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The neural fate commitment of pluripotent stem cells requires the repression of extrinsic inhibitory signals and the activation of intrinsic positive transcription factors . However , how these two events are integrated to ensure appropriate neural conversion remains unclear . In this study , we showed that Pou3f1 is e... | After an egg has been fertilized , it undergoes a series of divisions to produce a ball of cells known as a blastocyst . The cells within the blastocyst are pluripotent stem cells , which have the potential to become many different types of cell . After a few days , the stem cells organize into three layers—an innermos... | [
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Sperm-packaged DNA must undergo extensive reorganization to ensure its timely participation in embryonic mitosis . Whereas maternal control over this remodeling is well described , paternal contributions are virtually unknown . In this study , we show that Drosophila melanogaster males lacking Heterochromatin Protein 1... | The genetic information of cells is packaged into structures called chromosomes , which are made up of long strands of DNA that are wrapped around proteins to form a structure called chromatin . The cells of most animals contain two copies of every chromosome , but the egg and sperm cells contain only one copy . This m... | [
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The application of current channelrhodopsin-based optogenetic tools is limited by the lack of strict ion selectivity and the inability to extend the spectra sensitivity into the near-infrared ( NIR ) tissue transmissible range . Here we present an NIR-stimulable optogenetic platform ( termed 'Opto-CRAC' ) that selectiv... | Optogenetics is a technique that has been used to study nerve cells for several years . It involves genetically engineering these cells to produce proteins from light-sensitive bacteria , and results in nerve cells that will either send , or stop sending , nerve impulses when they are exposed to a particular color of l... | [
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Gamma activity in the subthalamic nucleus ( STN ) is widely viewed as a pro-kinetic rhythm . Here we test the hypothesis that rather than being specifically linked to movement execution , gamma activity reflects dynamic processing in this nucleus . We investigated the role of gamma during fast stopping and recorded sca... | Being able to stop walking to allow a car to pass is one example of how terminating a movement midway through can be essential for surviving in an ever-changing world . However , people with Parkinson’s disease sometimes struggle to stop performing a repetitive movement . Also , they may find themselves stopping despit... | [
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CHARGE syndrome is caused by heterozygous mutations in the chromatin remodeler , CHD7 , and is characterized by a set of malformations that , on clinical grounds , were historically postulated to arise from defects in neural crest formation during embryogenesis . To better delineate neural crest defects in CHARGE syndr... | CHARGE syndrome is a disease in which organs including the heart , eyes and ears may not develop properly . The cells that form the tissues affected by CHARGE syndrome develop in embryos from precursor cells called neural crest cells . Individuals with CHARGE syndrome also have mutations in a gene called CHD7 . However... | [
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End-stage kidney disease ( ESKD ) patients are at high risk of severe COVID-19 . We measured 436 circulating proteins in serial blood samples from hospitalised and non-hospitalised ESKD patients with COVID-19 ( n = 256 samples from 55 patients ) . Comparison to 51 non-infected patients revealed 221 differentially expre... | COVID-19 varies from a mild illness in some people to fatal disease in others . Patients with severe disease tend to be older and have underlying medical problems . People with kidney failure have a particularly high risk of developing severe or fatal COVID-19 . Patients with severe COVID-19 have high levels of inflamm... | [
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The actin cortex plays a pivotal role in cell division , in generating and maintaining cell polarity and in motility . In all these contexts , the cortical network has to break symmetry to generate polar cytoskeletal dynamics . Despite extensive research , the mechanisms responsible for regulating cortical dynamics in ... | Cells are extremely complex because they have to perform a vast number of processes . However , this also makes it difficult for researchers to figure out how the individual parts of the cell work . There is interest , therefore , in developing simple artificial cells that can accurately mimic how specific parts of a c... | [
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Pif1 family helicases are conserved from bacteria to humans . Here , we report a novel DNA patrolling activity which may underlie Pif1’s diverse functions: a Pif1 monomer preferentially anchors itself to a 3′-tailed DNA junction and periodically reel in the 3′ tail with a step size of one nucleotide , extruding a loop ... | Helicases are enzymes that are best known for their ability to separate the two strands of DNA that make up the famous double-helix structure . Many important processes within cells—including the expression of genes as proteins , and the replication of DNA before cell division—rely on DNA molecules being separated in t... | [
