Journal of Cell Science

Article	Citations
First person – Gianna Fote	100
Spatiotemporal regulation of organelle transport by spindle position checkpoint kinase Kin4	87
First person – Alice Dupont Juhl	82
Interview with Journal of Cell Science Editor Rob Parton	80
First person – Carolina Camelo	79
Histone deacetylase 7 mediates lipopolysaccharide-inducible mitochondrial fission in macrophages	73
The AHR target gene scinderin activates the WNT pathway by facilitating the nuclear translocation of β-catenin	65
Three-dimensional beating pattern of the ciliary tip in the live ciliate Tetrahymena	63
First person – Aaron Fountain and Mélanie Mansat	61
Approaches to reduce succinate accumulation by restoration of succinate dehydrogenase activity in cultured adrenal cells	59
Preferential recruitment and stabilization of Myosin II at compartment boundaries in Drosophila	57
First person – Olivera Mitevska	54
Cell cycle-dependent palmitoylation of protocadherin 7 by ZDHHC5 promotes successful cytokinesis	54
Altered cohesin dynamics and H3K9 modifications contribute to mitotic defects in thecbf11Δlipid metabolism mutant	53
First person – François Tyckaert	52
First person – M. H. D. Fouad Zakaria	50
Expression of Concern: RyR1 and RyR3 isoforms provide distinct intracellular Ca2+ signals in HEK 293 cells	49
First person – Francisca Vitorino	47
First person – Neža Vadnjal	46
First person – Syed Qaaifah Gillani	45
Interview with FocalPlane Scientific Advisory Board member Jennifer Waters	42
Interview with the Guest Editor – James Olzmann	41
First person – Aude Pascal	41
First person – Celia Segui-Perez	40
The worst	39

First person – Abhishek Shinde	37
The system III – the workplace	37
Live-imaging studies reveal how microclots and the associated inflammatory response enhance cancer cell extravasation	36
UMAD1 contributes to ESCRT-III dynamic subunit turnover during cytokinetic abscission	35
Let's review I	35
TC10 on endosomes regulates the local balance between microtubule stability and dynamics through the PAK2-JNK pathway and promotes axon outgrowth	35
ER–mitochondria encounter structure connections determine drug sensitivity and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans	35
Functional residuomics – analyzing how missense mutations impact cellular systems	35
Glucocorticoids enhance chemotherapy-driven stress granule assembly and impair granule dynamics, leading to cell death	34
ARF6 plays a general role in targeting palmitoylated proteins from the Golgi to the plasma membrane	33
The dual Ras-association domains of Drosophila Canoe have differential roles in linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton during morphogenesis	33
PI31 is a positive regulator of 20S immunoproteasome assembly	31
Microtubules under mechanical pressure can breach dense actin networks	31
LCN2 promotes focal adhesion formation and invasion by stimulating c-Src activation	30
Cell volume regulates terminal differentiation of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes	30
Polo-like kinase 1 regulates immune synapse assembly and cytotoxic T cell function by driving microtubule dynamics	30
Mitochondrial antiviral-signalling protein is a client of the BAG6 protein quality control complex	30
Culture substrate stiffness impacts human myoblast contractility-dependent proliferation and nuclear envelope wrinkling	29
The role of mitochondrial mRNA translation in cellular communication	29
PCTAIRE1 promotes mitotic progression and resistance against antimitotic and apoptotic signals	29
The insect perspective on Z-disc structure and biology	29
Reprogramming macrophages with R848-loaded artificial protocells to modulate skin and skeletal wound healing	29
Nucleophagy contributes to genome stability through degradation of type II topoisomerases A and B and nucleolar components	28
Augmin complex activity finetunes dendrite morphology through non-centrosomal microtubule nucleation in vivo	28
Confinement plus myosin-II suppression maximizes heritable loss of chromosomes, as revealed by live-cell ChReporters	28
Cellular effects of NAT-mediated histone N-terminal acetylation	28
Comparative analysis of vertebrates reveals that mouse primordial oocytes do not contain a Balbiani body	28
Evolutionary cell biology comes of age	28
MITOL-mediated DRP1 ubiquitylation and degradation promotes mitochondrial hyperfusion in a CMT2A-linked MFN2 mutant	28
SUN4 is a spermatid type II inner nuclear membrane protein that forms heteromeric assemblies with SUN3 and interacts with lamin B3	27
Nuclear speckles – a driving force in gene expression	27
Metformin inactivates the cGAS-STING pathway through autophagy and suppresses senescence in nucleus pulposus cells	27
The roles of dynein and myosin VI motor proteins in endocytosis	27
