholesterol (25HC), suppressing proinflammatory activation of macrophages. Furthermore, FDFT1-mediated dual anti-tumor pathways were validated in mouse tumor models and correlated with clinical pathophysiology. Notably, a small-molecule drug FDFT1-I (2123) targeting FDFT1 inhibits both STAT3-PD-L1 and CH25H/25HC pathways and improves anti-tumor immunity. Collectively, our findings highlight FDFT1 as a tumor-intrinsic metabolic factor promoting tumor development via dual macrophage-dependent mechanisms, suggesting FDFT1 as a promising target for tumor therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":" ","pages":"1238-1253.e7"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147811999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-06-10DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.006
Heleen D Jüngen, Talya L Dayton
{"title":"Patient-derived models uncover developmental state shifts in appendiceal cancer metastasis.","authors":"Heleen D Jüngen, Talya L Dayton","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AC) frequently metastasizes to the peritoneum, yet the mechanisms underlying this transition remain poorly understood. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Mahmoud et al.<sup>1</sup> establish a patient-derived tumor organoid (PDTO) biobank and xenograft model that recapitulate AC progression, reveal shifts in cellular states, and identify potential therapeutic targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":"61 6","pages":"1165-1166"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148216441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-06-10DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.008
Beatrice Angi, Ildiko Szabo
{"title":"Targeting druggable ion channels to harness cancer cell mechanobiology for therapy.","authors":"Beatrice Angi, Ildiko Szabo","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.05.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this issue of Developmental Cell, Gajda et al.<sup>1</sup> identified the transcriptional partners and downstream targets of myocardin-related transcription factor A (MRTFA), a regulator of actin transcription and cancer cell stiffness. BK potassium channels emerged as pharmacological targets that stiffen cancer cells and enhance anti-tumor immune surveillance during metastasis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":"61 6","pages":"1169-1171"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148216865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-06-10Epub Date: 2026-05-26DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.014
Ahmed Mahmoud, Christine Sukhwa, Michael Giarrizzo, Philip H Choi, Jura Pintar, Henry Walch, Nan Zhao, Jonathan Bermeo, Sebastian Chung, Manisha Raghavan, Samhita Bapat, Qingwen Jiang, Julia Meredith, Canan Firat, Andrea Cercek, Michael B Foote, Nikolaus Schultz, Walid K Chatila, Garrett M Nash, Jinru Shia, Francisco Sanchez-Vega, Steven Larson, Arvin C Dar, Neal Rosen, Georgios Karagkounis, Karuna Ganesh
{"title":"An appendiceal cancer organoid biobank identifies phenotypic evolution and druggable dependencies of peritoneal carcinomatosis.","authors":"Ahmed Mahmoud, Christine Sukhwa, Michael Giarrizzo, Philip H Choi, Jura Pintar, Henry Walch, Nan Zhao, Jonathan Bermeo, Sebastian Chung, Manisha Raghavan, Samhita Bapat, Qingwen Jiang, Julia Meredith, Canan Firat, Andrea Cercek, Michael B Foote, Nikolaus Schultz, Walid K Chatila, Garrett M Nash, Jinru Shia, Francisco Sanchez-Vega, Steven Larson, Arvin C Dar, Neal Rosen, Georgios Karagkounis, Karuna Ganesh","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is a common yet deadly manifestation of gastrointestinal cancers, with few effective treatments. To identify targetable determinants of peritoneal metastasis, we focused on appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AC), which metastasizes almost exclusively to the peritoneum. No stable preclinical models of AC exist, limiting drug discovery and representing an unmet clinical need. We establish a stable biobank of 16 long-term cultured AC patient-derived tumor organoids (PDTOs). We establish an organoid orthotopic intraperitoneal xenograft model that recapitulates diffuse PC and show that PC organoids retain increased metastatic capacity, decreased growth-factor dependency, and decreased sensitivity to standard-of-care chemotherapy relative to matched primary AC organoids. Single-cell profiling reveals dedifferentiation from differentiated states in primary AC into intestinal stem cell and fetal progenitor states in AC-PC, with upregulation of oncogenic signaling pathways. We identify KRAS<sup>MULTI</sup>-ON inhibitor RMC-7977 and the Wnt-targeting tyrosine kinase inhibitor WNTinib as clinically actionable strategies to target AC-PC more effectively.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":" ","pages":"1289-1302.e6"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13231493/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148028118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-05-29DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.004
