Journal of Cell Science

Article	Citations
Spatiotemporal regulation of organelle transport by spindle position checkpoint kinase Kin4	137
First person – Alice Dupont Juhl	117
Interview with Journal of Cell Science Editor Rob Parton	90
First person – Olivera Mitevska	71
Altered cohesin dynamics and H3K9 modifications contribute to mitotic defects in thecbf11Δlipid metabolism mutant	70
First person – M. H. D. Fouad Zakaria	69
First person – Francisca Vitorino	68
First person – Neža Vadnjal	66
Interview with FocalPlane Scientific Advisory Board member Jennifer Waters	64
First person – Celia Segui-Perez	63
The system III – the workplace	62
The worst	62
First person – Abhishek Shinde	55
Let's review I	53
Three-dimensional beating pattern of the ciliary tip in the live ciliate Tetrahymena	50
First person – Aaron Fountain and Mélanie Mansat	50
Approaches to reduce succinate accumulation by restoration of succinate dehydrogenase activity in cultured adrenal cells	49
First person – Kamaldeep Singh	44
Evolutionary cell biology comes of age	44
Expression of Concern: RyR1 and RyR3 isoforms provide distinct intracellular Ca2+ signals in HEK 293 cells	43
Reprogramming macrophages with R848-loaded artificial protocells to modulate skin and skeletal wound healing	42
Live-imaging studies reveal how microclots and the associated inflammatory response enhance cancer cell extravasation	41
Confinement plus myosin-II suppression maximizes heritable loss of chromosomes, as revealed by live-cell ChReporters	41
Polo-like kinase 1 regulates immune synapse assembly and cytotoxic T cell function by driving microtubule dynamics	41
Preferential recruitment and stabilization of Myosin II at compartment boundaries in Drosophila	40

Beyond cysts – organization of epithelial networks in the murine thymus	40
Culture substrate stiffness impacts human myoblast contractility-dependent proliferation and nuclear envelope wrinkling	40
First person – Chandramouli Mukherjee	39
Histone deacetylase 7 mediates lipopolysaccharide-inducible mitochondrial fission in macrophages	39
Microtubules under mechanical pressure can breach dense actin networks	39
ER–mitochondria encounter structure connections determine drug sensitivity and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans	38
The AHR target gene scinderin activates the WNT pathway by facilitating the nuclear translocation of β-catenin	38
A ULK1–MTFR1L feedback loop links mitochondrial fission, mitophagy and apoptosis	38
α- and β-tubulin C-terminal tails with distinct modifications are crucial for ciliary motility and assembly	37
Cell volume regulates terminal differentiation of cultured human epidermal keratinocytes	37
PI31 is a positive regulator of 20S immunoproteasome assembly	37
TC10 on endosomes regulates the local balance between microtubule stability and dynamics through the PAK2-JNK pathway and promotes axon outgrowth	35
LCN2 promotes focal adhesion formation and invasion by stimulating c-Src activation	35
Nucleophagy contributes to genome stability through degradation of type II topoisomerases A and B and nucleolar components	34
Cellular effects of NAT-mediated histone N-terminal acetylation	34
A supracellular actin network transmits forces over long distances at the apical surface of squamous carcinoma cells	33
An interview with Guest Editor Abby Buchwalter	33
Functional residuomics – analyzing how missense mutations impact cellular systems	33
The dual Ras-association domains of Drosophila Canoe have differential roles in linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton during morphogenesis	33
The insect perspective on Z-disc structure and biology	33
The role of mitochondrial mRNA translation in cellular communication	32
Augmin complex activity finetunes dendrite morphology through non-centrosomal microtubule nucleation in vivo	32
UMAD1 contributes to ESCRT-III dynamic subunit turnover during cytokinetic abscission	32
ARF6 plays a general role in targeting palmitoylated proteins from the Golgi to the plasma membrane	32
SUN4 is a spermatid type II inner nuclear membrane protein that forms heteromeric assemblies with SUN3 and interacts with lamin B3	32
Cell cycle-dependent palmitoylation of protocadherin 7 by ZDHHC5 promotes successful cytokinesis	32
Metformin inactivates the cGAS-STING pathway through autophagy and suppresses senescence in nucleus pulposus cells	31
First person – Kenrick Waite	30
Anoxia tolerant DNA replication is supported by ATR kinase in the annual killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus	30
First person – Franziska Lehne	30
Rerouting trafficking circuits through posttranslational SNARE modifications	30
Interview with Associate Editor Pedro Carvalho	30
First person – Rebeka Tomasin	30
First person – Ana Popović	29
Mitochondrial respiration promotes Cdc37-dependent stability of the Cdk1 homolog Cdc28	29
