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The increasing predictive power of polygenic scores for education has led to their promotion by some as a potential tool for genetically informed policy . How accurately polygenic scores predict an individual pupil's educational performance conditional on other phenotypic data is however not well understood . Using dat... | The way that people learn in school and other educational settings differs from person to person for a wide range of reasons . Over the past 15 years there has been a shift in the way that children are taught in the UK and some other countries . Education has become more focused on the students as individuals , recogni... | [
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In bladder , loss of mammalian Sonic Hedgehog ( Shh ) accompanies progression to invasive urothelial carcinoma , but the molecular mechanisms underlying this cancer-initiating event are poorly defined . Here , we show that loss of Shh results from hypermethylation of the CpG shore of the Shh gene , and that inhibition ... | In order to grow , cancer cells shut down or over-activate genes that normally maintain a cell’s health . The Sonic Hedgehog gene – named after a Japanese cartoon character – is associated with the cancer of several tissues , including the bladder . In 2014 , researchers found that losing the Sonic Hedgehog gene , Shh ... | [
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Mature microRNAs ( miRNAs ) are processed from primary transcripts ( pri-miRNAs ) , and their expression is controlled at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels . However , how regulation at multiple levels achieves precise control remains elusive . Using published and new datasets , we profile a time course o... | Cells produce proteins by feeding molecules that contain temporary copies of the gene for that protein through a complex structure called a ribosome . The ribosome follows the coded instructions in these molecules to build the protein . These temporary copies of the code are reusable . Even if the cell stops copying a ... | [
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Generalization during aversive decision-making allows us to avoid a broad range of potential threats following experience with a limited set of exemplars . However , over-generalization , resulting in excessive and inappropriate avoidance , has been implicated in a variety of psychological disorders . Here , we use rei... | People apply what they have learned from past experiences to similar situations , a phenomenon known as generalization . For example , if eating a particular food caused illness , a person will likely avoid foods that look or smell similar in the future . Generalization can be helpful because it allows people to decide... | [
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Malaria is transmitted when an infected Anopheles mosquito deposits Plasmodium sporozoites in the skin during a bite . Sporozoites are formed within oocysts at the mosquito midgut wall and are released into the hemolymph , from where they invade the salivary glands and are subsequently transmitted to the vertebrate hos... | Malaria is caused by a parasite transmitted by certain types of mosquito . The parasite lives in different organs within its vertebrate animal and insect hosts and to cope with these different environments it has a complex life cycle with several highly specialized life stages . To move from an infected mosquito into v... | [
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Status epilepticus ( SE ) is a common neurological emergency for which new treatments are needed . In vitro studies suggest a novel approach to controlling seizures in SE: acute inhibition of estrogen synthesis in the brain . Here , we show in rats that systemic administration of an aromatase ( estrogen synthase ) inhi... | Seizures occur when connected groups of cells in the brain become over-active and fire together . Current anti-seizure medications work by reducing brain activity generally . Although this is often effective in controlling seizures , it can also lead to negative side effects like drowsiness , dizziness or difficulty co... | [
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Mitochondrial fatty acid synthesis ( FASII ) and iron sulfur cluster ( FeS ) biogenesis are both vital biosynthetic processes within mitochondria . In this study , we demonstrate that the mitochondrial acyl carrier protein ( ACP ) , which has a well-known role in FASII , plays an unexpected and evolutionarily conserved... | Like animals and plants , yeast cells contain structures called mitochondria . These structures are commonly referred to as the powerhouses of the cell because they provide much of the energy that cells need to survive . All mitochondria contain a protein called acyl carrier protein ( ACP ) , which cells need in order ... | [
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Rapid firing of cerebellar Purkinje neurons is facilitated in part by a voltage-gated Na+ ( NaV ) ‘resurgent’ current , which allows renewed Na+ influx during membrane repolarization . Resurgent current results from unbinding of a blocking particle that competes with normal channel inactivation . The underlying molecul... | The cerebellum is a region of the brain that is involved in motor control , and it contains a special type of nerve cells called Purkinje neurons . Messages travel along neurons as electrical signals carried by sodium ions , which have a positive electric charge . Normally , when a neuron is ‘at rest’ , the plasma memb... | [
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Every movement ends in a period of stillness . Current models assume that commands that hold the limb at a target location do not depend on the commands that moved the limb to that location . Here , we report a surprising relationship between movement and posture in primates: on a within-trial basis , the commands that... | Moving an arm requires the brain to send electrical signals to the arm’s muscles , causing them to contract . Neuroscientists call these types of brain signals “move signals” . The brain also sends so-called hold signals , which hold the arm still in a desired position . Part of the brain known as the primary motor cor... | [
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The type I insulin-like growth factor receptor ( IGF1R ) is involved in growth and survival of normal and neoplastic cells . A ligand-dependent conformational change is thought to regulate IGF1R activity , but the nature of this change is unclear . We point out an underappreciated dimer in the crystal structure of the ... | Hormones are chemicals that are produced to carry signals around the body . Mammals , including humans , need hormones called insulin and insulin-like growth factors ( or IGF for short ) to grow and develop normally . These hormones bind to , and activate , specific proteins—known as receptors—that span from the outsid... | [
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Silent information regulator 2 ( Sir2 ) , an NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase , has been proposed to be a longevity factor that plays important roles in dietary restriction ( DR ) -mediated lifespan extension . In this study , we show that the Sir2's role for DR-mediated lifespan extension depends on cAMP-PKA and cas... | We know that cutting calorie intake through a restricted diet can slow down the aging process and prolong the lives of many organisms ranging from yeast to mammals . Calorie restriction also has protective effects on various age-related diseases including neurodegenerative disorders , cardiovascular disease , and cance... | [
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Merozoites of the protozoan parasite responsible for the most virulent form of malaria , Plasmodium falciparum , invade erythrocytes . Invasion involves discharge of rhoptries , specialized secretory organelles . Once intracellular , parasites induce increased nutrient uptake by generating new permeability pathways ( N... | Malaria is a life-threatening disease that affects millions of people around the world . The parasites that cause malaria have a complex life cycle that involves infecting both mosquitoes and mammals , including humans . In humans , the parasites spend part of their life cycle inside red blood cells , which causes the ... | [
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The evaluation of protein localization changes on a systematic level is a powerful tool for understanding how cells respond to environmental , chemical , or genetic perturbations . To date , work in understanding these proteomic responses through high-throughput imaging has catalogued localization changes independently... | Cells are busy structures in which proteins move from one place to the other to perform their roles . To survive , organisms must constantly adapt to changes , such as mutations , new environments , or encountering drugs . Often , these adaptive responses involve groups of proteins traveling to new locations in the cel... | [
