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The peptidoglycan cell wall is a defining structural feature of the bacterial kingdom . Curiously , some bacteria have the ability to switch to a wall-free or ‘L-form’ state . Although known for decades , the general properties of L-forms are poorly understood , largely due to the lack of systematic analysis of L-forms... | Bacterial cells are surrounded by a cell wall made of a molecule called peptidoglycan . This wall is important for many aspects of cell survival including the maintenance of cell shape and protection from mechanical damage . However , many bacteria are able to switch to a state in which they don't have a cell wall . Al... | [
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The rostrocaudal ( head-to-tail ) axis is supplied by populations of progenitors at the caudal end of the embryo . Despite recent advances characterising one of these populations , the neuromesodermal progenitors , their nature and relationship to other populations remains unclear . Here we show that neuromesodermal pr... | Our bodies , like those of all animals with a backbone , form during embryo development in a head-to-tail sequence . This process is fuelled by populations of proliferating cells called progenitor cells , which are found in an early embryonic structure called the primitive streak , and later at the tail-end of the embr... | [
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Retinal circuits detect salient features of the visual world and report them to the brain through spike trains of retinal ganglion cells . The most abundant ganglion cell type in mice , the so-called W3 ganglion cell , selectively responds to movements of small objects . Where and how object motion sensitivity arises i... | Animals can use their eyes to detect moving objects , which helps them to avoid predators and other threats , and to spot potential prey or allies . Visual information from the eyes is sent to the brain , which processes the information to form a coherent picture of how the objects are moving . This processing has to b... | [
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) is a continued threat to human health in both community and healthcare settings . In hospitals , control efforts would benefit from accurate estimation of asymptomatic colonization and infection importation rates from the community . However , developing such estimat... | Antibiotic-resistant bacteria like the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ) can live in people for many years without making them sick . During this time , the bacteria can spread to others who come in contact with the MRSA-infected person . The number of people with stealth MRSA infections living in th... | [
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Hepatic platelet accumulation contributes to acetaminophen ( APAP ) -induced liver injury ( AILI ) . However , little is known about the molecular pathways involved in platelet recruitment to the liver and whether targeting such pathways could attenuate AILI . Mice were fasted overnight before intraperitoneally ( i . p... | Acetaminophen , also called paracetamol outside the United States , is a commonly used painkiller , with over 50 million people in the United States taking the drug weekly . While paracetamol is safe at standard doses , overdose can cause acute liver failure , which leads to 30 , 000 patients being admitted to emergenc... | [
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Classically , p53 tumor suppressor acts in transcription , apoptosis , and cell cycle arrest . Yet , replication-mediated genomic instability is integral to oncogenesis , and p53 mutations promote tumor progression and drug-resistance . By delineating human and murine separation-of-function p53 alleles , we find that p... | When a cell divides to make more cells , it duplicates its DNA to pass on an identical set of genes to the new cell . Copying DNA – also known as DNA replication – is a complex process that involves several steps . First , the double helix gradually unwinds and unzips to separate the DNA strands . This creates a molecu... | [
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Mutations in the polycystin proteins , PC-1 and PC-2 , result in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ( ADPKD ) and ultimately renal failure . PC-1 and PC-2 enrich on primary cilia , where they are thought to form a heteromeric ion channel complex . However , a functional understanding of the putative PC-1/PC-2... | On the surface of most animal and other eukaryotic cells are small rod-like protrusions known as primary cilia . Each cilium is encased by a specialized membrane which is enriched in protein complexes that help the cell sense its local environment . Some of these complexes help transport ions in out of the cell , while... | [
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Complexes of specifically interacting molecules , such as transcription factor proteins ( TFs ) and the DNA response elements ( REs ) they recognize , control most biological processes , but little is known concerning the functional and evolutionary effects of epistatic interactions across molecular interfaces . We exp... | Transcription factors are proteins that control which genes inside a cell are active by binding to specific short sequences of DNA called response elements . Small differences in a trancription factor's amino acid sequence or in a response element's DNA sequence can affect their ability to recognize each other . How th... | [
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Breathing in mammals is hypothesized to result from the interaction of two distinct oscillators: the preBötzinger Complex ( preBötC ) driving inspiration and the lateral parafacial region ( pFL ) driving active expiration . To understand the interactions between these oscillators , we independently altered their excita... | Mammals breathe air into and out of their lungs to absorb oxygen into the body and to remove carbon dioxide . The rhythm of breathing is most likely controlled by two groups of neurons in a part of the brain called the brain stem . One group called the preBötzinger Complex drives breathing in ( inspiration ) , and norm... | [
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Decision making often involves a tradeoff between speed and accuracy . Previous studies indicate that neural activity in the lateral intraparietal area ( LIP ) represents the gradual accumulation of evidence toward a threshold level , or evidence bound , which terminates the decision process . The level of this bound i... | Many actions involve a trade-off between speed and accuracy , with typing being a good example: the faster you try to type a sentence , the more mistakes you are likely to make . Mathematical models have successfully reproduced the speed-accuracy trade-off , but it is not clear how the brain represents and weighs up th... | [
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The RAS pathway is central to epidermal homeostasis , and its activation in tumors or in Rasopathies correlates with hyperproliferation . Downstream of RAS , RAF kinases are actionable targets regulating keratinocyte turnover; however , chemical RAF inhibitors paradoxically activate the pathway , promoting epidermal pr... | The skin is the largest organ of the body and shields it from damage . It is also home to cells of the immune system , which protect the body from infections . To maintain its role as a barrier , the skin regenerates throughout life , constantly producing new cells to replace the old ones . If this process goes wrong a... | [
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In Saccharomyces cerevisiae , RNA polymerase II ( Pol II ) selects transcription start sites ( TSSs ) by a unidirectional scanning process . During scanning , a preinitiation complex ( PIC ) assembled at an upstream core promoter initiates at select positions within a window ~40–120 bp downstream . Several lines of evi... | In eukaryotic organisms such as yeast , the process of converting genes into proteins begins with the transcription of DNA sequences into mRNA molecules . An enzyme called RNA Polymerase II ( Pol II ) is responsible for creating new strands of mRNA , but a variety of other so called transcription factors is also needed... | [
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Many motile microorganisms react to environmental light cues with a variety of motility responses guiding cells towards better conditions for survival and growth . The use of spatial light modulators could help to elucidate the mechanisms of photo-movements while , at the same time , providing an efficient strategy to ... | Many bacteria can move in response to environmental signals . This helps guide them towards better conditions for growth and survival . Escherichia coli is a bacterium that can swim quickly through liquid , using tiny propeller-like structures that rotate many times per second . These ‘propellers’ are powered by a cell... | [