Beyond cysts – organization of epithelial networks in the murine thymus	27
Interview with Associate Editor Pedro Carvalho	26
Rerouting trafficking circuits through posttranslational SNARE modifications	26
α- and β-tubulin C-terminal tails with distinct modifications are crucial for ciliary motility and assembly	26
First person – Kristina Ehring	26
First person – Rebeka Tomasin	26
First person – Chia-Li Liao	26
First person – Kenrick Waite	26
Estimation of microtubule-generated forces using a DNA origami nanospring	26
Cristae shaping and dynamics in mitochondrial function	25
Trophoblast organoids with physiological polarity model placental structure and function	25
Lipid-driven CFTR clustering is impaired in cystic fibrosis and restored by corrector drugs	25
First person – Franziska Lehne	25
First person – Aimee Uyehara	24
First person – Pablo Sánchez and Franziska Kriegenburg	24
Interview with Florence Niedergang – President of the French Society for Cell Biology	24
Corona XLVI – Oh my, Omicron!	24

Impaired biogenesis of renin granules in juxtaglomerular cells of Vps33a (D251E) mutant mice	24
EPLIN-β is a novel substrate of ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 1 and mediates cellular migration	24
First person – Ana Popović	24
First person – Marta Grifell-Junyent	24
First person – Hatwan Nadir	23
The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration	23
Dynamics of intracellular cGMP during chemotaxis in Dictyostelium cells	23
ALFY localizes to early endosomes and cellular protrusions to facilitate directional cell migration	23
Affimers and nanobodies as molecular probes and their applications in imaging	23
First person – Aranya Pal and Prabin Bawali	23
MitoRUSH as a tool to study the efficiency of mitochondrial import in complex I-deficient cells	23
A WDR47 homolog facilitates ciliogenesis by modulating intraflagellar transport	23
The histone variant macroH2A1.1 regulates RNA polymerase II-paused genes within defined chromatin interaction landscapes	22
Rac1 and Rac3 GTPases and TPC2 are required for axonal outgrowth and migration of cortical interneurons	22
CYRI-B loss promotes enlarged mature focal adhesions and restricts microtubule and ERC1 access to the cell leading edge	22
Redefining colocalization analysis with a novel Phasor Mixing Coefficient	22
Incorporation of 53BP1 into phase-separated bodies in cancer cells during aberrant mitosis	21
Functions of neuronal Synaptobrevin in the post-Golgi transport of Rhodopsin in Drosophila photoreceptors	21
Myosin-X recruits lamellipodin to filopodia tips	21
Schwann cells are axo-protective after injury irrespective of myelination status in mouse Schwann cell–neuron cocultures	21
Mitochondrial respiration promotes Cdc37-dependent stability of the Cdk1 homolog Cdc28	21
New insights into FAK structure and function in focal adhesions	21
30 years of nanobodies – an ongoing success story of small binders in biological research	20
First person – Mira Kuzmić	20
First person – Harini Iyer	20
First person – Alex van Vliet	20
STAT3 signaling induced by IL-6 family cytokines modulates angiogenesis	20
First person – Rinka Hata	20
First person – Chandra Ramakrishnan	20
Meeting report – Desmosome dysfunction and disease: Alpine desmosome disease meeting	20
Evolving circuitries in plant signaling cascades	20
Disordered hinge regions of the AP-3 adaptor complex promote vesicle budding from the late Golgi in yeast	20
First person – Daniel Lagunas-Gomez	20
Say hello, wave goodbye	19
First person – Tadayuki Komori	19
Urinary renal epithelial cells can be used for NPHP1 phenotyping and a personalized therapeutic strategy	19
Qui(e)t	19
Pyruvate plus uridine augments mitochondrial respiration and prevents cardiac hypertrophy in zebrafish and H9c2 cells	19
Cell scientist to watch – Angelika Harbauer	19
First person – Jiwon Lee	19
First person – Kazuhiro Kajiwara	19
An evolutionary perspective on the relationship between kinetochore size and CENP-E dependence for chromosome alignment	19
First person – Marvin Cortez and Cullen Young	19
Epithelial cell extrusion at a glance	18
Angiomotin isoform 2 promotes binding of PALS1 to KIF13B at primary cilia and regulates ciliary length and signaling	18
Expanding Our View of Drosophila Centrioles	18
Complexity and self-organization in the evolution of cell polarization	18
Distinct nuclear and cytoplasmic assemblies and interactomes of the mammalian CTLH E3 ligase complex	18
First person – Xiaofei Li	18
Emerging roles of lipid transfer protein dimerization	18
SART3 associates with a post-splicing complex	17
Dynamic mechanisms for membrane skeleton transitions	17
Emerging roles of p300/CBP in autophagy and autophagy-related human disorders	17
SAF-A promotes origin licensing and replication fork progression to ensure robust DNA replication	17