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Oncogenic mutations in BRAF and NRAS occur in 70% of melanomas . In this study , we identify a microRNA , miR-146a , that is highly upregulated by oncogenic BRAF and NRAS . Expression of miR-146a increases the ability of human melanoma cells to proliferate in culture and form tumors in mice , whereas knockdown of miR-1... | Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide , and although cancer can have many causes , mutations to a small number of genes are often responsible for a large number of cancer cases . For example , about 70% of cases of the deadliest form of skin cancer have mutations in two specific genes . Many cancer-causing genes... | [
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Bacterial factors favoring the unprecedented multidrug-resistant tuberculosis ( MDR-TB ) epidemic in the former Soviet Union remain unclear . We utilized whole genome sequencing and Bayesian statistics to analyze the evolutionary history , temporal emergence of resistance and transmission networks of MDR Mycobacterium ... | Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis , often shortened to MDR-TB , is a public health crisis with close to half a million patients falling ill each year globally . Some strains of the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis , which causes tuberculosis disease , are resistant to the two most effective drugs used to treat the i... | [
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Bacteria often live in biofilms , which are microbial communities surrounded by a secreted extracellular matrix . Here , we demonstrate that hydrodynamic flow and matrix organization interact to shape competitive dynamics in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms . Irrespective of initial frequency , in competition with matri... | Bacteria often live together – attached to surfaces like river rocks , water pipes , the lining of the gut and catheters – in communities called biofilms . These groups of bacteria are small-scale ecosystems in which cells cooperate and compete with one another to obtain resources , such as food and space to grow . Wit... | [
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PP2C phosphatases control biological processes including stress responses , development , and cell division in all kingdoms of life . Diverse regulatory domains adapt PP2C phosphatases to specific functions , but how these domains control phosphatase activity was unknown . We present structures representing active and ... | To regulate the activity of proteins , cells often modify them by adding or removing chemical groups called phosphates . Therefore , the enzymes that add or remove these phosphate groups must be tightly regulated so that they are active at the right time and place . Enzymes known as phosphatases remove phosphate groups... | [
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Mechanisms enabling positional identity re-establishment are likely critical for tissue regeneration . Planarians use Wnt/beta-catenin signaling to polarize the termini of their anteroposterior axis , but little is known about how regeneration signaling restores regionalization along body or organ axes . We identify th... | Some animals can regrow tissues that have been amputated . A group of flatworms called planarians are often used as a model to study the regeneration process because they are able to restore any lost tissue or even an entire animal from even tiny pieces of the body . For regeneration to be successful , it is critical t... | [
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Estimating local surface orientation ( slant and tilt ) is fundamental to recovering the three-dimensional structure of the environment . It is unknown how well humans perform this task in natural scenes . Here , with a database of natural stereo-images having groundtruth surface orientation at each pixel , we find dra... | The ability to assess how tilted a surface is , or its ‘surface orientation’ , is critical for interacting productively with the environment . For example , it helps organisms to determine whether a particular surface is better suited for walking or climbing . Humans and other animals estimate 3-dimensional ( 3D ) surf... | [
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Annual changes in the environment threaten survival , and numerous biological processes in mammals adjust to this challenge via seasonal encoding by the suprachiasmatic nucleus ( SCN ) . To tune behavior according to day length , SCN neurons display unified rhythms with synchronous phasing when days are short , but wil... | In winter , as the days become shorter , millions of people find that their mood and energy levels start to drop . They crave carbohydrates , struggle with their weight , and find it harder to get out of bed in the mornings . These individuals are suffering from the ‘winter blues’ or seasonal affective disorder ( SAD )... | [
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Sodium/proton antiporters maintain intracellular pH and sodium levels . Detailed structures of antiporters with bound substrate ions are essential for understanding how they work . We have resolved the substrate ion in the dimeric , electroneutral sodium/proton antiporter PaNhaP from Pyrococcus abyssi at 3 . 2 Å , and ... | Although the membrane that surrounds a cell is effective at separating the inside of a cell from the outside environment , certain molecules must enter or leave the cell for it to work correctly . One way this transport can occur is via proteins embedded in the cell membrane , called transporters . Transporters that ar... | [