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The absence of ‘shovel-ready’ anti-coronavirus drugs during vaccine development has exceedingly worsened the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic . Furthermore , new vaccine-resistant variants and coronavirus outbreaks may occur in the near future , and we must be ready to face this possibility . However , efficient antiviral drugs are... | To multiply and spread from cell to cell , the virus responsible for COVID-19 ( also known as SARS-CoV-2 ) must first replicate its genetic information . This process involves a ‘polymerase’ protein complex making a faithful copy by assembling a precise sequence of building blocks , or nucleotides . The only drug appro... | [
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Recent studies have implicated the subthalamic nucleus ( STN ) in decisions that involve inhibiting movements . Many of the decisions that we make in our daily lives , however , do not involve any motor actions . We studied non-motor decision making by recording intraoperative STN and prefrontal cortex ( PFC ) electrop... | Should I run to catch the bus , or wait for the next one ? Deciding whether or not to move may be a common part of our life , but many decisions we make every day do not involve any physical activity , such as deciding whether something is important or not . But does the brain distinguish between decisions involving mo... | [
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We have reconstituted a eukaryotic leading/lagging strand replisome comprising 31 distinct polypeptides . This study identifies a process unprecedented in bacterial replisomes . While bacteria and phage simply recruit polymerases to the fork , we find that suppression mechanisms are used to position the distinct eukary... | Cells must replicate their DNA before they divide so that the newly formed cells can each receive a copy of the same genetic material . DNA replication requires complex molecular machinery called a replisome , which comprises multiple proteins , enzymes , and other molecules . First , an enzyme called a helicase starts... | [
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Schistosomes are parasitic flatworms infecting hundreds of millions of people . These parasites alternate between asexual reproduction in molluscan hosts and sexual reproduction in mammalian hosts; short-lived , water-borne stages infect each host . Thriving in such disparate environments requires remarkable developmen... | Parasitic flatworms called schistosomes infect around 250 million people , causing the disease schistosomiasis . Schistosomes live complex lives , spending part of their life cycle inside snails and part of it inside mammals; short-lived , water-borne stages infect each of these hosts . To thrive in such different envi... | [
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Histone acetyl transferases ( HATs ) play distinct roles in many cellular processes and are frequently misregulated in cancers . Here , we study the regulatory potential of MYST1- ( MOF ) -containing MSL and NSL complexes in mouse embryonic stem cells ( ESCs ) and neuronal progenitors . We find that both complexes infl... | Gene expression is controlled by a complicated network of mechanisms involving a wide range of enzymes and protein complexes . Many of these mechanisms are identical in males and females , but some are not . Female mammals , for example , carry two X chromosomes , whereas males have one X and one Y chromosome . Since t... | [
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Brown adipose tissue ( BAT ) activation via cold exposure is increasingly scrutinized as a potential approach to ameliorate cardio-metabolic risk . Transition to cold temperatures requires changes in the partitioning of energy substrates , re-routing fatty acids to BAT to fuel non-shivering thermogenesis . However , th... | The body stores energy in the form of fat molecules . Most of these molecules are stored in white fat cells . Other fat cells , the so-called brown fat cells , consume fats and produce heat to maintain body temperature in cold conditions . The capacity of brown fat cells to consume fats has led researchers to investiga... | [
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Translational readthrough gives rise to low abundance proteins with C-terminal extensions beyond the stop codon . To identify functional translational readthrough , we estimated the readthrough propensity ( RTP ) of all stop codon contexts of the human genome by a new regression model in silico , identified a nucleotid... | Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins , and the order of the amino acids in a protein is determined by the order in which ‘codons’ appear in a messenger RNA molecule . Most codons represent a specific amino acid , but there are also three stop codons that are used to mark the end of a protein . When the cellu... | [
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Human positive transcription elongation factor b ( P-TEFb ) phosphorylates RNA polymerase II and regulatory proteins to trigger elongation of many gene transcripts . The HIV-1 Tat protein selectively recruits P-TEFb as part of a super elongation complex ( SEC ) organized on a flexible AFF1 or AFF4 scaffold . To underst... | The rates at which many genes are expressed as proteins are limited by the efficiency of a process called transcriptional elongation . This process takes place as the stretch of DNA that defines the gene is transcribed into an RNA molecule and it is catalyzed by an enzyme called RNA polymerase II . However , this enzym... | [
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Cyanobacteria were responsible for the oxygenation of the ancient atmosphere; however , the evolution of this phylum is enigmatic , as relatives have not been characterized . Here we use whole genome reconstruction of human fecal and subsurface aquifer metagenomic samples to obtain complete genomes for members of a new... | Microbes are ubiquitous in the world and exist in complex communities called microbiomes that have colonized many environments , including the human gut . Until modern techniques for sequencing nucleic acids became available , many of the organisms found in these microbiomes could not be studied because they could not ... | [
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Synaptic vesicle ( SV ) release probability ( Pr ) is a key presynaptic determinant of synaptic strength established by cell-intrinsic properties and further refined by plasticity . To characterize mechanisms that generate Pr heterogeneity between distinct neuronal populations , we examined glutamatergic tonic ( Ib ) a... | Nerve cells transmit messages in the form of electrical and chemical signals . Electrical impulses travel along a neuron to the junction between two neighbouring cells , the synapse . There , chemical messengers called neurotransmitters are released from one cell and detected by the next , which can either excite or in... | [
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Follicle rupture , the final step in ovulation , utilizes conserved molecular mechanisms including matrix metalloproteinases ( Mmps ) , steroid signaling , and adrenergic signaling . It is still unknown how follicles become competent for follicle rupture/ovulation . Here , we identify a zinc-finger transcription factor... | The release of an egg from the ovary of a female animal is a process known as ovulation . Animals as different as humans and fruit flies ovulate in largely similar ways . Yet the systems involved in controlling ovulation are still not well understood . An egg cell develops within a collection of cells that help the egg... | [
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Damaged mitochondria can be selectively eliminated by mitophagy . Although two gene products mutated in Parkinson’s disease , PINK1 , and Parkin have been found to play a central role in triggering mitophagy in mammals , how the pre-autophagosomal isolation membrane selectively and accurately engulfs damaged mitochondr... | Parkinson disease is a common degenerative brain disorder that causes tremors , muscle stiffening , and slowing down of movement . Scientists believe that these symptoms are caused by a progressive loss of brain cells called dopaminergic neurons , which help regulate movement . Most cases have no obvious genetic cause ... | [
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The climbing fiber input to Purkinje cells acts as a teaching signal by triggering a massive influx of dendritic calcium that marks the occurrence of instructive stimuli during cerebellar learning . Here , we challenge the view that these calcium spikes are all-or-none and only signal whether the instructive stimulus h... | A region of the brain known as the cerebellum plays a key role in learning how to anticipate an event . For example , if you know that a puff of air is going to be directed at your eye , it's a good idea to close it in advance . However , how much you need to close it depends on how strong that puff of air is . A very ... | [
