Journal of Cell Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Cell Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Functional residuomics – analyzing how missense mutations impact cellular systems92
Nuclear speckles – a driving force in gene expression88
PI31 is a positive regulator of 20S immunoproteasome assembly72
First person – Francisca Vitorino72
Approaches to reduce succinate accumulation by restoration of succinate dehydrogenase activity in cultured adrenal cells67
Reprogramming macrophages with R848-loaded artificial protocells to modulate skin and skeletal wound healing64
Cell cycle-dependent palmitoylation of protocadherin 7 by ZDHHC5 promotes successful cytokinesis63
First person – Neža Vadnjal63
First person – Syed Qaaifah Gillani63
The roles of dynein and myosin VI motor proteins in endocytosis55
Keratin 8 mutations in transgenic mice predispose to lung injury54
Interview with FocalPlane Scientific Advisory Board member Jennifer Waters52
Estimation of microtubule-generated forces using a DNA origami nanospring52
Interview with the Guest Editor – James Olzmann48
First person – Aude Pascal48
Phosphorylation in the intrinsically disordered region of F-BAR protein Imp2 regulates its contractile ring recruitment47
First person – Celia Segui-Perez46
The worst43
First person – Akruti Shah43
Mitochondrial antiviral-signalling protein is a client of the BAG6 protein quality control complex42
MITOL-mediated DRP1 ubiquitylation and degradation promotes mitochondrial hyperfusion in a CMT2A-linked MFN2 mutant42
The system III – the workplace40
Live-imaging studies reveal how microclots and the associated inflammatory response enhance cancer cell extravasation39
First person – Abhishek Shinde39
Apolipoprotein A1 deficiency in mice primes bone marrow stem cells for T cell lymphopoiesis39
Let's review I38
Augmin complex activity finetunes dendrite morphology through non-centrosomal microtubule nucleation in vivo36
Microtubules under mechanical pressure can breach dense actin networks35
Comparative analysis of vertebrates reveals that mouse primordial oocytes do not contain a Balbiani body35
PCTAIRE1 promotes mitotic progression and resistance against antimitotic and apoptotic signals35
TC10 on endosomes regulates the local balance between microtubule stability and dynamics through the PAK2-JNK pathway and promotes axon outgrowth35
First person – Olivera Mitevska34
Polo-like kinase 1 regulates immune synapse assembly and cytotoxic T cell function by driving microtubule dynamics33
First person – M. H. D. Fouad Zakaria32
α- and β-tubulin C-terminal tails with distinct modifications are crucial for ciliary motility and assembly32
First person – François Tyckaert32
The dual Ras-association domains of Drosophila Canoe have differential roles in linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton during morphogenesis32
Altered cohesin dynamics and H3K9 modifications contribute to mitotic defects in thecbf11Δlipid metabolism mutant32
LCN2 promotes focal adhesion formation and invasion by stimulating c-Src activation31
SUN4 is a spermatid type II inner nuclear membrane protein that forms heteromeric assemblies with SUN3 and interacts with lamin B330
Culture substrate stiffness impacts human myoblast contractility-dependent proliferation and nuclear envelope wrinkling30
Spatiotemporal regulation of organelle transport by spindle position checkpoint kinase Kin430
First person – Gianna Fote30
Interview with Journal of Cell Science Editor Rob Parton29
UMAD1 contributes to ESCRT-III dynamic subunit turnover during cytokinetic abscission29
First person – Alice Dupont Juhl29
Glucocorticoids enhance chemotherapy-driven stress granule assembly and impair granule dynamics, leading to cell death29
Nucleophagy contributes to genome stability through degradation of type II topoisomerases A and B and nucleolar components28
The AHR target gene scinderin activates the WNT pathway by facilitating the nuclear translocation of β-catenin28
The role of mitochondrial mRNA translation in cellular communication27
Preferential recruitment and stabilization of Myosin II at compartment boundaries in Drosophila27
The insect perspective on Z-disc structure and biology27
Metformin inactivates the cGAS-STING pathway through autophagy and suppresses senescence in nucleus pulposus cells27
Cellular effects of NAT-mediated histone N-terminal acetylation26
First person – Carolina Camelo26
Correction: Actin remodeling requires ERM function to facilitate AQP2 apical targeting26
Near-infrared imaging in fission yeast using a genetically encoded phycocyanobilin biosynthesis system26
Expression of Concern: RyR1 and RyR3 isoforms provide distinct intracellular Ca2+ signals in HEK 293 cells26
ER–mitochondria encounter structure connections determine drug sensitivity and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans26