Marco Demaria, Naoko Ohtani, Sameh A. Youssef, Francis Rodier, Wendy Toussaint, James R. Mitchell, Remi-Martin Laberge, Jan Vijg, Harry Van Steeg, Martijn E.T. Dollé, Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers, Alain de Bruin, Eiji Hara, Judith Campisi
{"title":"An Essential Role for Senescent Cells in Optimal Wound Healing through Secretion of PDGF-AA","authors":"Marco Demaria, Naoko Ohtani, Sameh A. Youssef, Francis Rodier, Wendy Toussaint, James R. Mitchell, Remi-Martin Laberge, Jan Vijg, Harry Van Steeg, Martijn E.T. Dollé, Jan H.J. Hoeijmakers, Alain de Bruin, Eiji Hara, Judith Campisi","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":"330 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148287431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.006
Anna B Osipovich, Mark A Magnuson
{"title":"A BAFfling link between the β cell nucleolus, islet immune microenvironment, and type 2 diabetes.","authors":"Anna B Osipovich, Mark A Magnuson","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inflammation during type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) impairs β cell function and exacerbates insulin resistance, increasing insulin demand. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Yang, Zhu, and Lyu et al.<sup>1</sup> show that the SWI/SNF complex subunit BAF60C, by stabilizing Reg3b mRNA in β cells, suppresses inflammation via paracrine signaling to macrophages.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":"61 5","pages":"961-962"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147927321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.009
Eduardo Mateo-Bonmatí
{"title":"A chromatin reader connects salicylic acid signaling to the RNA polymerase II gearbox in plants.","authors":"Eduardo Mateo-Bonmatí","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant hormone signaling is often framed as a linear pathway ending in transcriptional activation. A recent Developmental Cell paper by Yu et al. identifies the H3K4me3 reader RGSA1 as a salicylic acid-inducible factor that recruits P-TEFb to promoter-proximal chromatin, promoting RNA polymerase II pause release and transcription elongation.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":"61 5","pages":"969-970"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147927346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-05-13Epub Date: 2026-03-02DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.02.003
Zhen Zhang, Ben Jin, Chenyu You, Ya Li, Li Lin, Jianlong Sun
{"title":"Hematopoietic stem cells activate a latent differentiation pathway to facilitate recovery after 5-fluorouracil-induced myeloablation.","authors":"Zhen Zhang, Ben Jin, Chenyu You, Ya Li, Li Lin, Jianlong Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Myeloablative chemotherapy induces hematopoietic regeneration, a process orchestrated by hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Although prior studies have documented enhanced HSC differentiation during this process, the temporal changes in HSC fate in response to such stress remain unclear. Here, we employed lineage tracing and mathematical modeling to investigate the cell-fate dynamics of Endothelial Protein C Receptor (EPCR)-high HSCs following 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)-induced myeloablation. Our analysis revealed a transient surge in HSC differentiation immediately after 5-FU treatment, generating primarily myeloid-biased multipotent progenitors (MPPs)-subsets that typically receive limited HSC input under steady-state conditions. Following this initial cell-fate switch, elevated HSC differentiation persisted but rapidly reverted to the homeostatic differentiation pattern observed in unperturbed hematopoiesis. Additionally, our data highlight a substantial contribution of MPPs to myeloid and lymphoid lineage regeneration following 5-FU challenge. Together, these findings delineate the sequential fate transitions adopted by HSCs during severe myeloablation and identify stage-specific differentiation patterns of HSCs in stress hematopoiesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":" ","pages":"1044-1060.e7"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147347535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Developmental cellPub Date : 2026-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.002
Sergio Moreno, Sandra Lopez-Aviles
{"title":"Chromatin-associated PP1 subcomplexes: Together, but not in each other's pockets.","authors":"Sergio Moreno, Sandra Lopez-Aviles","doi":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.devcel.2026.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this issue of Developmental Cell, Stamatiou et al.<sup>1</sup> dissect the role of three chromatin-associated PP1 regulatory subunits during mitotic exit. Using rapid degradation and multi-omics approaches they reveal distinct, non-overlapping functions of Ki-67, Repo-Man, and PNUTS in genome stability and the establishment of the G1 nucleus.</p>","PeriodicalId":11157,"journal":{"name":"Developmental cell","volume":"61 5","pages":"963-965"},"PeriodicalIF":9.2,"publicationDate":"2026-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147927404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}