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The unfolded protein response ( UPR ) is a cellular homeostatic circuit regulating protein synthesis and processing in the ER by three ER-to-nucleus signaling pathways . One pathway is triggered by the inositol-requiring enzyme 1 ( IRE1 ) , which splices the X-box binding protein 1 ( Xbp1 ) mRNA , thereby enabling expr... | Cells survive by making many different proteins that each carry out specific tasks . To work correctly , each protein must be made and then folded into the right shape . Cells carefully monitor protein folding because unfolded proteins can compromise their viability . A protein called XBP1 is important in controlling h... | [
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Primary microcephaly ( MCPH ) associated proteins CDK5RAP2 , CEP152 , WDR62 and CEP63 colocalize at the centrosome . We found that they interact to promote centriole duplication and form a hierarchy in which each is required to localize another to the centrosome , with CDK5RAP2 at the apex , and CEP152 , WDR62 and CEP6... | When a cell divides , the chromosomes that contain the genetic blueprint for the cell must be replicated and shared between the two new cells . A structure called the centrosome organizes the cellular machinery that separates the chromosome copies during cell division . At the center of each centrosome are two cylindri... | [
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] | 2015 | Centriolar satellites assemble centrosomal microcephaly proteins to recruit CDK2 and promote centriole duplication |
In many excitatory synapses , mobile zinc is found within glutamatergic vesicles and is coreleased with glutamate . Ex vivo studies established that synaptically released ( synaptic ) zinc inhibits excitatory neurotransmission at lower frequencies of synaptic activity but enhances steady state synaptic responses during... | Many people find it easy to follow a conversation while on a busy city street , but this seemingly simple task requires sophisticated processing of sounds . The brain must accurately distinguish speech sounds from background noise , even though the volumes and pitches of those sounds overlap . To make this possible , n... | [
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Only a subset of cancer patients respond to T-cell checkpoint inhibitors , highlighting the need for alternative immunotherapeutics . We performed CRISPR-Cas9 screens in a leukemia cell line to identify perturbations that enhance natural killer effector functions . Our screens defined critical components of the tumor-i... | The human immune system can recognize and kill cancer cells growing in the body . Certain immune cells recognize mutated proteins on the surface of cancer cells known as antigens , and this ability can be enhanced by drugs . These so-called immunotherapies can be effective to treat several cancer types , but only some ... | [
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The rapid expansion of human activities threatens ocean-wide biodiversity . Numerous marine animal populations have declined , yet it remains unclear whether these trends are symptomatic of a chronic accumulation of global marine extinction risk . We present the first systematic analysis of threat for a globally distri... | Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from overfishing , climate change , habitat destruction and pollution . These pressures have led to documented declines of some fishes in some places , such as those living in coral reefs and on the high seas . However , it is not clear whether these population declines are isolated ... | [
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The spliceosome is a complex machine composed of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins ( snRNPs ) and accessory proteins that excises introns from pre-mRNAs . After assembly the spliceosome is activated for catalysis by rearrangement of subunits to form an active site . How this rearrangement is coordinated is not well-unde... | The genes in an organism’s DNA may be expressed to form a protein via an intermediate molecule called RNA . In many organisms including humans , gene expression often begins by making a precursor molecule called a pre-mRNA . The pre-mRNA contains regions called exons that code for the protein product and regions called... | [
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Quantifying the relative impact of environmental conditions and host community structure on disease is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century , as both climate and biodiversity are changing at unprecedented rates . Both increasing temperature and shifting host communities toward more fast-paced life-history... | Climate change is causing shifts in the ecology and biodiversity of different world regions at unprecedented rates . Global warming is also linked with changes in the risk for certain infectious diseases in humans , but also in animals and plants . There are several possible mechanisms for this . For one thing , changi... | [
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Homo naledi is a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin discovered within the Dinaledi Chamber of the Rising Star cave system , Cradle of Humankind , South Africa . This species is characterized by body mass and stature similar to small-bodied human populations but a small endocranial volume similar to australop... | Modern humans , or Homo sapiens , are now the only living species in their genus . But as recently as 100 , 000 years ago , there were several other species that belonged to the genus Homo . Together with modern humans , these extinct human species , our immediate ancestors and their close relatives , are collectively ... | [
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Insulin and IGF signaling are critical to numerous developmental and physiological processes , with perturbations being pathognomonic of various diseases , including diabetes . Although the functional roles of the respective signaling pathways have been extensively studied , the control of insulin production and releas... | The hormone insulin and similar molecules called insulin-like peptides act as signals to control many processes in the body , including growth , stress responses and aging . Disrupting these signaling pathways can cause many diseases , with diabetes being the most common of these . Although the roles of the signaling p... | [
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Animal groups have emergent properties that result from simple interactions among individuals . However , we know little about why animals adopt different interaction rules because of sparse sampling among species . Here , we identify an interaction rule that holds across single and mixed-species flocks of four migrato... | Birds often fly in flocks ranging from very structured V-formations to unstructured clusters . Many studies have tried to prove what causes birds to flock and how it benefits them . Flocks , for example , may help birds to avoid predators and to navigate . Flying in a V-shaped formation likely also gives aerodynamic be... | [
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ISWI family chromatin remodeling motors use sophisticated autoinhibition mechanisms to control nucleosome sliding . Yet how the different autoinhibitory domains are regulated is not well understood . Here we show that an acidic patch formed by histones H2A and H2B of the nucleosome relieves the autoinhibition imposed b... | Every human cell contains nearly two meters of DNA , which is carefully packaged to form a dense structure known as chromatin . The building block of chromatin is the nucleosome , a unit composed of a short section of DNA tightly wound up around a spool-like core of proteins called histones . The tight structure of the... | [
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tRNAs are unique among various RNAs in that they shuttle between the nucleus and the cytoplasm , and their localization is regulated by nutrient conditions . Although nuclear export of tRNAs has been well documented , the import machinery is poorly understood . Here , we identified Ssa2p , a major cytoplasmic Hsp70 in ... | Plants , animals , and fungi all store their DNA inside their cells within a structure called the nucleus , which is surrounded by a nuclear envelope that separates it from the rest of the cell . This DNA contains the instructions to build proteins , but proteins are actually built elsewhere in the cell , outside of th... | [
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Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator ( CFTR ) cause recurring bacterial infection in CF patients' lungs . However , the severity of CF lung disease correlates poorly with genotype . Antibiotic treatment helps dramatically prolong patients' life . The lung disease generally determines pro... | Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that mainly affects the lungs and the intestine . It is caused by defective copies of a protein called CFTR , which normally allows chloride ions to flow in and out of cells through the cell membrane . The activity of the CFTR protein is important for transferring fluid in and ou... | [