Label2label: training a neural network to selectively restore cellular structures in fluorescence microscopy	17
AMPK promotes Arf6 activation in a kinase-independent manner upon glucose starvation	17
Neutral sphingomyelinase 2 controls exosome secretion by counteracting V-ATPase-mediated endosome acidification	17
PIKFYVE inhibition induces endosome- and lysosome-derived vacuole enlargement via ammonium accumulation	17
A conserved domain of Cfap298 governs left–right symmetry breaking in vertebrates	17
Lipophagy at a glance	17
ARL13B-Cerulean rescues Arl13b -null mouse from embryonic lethality and reveals a role for ARL13B in spermatogenesis	17
ISG20L1 acts as a co-activator of DAPK1 in the activation of the p53-dependent cell death pathway	17
The MYO1F interactome reveals ASAP1, CD2AP and SH3KBP1 as novel adaptor proteins in podosomes and phagosomes	17
Necroptosis at a glance	17
Toxoplasma gondii scavenges mammalian host organelles through the usurpation of host ESCRT-III and Vps4A	17
Smaug1 membrane-less organelles respond to AMPK and mTOR and affect mitochondrial function	17
Membrane tethers at a glance	17
Role of Pex31 in metabolic adaptation of the nucleus–vacuole junction	17
Interview with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz	16
Actin assembly requirements of the formin Fus1 to build the fusion focus	16
Ezrin knockdown reduces procaterol-stimulated ciliary beating without morphological changes in mouse airway cilia	16
First person – Joe Tyler	16
Interview with the 2025 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal Winner Helen Weavers	16
A novel homeostatic mechanism tunes PI(4,5)P2-dependent signaling at the plasma membrane	16
Radial spoke protein 9 is necessary for axoneme assembly in Plasmodium but not in trypanosomatid parasites	16
Multiple regions within junctin drive its interaction with calsequestrin-1 and its localization to triads in skeletal muscle	16
Peroxisomal support of mitochondrial respiratory efficiency promotes ER stress survival	16
First person – Vartika Sharma	16
Localized TPC1-mediated Ca2+ release from endolysosomes contributes to myoseptal junction development in zebrafish	16
Phosphorylation of the Aly3 C-terminus impedes aberrant endocytosis of Schizosaccharomyces pombe hexose transporter Ght5	16

Deep learning ­– promises for 3D nuclear imaging: a guide for biologists	16
First person – Inga Mohr	16
First person – Keira L. Rice	16
Evidence of 14-3-3 proteins contributing to kinetochore integrity and chromosome congression during mitosis	16
Correction: An evolutionarily distinct chaperone promotes 20S proteasome α-ring assembly in plants	16
Quantitative proteomics reveals insights into the assembly of IFT trains and ciliary assembly	16
First person – Harini Krishnan	16
First person – Emily McParland and Noah Gurley	16
Ankyrin-B is required for the establishment and maintenance of lens cytoarchitecture, mechanics and clarity	15
Correction: Approaches to reduce succinate accumulation by restoration of succinate dehydrogenase activity in cultured adrenal cells	15
AMG232 inhibits angiogenesis in glioma through the p53–RBM4–VEGFR2 pathway	15
Polarity reversal of stable microtubules during neuronal development	15
filoVision – using deep learning and tip markers to automate filopodia analysis	15
SBIS, a new orange fluorescent vital probe for the 4D imaging of brown algal cells	15
Filopodial protrusion driven by density-dependent Ena–TOCA-1 interactions	15
First person – Priyanka Verma	15
Substrate adhesion determines migration during mesenchymal cell condensation in chondrogenesis	15
Structured RhoGEF recruitment drives myosin II organization on large exocytic vesicles	15
Nuclear F-actin and Lamin A antagonistically modulate nuclear shape	15
First person – Marc Severin	15
Src- and Abl-family kinases activate spleen tyrosine kinase to maximize phagocytosis and Leishmania infection	15
The SARS-CoV-2 protein NSP2 enhances microRNA-mediated translational repression	15
Single-chromosome dynamics reveals locus-dependent dynamics and chromosome territory orientation	15
Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease	15
The Dilute domain in Canoe is not essential for linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton but supports morphogenesis robustness	15
cellPLATO – an unsupervised method for identifying cell behaviour in heterogeneous cell trajectory data	15
First person – Sarah Barger	15
First person – Yuan Gao	14
Correction: Defining the dynamin-based ring organizing center on the peroxisome-dividing machinery isolated from Cyanidioschyzon merolae	14
KRAP regulates mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake by licensing IP3 receptor activity and stabilizing ER–mitochondrial junctions	14