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Nutrients shape the growth , maturation , and aging of plants and animals . In plants , the juvenile to adult transition ( vegetative phase change ) is initiated by a decrease in miR156 . In Arabidopsis , we found that exogenous sugar decreased the abundance of miR156 , whereas reduced photosynthesis increased the leve... | Like animals , plants go through several stages of development before they reach maturity , and it has long been thought that some of the transitions between these stages are triggered by changes in the nutritional status of the plant . Now , based on experiments with the plant Arabidopsis thaliana , Yang et al . and ,... | [
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The phosphorylation of the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain ( CTD ) plays a key role in delineating transcribed regions within chromatin by recruiting histone methylases and deacetylases . Using genome-wide nucleosome mapping , we show that CTD S2 phosphorylation controls nucleosome dynamics in the promoter of a sub... | The process of activating genes—known as gene expression—involves a number of steps . During the first step , the gene's DNA is copied or ‘transcribed’ to produce a molecule of messenger RNA . However , most of the DNA in a cell is wrapped around proteins called histones to make structures known as nucleosomes , and th... | [
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Recent work draws attention to community-community encounters ( 'coalescence' ) as likely an important factor shaping natural ecosystems . This work builds on MacArthur’s classic model of competitive coexistence to investigate such community-level competition in a minimal theoretical setting . It is shown that the abil... | Microbes live in us and on us . They are tremendously important for our health , but remain difficult to understand , since a microbial community typically consists of hundreds of species that interact in complex ways that we cannot fully characterize . It is tempting to ask whether one might instead characterize such ... | [
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Bioluminescence is a powerful biological signal that scientists have repurposed as a reporter for gene expression in plants and animals . However , there are downsides associated with the need to provide a substrate to these reporters , including its high cost and non-uniform tissue penetration . In this work we recons... | Many animals have evolved the capacity to produce light from chemical reactions . For example , an enzyme known as luciferase in fireflies produces light by acting on a molecule called luciferin . Scientists have identified the enzymes that drive several of these systems and used them to build reporters that can study ... | [
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Diverse interactions among species within bacterial colonies lead to intricate spatiotemporal dynamics , which can affect their growth and survival . Here , we describe the emergence of complex structures in a colony grown from mixtures of motile and non-motile bacterial species on a soft agar surface . Time-lapse imag... | Communities of bacteria and other microbes live in every ecosystem on Earth , including in soil , in hydrothermal vents , on the surface of plants and in the human gut . They often attach to solid surfaces and form dense colonies called biofilms . Most biofilms found in nature are comprised of many different species of... | [
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A growing body of literature has demonstrated that primary sensory cortices are not exclusively unimodal , but can respond to stimuli of different sensory modalities . However , several questions concerning the neural representation of cross-modal stimuli remain open . Indeed , it is poorly understood if cross-modal st... | Imagine that you are waiting for a cappuccino at your favorite café . You hear the sound of the steamer , and shortly afterwards the barista calls your name and announces that your cappuccino is ready . As they hand it to you , you see the foam sprinkled with cocoa and the aroma of the cappuccino reaches your nose . Yo... | [
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Coordinated migration of cell collectives is important during embryonic development and relies on cells integrating multiple mechanical and chemical cues . Recently , we described that focal activation of the FGF pathway promotes the migration of the parapineal in the zebrafish epithalamus . How FGF activity is restric... | Many animal cells must move through the body from the place they are born to where they are needed , for example , when embryos are developing or wounds are healing . Often cells migrate in groups , which helps them to navigate and co-ordinate more effectively . Cells typically migrate by sensing different signals acro... | [
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In nature , animals form memories associating reward or punishment with stimuli from different sensory modalities , such as smells and colors . It is unclear , however , how distinct sensory memories are processed in the brain . We established appetitive and aversive visual learning assays for Drosophila that are compa... | Animals tend to associate good and bad things with certain visual scenes , smells and other kinds of sensory information . If we get food poisoning after eating a new food , for example , we tend to associate the taste and smell of the new food with feelings of illness . This is an example of a negative ‘associative me... | [
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The hippocampal system appears to be critically important in establishing episodic memory of both internal and external events within contexts as well as spatial memory , which enables flexible spatial navigation . However , the neuronal substrates that function across different memories in the hippocampal system are p... | A little over 10 years ago , researchers discovered that a brain region called the hippocampus is larger in London taxi drivers than it is in the general population . This tied in with results from animal studies , which had revealed a key role for the hippocampus in spatial navigation and memory . However , other work... | [
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Small G-proteins of the ADP-ribosylation-factor-like ( Arl ) subfamily have been shown to be crucial to ciliogenesis and cilia maintenance . Active Arl3 is involved in targeting and releasing lipidated cargo proteins from their carriers PDE6δ and UNC119a/b to the cilium . However , the guanine nucleotide exchange facto... | Most types of cells in humans and other animals have slender , hair-like structures known as cilia that project out of the cell surface . These structures sense and respond to signals from the external environment and are crucial for organisms to develop normally . Defects in cilia can lead to many serious conditions s... | [
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Hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) infection constitutes a global public health problem . In order to establish how HBV was disseminated across different geographic regions , we estimated the levels of regional clustering for genotypes D and A . We used 916 HBV-D and 493 HBV-A full-length sequences to reconstruct their global p... | The Hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) is a major cause of liver disease , and according to the World Health Organization , around 257 million people live with Hepatitis B infection . The virus is a relatively ancient one in human history and has been infecting humans for at least 28 , 000 years . Previous studies have isolated... | [
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Heterogeneity in physical and functional characteristics of cells ( e . g . size , cycle time , growth rate , protein concentration ) proliferates within an isogenic population due to stochasticity in intracellular biochemical processes and in the distribution of resources during divisions . Conversely , it is limited ... | All the different forms of life on our planet – including animals , plants , fungi and bacteria – tend to grow , multiply and expand . This happens through a process called cell division , where one cell becomes two; two cells become four; four cells become eight; and so on . Each dividing cell passes on the same set o... | [
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Plasticity is often regarded as a derived adaptation to help organisms survive in variable but predictable environments , however , we currently lack a rigorous , mechanistic examination of how plasticity evolves in a large comparative framework . Here , we show that phenotypic plasticity in eyespot size in response to... | A well-known family of butterflies have circular patterns on their wings that look like eyes . These eye-like markings help deflect predators away from the butterfly’s body so they attack the outer edges of their wings . However , in certain seasons , such as the dry season in Africa , the best way for this family to s... | [