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The motor system prepares for movements well in advance of their execution . In the gaze control system , the dynamics of preparatory neural activity have been well described by stochastic accumulation-to-threshold models . However , it is unclear whether this activity has features indicative of a hidden movement comma... | Most of us are familiar with the experience of revving up the engine in anticipation of a red traffic light turning green . The revving , which enables us to move forward as soon as the brakes are released , reflects our ability to plan actions in advance . The brain shows broadly analogous behavior when preparing to m... | [
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The sensation of breathlessness is the most threatening symptom of respiratory disease . The different subdivisions of the midbrain periaqueductal gray ( PAG ) are intricately ( and differentially ) involved in integrating behavioural responses to threat in animals , while the PAG has previously only been considered as... | Many people find feeling breathless one of the most upsetting symptoms of respiratory diseases , and breathlessness often causes anxiety that makes the condition seem more threatening than it is . Studies in animals suggest that a small cluster of neurons called the periaqueductal gray is important for responding to th... | [
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Site-specific histone ubiquitylation plays a central role in orchestrating the response to DNA double-strand breaks ( DSBs ) . DSBs elicit a cascade of events controlled by the ubiquitin ligase RNF168 , which promotes the accumulation of repair factors such as 53BP1 and BRCA1 on the chromatin flanking the break site . ... | Inside cells , genetic information is encoded by molecules of DNA . It is important for a cell to quickly identify and repair any damage to DNA to prevent harmful changes in the genetic information . In humans and other animals failures in DNA repair can lead to cancer and other diseases . A molecule of DNA is made of ... | [
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Following fertilization , the genomes of the germ cells are reprogrammed to form the totipotent embryo . Pioneer transcription factors are essential for remodeling the chromatin and driving the initial wave of zygotic gene expression . In Drosophila melanogaster , the pioneer factor Zelda is essential for development t... | Most cells in an organism share the exact same genetic information , yet they still adopt distinct identities . This diversity emerges because only a selection of genes is switched on at any given time in a cell . Proteins that latch onto DNA control this specificity by activating certain genes at the right time . Howe... | [
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Visual processing depends on specific computations implemented by complex neural circuits . Here , we present a circuit-inspired model of retinal ganglion cell computation , targeted to explain their temporal dynamics and adaptation to contrast . To localize the sources of such processing , we used recordings at the le... | Visual processing begins in the retina , a layer of light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye . The retina itself is made up of three layers of excitatory neurons . The first comprises cells called photoreceptors , which absorb light and convert it into electrical signals . The photoreceptors transmit these signals... | [
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The perception of visceral pain is a complex process involving the spinal cord and higher order brain structures . Increasing evidence implicates the gut microbiota as a key regulator of brain and behavior , yet it remains to be determined if gut bacteria play a role in visceral sensitivity . We used germ-free mice ( G... | The human gut is home to over 100 trillion microbes collectively known as the gut microbiota . These microbes help us to digest food and absorb the nutrients effectively . A diverse and stable community of gut microbes is believed to be important for good health . Recently , it has also become clear that the microbiota... | [
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] | 2017 | Microbiota regulates visceral pain in the mouse |
The dynein-2 microtubule motor is the retrograde motor for intraflagellar transport . Mutations in dynein-2 components cause skeletal ciliopathies , notably Jeune syndrome . Dynein-2 contains a heterodimer of two non-identical intermediate chains , WDR34 and WDR60 . Here , we use knockout cell lines to demonstrate that... | Almost all cells in the human body are covered in tiny hair-like structures known as primary cilia . These structures act as antennae to receive signals from outside the cell that regulate how the body grows and develops . The cell has to deliver new proteins and other molecules to precise locations within its cilia to... | [
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] | 2018 | Dynein-2 intermediate chains play crucial but distinct roles in primary cilia formation and function |
It is unclear that how subcellular organelles respond to external mechanical stimuli . Here , we investigated the molecular mechanisms by which mechanical force regulates Ca2+ signaling at endoplasmic reticulum ( ER ) in human mesenchymal stem cells . Without extracellular Ca2+ , ER Ca2+ release is the source of intrac... | Cells receive many signals from their environment , for example , when they are compressed or pulled about by neighboring cells . Information about these ‘mechanical stimuli’ can be transmitted within the cell to trigger changes in gene expression and cell behavior . When a cell receives a mechanical stimulus , it can ... | [
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This study focuses on computational and theoretical investigations of neuronal activity arising in the pre-Bötzinger complex ( pre-BötC ) , a medullary region generating the inspiratory phase of breathing in mammals . A progressive increase of neuronal excitability in medullary slices containing the pre-BötC produces m... | Each breath we take removes carbon dioxide from the body and exchanges it for oxygen . A structure called the brainstem , which connects the brain with the spinal cord , generates the breathing rhythm and controls its rate . While this process normally occurs automatically , we can also control our breathing voluntaril... | [
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"computational",
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TMEM16A forms calcium-activated chloride channels ( CaCCs ) that regulate physiological processes such as the secretions of airway epithelia and exocrine glands , the contraction of smooth muscles , and the excitability of neurons . Notwithstanding intense interest in the mechanism behind TMEM16A-CaCC calcium-dependent... | Every cell in the body is surrounded by a barrier called the cell membrane . There are , however , a number of ways that molecules can pass through this membrane to either enter or leave the cell . Calcium-activated channels are a group of proteins that are embedded within the cell membrane and that allow different ion... | [
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Interaction between disease-microbiome associations and ageing has not been explored in detail . Here , using age/region-matched sub-sets , we analysed the gut microbiome differences across five major diseases in a multi-cohort dataset constituting more than 2500 individuals from 20 to 89 years old . We show that disea... | The human body is an ecosystem made up of both human cells and trillions of microbes , and the largest microbial community is in the gut . This community of gut microbes helps harvest nutrients from our food , modulates our immune system , and even affects our mood . Infectious and chronic diseases appear to cause chan... | [
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] | 2020 | Adjusting for age improves identification of gut microbiome alterations in multiple diseases |
During gastrulation , neural crest cells are specified at the neural plate border , as characterized by Pax7 expression . Using single-cell RNA sequencing coupled with high-resolution in situ hybridization to identify novel transcriptional regulators , we show that chromatin remodeler Hmga1 is highly expressed prior to... | The neural plate is a structure that serves as the basis for the brain and central nervous system during the development of animals with a backbone . In particular , the tissues at the border of the neural plate become the neural crest , a group of highly mobile cells that can specialize to form nerves and parts of the... | [