ARF6 plays a general role in targeting palmitoylated proteins from the Golgi to the plasma membrane25
Functions of neuronal Synaptobrevin in the post-Golgi transport of Rhodopsin in Drosophila photoreceptors25
STAT3 signaling induced by IL-6 family cytokines modulates angiogenesis25
Cell volume regulates terminal differentiation of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes25
First person – Pablo Sánchez and Franziska Kriegenburg25
Confinement plus myosin-II suppression maximizes heritable loss of chromosomes, as revealed by live-cell ChReporters25
MitoRUSH as a tool to study the efficiency of mitochondrial import in complex I-deficient cells25
First person – Ana Popović25
Cristae shaping and dynamics in mitochondrial function24
First person – Aimee Uyehara24
First person – Chia-Li Liao24
Corona XLVI – Oh my, Omicron!24
The microtubule-associated protein She1 coordinates directional spindle positioning by spatially restricting dynein activity24
Incorporation of 53BP1 into phase-separated bodies in cancer cells during aberrant mitosis23
First person – Franziska Lehne23
Interview with Florence Niedergang – President of the French Society for Cell Biology23
First person – Shekhar Saha23
EPLIN-β is a novel substrate of ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 1 and mediates cellular migration23
Cooperation of membrane-translocated syntaxin4 and basement membrane for dynamic mammary epithelial morphogenesis23
Interview with Associate Editor Pedro Carvalho23
First person – Marta Grifell-Junyent23
Myosin-X recruits lamellipodin to filopodia tips23
Local DNA synthesis is critical for DNA repair during oocyte maturation23
ALFY localizes to early endosomes and cellular protrusions to facilitate directional cell migration22
The histone variant macroH2A1.1 regulates RNA polymerase II-paused genes within defined chromatin interaction landscapes22
Affimers and nanobodies as molecular probes and their applications in imaging22
Meeting report – Desmosome dysfunction and disease: Alpine desmosome disease meeting22
First person – Kenrick Waite22
The role of mitochondrial dynamics in mtDNA maintenance22
Lipid-driven CFTR clustering is impaired in cystic fibrosis and restored by corrector drugs22
First person – Kristina Ehring22
Transendothelial migration induces differential migration dynamics of leukocytes in tissue matrix22
Rerouting trafficking circuits through posttranslational SNARE modifications21
Schwann cells are axo-protective after injury irrespective of myelination status in mouse Schwann cell–neuron cocultures21
New insights into FAK structure and function in focal adhesions21
A WDR47 homolog facilitates ciliogenesis by modulating intraflagellar transport21
Evolving circuitries in plant signaling cascades21
The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration21
First person – Rebeka Tomasin21
Dynamics of intracellular cGMP during chemotaxis in Dictyostelium cells21
Lipophagy at a glance20
SART3 associates with a post-splicing complex20
Rac1 and Rac3 GTPases and TPC2 are required for axonal outgrowth and migration of cortical interneurons20
Trophoblast organoids with physiological polarity model placental structure and function20
AMPK promotes Arf6 activation in a kinase-independent manner upon glucose starvation20
Links between autophagy and tissue mechanics20
30 years of nanobodies – an ongoing success story of small binders in biological research20
Cell scientist to watch – Angelika Harbauer20
TFEB – at the crossroads of host–pathogen interactions20
Smaug1 membrane-less organelles respond to AMPK and mTOR and affect mitochondrial function20
Mitochondrial respiration promotes Cdc37-dependent stability of the Cdk1 homolog Cdc2820
First person – Aranya Pal and Prabin Bawali20
Toxoplasma gondiiscavenges mammalian host organelles through the usurpation of host ESCRT-III and Vps4A19
Disordered hinge regions of the AP-3 adaptor complex promote vesicle budding from the late Golgi in yeast19
First person – Mira Kuzmić19
First person – Daniel Lagunas-Gomez19
Dynamic mechanisms for membrane skeleton transitions19
First person – Harini Iyer19
First person – Alex van Vliet19
Phosphorylation of the Aly3 C-terminus impedes aberrant endocytosis of Schizosaccharomyces pombe hexose transporter Ght519
First person – Rinka Hata19
Necroptosis at a glance19
Emerging roles of p300/CBP in autophagy and autophagy-related human disorders18
Vacuolar H+-ATPase dysfunction rescues intralumenal vesicle cargo sorting in yeast lacking PI(3,5)P2 or Doa418
Label2label: training a neural network to selectively restore cellular structures in fluorescence microscopy18
Membrane tethers at a glance18
First person – Kazuhiro Kajiwara18
A novel homeostatic mechanism tunes PI(4,5)P2-dependent signaling at the plasma membrane18
SAF-A promotes origin licensing and replication fork progression to ensure robust DNA replication18
Qui(e)t18
PIKFYVE inhibition induces endosome- and lysosome-derived vacuole enlargement via ammonium accumulation18