The scaffold protein CasL restrains membrane blebbing and promotes T cell migration	29
First person – Pablo Sánchez and Franziska Kriegenburg	29
Interview with Florence Niedergang – President of the French Society for Cell Biology	28
First person – Aranya Pal and Prabin Bawali	28
First person – Aimee Uyehara	28
Impaired biogenesis of renin granules in juxtaglomerular cells of Vps33a (D251E) mutant mice	28
First person – Hatwan Nadir	27
Dynamics of intracellular cGMP during chemotaxis in Dictyostelium cells	27
Redefining colocalization analysis with a novel phasor mixing coefficient	26
CYRI-B loss promotes enlarged mature focal adhesions and restricts microtubule and ERC1 access to the cell leading edge	26
EPLIN-β is a novel substrate of ornithine decarboxylase antizyme 1 and mediates cellular migration	26
Rac1 and Rac3 GTPases and TPC2 are required for axonal outgrowth and migration of cortical interneurons	26
Incorporation of 53BP1 into phase-separated bodies in cancer cells during aberrant mitosis	26
Functions of neuronal Synaptobrevin in the post-Golgi transport of Rhodopsin in Drosophila photoreceptors	25
Biophysical and biochemical studies support PHD inhibitor development as a TPI deficiency therapy	25

STAT3 signaling induced by IL-6 family cytokines modulates angiogenesis	24
MitoRUSH as a tool to study the efficiency of mitochondrial import in complex I-deficient cells	24
30 years of nanobodies – an ongoing success story of small binders in biological research	24
Meeting report – Desmosome dysfunction and disease: Alpine desmosome disease meeting	23
A WDR47 homolog facilitates ciliogenesis by modulating intraflagellar transport	23
Myosin-X recruits lamellipodin to filopodia tips	23
Decoding intrinsically disordered regions in chromatin dysfunction and cancer	23
New insights into FAK structure and function in focal adhesions	22
Alternatively spliced STIM2.3 is an evolutionarily late store-operated Ca2+ entry regulator expressed in brain	22
First person – Rinka Hata	22
Evolving circuitries in plant signaling cascades	22
Cristae shaping and dynamics in mitochondrial function	22
First person – Alex van Vliet	22
First person – Riley Roth-Carter	22
Trophoblast organoids with physiological polarity model placental structure and function	22
Schwann cells are axo-protective after injury irrespective of myelination status in mouse Schwann cell–neuron cocultures	22
Epithelial cell extrusion at a glance	21
First person – Chandra Ramakrishnan	21
First person – Tadayuki Komori	21
An evolutionary perspective on the relationship between kinetochore size and CENP-E dependence for chromosome alignment	21
First person – Harini Iyer	21
Say hello, wave goodbye	21
First person – Jiwon Lee	21
Qui(e)t	21
First person – Daniel Lagunas-Gomez	21
A conserved domain of Cfap298 governs left–right symmetry breaking in vertebrates	20
First person – Xiaofei Li	20
The MYO1F interactome reveals ASAP1, CD2AP and SH3KBP1 as novel adaptor proteins in podosomes and phagosomes	20
First person – Misato Shimoyama and Kumiko Nakada-Tsukui	20
ISG20L1 acts as a co-activator of DAPK1 in the activation of the p53-dependent cell death pathway	20
Dynamic mechanisms for membrane skeleton transitions	20
First person – Marvin Cortez and Cullen Young	20
Phosphorylation of the Aly3 C-terminus impedes aberrant endocytosis of Schizosaccharomyces pombe hexose transporter Ght5	20
Pyruvate plus uridine augments mitochondrial respiration and prevents cardiac hypertrophy in zebrafish and H9c2 cells	20
ARL13B-Cerulean rescues Arl13b -null mouse from embryonic lethality and reveals a role for ARL13B in spermatogenesis	20
Disordered hinge regions of the AP-3 adaptor complex promote vesicle budding from the late Golgi in yeast	20
Cell scientist to watch – Angelika Harbauer	20
Emerging roles of p300/CBP in autophagy and autophagy-related human disorders	19
Complexity and self-organization in the evolution of cell polarization	19
Urinary renal epithelial cells can be used for NPHP1 phenotyping and a personalized therapeutic strategy	19
Membrane tethers at a glance	19
SART3 associates with a post-splicing complex	19
Visualizing Drosophila centrioles by expansion microscopy	19
First person – Sucheta Dey	19
Role of Pex31 in metabolic adaptation of the nucleus–vacuole junction	19
PIKFYVE inhibition induces endosome- and lysosome-derived vacuole enlargement via ammonium accumulation	19
AMPK promotes Arf6 activation in a kinase-independent manner upon glucose starvation	19
Interview with the 2025 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal Winner Helen Weavers	18
Correction: Approaches to reduce succinate accumulation by restoration of succinate dehydrogenase activity in cultured adrenal cells	18
Toxoplasma gondii scavenges mammalian host organelles through the usurpation of host ESCRT-III and Vps4A	18