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A new mutant mouse ( lamb1t ) exhibits intermittent dystonic hindlimb movements and postures when awake , and hyperextension when asleep . Experiments showed co-contraction of opposing muscle groups , and indicated that symptoms depended on the interaction of brain and spinal cord . SNP mapping and exome sequencing ide... | Dystonia is the third most common disorder affecting movement in humans . People with dystonia periodically experience movements that they can’t control . Sometimes the movements are repetitive , for example , abnormal or spasmodic blinking . At other times , two sets of muscles that work against each other become acti... | [
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The Hippo signaling pathway regulates tissue growth in Drosophila through the transcriptional coactivator Yorkie ( Yki ) . How Yki activates target gene transcription is poorly understood . Here , we identify Nuclear receptor coactivator 6 ( Ncoa6 ) , a subunit of the Trithorax-related ( Trr ) histone H3 lysine 4 ( H3K... | Cells need to work together for a multi-celled organism , such as a plant or an animal , to thrive . Many complicated signaling pathways therefore exist that allow cells to communicate with one another and to control their own activity in response to the signals that they receive . One such pathway , called the Hippo s... | [
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SpoIIIE is a homo-hexameric dsDNA translocase responsible for completing chromosome segregation in Bacillus subtilis . Here , we use a single-molecule approach to monitor SpoIIIE translocation when challenged with neutral-backbone DNA and non-hydrolyzable ATP analogs . We show that SpoIIIE makes multiple essential cont... | Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium that lives in the soil . When food is in short supply , B . subtilis stops reproducing and individual bacterial cells transform into spores that lay dormant until conditions improve . While , B subtilis is generally harmless , it forms spores in a similar way to other bacteria that caus... | [
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] | 2015 | Two-subunit DNA escort mechanism and inactive subunit bypass in an ultra-fast ring ATPase |
A large number of drugs can induce prolongation of cardiac repolarization and life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias . The prediction of this side effect is however challenging as it usually develops in some genetically predisposed individuals with normal cardiac repolarization at baseline . Here , we describe a platform... | Common medications can disturb the electrical signals that cause the heart to beat , potentially resulting in sudden death . Many of the drugs that have these “cardiotoxic” effects were not designed to affect the heart , and include anti-allergenics and anti-vomiting drugs . In general , only a small proportion of indi... | [
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Evolution is at the core of the impending antibiotic crisis . Sustainable therapy must thus account for the adaptive potential of pathogens . One option is to exploit evolutionary trade-offs , like collateral sensitivity , where evolved resistance to one antibiotic causes hypersensitivity to another one . To date , the... | Over time bacteria can undergo a number of genetic mutations that allow them to evolve in response to changes in their surrounding environment . This process of ‘bacterial evolution’ is one of the major causes of antibiotics resistance , whereby disease-causing microorganisms become resistant to multiple drugs and can ... | [
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RNA-binding proteins contribute to the formation of ribonucleoprotein ( RNP ) granules by phase transition , but regulatory mechanisms are not fully understood . Conserved fission yeast NDR ( Nuclear Dbf2-Related ) kinase Orb6 governs cell morphogenesis in part by spatially controlling Cdc42 GTPase . Here we describe a... | Living cells can grow to adopt a range of different shapes . For example , fission yeast cells maintain their rod-like shape by growing from their ends and then splitting in the middle to produce two new cells of an equal size . Like many other cells , fission yeast often responds to shortages of nutrients or other env... | [
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Cell-penetrating peptides ( CPPs ) allow intracellular delivery of bioactive cargo molecules . The mechanisms allowing CPPs to enter cells are ill-defined . Using a CRISPR/Cas9-based screening , we discovered that KCNQ5 , KCNN4 , and KCNK5 potassium channels positively modulate cationic CPP direct translocation into ce... | Before a drug can have its desired effect , it must reach its target tissue or organ , and enter its cells . This is not easy because cells are surrounded by the plasma membrane , a fat-based barrier that separates the cell from its external environment . The plasma membrane contains proteins that act as channels , shu... | [
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"cell",
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70-kDa Heat shock proteins are ATP-driven molecular chaperones that perform a myriad of essential cellular tasks . Although structural and biochemical studies have shed some light on their functional mechanism , the fundamental issue of the role of energy consumption , due to ATP-hydrolysis , has remained unaddressed .... | Proteins perform numerous essential tasks in cells . Most of these tasks require the protein to have a very specific structure , which is maintained by a balance of chemical and physical interactions . However , this delicate balance is vulnerable to excessive heat , changes in the pH of the cell , and certain chemical... | [
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Regulation of rod gene expression has emerged as a potential therapeutic strategy to treat retinal degenerative diseases like retinitis pigmentosa ( RP ) . We previously reported on a small molecule modulator of the rod transcription factor Nr2e3 , Photoregulin1 ( PR1 ) , that regulates the expression of photoreceptor-... | There are several diseases that cause people to lose their eyesight and become blind . One of these diseases , called retinitis pigmentosa , kills cells at the back of the eye known as rod cells . At first , it affects vision in low light and peripheral vision , but later it affects vision during the daytime as well . ... | [
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Wapl induces cohesin dissociation from DNA throughout the mitotic cell cycle , modulating sister chromatid cohesion and higher-order chromatin structure . Cohesin complexes containing meiosis-specific kleisin subunits govern most aspects of meiotic chromosome function , but whether Wapl regulates these complexes remain... | Most of the genetic material of plant and animal cells is stored in structures called chromosomes . Nearly all the cells in the body contain two copies of each chromosome , one inherited from the mother and the other from the father , but sex cells – such as egg and sperm – contain just one copy of each . If eggs or sp... | [
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Gene-environment interactions impact the development of neuropsychiatric disorders , but the relative contributions are unclear . Here , we identify gut microbiota as sufficient to induce depressive-like behaviors in genetically distinct mouse strains . Daily gavage of vehicle ( dH2O ) in nonobese diabetic ( NOD ) mice... | A combination of genes and environmental factors underlie an individual’s risk of developing a mental illness . Among the environmental factors , it is becoming clear that communication between the gut and the brain is involved , but we do not understand how these two organs communicate . Our gut contains a variety of ... | [
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Anatomical and physiological studies have led to the assumption that the dorsal striatum receives exclusively excitatory afferents from the cortex . Here we test the hypothesis that the dorsal striatum receives also GABAergic projections from the cortex . We addressed this fundamental question by taking advantage of op... | The striatum is located beneath the cerebral cortex , where it contributes to processes including learning and movement . The Spanish anatomist Ramon y Cajal , working in the early 20th century , was the first to observe individual neurons extending from the cortex to the striatum . Cajal published drawings of these ne... | [
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Small changes of Na/K pump activity regulate internal Ca release in cardiac myocytes via Na/Ca exchange . We now show conversely that transient elevations of cytoplasmic Ca strongly regulate cardiac Na/K pumps . When cytoplasmic Na is submaximal , Na/K pump currents decay rapidly during extracellular K application and ... | All animal cells have pumps in their outer membrane that continuously pump out sodium ions and bring in potassium ions . As a result , the concentration of sodium ions inside cells is low in comparison to the concentration outside , and vice versa for potassium ions . These differences between inside and outside concen... | [