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Presence of multiple copies of the microtubule-binding NDC80 complex is an evolutionary conserved feature of kinetochores , points of attachment of chromosomes to spindle microtubules . This may enable multivalent attachments to microtubules , with implications that remain unexplored . Using recombinant human kinetocho... | Before a cell divides , its genome duplicates so that each copy can be given to the daughter cells . In a dividing cell , the chromosomes – the structures that store genetic information – look like an ‘X’ . This is because each chromosome is formed of two identical , rod-like , ‘sister chromatids’ which are attached by... | [
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Structure and function of mitochondria are intimately linked . In a search for components that participate in building the elaborate architecture of this complex organelle we have identified Aim24 , an inner membrane protein . Aim24 interacts with the MICOS complex that is required for the formation of crista junctions... | Respiration is vital to all living things because it is the process by which nutrients are converted into useful energy . Within our cells , organelles called mitochondria harness this energy and store it within molecules of ATP . This energy can then be released , when it is needed , by breaking down an ATP molecule i... | [
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RNF213 is the major susceptibility factor for Moyamoya disease , a progressive cerebrovascular disorder that often leads to brain stroke in adults and children . Characterization of disease-associated mutations has been complicated by the enormous size of RNF213 . Here , we present the cryo-EM structure of mouse RNF213... | Moyamoya disease is a genetic disorder affecting both adults and children . It is characterized by narrowing of the blood vessels in the brain , which can lead to strokes . Moyamoya patients often have mutations in the gene for a protein called RNF213 . This protein is linked to multiple processes in the body , includi... | [
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Sacoglossan sea slugs are able to maintain functional chloroplasts inside their own cells , and mechanisms that allow preservation of the chloroplasts are unknown . We found that the slug Elysia timida induces changes to the photosynthetic light reactions of the chloroplasts it steals from the alga Acetabularia acetabu... | Plants , algae and a few other organisms rely on a process known as photosynthesis to fuel themselves , as they can harness cellular structures called chloroplasts to convert light into usable energy . Animals typically lack chloroplasts , making them unable to use photosynthesis to power themselves . The sea slug Elys... | [
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Plant-herbivore interactions dominate the planet’s terrestrial ecology . When it comes to host–plant specialization , insects are among the most versatile evolutionary innovators , able to disarm multiple chemical plant defenses . Sequestration is a widespread strategy to detoxify noxious metabolites , frequently for t... | For millions of years , plant feeding insects have been locked in an arms race with the plants they consume . Plants have evolved defensive strategies such as the ability to produce noxious chemicals that deter insects , while many insects have evolved the means to thwart this defense and even turn it to their own adva... | [
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Human SEMAPHORIN 5A ( SEMA5A ) is an autism susceptibility gene; however , its function in brain development is unknown . In this study , we show that mouse Sema5A negatively regulates synaptogenesis in early , developmentally born , hippocampal dentate granule cells ( GCs ) . Sema5A is strongly expressed by GCs and re... | Neurons communicate with one another at specialized junctions called synapses . There are two types of synapses , called excitatory synapses and inhibitory synapses , and the density and strength of both are tightly regulated because small deviations from the normal density and/or strength may lead to illness . For exa... | [
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Knowledge of the host factors required for norovirus replication has been hindered by the challenges associated with culturing human noroviruses . We have combined proteomic analysis of the viral translation and replication complexes with a CRISPR screen , to identify host factors required for norovirus infection . The... | The human norovirus ( also known as the winter vomiting bug ) is a major cause of gastroenteritis worldwide and is responsible for the deaths of many children in developing countries . Norovirus infections are estimated to have an economic cost of over 60 billion US dollars per year , yet there are no vaccines or drugs... | [
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 ( eIF3 ) is a central player in recruitment of the pre-initiation complex ( PIC ) to mRNA . We probed the effects on mRNA recruitment of a library of S . cerevisiae eIF3 functional variants spanning its 5 essential subunits using an in vitro-reconstituted system . Mutations th... | Cells use the genetic information stored within genes to build proteins , which are largely responsible for performing the molecular tasks essential for life . The ribosome is the molecular machine that translates the information within genes to assemble proteins in all cells , from bacteria to humans . To make a prote... | [
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To optimize fitness , animals must dynamically match food choices to their current needs . For drosophilids , yeast fulfills most dietary protein and micronutrient requirements . While several yeast metabolites activate known gustatory receptor neurons ( GRNs ) in Drosophila melanogaster , the chemosensory channels med... | When animals run low on a certain nutrient , they change their behavior to seek out and feed on foods rich in that missing element . For example , fruit flies lacking sugar will look for and eat more sweet food; if they need proteins , they will instead favor yeast , flies’ principal source of proteins . In fruit flies... | [
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Axolotls are uniquely able to mobilize neural stem cells to regenerate all missing regions of the spinal cord . How a neural stem cell under homeostasis converts after injury to a highly regenerative cell remains unknown . Here , we show that during regeneration , axolotl neural stem cells repress neurogenic genes and ... | Stem cells found in adult tissues are vitally important for tissue repair and maintenance . These cells divide in two main ways: equally to create two new stem cells , or unequally to create a stem cell and a cell that can develop into one of the cell types in the tissue . A key challenge for biologists is to understan... | [
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The mitochondrial ATP synthase fuels eukaryotic cells with chemical energy . Here we report the cryo-EM structure of a divergent ATP synthase dimer from mitochondria of Euglena gracilis , a member of the phylum Euglenozoa that also includes human parasites . It features 29 different subunits , 8 of which are newly iden... | Every living thing uses the energy-rich molecule called adenosine triphosphate , or ATP , as fuel . It is the universal molecular currency for transferring energy . Cells trade it , mitochondria make it , and the energy extracted from it is used to drive chemical reactions , transport molecules across cell membranes , ... | [
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A decline of skeletal muscle strength with aging is a primary cause of mobility loss and frailty in older persons , but the molecular mechanisms of such decline are not understood . Here , we performed quantitative proteomic analysis from skeletal muscle collected from 58 healthy persons aged 20 to 87 years . In muscle... | As humans age , their muscles become weaker , making it increasingly harder for them to move , a condition known as sarcopenia . Analyzing old muscles in other animals revealed that they produce energy inefficiently , they destroy more proteins than younger muscles , and they have high levels of molecules that cause in... | [
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Plant-microbe associations are thought to be beneficial for plant growth and resistance against biotic or abiotic stresses , but for natural ecosystems , the ecological analysis of microbiome function remains in its infancy . We used transformed wild tobacco plants ( Nicotiana attenuata ) which constitutively express a... | Plants never grow alone in their natural environments , but are instead constantly surrounded by microbial life . The microbes associated with a plant are known as the plant’s microbiome , and while a few of them are thought to benefit the plant’s health , little is known about what most of these microbes really do . I... | [
