Figure 3 from Modeling human embryo development with embryonic and Biology Diagrams Embryonic cells sense temporal gradients of regulatory signals to determine whether and when to proceed or remodel the cell cycle. Such a control mechanism is allowed to accurately link the cell cycle with the developmental program, including cell differentiation, morphogenesis, and gene expression. Much less is known about the role of the cell cycle at very early stages of embryonic development. Here, we show that molecular pathways involving the cell cycle can be engineered to strongly affect embryonic stem cell differentiation at early stages in vitro. Strategies based on perturbing these pathways can shorten the rate and simplify the
Early embryonic development is characterized by a plethora of very complex and simultaneously operating processes, which are constantly changing cellular morphology and behaviour. Regulation of the cell cycle in early mammalian embryos and its clinical implications Int J Dev Biol. 2019;63(3-4-5):113-122. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.180400ma. Understanding the mechanisms of embryonic cell cycles is a central goal of developmental biology, as the regulation of the cell cycle must be closely coordinated with other events during early embryogenesis. Quantitative imaging approaches have recently begun to reveal how the cell cycle oscillator โฆ Summary: This Review discusses emerging quantitative principles for how embryos coordinate cell cycle timing and morphogenesis. Introduction. In many species, early development initiates with rapid and almost synchronous mitotic divisions that slow over time as the embryo approaches the key developmental transition to gastrulation (Foe et al., 1993; O'Farrell, 2015).
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Embryonic stem cells show unusual cell-cycle features: the duration of the S phase is comparable to somatic cells but they have remarkably short G1 and G2 phases (1 -3).In somatic cells, the duration of G1 and G2 is determined by relative levels of Cdk kinase activity and other cell cycle-related proteins ().Many of these proteins, including Cyclin A, Cyclin B, Cdt1, Cdc6, and Geminin In many species, early development initiates with rapid and almost synchronous mitotic divisions that slow over time as the embryo approaches the key developmental transition to gastrulation (Foe et al., 1993; O'Farrell, 2015).These early divisions are much faster than somatic divisions in adult tissues and do not contain gap phases of the cell cycle (Farrell and O'Farrell, 2014); the cell Accordingly, the embryonic cell cycle exhibits a high degree of plasticity; however, the mechanisms underlying its regulation in vivo remain largely unknown. The purpose of this review is to summarize the data on cell cycle regulation during the early mouse embryonic development, a period characterized by major variations in cell cycle