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Seeing a speaker’s face enhances speech intelligibility in adverse environments . We investigated the underlying network mechanisms by quantifying local speech representations and directed connectivity in MEG data obtained while human participants listened to speech of varying acoustic SNR and visual context . During h... | When listening to someone in a noisy environment , such as a cocktail party , we can understand the speaker more easily if we can also see his or her face . Movements of the lips and tongue convey additional information that helps the listener’s brain separate out syllables , words and sentences . However , exactly whe... | [
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Lab organisms are valuable in part because of large-scale experiments like screens , but performing such experiments over long time periods by hand is arduous and error-prone . Organism-handling robots could revolutionize large-scale experiments in the way that liquid-handling robots accelerated molecular biology . We ... | Biological research can , at times , be mind-numbingly tedious: scientists often have to do the same experiment over and over on many different samples . When working with animals such as fruit flies , this means researchers have to physically handle large numbers of specimens , selecting certain individuals or moving ... | [
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The roles of long non-coding RNAs ( lncRNAs ) in regulating cancer and stem cells are being increasingly appreciated . Its diverse mechanisms provide the regulatory network with a bigger repertoire to increase complexity . Here we report a novel LncRNA , Lnc34a , that is enriched in colon cancer stem cells ( CCSCs ) an... | Tumors are made of millions of cells that are not all the same . A type of cancer cell known as cancer stem cells ( or CSCs for short ) are often better at dividing to produce new cells and moving to new sites in the body than other types of cancer cell . Very small molecules called micro ribonucleic acids ( or microRN... | [
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Feedback inhibitory motifs are thought to be important for pattern separation across species . How feedback circuits may implement pattern separation of biologically plausible , temporally structured input in mammals is , however , poorly understood . We have quantitatively determined key properties of netfeedback inhi... | You can probably recall where you left your car this morning without too much trouble . But assuming you use the same busy parking lot every day , can you remember which space you parked in yesterday ? Or the day before that ? Most people find this difficult not because they cannot remember what happened two or three d... | [
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The large GTPase dynamin catalyzes membrane fission in eukaryotic cells , but despite three decades of experimental work , competing and partially conflicting models persist regarding some of its most basic actions . Here we investigate the mechanical and functional consequences of dynamin scaffold shape changes and di... | When cells take up material from their surroundings , they must first transport this cargo across their outer membrane , a flexible sheet of tightly organized fat molecules that act as a barrier to the environment . Cells can achieve this by letting their membrane surround the object , pulling it inwards until it is co... | [
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] | 2018 | The role of scaffold reshaping and disassembly in dynamin driven membrane fission |
The observation of animal orofacial and behavioral reactions has played a fundamental role in research on reward but is seldom assessed in humans . Healthy volunteers ( N = 131 ) received 400 mg of the dopaminergic antagonist amisulpride , 50 mg of the opioidergic antagonist naltrexone , or placebo . Subjective ratings... | Studies in rats and other species have shown that two chemical messengers in the brain regulate how much an animal desires a reward , and how pleasant receiving the reward is . In this context , chemicals called opioids control both wanting and enjoying a reward , whereas a chemical called dopamine only regulates how m... | [
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Charcot–Marie-Tooth disease type 2A ( CMT2A ) is an untreatable childhood peripheral neuropathy caused by mutations of the mitochondrial fusion protein , mitofusin ( MFN ) 2 . Here , pharmacological activation of endogenous normal mitofusins overcame dominant inhibitory effects of CMT2A mutants in reprogrammed human pa... | Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2A is a rare genetic childhood disease where dying back of nerve cells leads to muscle loss in the arms and legs , causing permanent disability . There is no known treatment . In this form of CMT , mutations in a protein called mitofusin 2 damage structures inside cells known as mitocho... | [
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"cell",
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] | 2020 | Burst mitofusin activation reverses neuromuscular dysfunction in murine CMT2A |
The Ras family of GTPases are important in cell signaling and frequently mutated in human tumors . Understanding their regulation is thus important for studying biology and human diseases . Here , we report that a novel posttranslational mechanism , reversible lysine fatty acylation , regulates R-Ras2 , a member of the... | Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide . Proteins that cause and promote cancer are called oncoproteins . Other proteins , called tumor suppressors , counteract the oncoproteins but are frequently inactive or not present in cancer cells . SIRT6 is a tumor suppressor protein that has been studied in many... | [
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] | 2017 | SIRT6 regulates Ras-related protein R-Ras2 by lysine defatty-acylation |
Purkinje cells ( PC ) , the sole output neurons of the cerebellar cortex , encode sensorimotor information , but how they do it remains a matter of debate . Here we show that PCs use a multiplexed spike code . Synchrony/spike time and firing rate encode different information in behaving monkeys during saccadic eye moti... | The cerebellum is a part of the brain that uses information from the senses to coordinate movement . Cells called Purkinje neurons in the cerebellum produce the final ‘output’ of its cortex . Therefore , Purkinje neurons have to communicate precise information about different aspects of the movement , such as its speed... | [
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The specification of cartilage requires Sox9 , a transcription factor with broad roles for organogenesis outside the skeletal system . How Sox9 and other factors gain access to cartilage-specific cis-regulatory regions during skeletal development was unknown . By analyzing chromatin accessibility during the differentia... | Animals with backbones ( or vertebrates ) have body shape determined , in part , by their skeletons . These emerge in the embryo in the form of cartilage structures that will then get replaced by bone during development . The neural crest is a group of embryonic cells that can become different tissues . In the head , i... | [
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Aging , for virtually all life , is inescapable . However , within populations , biological aging rates vary . Understanding sources of variation in this process is central to understanding the biodemography of natural populations . We constructed a DNA methylation-based age predictor for an intensively studied wild ba... | For most animals , age is one of the strongest predictors of health and survival , but not all individuals age at the same rate . In fact , animals of the same species can have different 'biological ages' even when they have lived the same number of years . In humans and other mammals this variation in aging shows up i... | [
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] | 2021 | High social status males experience accelerated epigenetic aging in wild baboons |
A quantitative understanding of how sensory signals are transformed into motor outputs places useful constraints on brain function and helps to reveal the brain’s underlying computations . We investigate how the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans responds to time-varying mechanosensory signals using a high-throughput opto... | A worm called Caenorhabditis elegans has a nervous system made up of only 302 neurons , far fewer than the billions of cells that comprise our own brains . And yet these few hundred neurons are enough for these worms to detect and respond to their surroundings . C . elegans is thus a popular choice for studying how ner... | [
