Metazoans can now be defined by a long list of genomic synapomorphies — gene content, intron — exon structure and syntenies — as well as characteristics common to all animal life such as sex, development,
controlled cellular proliferation, differentiation and growth, and immunity.
Not exact matches
The laboratory of Marcos Malumbres, who is head of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre's (CNIO) Cell Division & Cancer Group, working alongside Isabel Fariñas» team from the University of Valencia, shows, in a study published today in the journal Nature Communications, how in mice the elimination of the Cdh1 protein — a sub-unit of the APC / C complex, involved in the
control of cell division — prevents
cellular proliferation of rapidly dividing cells.
This is significant because IP4
controls cell
proliferation,
cellular metabolism and aspects of the immune system.
He studies the molecular mechanisms by which female steroid hormones such as estrogen
control development, differentiation,
cellular proliferation and survival in hormone - responsive tissues and cancers.