First person – Caroline König	14
First person – Anthony Dornan	14
First person – Nima Taefehshokr	14
Methotrexate alleviates chronic inflammation in a Drosophila model	14
First person – Julia Romano	14
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 increase	14
First person – Clara Mutschler	14
SGIP1 binding to the α-helical H9 domain of cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes axonal surface expression	14
First person – Laura Quirion	14
The worst II – eight days a week	14
First person – Guan Chen	14
Vertebrate lonesome kinase modulates the hepatocyte secretome to prevent perivascular liver fibrosis and inflammation	14
The system II – getting to bed	14
First person – Mitchell Leih	14
First person – Masashi Nambu	13
First person – Mohima Mukherjee	13
N-acetylation of secreted proteins in Apicomplexa is widespread and is independent of the ER acetyl-CoA transporter AT1	13
The small ARF-like 2 GTPase TITAN5 is linked with the dynamic regulation of IRON-REGULATED TRANSPORTER 1	13
Shock drives a STAT3 and JunB-mediated coordinated transcriptional and DNA methylation response in the endothelium	13
Artificial tethering of constitutive centromere-associated network proteins induces CENP-A deposition without Knl2 in DT40 cells	13
Nuclear segmentation facilitates neutrophil migration	13
Believing is seeing – the deceptive influence of bias in quantitative microscopy	13
Coilin and SUMOylation influence PARP1 dynamics and the DNA damage response	13
Quality control of un-imported mitochondrial proteins at a glance	13
Go with the flow – bulk transport by molecular motors	13
MAPK activation drives male and female mouse teratocarcinomas from late primordial germ cells	13
The endoplasmic reticulum protein FAM134B acts as a regulator of mitochondrial morphology	13
First person – Sudeshna Nag	13
Arsenic binds to nuclear transport factors and disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport	13
Endosomal vesicle fusion machinery is involved with the contractile vacuole in Dictyostelium discoideum	13
A WNT4- and DKK3-driven canonical to noncanonical Wnt signaling switch controls multiciliogenesis	13
Human sperm rotate with a conserved direction during free swimming in four dimensions	13
Dishevelled coordinates phosphoinositide kinases PI4KIIIα and PIP5KIγ for efficient PtdInsP2 synthesis	13
ADAD2 regulates heterochromatin in meiotic and post-meiotic male germ cells via translation of MDC1	13
First person – Maria Sharkova	12
Myosin II tension sensors visualize force generation within the actin cytoskeleton in living cells	12
Cell scientist to watch – Charlotte Aumeier	12
First person – Sean Gombart	12
First person – Agnieszka Pierzynska-Mach	12
Phospholipase C-related but catalytically inactive protein acts as a positive regulator of insulin signalling in adipocytes	12
First person – James Glover	12
A genome-wide genetic screen identifies CYRI-B as a negative regulator of CEACAM3-mediated phagocytosis	12
Stem cell expression of CXCR4 regulates tissue composition in the vomeronasal organ	12
First person – Ezgi Odabasi	12
Segregation of nascent GPCRs in the ER-to-Golgi transport by CCHCR1 via direct interaction	12
The Cdc42 GTPase-activating protein Rga6 promotes the cortical localization of septin	12
Cell Scientist to Watch – Maria Ioannou	12
B cell receptor-induced protein dynamics and the emerging role of SUMOylation revealed by proximity proteomics	12
First person – Agostina Di Pizio	12
Cell scientist to watch – Tom MacVicar	12
Coming into focus	12
StARD9 is a novel lysosomal kinesin required for membrane tubulation, cholesterol transport and Purkinje cell survival	12
Cell scientist to watch – Keren Hilgendorf	12
Vps9d1 regulates tubular endosome formation through specific activation of Rab22A	12
Localization of the tubby domain, a PI(4,5)P2 biosensor, to E-Syt3-rich endoplasmic reticulum–plasma membrane junctions	12
First person – Poulomi Das	12
Spatial regulation of mitochondrial membrane potential by α5β1 integrin engagement in collective cell migration	12
Cellular and molecular functions of SETD2 in the central nervous system	12
Atypical MAP kinases – new insights and directions from amoeba	12
DRP1 mutations associated with EMPF1 encephalopathy alter mitochondrial membrane potential and metabolic programs	11
Paclitaxel compromises nuclear integrity in interphase through SUN2-mediated cytoskeletal coupling	11
The E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes UBE2D1 and UBE2D2 regulate VEGFR2 dynamics and endothelial function	11
Cholesterol regulates insulin-induced mTORC1 signaling	11
Inflammatory macrophage to hepatocyte signals can be prevented by extracellular vesicle reprogramming	11
Cell scientist to watch – Kirsty Wan	11