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Septin proteins evolved from ancestral GTPases and co-assemble into hetero-oligomers and cytoskeletal filaments . In Saccharomyces cerevisiae , five septins comprise two species of hetero-octamers , Cdc11/Shs1–Cdc12–Cdc3–Cdc10–Cdc10–Cdc3–Cdc12–Cdc11/Shs1 . Slow GTPase activity by Cdc12 directs the choice of incorporati... | For a cell to work and perform its role , it relies on molecules called proteins that are made up of chains of amino acids . Individual proteins can join together like pieces in a puzzle to form larger , more complex structures . How the protein subunits fit together depends on their individual shapes and sizes . Many ... | [
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Individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 ( NF1 ) frequently exhibit cognitive and motor impairments and characteristics of autism . The cerebellum plays a critical role in motor control , cognition , and social interaction , suggesting that cerebellar defects likely contribute to NF1-associated neurodevelopmental diso... | Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a condition characterized by the growth of tumors along the nerves of the body . It is caused by mutations in a gene called NF1 , which codes for a protein that normally works to inhibit the activity of another protein called Ras . In healthy cells , Ras is needed to stimulate the cells to g... | [
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Despite extensive research on the role of the rodent medial and lateral entorhinal cortex ( MEC/LEC ) in spatial navigation , memory and related disease , their human homologues remain elusive . Here , we combine high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging at 7 T with novel data-driven and model-based analyses to ... | In the early 1950s , an American named Henry Molaison underwent an experimental type of brain surgery to treat his severe epilepsy . The surgeon removed a region of the brain known as the temporal lobe from both sides of his brain . After the surgery , Molaison's epilepsy was greatly improved , but he was also left wit... | [
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While the mammalian macrophage phenotypes have been intensively studied in vitro , the dynamic of their phenotypic polarization has never been investigated in live vertebrates . We used the zebrafish as a live model to identify and trail macrophage subtypes . We generated a transgenic line whose macrophages expressing ... | Inflammation plays an important role in helping the body to heal wounds and fight off certain diseases . Immune cells called macrophages—which are perhaps best known for their ability to engulf and digest microbes and cell debris—help to control inflammation . In mammals , different types of macrophage exist; the most ... | [
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Listeners locate potential mates using species-specific vocal signals . As tetrapods transitioned from water to land , lungs replaced gills , allowing expiration to drive sound production . Some frogs then returned to water . Here we explore how air-driven sound production changed upon re-entry to preserve essential ac... | The voice is a unique characteristic that we use to identify one another – including someone's sex , age and mood . We speak by using air flow to vibrate our vocal folds , commonly known as vocal cords . The land-living ancestors of the African clawed frog Xenopus also used breath and vocal cords to communicate , but t... | [
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Clustering of receptors associated with immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs ( ITAMs ) initiates the macrophage antimicrobial response . ITAM receptors engage Src-family tyrosine kinases ( SFKs ) to initiate phagocytosis and macrophage activation . Macrophages also encounter nonpathogenic molecules that clus... | Macrophages are white blood cells that protect the body from infection by bacteria and other microbes . Proteins and sugars on the microbe bind to receptor proteins on the surface of the macrophage , which triggers the macrophage to engulf the cell and destroy it . Macrophages also release molecules that are toxic to t... | [
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Mitochondrial division , essential for survival in mammals , is enhanced by an inter-organellar process involving ER tubules encircling and constricting mitochondria . The force for constriction is thought to involve actin polymerization by the ER-anchored isoform of the formin protein inverted formin 2 ( INF2 ) . Unkn... | Mitochondria are structures within cells that provide the energy to power many biological processes that are essential for complex life . These structures are also highly dynamic and go through cycles of fission ( in which a single mitochondrion splits in two ) and fusion ( in which two mitochondria merge into one ) . ... | [
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The vertebrate gut microbiota have been implicated in the metabolism of xenobiotic compounds , motivating studies of microbe-driven metabolism of clinically important drugs . Here , we studied interactions between the microbiota and indomethacin , a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug ( NSAID ) that inhibits cyclooxyge... | The bacteria that inhabit the digestive tract do more than just help to break down food . Scientists are increasingly discovering that having a healthy and diverse community of gut bacteria is essential to overall health . Changes in these communities may increase the likelihood of harmful inflammation and diseases lik... | [
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Astrocytes respond to and regulate neuronal activity , yet their role in mammalian behavior remains incompletely understood . Especially unclear is whether , and if so how , astrocyte activity regulates contextual fear memory , the dysregulation of which leads to pathological fear-related disorders . We generated GFAP-... | Memory is the record of what we learn over time and is essential to our survival . But not all memories are helpful . Repeatedly recalling a traumatic event – such as an assault – can be harmful . About 1 in 3 people who experience severe trauma go on to develop post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) , in which they r... | [
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] | 2020 | Activation of astrocytes in hippocampus decreases fear memory through adenosine A1 receptors |
The Atlantic herring is one of the most abundant vertebrates on earth but its nucleotide diversity is moderate ( π = 0 . 3% ) , only three-fold higher than in human . Here , we present a pedigree-based estimation of the mutation rate in this species . Based on whole-genome sequencing of four parents and 12 offspring , ... | Evolution by natural selection favours the survival of individuals that are well suited to their environment . This process depends on genetic differences between individuals that make some more able to survive than others . These genetic differences are the result of mutations in DNA of germ-line cells , that is , the... | [
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Corrective responses to limb disturbances are surprisingly complex , but the neural basis of these goal-directed responses is poorly understood . Here we show that somatosensory feedback is transmitted to many sensory and motor cortical regions within 25 ms of a mechanical disturbance applied to the monkey’s arm . When... | Humans and other animals can change a movement they are making in a split second , such as when a basketball player has to move around an unexpected opponent to shoot a ball through the hoop . These on-the-fly corrections rely on information about the movement that comes in from the senses . However , it was unclear ho... | [
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] | 2016 | Distributed task-specific processing of somatosensory feedback for voluntary motor control |
Recent findings indicate a high level of specialization at the level of microcircuits and cell populations within brain structures with regards to the control of fear and anxiety . The hippocampus , however , has been treated as a unitary structure in anxiety and fear research despite mounting evidence that different h... | Fear and anxiety can be thought of as different but related emotional states . Fear is triggered by specific harmful situations , such as the immediate presence of a predator . Anxiety instead results from the possibility of an obscure threat , such as being in an exposed environment , which increases the chance of bei... | [
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Human flap endonuclease 1 ( FEN1 ) and related structure-specific 5’nucleases precisely identify and incise aberrant DNA structures during replication , repair and recombination to avoid genomic instability . Yet , it is unclear how the 5’nuclease mechanisms of DNA distortion and protein ordering robustly mediate effic... | When a cell divides it must copy its genetic information , which is found in the form of strands of DNA . Damage to the DNA may lead to cancer or a number of genetic diseases . However , every time a cell divides more than 10 million toxic “flaps” of excess DNA are generated . A protein called flap endonuclease 1 ( FEN... | [