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Dietary fatty acids are the main building blocks for cell membranes in animals , and mechanisms must therefore exist that compensate for dietary variations . We isolated C . elegans mutants that improved tolerance to dietary saturated fat in a sensitized genetic background , including eight alleles of the novel gene fl... | The saying “you are what you eat” is probably closest to the truth when talking about fats . This is because the outer edge of our cells , known as the cell membrane , is built mostly from the fats found in our diet . Yet , there is a possible problem with this situation . Based on their chemical make-up , fats can be ... | [
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Basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors encoded by RSL class I genes control a gene regulatory network that positively regulates the development of filamentous rooting cells – root hairs and rhizoids – in land plants . The GLABRA2 transcription factor negatively regulates these genes in the angiosperm Arabidopsis ... | Plants colonised the land sometime more than 500 million years ago . The ancestors of the first land plants were algae that were most likely simple with a few different types of cell . Yet , when faced with the challenges of life on land , plants evolved new cell types and specialised structures with roles such as anch... | [
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Oxygenic photosynthesis supports virtually all life forms on earth . Light energy is converted by two photosystems—photosystem I ( PSI ) and photosystem II ( PSII ) . Globally , nearly 50% of photosynthesis takes place in the Ocean , where single cell cyanobacteria and algae reside together with their viruses . An oper... | Photosynthesis—the process by which plants and other organisms harness the energy in sunlight—is the source of almost all oxygen , food and fuel on earth . Oxygenic photosynthesis in living cells involves a series of reactions catalyzed by large protein complexes , various other soluble chemicals , and the transfer of ... | [
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Protective antibodies in Plasmodium falciparum malaria are only acquired after years of repeated infections . Chronic malaria exposure is associated with a large increase in atypical memory B cells ( MBCs ) that resemble B cells expanded in a variety of persistent viral infections . Understanding the function of atypic... | The human immune system works to protect individuals from harmful microbes , such as the parasites that cause malaria . One line of defense is to produce a large array of proteins called antibodies that specifically bind to microbes to mark them for destruction by the immune system . The immune system also produces lon... | [
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The Red Sea was witness to important events during human history , including the first long steps in a trade network ( the spice route ) that would drive maritime technology and shape geopolitical fortunes for thousands of years . Punt was a pivotal early node in the rise of this enterprise , serving as an important em... | Strontium is a chemical element that can act as a geographic fingerprint: its composition differs between locations , and as it enters the food chain , it can help to retrace the life history of extant or past animals . In particular , strontium in teeth – which stop to develop early – can reveal where an individual wa... | [
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As infectious diseases pose a threat to host integrity , eukaryotes have evolved mechanisms to eliminate pathogens . In addition to develop strategies reducing infection , animals can engage in behaviors that lower the impact of the infection . The molecular mechanisms by which microbes impact host behavior are not wel... | Bacteria are all around us: they are on our skin , in the food that we eat and inside our bodies , particularly in the gut . While many of these bacteria are harmless and some even help us digest our food , others can make us ill . Upon detecting harmful bacteria , our bodies therefore trigger an immune response intend... | [
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Non-hematopoietic lymph node stromal cells shape immunity by inducing MHC-I-dependent deletion of self-reactive CD8+ T cells and MHC-II-dependent anergy of CD4+ T cells . In this study , we show that MHC-II expression on lymph node stromal cells is additionally required for homeostatic maintenance of regulatory T cells... | In vertebrates , the immune response that protects against infection and disease is made up of two systems . The body's first line of defense is the innate immune system that attacks invaders rapidly but indiscriminately . If this fails to stop disease progression , the adaptive immune system is activated . Although th... | [
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The hippocampal CA1 field integrates a wide variety of subcortical and cortical inputs , but its synaptic organization in humans is still unknown due to the difficulties involved studying the human brain via electron microscope techniques . However , we have shown that the 3D reconstruction method using Focused Ion Bea... | There are billions of nerve cells or neurons in the human brain , and each one can form thousands of connections , also called synapses , with other neurons . That means there are trillions of synapses in the brain that keep information flowing . Studying the arrangement of individual neurons in the human brain , and t... | [
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A neural code adapted to the statistical structure of sensory cues may optimize perception . We investigated whether interaural time difference ( ITD ) statistics inherent in natural acoustic scenes are parameters determining spatial discriminability . The natural ITD rate of change across azimuth ( ITDrc ) and ITD var... | When a person hears a sound , how do they work out where it is coming from ? A sound coming from your right will reach your right ear a few fractions of a millisecond earlier than your left . The brain uses this difference , known as the interaural time difference or ITD , to locate the sound . But humans are also much... | [
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] | 2020 | Natural ITD statistics predict human auditory spatial perception |
Nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat ( NLR ) -containing proteins in plants and animals mediate intracellular pathogen sensing . Plant NLRs typically detect strain-specific pathogen effectors and trigger immune responses often linked to localized host cell death . The barley Mla disease resistance locus ha... | Powdery mildews are fungal diseases that affect many plants , including important crops such as barley . The fungi behind these diseases deliver molecules known as effectors inside plant cells , which manipulate the plants' biology and help the fungus to invade the plants' tissues . In response , some plants have evolv... | [
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] | 2019 | Multiple pairs of allelic MLA immune receptor-powdery mildew AVRA effectors argue for a direct recognition mechanism |
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) has revealed fibrosis in embolic stroke of undetermined source ( ESUS ) patients comparable to levels seen in atrial fibrillation ( AFib ) . We used computational modeling to understand the absence of arrhythmia in ESUS despite the presence of putatively pro-arrhythmic fibrosi... | The heart usually beats with a regular rhythm to pump the blood that carries oxygen and nutrients to different organs . Sometimes , alterations in the heart’s rhythm known as arrhythmias can occur . Atrial fibrillation , also called AFib , is a type of arrhythmia in which the heart beats rapidly and irregularly , causi... | [
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] | 2021 | Computational modeling identifies embolic stroke of undetermined source patients with potential arrhythmic substrate |
MicroRNAs are small ( 22 nucleotide ) regulatory molecules that play important roles in a wide variety of biological processes . These RNAs , which bind to targeted mRNAs via limited base pairing interactions , act to reduce protein production from those mRNAs . Considerable evidence indicates that miRNAs destabilize t... | DNA encodes instructions to make proteins . The DNA is first copied to make molecules of messenger ribonucleic acid ( mRNA ) that are then “translated” into proteins by large particles known as ribosomes . MicroRNAs are a type of very small RNA molecule that can reduce the amount of protein produced from mRNAs in anima... | [
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Recent symbioses , particularly facultative ones , are well suited for unravelling the evolutionary give and take between partners . Here we look at variation in natural isolates of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and their relationships with bacterial symbionts , Burkholderia hayleyella and Burkholderia agr... | A species can benefit or be hurt by other species . For example , honeybees and flowering plants help each other to flourish , while lions and gazelles behave in ways that decrease each other’s populations . Understanding these relationships is important for controlling pests and diseases . Sometimes it is easiest to s... | [