Necroptosis at a glance	18
Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease	18
First person – Joe Tyler	18
CTCF maintains centromere function and mitotic fidelity	18
First person – Quentin Frenger	18
DNA double-strand break response at a glance	18
First person – Harini Krishnan	18
First person – Emily McParland and Noah Gurley	18
A novel homeostatic mechanism tunes PI(4,5)P2-dependent signaling at the plasma membrane	18
Emerging roles of lipid transfer protein dimerization	18
First person – Priyanka Verma	18
First person – Inga Mohr	17
Complementary volume electron microscopy-based approaches reveal ultrastructural changes in germline intercellular bridges	17
The Dilute domain in Canoe is not essential for linking cell junctions to the cytoskeleton but supports morphogenesis robustness	17
Evidence of 14-3-3 proteins contributing to kinetochore integrity and chromosome congression during mitosis	17
Are we having fun yet?	17
Interview with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz	17
AMG232 inhibits angiogenesis in glioma through the p53–RBM4–VEGFR2 pathway	17
Src- and Abl-family kinases activate spleen tyrosine kinase to maximize phagocytosis and Leishmania infection	17
Polarity reversal of stable microtubules during neuronal development	17
First person – Vartika Sharma	17
Filopodial protrusion driven by density-dependent Ena–TOCA-1 interactions	17
Radial spoke protein 9 is necessary for axoneme assembly in Plasmodium but not in trypanosomatid parasites	17
Single-chromosome dynamics reveals locus-dependent dynamics and chromosome territory orientation	17
Quantitative proteomics reveals insights into the assembly of IFT trains and ciliary assembly	17
First person – Marc Severin	16
The LECA had a conventional kinetochore and the kinetoplastid kinetochore is a derived feature – a critical evaluation of Akiyoshi, 2025	16
The SARS-CoV-2 protein NSP2 enhances microRNA-mediated translational repression	16
Ankyrin-B is required for the establishment and maintenance of lens cytoarchitecture, mechanics and clarity	16
cellPLATO – an unsupervised method for identifying cell behaviour in heterogeneous cell trajectory data	16

First person – Keri Schmidt and Alexandra Schürch	16
First person – Sarah Barger	16
First person – Yutaka Ogawa	16
Substrate adhesion determines migration during mesenchymal cell condensation in chondrogenesis	16
The molecular basis of tricalbin-mediated membrane contact site organization in cells	16
Structured RhoGEF recruitment drives myosin II organization on large exocytic vesicles	16
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	16
First person – Guan Chen	16
Regulation of Leishmania surface coat proteins by the nuclear protein ESB1	16
α-Ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex activity modulates glutamate excitotoxicity via metabotropic regulation of NMDA receptors in primary cultures	16
The worst II – eight days a week	15
The system II – getting to bed	15
First person – Nima Taefehshokr	15
First person – Caroline König	15
Correction: Defining the dynamin-based ring organizing center on the peroxisome-dividing machinery isolated from Cyanidioschyzon merolae	15
First person – Laura Quirion	15
First person – Clara Mutschler	15
First person – Julia Romano	15
First person – Mitchell Leih	15
First person – Anthony Dornan	15
Quality control of un-imported mitochondrial proteins at a glance	14
Molecular insights into profilin 1-dependent regulation of cellular phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate	14
Human sperm rotate with a conserved direction during free swimming in four dimensions	14
SBIS, a new orange fluorescent vital probe for the 4D imaging of brown algal cells	14
N-acetylation of secreted proteins in Apicomplexa is widespread and is independent of the ER acetyl-CoA transporter AT1	14
The endoplasmic reticulum protein FAM134B acts as a regulator of mitochondrial morphology	14
Coilin and SUMOylation influence PARP1 dynamics and the DNA damage response	14
The small ARF-like 2 GTPase TITAN5 is linked with the dynamic regulation of IRON-REGULATED TRANSPORTER 1	14
Arabidopsis KASH domains are differentially required for distinct LINC complex roles in stomata, roots and pollen	14
Endosomal vesicle fusion machinery is involved with the contractile vacuole in Dictyostelium discoideum	14
Shock drives a STAT3 and JunB-mediated coordinated transcriptional and DNA methylation response in the endothelium	14
The local detergent model of SNARE-mediated membrane fusion	14
Arsenic binds to nuclear transport factors and disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport	14
Artificial tethering of constitutive centromere-associated network proteins induces CENP-A deposition without Knl2 in DT40 cells	14