Say hello, wave goodbye18
Conserved cholesterol-related activities of Dispatched 1 drive Sonic hedgehog shedding from the cell membrane18
First person – Jiwon Lee18
Complexity and self-organization in the evolution of cell polarization18
Epithelial cell extrusion at a glance18
Pyruvate plus uridine augments mitochondrial respiration and prevents cardiac hypertrophy in zebrafish and H9c2 cells18
The structure and function of centriolar rootlets17
First person – Tadayuki Komori17
An evolutionary perspective on the relationship between kinetochore size and CENP-E dependence for chromosome alignment17
First person – Chandra Ramakrishnan17
ISG20L1 acts as a co-activator of DAPK1 in the activation of the p53-dependent cell death pathway17
Distinct nuclear and cytoplasmic assemblies and interactomes of the mammalian CTLH E3 ligase complex17
Angiomotin isoform 2 promotes binding of PALS1 to KIF13B at primary cilia and regulates ciliary length and signaling17
Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 controls exosome secretion by counteracting V-ATPase-mediated endosome acidification17
First person – Inga Mohr16
Low kindlin-3 levels in osteoclasts of kindlin-3 hypomorphic mice result in osteopetrosis due to leaky sealing zones16
First person – Harini Krishnan16
cellPLATO – an unsupervised method for identifying cell behaviour in heterogeneous cell trajectory data16
First person – Emily McParland and Noah Gurley16
Quantitative proteomics reveals insights into the assembly of IFT trains and ciliary assembly16
Nuclear F-actin and Lamin A antagonistically modulate nuclear shape16
The SARS-CoV-2 protein NSP2 enhances microRNA-mediated translational repression16
First person – Zachary Wilson16
Structured RhoGEF recruitment drives myosin II organization on large exocytic vesicles16
Multiple regions within junctin drive its interaction with calsequestrin-1 and its localization to triads in skeletal muscle16
Interview with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz16
Src- and Abl-family kinases activate spleen tyrosine kinase to maximize phagocytosis and Leishmania infection16
Loss of kinesin-8 improves the robustness of the self-assembled spindle in Schizosaccharomyces pombe16
Actin assembly requirements of the formin Fus1 to build the fusion focus16
Correction: An evolutionarily distinct chaperone promotes 20S proteasome α-ring assembly in plants16
Correction: An SR protein is essential for activating DNA repair in malaria parasites16
Evidence of 14-3-3 proteins contributing to kinetochore integrity and chromosome congression during mitosis16
Electrically tunable lenses – eliminating mechanical axial movements during high-speed 3D live imaging15
Deep learning ­– promises for 3D nuclear imaging: a guide for biologists15
First person – Vartika Sharma15
Radial spoke protein 9 is necessary for axoneme assembly in Plasmodium but not in trypanosomatid parasites15
Localized TPC1-mediated Ca2+ release from endolysosomes contributes to myoseptal junction development in zebrafish15
Peroxisomal support of mitochondrial respiratory efficiency promotes ER stress survival15
First person – Keira L. Rice15
First person – Joe Tyler15
The Dilute domain in Canoe is not essential for linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton but supports morphogenesis robustness15
Substrate adhesion determines migration during mesenchymal cell condensation in chondrogenesis15
Ezrin knockdown reduces procaterol-stimulated ciliary beating without morphological changes in mouse airway cilia15
Fetuin-A secretion from β-cells leads to accumulation of macrophages in islets, aggravates inflammation and impairs insulin secretion15
Single-chromosome dynamics reveals locus-dependent dynamics and chromosome territory orientation15
AMG232 inhibits angiogenesis in glioma through the p53–RBM4–VEGFR2 pathway15
Ankyrin-B is required for the establishment and maintenance of lens cytoarchitecture, mechanics and clarity15
Filopodial protrusion driven by density-dependent Ena–TOCA-1 interactions15
First person – Guan Chen14
Nuclear segmentation facilitates neutrophil migration14
Dishevelled coordinates phosphoinositide kinases PI4KIIIα and PIP5KIγ for efficient PtdInsP2 synthesis14
Expression of Concern: Caspase-dependent initiation of apoptosis and necrosis by the Fas receptor in lymphoid cells: onset of necrosis is associated with delayed ceramide increase14
The Cdc42 GTPase-activating protein Rga6 promotes the cortical localization of septin14
SGIP1 binding to the α-helical H9 domain of cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes axonal surface expression14
Correction: Defining the dynamin-based ring organizing center on the peroxisome-dividing machinery isolated from Cyanidioschyzon merolae14
Arsenic binds to nuclear transport factors and disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport14