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When animals and their offspring are threatened , parents switch from self-defense to offspring protection . How self-defense is suppressed remains elusive . We postulated that suppression of the self-defense response , freezing , is gated via oxytocin acting in the centro-lateral amygdala ( CeL ) . We found that rat d... | Animals have many mechanisms to avoid or defend themselves against deadly encounters with predators . However , adult animals frequently put themselves at risk while protecting their more vulnerable offspring from attacks . For example , a killdeerbird with young will fake a broken wing and lead a predator away from it... | [
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Ecological adaptation is of major relevance to speciation and sustainable population management , but the underlying genetic factors are typically hard to study in natural populations due to genetic differentiation caused by natural selection being confounded with genetic drift in subdivided populations . Here , we use... | The Atlantic herring is one of the most common fish in the world and has been a crucial food resource in northern Europe . One school of herring may comprise billions of fish , but previous studies had only revealed very few genetic differences in herring from different geographic regions . This was unexpected since At... | [
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Many viral pathogens target innate sensing cascades and/or cellular transcription factors to suppress antiviral immune responses . Here , we show that the accessory viral protein U ( Vpu ) of HIV-1 exerts broad immunosuppressive effects by inhibiting activation of the transcription factor NF-κB . Global transcriptional... | The Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( or HIV for short ) has infected more than 70 million people worldwide . Although effective therapies exist to prevent the replication of the virus and the development to AIDS , there is no cure or vaccine , and the virus still spreads efficiently in human populations , infecting about... | [
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Developmental plasticity has been proposed to facilitate phenotypic diversification in plants and animals , but the macroevolutionary potential of plastic traits remains to be objectively tested . We studied the evolution of feeding structures in a group of 90 nematodes , including Caenorhabditis elegans , some species... | Every animal and plant grows to a body plan that is defined by its genes . However , the body plan must be flexible enough to allow the organism to respond to whatever the world throws at it . This flexibility—known as developmental plasticity—allows an organism to change certain characteristics in order to survive in ... | [
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] | 2015 | Rapid diversification associated with a macroevolutionary pulse of developmental plasticity |
Essential biological systems employ self-correcting mechanisms to maintain cellular homeostasis . Mammalian cell function is dynamically regulated by the interaction of cell surface galectins with branched N-glycans . Here we report that N-glycan branching deficiency triggers the Golgi to generate bioequivalent N-glyca... | Most proteins that are released from cells are modified with sugar molecules that allow the proteins to carry out their role properly . These modifications are called glycans , and are made from sugar subunits joined into chains or branched structures . Investigating how the structure of glycans is linked to their role... | [
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Precise regulation of the dendritic spine actin cytoskeleton is critical for neurodevelopment and neuronal plasticity , but how neurons spatially control actin dynamics is not well defined . Here , we identify direct palmitoylation of the actin regulator LIM kinase-1 ( LIMK1 ) as a novel mechanism to control spine-spec... | Neurons transmit information from one cell to the next by passing signals across junctions called synapses . For the neurons that receive these signals , these junctions are found on fine branch-like structures called dendrites that stick out of the cell . Dendrites themselves are decorated with smaller structures call... | [
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] | 2015 | Palmitoylation of LIM Kinase-1 ensures spine-specific actin polymerization and morphological plasticity |
Schistosomes infect more than 200 million people . These parasitic flatworms rely on a syncytial outer coat called the tegument to survive within the vasculature of their host . Although the tegument is pivotal for their survival , little is known about maintenance of this tissue during the decades schistosomes survive... | Schistosomiasis is a devastating disease that infects more than 200 million people and kills 200 thousand people every year . The disease is caused by parasitic flatworms known as schistosomes . These worms can live in the bloodstream for decades , even if the host has a healthy immune system . This ability to evade th... | [
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In the absence of salient sensory cues to guide behavior , animals must still execute sequences of motor actions in order to forage and explore . How such successive motor actions are coordinated to form global locomotion trajectories is unknown . We mapped the structure of larval zebrafish swim trajectories in homogen... | Much of an animal’s behavior is guided by cues in the environment: many animals follow odors to find food , for example . But even in the absence of such cues , animals continue to show spontaneous behaviors that are optimized to help them discover resources , such as food , or landmarks , such as shelter . While these... | [
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Faithful chromosome segregation in all eukaryotes relies on centromeres , the chromosomal sites that recruit kinetochore proteins and mediate spindle attachment during cell division . The centromeric histone H3 variant , CenH3 , is the defining chromatin component of centromeres in most eukaryotes , including animals ,... | Cell division is a fundamentally important process for living organisms . In eukaryotes , such as plants and animals , genomic DNA is tightly packaged into chromosomes , which needs to be copied and faithfully divided into daughter cells . Segregating the chromosomes is accomplished by the kinetochore , a protein compl... | [
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Alternation between morphologically distinct haploid and diploid life forms is a defining feature of most plant and algal life cycles , yet the underlying molecular mechanisms that govern these transitions remain unclear . Here , we explore the dynamic relationship between chromatin accessibility and epigenetic modific... | Each pollen grain from a flowering plant houses sperm , which contain half of the genes needed to make a new plant , and a companion or vegetative cell ( VC ) that serves to deliver sperm to the egg . The genes in the vegetative cell and those in the sperm are identical to the genes of the plant they come from , so how... | [
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] | 2021 | Epigenetic reprogramming rewires transcription during the alternation of generations in Arabidopsis |
Morphogenesis in plants depends critically on directional ( anisotropic ) growth . This occurs principally perpendicular to the net orientation of cellulose microfibrils ( CMFs ) , which is in turn controlled by cortical microtubules ( CMTs ) . In young lateral roots of Arabidopsis thaliana , growth anisotropy also dep... | A fundamental challenge in biology is to understand how plants , animals and other multicellular organisms make organs of various shapes and sizes . Plant cells are surrounded by rigid walls that fix them into their position relative to the surrounding cells . Therefore , neighbouring cells have to precisely coordinate... | [
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] | 2019 | Two mechanisms regulate directional cell growth in Arabidopsis lateral roots |
Leptospirosis is the leading zoonotic disease in terms of morbidity and mortality worldwide . Effective prevention is urgently needed as the drivers of disease transmission continue to intensify . The key challenge has been developing a widely applicable vaccine that protects against the >300 serovars that can cause le... | Leptospirosis is a life-threatening disease with flu-like symptoms that is caused by bacteria known as Leptospira . It is more common in warmer regions with high rainfall , especially in impoverished areas . The disease is spread in the urine of animals such as rodents , farm animals or dogs . Humans and other animals ... | [
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] | 2021 | A live attenuated-vaccine model confers cross-protective immunity against different species of the Leptospira genus |