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] | 2017 | Single-molecule FRET unveils induced-fit mechanism for substrate selectivity in flap endonuclease 1 |
Trial by trial covariations between neural activity and perceptual decisions ( quantified by choice Probability , CP ) have been used to probe the contribution of sensory neurons to perceptual decisions . CPs are thought to be determined by both selective decoding of neural activity and by the structure of correlated n... | Even the simplest tasks require the brain to process vast amounts of information . To take a step forward , for example , the brain must process information about the orientation of the animal's body and what the animal is seeing , hearing and feeling in order to determine whether any obstacles stand in the way . The b... | [
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"neuroscience"
] | 2014 | Contribution of correlated noise and selective decoding to choice probability measurements in extrastriate visual cortex |
The kinase Bub1 functions in the spindle assembly checkpoint ( SAC ) and in chromosome congression , but the role of its catalytic activity remains controversial . Here , we use two novel Bub1 inhibitors , BAY-320 and BAY-524 , to demonstrate potent Bub1 kinase inhibition both in vitro and in intact cells . Then , we c... | The DNA in our cells is packaged into structures called chromosomes . When a cell divides , these chromosomes need to be copied and then correctly separated so that both daughter cells have a full set of genetic information . Errors in separating chromosomes can lead to the death of cells , birth defects or contribute ... | [
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] | 2016 | Probing the catalytic functions of Bub1 kinase using the small molecule inhibitors BAY-320 and BAY-524 |
Millions of naïve T cells with different TCRs may interact with a peptide-MHC ligand , but very few will activate . Remarkably , this fine control is orchestrated using a limited set of intracellular machinery . It remains unclear whether changes in stimulation strength alter the programme of signalling events leading ... | Amongst the different types of cells the body uses to protect itself , killer T cells have an unique role: they can detect and neutralize cells that have been become dangerous for the organism – for example , cells which are cancerous or hijacked by viruses . In a healthy organism , T cells circulate through the body i... | [
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The PIWI-interacting RNA ( piRNA ) pathway is a small RNA-based immune system that controls the expression of transposons and maintains genome integrity in animal gonads . In Drosophila , piRNA-guided silencing is achieved , in part , via co-transcriptional repression of transposons by Piwi . This depends on Panoramix ... | For an organism to form and grow correctly , it must rely on the genetic information it has received from its parents . DNA , however , is full of elements called transposons that can disrupt this information by moving around the genome and inserting themselves into genes . Changes caused by these invading elements can... | [
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] | 2019 | piRNA-guided co-transcriptional silencing coopts nuclear export factors |
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of aging , and underlies the development of many diseases . Cells maintain mitochondrial homeostasis through a number of pathways that remodel the mitochondrial proteome or alter mitochondrial content during times of stress or metabolic adaptation . Here , using yeast as a model ... | Our cells contain compartments called mitochondria , which provide energy and serve as a home for many metabolic pathways that are critical for life . Changes in mitochondrial activity can contribute to aging and to the development of several age-associated diseases . However , our cells contain systems that detect cha... | [
"Abstract",
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"cell",
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] | 2016 | Selective sorting and destruction of mitochondrial membrane proteins in aged yeast |
The gating ring-forming RCK domain regulates channel gating in response to various cellular chemical stimuli in eukaryotic Slo channel families and the majority of ligand-gated prokaryotic K+ channels and transporters . Here we present structural and functional studies of a dual RCK-containing , multi-ligand gated K+ c... | Most cells are surrounded by a semipermeable membrane , and although this membrane allows very few molecules to pass through it , cells can use transmembrane proteins to overcome this barrier . Some of these proteins import glucose , amino acids and other nutrients into the cell , while others transport ions into or ou... | [
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Perceptual decisions are classically thought to depend mainly on the stimulus characteristics , probability and associated reward . However , in many cases , the motor response is considered to be a neutral output channel that only reflects the upstream decision . Contrary to this view , we show that perceptual decisio... | Imagine you are in an orchard , trying to decide which of the many apples to pick . On what do you base your decision ? Most research into this type of decision-making has focused on how the brain uses visual information – about features such as colour , size and shape – to make a choice . But what about the effort req... | [
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"neuroscience"
] | 2017 | Perceptual decisions are biased by the cost to act |
Dendritic cells residing in the skin represent a large family of antigen-presenting cells , ranging from long-lived Langerhans cells ( LC ) in the epidermis to various distinct classical dendritic cell subsets in the dermis . Through genetic fate mapping analysis and single-cell RNA-sequencing , we have identified a no... | Our immune cells are constantly on guard to defend and protect us against invading pathogens , such as bacteria and viruses . Specialized immune cells , known as antigen-presenting cells , or APCs , have a key role in this process . They engulf invaders , chew them up , and travel to the closest local lymph node to sti... | [
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"immunology",
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] | 2021 | Fate mapping analysis reveals a novel murine dermal migratory Langerhans-like cell population |
Eukaryotic mismatch repair ( MMR ) utilizes single-strand breaks as signals to target the strand to be repaired . DNA-bound PCNA is also presumed to direct MMR . The MMR capability must be limited to a post-replicative temporal window during which the signals are available . However , both identity of the signal ( s ) ... | To pass on genetic information from one generation to the next , the DNA in a cell must be precisely copied . DNA is made of two strands and genetic information is encoded by sequences of molecules called bases in the strands . The bases from one strand form pairs with complementary bases on the other strand . However ... | [
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Working memory ( WM ) , the ability to actively hold information in memory over a delay period of seconds , is a fundamental constituent of cognition . Delay-period activity in sensory cortices has been observed in WM tasks , but whether and when the activity plays a functional role for memory maintenance remains uncle... | Working memory is the ability to hold information in your head for a few seconds while making decisions , planning or applying logical reasoning to problem solving . It is a fundamental component of cognition , and yet it remains unclear where working memory is stored in the brain . The prefrontal cortex – the front lo... | [
"Abstract",
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"neuroscience"
] | 2021 | The causal role of auditory cortex in auditory working memory |
Epithelial fusion underlies many vital organogenic processes during embryogenesis . Disruptions to these cause a significant number of human birth defects , including ocular coloboma . We provide robust spatial-temporal staging and unique anatomical detail of optic fissure closure ( OFC ) in the embryonic chick , inclu... | Our bodies are made of many different groups of cells , which are arranged into tissues that perform specific roles . As tissues form in the embryo they must adopt precise three-dimensional structures , depending on their position in the body . In many cases this involves two edges of tissue fusing together to prevent ... | [
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