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Ran Kafri

The Hospital For Sick Children, Toronto
Verified email at sickkids.ca
Cited by 4758

On being the right (cell) size

MB Ginzberg, R Kafri, M Kirschner - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND How do the different cell types in our bodies maintain their distinctive and
characteristic sizes? Although much is known about the signaling networks that stimulate or …

Metabolite profiling identifies a key role for glycine in rapid cancer cell proliferation

…, N Madhusudhan, T Kitami, AL Souza, R Kafri… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Metabolic reprogramming has been proposed to be a hallmark of cancer, yet a systematic
characterization of the metabolic pathways active in transformed cells is currently lacking. …

Cell growth and size homeostasis in proliferating animal cells

A Tzur, R Kafri, VS LeBleu, G Lahav, MW Kirschner - Science, 2009 - science.org
A long-standing question in biology is whether there is an intrinsic mechanism for coordinating
growth and the cell cycle in metazoan cells. We examined cell size distributions in …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative live cell imaging reveals a gradual shift between DNA repair mechanisms and a maximal use of HR in mid S phase

K Karanam, R Kafri, A Loewer, G Lahav - Molecular cell, 2012 - cell.com
DNA double-strand breaks are repaired by two main pathways: nonhomologous end joining
(NHEJ) and homologous recombination (HR). The choice between these pathways …

Dynamics extracted from fixed cells reveal feedback linking cell growth to cell cycle

R Kafri, J Levy, MB Ginzberg, S Oh, G Lahav… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
… We especially thank R. Ward for her critique of the paper and the National Institute of General
… Ran Kafri and Jason Levy: These authors contributed equally to this work. … Ran Kafri

[HTML][HTML] Genetic redundancy: new tricks for old genes

R Kafri, M Springer, Y Pilpel - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Many crucial components of signal transduction, developmental, and metabolic pathways
have functionally redundant copies. Further, these redundancies show surprising evolutionary …

Transcription control reprogramming in genetic backup circuits

R Kafri, A Bar-Even, Y Pilpel - Nature genetics, 2005 - nature.com
… The red line represents a quadratic regression fit (a), scoring an adjusted R 2 value of 0.83,
and a logistic regression fit (b) with a P value of 10 −25 . To exclude the possibility that the …

[HTML][HTML] What programs the size of animal cells?

…, C Tan, M Tyers, A Zetterberg, R Kafri - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN) for the histological images presented in Figure
1A, as well as Teemu Miettinen, Catherine Royer, Andreas Milias-Argeitis, and Kafri lab …

The regulatory utilization of genetic redundancy through responsive backup circuits

R Kafri, M Levy, Y Pilpel - Proceedings of the National …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
… Bar-Even for helpful discussions; R. Levy for discussions and critical reviews of the … Bar-Even
for helpful discussions; R. Levy for discussions and critical reviews of the manuscript; and E…

Rapid colorimetric detection of antibody− epitope recognition at a biomimetic membrane interface

…, R Kafri, M Katz, R Jelinek - Journal of the American …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular recognition of antigens and epitopes by antibodies is a fundamental event in
the initiation of immune response and plays a central role in a variety of biochemical …