Budding yeast Spc110 , a member of γ-tubulin complex receptor family ( γ-TuCR ) , recruits γ-tubulin complexes to microtubule ( MT ) organizing centers ( MTOCs ) . Biochemical studies suggest that Spc110 facilitates higher-order γ-tubulin complex assembly ( Kollman et al . , 2010 ) . Nevertheless the molecular basis fo... | Microtubules are hollow structures made of proteins that have a central role in cell division and a variety of other important processes within cells . For a cell to divide successfully , the chromosomes containing the genetic information of the cell must be duplicated and then separated so that one copy of each chromo... | [
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] | 2014 | Cell-cycle dependent phosphorylation of yeast pericentrin regulates γ-TuSC-mediated microtubule nucleation |
Animals use olfactory cues for navigating complex environments . Food odors in particular provide crucial information regarding potential foraging sites . Many behaviors occur at food sites , yet how food odors regulate such behaviors at these sites is unclear . Using Drosophila melanogaster as an animal model , we fou... | Animals rely on their sense of smell to navigate their environments; for example , the smell of food attracts animals to particular locations . These food-rich sites are also popular places for meeting , mating , and rearing offspring . Scent molecules emitted by animals can also attract others to a particular location... | [
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] | 2015 | Food odors trigger Drosophila males to deposit a pheromone that guides aggregation and female oviposition decisions |
The Fulani ethnic group has relatively better protection from Plasmodium falciparum malaria , as reflected by fewer symptomatic cases of malaria , lower infection rates , and lower parasite densities compared to sympatric ethnic groups . However , the basis for this lower susceptibility to malaria by the Fulani is unkn... | There is a huge international effort to combat malaria , but even today almost half a million people die from the disease each year , mostly young children in Africa . Malaria infections are caused by the parasite Plasmodium , which is spread by mosquitoes . The Fulani are an ethnic group of people from West Africa tha... | [
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] | 2017 | Major transcriptional changes observed in the Fulani, an ethnic group less susceptible to malaria |
Chloroplast function is orchestrated by the organelle's intricate architecture . By combining cryo-focused ion beam milling of vitreous Chlamydomonas cells with cryo-electron tomography , we acquired three-dimensional structures of the chloroplast in its native state within the cell . Chloroplast envelope inner membran... | Many organisms can harvest light to produce their own energy through a process called photosynthesis . In plant and algal cells , photosynthesis takes place within the chloroplasts , which are compartments that contain stacks of structures called thylakoids . Inside the thylakoids , proteins absorb energy from light an... | [
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] | 2015 | Native architecture of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography |
Heart of Glass ( HEG1 ) , a transmembrane receptor , and Rasip1 , an endothelial-specific Rap1-binding protein , are both essential for cardiovascular development . Here we performed a proteomic screen for novel HEG1 interactors and report that HEG1 binds directly to Rasip1 . Rasip1 localizes to forming endothelial cel... | Blood vessels are lined with cells known as vascular endothelial cells . These cells are connected to each other at junctions that consist of several different proteins . The junctions help to control how the blood vessel develops and provide a barrier that controls the movement of water and certain other molecules thr... | [
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] | 2016 | Heart of glass anchors Rasip1 at endothelial cell-cell junctions to support vascular integrity |
The highly polymorphic human leukocyte antigen ( HLA ) class I molecules present peptide antigens to CD8+ T cells , inducing immunity against infections and cancers . Quality control mediated by peptide loading complex ( PLC ) components is expected to ensure the cell surface expression of stable peptide-HLA class I co... | Most cells in the body make proteins called human leukocyte antigen class I ( or HLA-I ) . These proteins sit on the cell surface , where they help the immune system distinguish between healthy and diseased cells . A groove in each HLA-I protein holds a fragment of a protein chain , called a peptide , from inside the c... | [
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] | 2018 | Variations in HLA-B cell surface expression, half-life and extracellular antigen receptivity |
Biological factors that influence the host range and spillover of Ebola virus ( EBOV ) and other filoviruses remain enigmatic . While filoviruses infect diverse mammalian cell lines , we report that cells from African straw-colored fruit bats ( Eidolon helvum ) are refractory to EBOV infection . This could be explained... | Ebola virus and other filoviruses can cause devastating diseases in humans and other apes . Numerous small outbreaks of Ebola virus disease have occurred in Africa over the past 40 years . However , in 2013–2015 , the largest outbreak on record took place in three Western African nations with no previous history of the... | [
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] | 2015 | Filovirus receptor NPC1 contributes to species-specific patterns of ebolavirus susceptibility in bats |
Early adverse experiences often have devastating consequences . However , whether preweaning paternal deprivation ( PD ) affects emotional and social behaviors and their underlying neural mechanisms remain unexplored . Using monogamous mandarin voles , we found that PD increased anxiety-like behavior and attenuated soc... | Parental care early in life is essential for normal development of the brain in humans and some other animals . It also lays the ground work for healthy behaviors later in life . Many studies have looked at the importance of a mother’s care , but less attention has been paid to the role played by fathers . Research sho... | [
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] | 2019 | Increased anxiety and decreased sociability induced by paternal deprivation involve the PVN-PrL OTergic pathway |
Recent experiments have shown that animals and humans have a remarkable ability to adapt their learning rate according to the volatility of the environment . Yet the neural mechanism responsible for such adaptive learning has remained unclear . To fill this gap , we investigated a biophysically inspired , metaplastic s... | Humans and other animals have a remarkable ability to adapt their decision making to changes in their environment . An experiment called the “multi-armed bandit task” shows this process in action . The individual’s role in this task is to choose between multiple targets . One of these has a higher probability of reward... | [
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T cells are mechanosensitive but the effect of stiffness on their functions is still debated . We characterize herein how human primary CD4+ T cell functions are affected by stiffness within the physiological Young’s modulus range of 0 . 5 kPa to 100 kPa . Stiffness modulates T lymphocyte migration and morphological ch... | Our immune system contains many cells that play various roles in defending the body against infection , cancer and other threats . For example , T cells constantly patrol the body ready to detect and respond to dangers . They do so by gathering cues from their surroundings , which can be specific chemical signals or ph... | [
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Clinical trials are currently underway to assess the efficacy of forniceal deep brain stimulation ( DBS ) for improvement of memory in Alzheimer’s patients , and forniceal DBS has been shown to improve learning and memory in a mouse model of Rett syndrome ( RTT ) , an intellectual disability disorder caused by loss-of-... | Many brain disorders cause impairments in learning and memory . These include developmental disorders such as Rett syndrome , in which children struggle with learning , as well as diseases of old age such as Alzheimer’s disease . People with these disorders often show changes in a region of the brain called the hippoca... | [
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Dynamic instability , polarity , and spatiotemporal organization are hallmarks of the microtubule cytoskeleton that allow formation of complex structures such as the eukaryotic spindle . No similar structure has been identified in prokaryotes . The bacteriophage-encoded tubulin PhuZ is required to position DNA at mid-c... | For a cell or virus to reproduce , it must duplicate its genome and separate the two copies . In plants and animals , this DNA is stored in the nucleus of each cell in the form of chromosomes , and a complex protein structure called the spindle apparatus is responsible for physically aligning and then separating the du... | [