A WNT4- and DKK3-driven canonical to noncanonical Wnt signaling switch controls multiciliogenesis14
ADAD2 regulates heterochromatin in meiotic and post-meiotic male germ cells via translation of MDC114
A single-molecule localization microscopy method for tissues reveals nonrandom nuclear pore distribution in Drosophila14
MAPK activation drives male and female mouse teratocarcinomas from late primordial germ cells14
N-acetylation of secreted proteins in Apicomplexa is widespread and is independent of the ER acetyl-CoA transporter AT114
Go with the flow – bulk transport by molecular motors14
THSC/TREX-2 deficiency causes replication stress and genome instability in Caenorhabditis elegans14
Artificial tethering of constitutive centromere-associated network proteins induces CENP-A deposition without Knl2 in DT40 cells14
The worst II – eight days a week14
Believing is seeing – the deceptive influence of bias in quantitative microscopy14
KRAP regulates mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake by licensing IP3 receptor activity and stabilizing ER–mitochondrial junctions14
First person – Clara Mutschler13
filoVision – using deep learning and tip markers to automate filopodia analysis13
First person – Zhong-Qiu Yu13
Vertebrate lonesome kinase modulates the hepatocyte secretome to prevent perivascular liver fibrosis and inflammation13
Shock drives a STAT3 and JunB-mediated coordinated transcriptional and DNA methylation response in the endothelium13
First person – Marc Severin13
The small ARF-like 2 GTPase TITAN5 is linked with the dynamic regulation of IRON-REGULATED TRANSPORTER 113
Nuclear translocation of the tagged endogenous MAPK MPK-1 denotes a subset of activation events in C. elegans development13
First person – Laura Quirion13
Human sperm rotate with a conserved direction during free swimming in four dimensions13
First person – Mitchell Leih13
First person – Keiichiro Sakai13
First person – Caroline König13
Endosomal vesicle fusion machinery is involved with the contractile vacuole in Dictyostelium discoideum13
Visualizing endogenous Rho activity with an improved localization-based, genetically encoded biosensor13
The system II – getting to bed13
First person – Mohima Mukherjee13
First person – Nima Taefehshokr13
First person – Anthony Dornan13
Coilin and SUMOylation influence PARP1 dynamics and the DNA damage response13
First person – Julia Romano13
Quality control of un-imported mitochondrial proteins at a glance13
First person – Yuan Gao13
First person – Sarah Barger13
The laminin-binding integrins regulate nuclear factor κB-dependent epithelial cell polarity and inflammation13
Phospholipase C-related but catalytically inactive protein acts as a positive regulator of insulin signalling in adipocytes13
First person – Masashi Nambu13
Atypical MAP kinases – new insights and directions from amoeba12
ConFERMing the role of talin in integrin activation and mechanosignaling12
B cell receptor-induced protein dynamics and the emerging role of SUMOylation revealed by proximity proteomics12
First person – Marielle Saclier12
Centrosome amplification promotes cell invasion via cell–cell contact disruption and Rap-1 activation12
Salinomycin disturbs Golgi function and specifically affects cells in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition12
The UbiB family member Cqd1 forms a novel membrane contact site in mitochondria12
Perspectives in collective cell migration – moving forward12
First person – Maria Sharkova12
Vimentin intermediate filaments provide structural stability to the mammalian Golgi complex12
Skeletal ciliopathy variants of the dynein-2 DYNC2LI1 subunit impair osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells12
First person – Poulomi Das12
Myosin II tension sensors visualize force generation within the actin cytoskeleton in living cells12
Lamellipodia-like actin networks in cells lacking WAVE regulatory complex12
StARD9 is a novel lysosomal kinesin required for membrane tubulation, cholesterol transport and Purkinje cell survival12
Correction: TPL2-mediated activation of ERK1 and ERK2 regulates the processing of pre-TNFα in LPS-stimulated macrophages12
Stem cell expression of CXCR4 regulates tissue composition in the vomeronasal organ12
Cell scientist to watch – Charlotte Aumeier12
Localization of the tubby domain, a PI(4,5)P2 biosensor, to E-Syt3-rich endoplasmic reticulum–plasma membrane junctions12
Regulation of Wnt distribution and function by Drosophila glypicans12
HDLs extract lipophilic drugs from cells12
The APC/C targets the Cep152–Cep63 complex at the centrosome to regulate mitotic spindle assembly12
Evolutionary conservation of systemic and reversible amyloid aggregation12
First person – Agostina Di Pizio12
First person – Ezgi Odabasi12
A genome-wide genetic screen identifies CYRI-B as a negative regulator of CEACAM3-mediated phagocytosis12
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