Believing is seeing – the deceptive influence of bias in quantitative microscopy	14
Metabotropic glutamate receptor internalization and synaptic AMPA receptor endocytosis by dopamine	14
The lever model of synaptotagmin-1 function	14
A WNT4- and DKK3-driven canonical to noncanonical Wnt signaling switch controls multiciliogenesis	14
Methotrexate alleviates chronic inflammation in a Drosophila model	14
KRAP regulates mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake by licensing IP3 receptor activity and stabilizing ER–mitochondrial junctions	14
First person – Mohima Mukherjee	14
First person – Sudeshna Nag	14
Nuclear segmentation facilitates neutrophil migration	14
SGIP1 binding to the α-helical H9 domain of cannabinoid receptor 1 promotes axonal surface expression	14
Go with the flow – bulk transport by molecular motors	14
filoVision – using deep learning and tip markers to automate filopodia analysis	14
First person – James Glover	13
First person – Poulomi Das	13
First person – Maria Sharkova	13
Cell scientist to watch – Charlotte Aumeier	13
A genome-wide genetic screen identifies CYRI-B as a negative regulator of CEACAM3-mediated phagocytosis	13
Cellular and molecular functions of SETD2 in the central nervous system	13
Mlp1 and Mlp2 cooperate to build a stoichiometric nuclear pore basket in budding yeast	13
B cell receptor-induced protein dynamics and the emerging role of SUMOylation revealed by proximity proteomics	13
StARD9 is a novel lysosomal kinesin required for membrane tubulation, cholesterol transport and Purkinje cell survival	13
Atypical MAP kinases – new insights and directions from amoeba	13
Coming into focus	13
First person – Agnieszka Pierzynska-Mach	13
Spatial regulation of mitochondrial membrane potential by α5β1 integrin engagement in collective cell migration	13
The E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes UBE2D1 and UBE2D2 regulate VEGFR2 dynamics and endothelial function	13
Stem cell expression of CXCR4 regulates tissue composition in the vomeronasal organ	13
Skeletal ciliopathy variants of the dynein-2 DYNC2LI1 subunit impair osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells	13
Meeting report – CellExIt#1, the first international symposium on cell extrusion	13
Vimentin intermediate filaments provide structural stability to the mammalian Golgi complex	13
Localization of the tubby domain, a PI(4,5)P2 biosensor, to E-Syt3-rich endoplasmic reticulum–plasma membrane junctions	13
Cell scientist to watch – Tom MacVicar	13
First person – Agostina Di Pizio	13
Cell Scientist to Watch – Maria Ioannou	13
Cell scientist to watch – Keren Hilgendorf	13
Segregation of nascent GPCRs in the ER-to-Golgi transport by CCHCR1 via direct interaction	13
The UbiB family member Cqd1 forms a novel membrane contact site in mitochondria	13
First person – Sean Gombart	13
TBC1D15 functions as an Arl4D GAP and promotes the mitochondrial translocation of Arl4D for organelle homeostasis	13
First person – Ezgi Odabasi	13
Correction: TPL2-mediated activation of ERK1 and ERK2 regulates the processing of pre-TNFα in LPS-stimulated macrophages	13
Perspectives in collective cell migration – moving forward	12
Lamellipodia-like actin networks in cells lacking WAVE regulatory complex	12
Fission yeast Duc1 links to ER–PM contact sites and influences PM lipid composition and cytokinetic ring anchoring	12
The desmoglein 2 interactome in primary neonatal cardiomyocytes	12
Time-resolved proximity biotinylation implicates a porin protein in export of transmembrane malaria parasite effectors	12
The nucleus–vacuole junction at a glance	12
ConFERMing the role of talin in integrin activation and mechanosignaling	12
Salinomycin disturbs Golgi function and specifically affects cells in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition	12
A dual-purification system to isolate mitochondrial subpopulations	12
Vps9d1 regulates tubular endosome formation through specific activation of Rab22A	12
Centrosome amplification promotes cell invasion via cell–cell contact disruption and Rap-1 activation	12
Myosin II tension sensors visualize force generation within the actin cytoskeleton in living cells	12
Progerin cross-linking stiffens the nucleus and impairs mechanosensation in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome	12
DRP1 mutations associated with EMPF1 encephalopathy alter mitochondrial membrane potential and metabolic programs	12
First person – Dushyant Gautam	12
Cancer metabolism in radiation sensitization – complementary roles of O-GlcNAc transferase and PARP1	12
First person – Presley Roberts	12
Interplay between nuclear survivin and the PRC2 complex and its impact on H3K27me3-directed transcriptional repression	12
First person – Laryssa de Liz	11
Improved transfection methods for observation of cytoskeletal structures in primary cultured astrocytes	11