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Cells exist within complex milieus of communicating factors , such as cytokines , that combine to generate context-specific responses , yet nearly all knowledge about the function of each cytokine and the signaling propagated downstream of their recognition is based on the response to individual cytokines . Here , we f... | The immune system is essential to defend our bodies from attacks of microbial invaders . It contains many types of cells that communicate with each other through proteins called cytokines . Cytokines act as messages that can promote or suppress the immune response . Since several types of immune cells can exist within ... | [
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Energy dissipation through interscapular brown adipose tissue ( iBAT ) thermogenesis is an important contributor to adaptive energy expenditure . However , it remains unresolved how acute and chronic changes in energy availability are detected by the brain to adjust iBAT activity and maintain energy homeostasis . Here ... | Losing weight through dieting can be difficult . Weight loss strategies often prove ineffective because the body works like a thermostat and couples what we eat to the number of calories we burn . When we eat less , our bodies compensate and burn fewer calories , which makes losing weight harder . The brain is the mast... | [
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In noisy settings , listening is aided by correlated dynamic visual cues gleaned from a talker's face—an improvement often attributed to visually reinforced linguistic information . In this study , we aimed to test the effect of audio–visual temporal coherence alone on selective listening , free of linguistic confounds... | In the noisy din of a cocktail party , there are many sources of sound that compete for our attention . Even so , we can easily block out the noise and focus on a conversation , especially when we are talking to someone in front of us . This is possible in part because our sensory system combines inputs from our senses... | [
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In everyday social environments , demands on attentional resources dynamically shift to balance our attention to targets of interest while alerting us to important objects in our surrounds . The current study uses electroencephalography to explore how the push-pull interaction between top-down and bottom-up attention m... | When walking into a busy restaurant or café , our sense of hearing is bombarded with different sounds that our brain has to sort through to make sense of our surroundings . Our brain has to balance the desire to focus our attention on sounds we choose to listen to ( such as the friend we are having a conversation with ... | [
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The purpose of blinks is to keep the eyes hydrated and to protect them . Blinks are rarely noticed by the subject as blink-induced alterations of visual input are blanked out without jeopardizing the perception of visual continuity , features blinks share with saccades . Although not perceived , the blink-induced disco... | Blinking lubricates the surface of the eye and prevents it from becoming too dry . People blink around 20 times per minute , but we rarely notice the gaps in our vision because the brain becomes less sensitive to visual input during each blink . Eye movements can also hinder our vision . For example , our vision could ... | [
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The Hippo pathway controls tissue growth through a core kinase cascade that impinges on the transcription of growth-regulatory genes . Understanding how this pathway is regulated in development remains a major challenge . Recent studies suggested that Hippo signaling can be modulated by cytoskeletal tension through a R... | Organs including the liver , eyes , and lungs are made up of millions of cells , and how these organs stop growing once they reach their final size has fascinated scientists for decades . The cells in developing organs must communicate with each other and respond appropriately to the signals that they receive from othe... | [
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Malaria parasites evade immune detection by growth and replication within erythrocytes . After erythrocyte invasion , the intracellular pathogen must increase host cell uptake of nutrients from plasma . Here , we report that the parasite-encoded RhopH complex contributes to both invasion and channel-mediated nutrient u... | The parasites that cause malaria in humans and other animals infect and live inside red blood cells to escape attack by their hosts’ immune systems . Malaria parasites grow and multiply in red blood cells before bursting out and invading new red blood cells . To fuel this growth , the parasite needs access to sugars an... | [
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Hyperexcitability has been suggested to contribute to motoneuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ) . If this is so , and given that the physiological type of a motor unit determines the relative susceptibility of its motoneuron in ALS , then one would expect the most vulnerable motoneurons to displa... | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ) , also known as Lou Gehrig's disease , is a fatal disorder of the nervous system . Early symptoms include muscle weakness , unsteadiness and slurred speech . These symptoms arise because the neurons that control muscles – the motoneurons – lose their ability to make the muscles con... | [
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] | 2018 | Hypoexcitability precedes denervation in the large fast-contracting motor units in two unrelated mouse models of ALS |
Color vision in birds is mediated by four types of cone photoreceptors whose maximal sensitivities ( λmax ) are evenly spaced across the light spectrum . In the course of avian evolution , the λmax of the most shortwave-sensitive cone , SWS1 , has switched between violet ( λmax > 400 nm ) and ultraviolet ( λmax < 380 n... | The pioneering eye doctor André Rochon-Duvigneaud once wrote that “a bird is a wing guided by an eye” . With this statement , he underscored the sophistication of the bird’s eye , which surpasses our own in several respects . Compared to humans who have three types of cone photoreceptor , birds have four , meaning they... | [
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Songbirds use auditory feedback to learn and maintain their songs , but how feedback interacts with vocal motor circuitry remains unclear . A potential site for this interaction is the song premotor nucleus HVC , which receives auditory input and contains neurons ( HVCX cells ) that innervate an anterior forebrain path... | Whenever we speak , sing , or play a musical instrument , we use auditory feedback to fine-tune our movements to achieve the sound that we want . This same process is used by songbirds to learn and maintain their songs . As juvenile birds practice singing , they compare their vocalizations with their father’s song , wh... | [
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] | 2014 | Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches |
The activity of serotonin ( 5-HT ) neurons is critical for mood regulation . In a mouse model of chronic social isolation , a known risk factor for depressive illness , we show that 5-HT neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus are less responsive to stimulation . Probing the responsible cellular mechanisms pinpoints a dist... | Major depressive disorder is a common and debilitating disease that interferes with the afflicted person’s everyday life . While some patients do benefit from antidepressant treatments , these medications need to be taken for several weeks before they become effective . Still , a large proportion of patients do not rec... | [
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] | 2016 | Chronic social isolation reduces 5-HT neuronal activity via upregulated SK3 calcium-activated potassium channels |
CpG dinucleotides are the main mutational hot-spot in most cancers . The characteristic elevated C>T mutation rate in CpG sites has been related to 5-methylcytosine ( 5mC ) , an epigenetically modified base which resides in CpGs and plays a role in transcription silencing . In brain nearly a third of 5mCs have recently... | A molecule called DNA encodes genetic information inside our cells . Random changes to the DNA sequence , known as mutations , can occur in any cell . Most mutations are harmless , but some can lead to disease – most prominently cancer . Like how car accidents can happen more often on some roads than others , mutations... | [
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] | 2016 | 5-hydroxymethylcytosine marks regions with reduced mutation frequency in human DNA |
Neurons face the challenge of regulating the abundance , distribution and repertoire of integral membrane proteins within their immense , architecturally complex dendritic arbors . While the endoplasmic reticulum ( ER ) supports dendritic translation , most dendrites lack the Golgi apparatus ( GA ) , an essential organ... | All cells must produce , sort and deliver molecular building blocks to the right places at the right time and in appropriate amounts . This is particularly important for neurons , which are the largest and most structurally complex cells in the body . A typical neuron consists of a cell body covered in branches called ... | [
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] | 2017 | Golgi-independent secretory trafficking through recycling endosomes in neuronal dendrites and spines |
Strong antibody response is considered a hallmark of a successful vaccine . While dendritic cells ( DCs ) are important for T follicular helper ( Tfh ) cell priming , how this process is regulated in vivo is unclear . We show here that the depletion of CD301b+ DCs specifically enhanced the development of Tfh cells , ge... | The immune system consists of cells and biological processes that defend the body against infection and disease . Molecules called antibodies are a key component of most immune responses because they can bind to invading microbes and either neutralize them or mark them for destruction by immune cells . In autoimmune di... | [
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"immunology",
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] | 2016 | CD301b+ dendritic cells suppress T follicular helper cells and antibody responses to protein antigens |
To achieve maximal growth , cells must manage a massive economy of ribosomal proteins ( r-proteins ) and RNAs ( rRNAs ) to produce thousands of ribosomes every minute . Although ribosomes are essential in all cells , natural disruptions to ribosome biogenesis lead to heterogeneous phenotypes . Here , we model these per... | Cells are made up of thousands of different proteins that perform unique roles required for life . To create all of these proteins , cells use machines called ribosomes that are partly formed of elements known as r-proteins . When cells grow and divide , the ribosomes have to make copies of themselves through a process... | [
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] | 2019 | Proteotoxicity from aberrant ribosome biogenesis compromises cell fitness |
Adaptive autoimmunity is restrained by controlling population sizes and pathogenicity of harmful clones , while innate destruction is controlled at effector phase . We report here that deletion of Rptor in mouse hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells causes self-destructive innate immunity by massively increasing the popu... | The cells of the immune system defend us from bacteria , viruses and other microbes that might cause harm to the body . Immune cells develop from stem cells in the bone marrow . The stem cells first develop into one of two types of progenitor cell before specializing further into the different types of mature immune ce... | [
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"immunology",
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] | 2017 | A population of innate myelolymphoblastoid effector cell expanded by inactivation of mTOR complex 1 in mice |
Postmitotic tissues are incapable of replacing damaged cells through proliferation , but need to rely on buffering mechanisms to prevent tissue disintegration . By constitutively activating the Ras/MAPK-pathway via RasV12-overexpression in the postmitotic salivary glands ( SGs ) of Drosophila larvae , we overrode the g... | Tissues and organs work hard to maintain balance in everything from taking up nutrients to controlling their growth . Ageing , wounding , sickness , and changes in the genetic code can all alter this balance , and cause the tissue or organ to lose some of its cells . Many tissues restore this loss by dividing their rem... | [
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"immunology",
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] | 2020 | Tissue-autonomous immune response regulates stress signaling during hypertrophy |
The epithelial anion transporter SLC26A9 contributes to airway surface hydration and gastric acid production . Colocalizing with CFTR , SLC26A9 has been proposed as a target for the treatment of cystic fibrosis . To provide molecular details of its transport mechanism , we present cryo-EM structures and a functional ch... | Many processes in the human body are regulated by chloride and other charged particles ( known as ions ) moving in and out of cells . Each cell is surrounded by a membrane barrier , which prevents ions from entering or exiting . Therefore , to control the levels of ions inside the cell , specific proteins in the membra... | [
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] | 2019 | Cryo-EM structures and functional characterization of murine Slc26a9 reveal mechanism of uncoupled chloride transport |
The inability of cells to adapt to increased environmental tonicity can lead to inflammatory gene expression and pathogenesis . The Rel family of transcription factors TonEBP and NF-κB p65 play critical roles in the switch from osmoadaptive homeostasis to inflammation , respectively . Here we identified PACT-mediated P... | Cells are sensitive to changes in their environment . For example , maintaining normal salt levels in the blood , also called tonicity , is essential for the health of individual cells and the organism as a whole . Tonicity controls the movement of water in and out of the cell: high levels of salt inside the cell draw ... | [
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] | 2020 | PACT-mediated PKR activation acts as a hyperosmotic stress intensity sensor weakening osmoadaptation and enhancing inflammation |
Neurotransmitter is released at synapses by fusion of synaptic vesicles with the plasma membrane . To sustain synaptic transmission , compensatory retrieval of membranes and vesicular proteins is essential . We combined capacitance measurements and pH-imaging via pH-sensitive vesicular protein marker ( anti-synaptotagm... | Nerve cells release chemicals called neurotransmitters to communicate with each other . The neurotransmitters are packaged inside membrane-encased sacs called vesicles that fuse with the cell’s membrane and release their contents into the space between the nerve cells . The vesicle membrane ( which also has proteins em... | [
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"neuroscience"
] | 2016 | Distinct modes of endocytotic presynaptic membrane and protein uptake at the calyx of Held terminal of rats and mice |
Single-cell expression profiling opens up new vistas on cellular processes . Extensive cell-to-cell variability at the transcriptomic and proteomic level has been one of the stand-out observations . Because most experimental analyses are destructive we only have access to snapshot data of cellular states . This loss of... | In biology , seemingly random variation within or between cells can have significant effects on a number of cellular processes , like how cells divide and develop . For example , how often a gene is switched on , or ‘expressed’ , can randomly fluctuate over time . This ‘noise’ may lead to a cell having slightly more of... | [
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Deregulated expression of COX-2 has been causally linked to development , progression , and outcome of several types of human cancer . We describe a novel fundamental level of transcriptional control of COX-2 expression . Using primary human mammary epithelial cells and monocyte/macrophage cell lines , we show that the... | To produce a protein a cell must first transcribe the DNA in a gene to make a messenger RNA molecule , which is then translated to make the protein . However , cells also produce other types of RNA molecules which do not become proteins . MicroRNAs , for example , regulate the expression of genes as proteins , while th... | [
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Brain connectivity maps display a delicate balance between individual variation and stereotypy , suggesting the existence of dedicated mechanisms that simultaneously permit and limit individual variation . We show that during the development of the Drosophila central nervous system , mutual inhibition among groups of n... | The brains of all members of a species are similar , but not identical , and these differences are partly responsible for the range of behaviors displayed by individuals . The development of the nervous system is known to depend on the Notch signaling pathway , but the mechanisms that regulate the balance between fixed... | [
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] | 2013 | Mutual inhibition among postmitotic neurons regulates robustness of brain wiring in Drosophila |
Current therapies for sarcomas are often inadequate . This study sought to identify actionable gene targets by selective targeting of the molecular networks that support sarcoma cell proliferation . Silencing of asparagine synthetase ( ASNS ) , an amidotransferase that converts aspartate into asparagine , produced the ... | Sarcoma is a type of cancer that forms in the connective tissues of the body , such as bone , cartilage , muscle and fat . Usually , treatment involves surgical removal of the tumor and/or radiation to kill the tumor cells . However , if sarcomas spread to other parts of the body , the treatment options are limited . G... | [
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] | 2015 | Functional genomic screening reveals asparagine dependence as a metabolic vulnerability in sarcoma |
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