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The ability of a neuron to regenerate its axon after injury depends in part on its intrinsic regenerative potential . Here , we identify novel intrinsic regulators of axon regeneration: poly ( ADP-ribose ) glycohodrolases ( PARGs ) and poly ( ADP-ribose ) polymerases ( PARPs ) . PARGs , which remove poly ( ADP-ribose )... | Neurons carry information around the body along slender projections known as axons . An injury that crushes or cuts an axon can lead to permanent disability if the axon fails to regenerate . While some damaged neurons in the body can repair themselves , typically those present in the brain and spinal cord cannot regene... | [
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The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay ( NMD ) pathway detects aberrant transcripts containing premature termination codons ( PTCs ) and regulates expression of 5–10% of non-aberrant human mRNAs . To date , most proteins involved in NMD have been identified by genetic screens in model organisms; however , the increased compl... | The DNA in our cells contains the hereditary information that makes each of us unique . Molecules called mRNAs are copies of this information and are used as templates for making proteins . When a strand of incorrectly copied mRNA , or one including errors from the original DNA template , is recognized , our cells dest... | [
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Retinal ganglion cell ( RGC ) axons of binocular animals cross the midline at the optic chiasm ( OC ) to grow toward their synaptic targets in the contralateral brain . Ventral anterior homeobox 1 ( Vax1 ) plays an essential role in the development of the OC by regulating RGC axon growth in a non-cell autonomous manner... | We see the world around us when light bounces off of objects and hits the retina at the back of our eyes . This triggers electrical signals in neurons called retinal ganglion cells ( RGCs ) , which have long structures called axons that extend out from the retina and into the parts of the brain where the signals are in... | [
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Inflammation-induced release of prostaglandin E2 ( PGE2 ) changes breathing patterns and the response to CO2 levels . This may have fatal consequences in newborn babies and result in sudden infant death . To elucidate the underlying mechanisms , we present a novel breathing brainstem organotypic culture that generates ... | Humans and other mammals breathe air to absorb oxygen into the body and to remove carbon dioxide . We know that in a part of the brain called the brainstem , several regions work together to create breaths , but it is not clear precisely how this works . These regions adjust our breathing to the demands placed on the b... | [
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Assessing the danger of transition of HIV transmission from a concentrated to a generalized epidemic is of major importance for public health . In this study , we develop a phylogeny-based statistical approach to address this question . As a case study , we use this to investigate the trends and determinants of HIV tra... | In epidemiology , the “basic reproductive number” describes how efficiently a disease is transmitted , and represents the average number of new infections that an infected individual causes . If this number is less than one , many people do not infect anybody and hence the transmission chains die out . On the other han... | [
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Biosensors for small molecules can be used in applications that range from metabolic engineering to orthogonal control of transcription . Here , we produce biosensors based on a ligand-binding domain ( LBD ) by using a method that , in principle , can be applied to any target molecule . The LBD is fused to either a flu... | Small molecules play essential roles in organisms , and so methods to sense these molecules within living cells could have wide-ranging uses in both biology and biotechnology . However , current methods for making new “biosensors” are limited and only a narrow range of small molecules can be detected . One approach to ... | [
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Ecdysis ( moulting ) is the defining character of Ecdysoza ( arthropods , nematodes and related phyla ) . Despite superficial similarities , the signalling cascade underlying moulting differs between Panarthropoda and the remaining ecdysozoans . Here , we reconstruct the evolution of major components of the ecdysis pat... | Animals such as insects , crabs and spiders belong to one of the most species-rich animal groups , called the arthropods . These animals have exoskeletons , which are hard , external coverings that support their bodies . Arthropods shed their exoskeletons as they grow , a process called ecdysis or moulting , and this b... | [
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Neuropeptides are essential for the regulation of appetite . Here we show that neuropeptides could regulate feeding in mutants that lack neurotransmission from the motor neurons that stimulate feeding muscles . We identified nlp-24 by an RNAi screen of 115 neuropeptide genes , testing whether they affected growth . NLP... | When and how much an animal eats is controlled by a complex web of signals that are produced by the animal's body and brain . Molecules called opioid neuropeptides are among these signals , and act to control eating in mammals by binding to receptors in the brain and body . These receptors can also bind to similar mole... | [
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The circuit structure and function underlying post-coital male behaviors remain poorly understood . Using mutant analysis , laser ablation , optogenetics , and Ca2+ imaging , we observed that following C . elegans male copulation , the duration of post-coital lethargy is coupled to cellular events involved in ejaculati... | The nematode worm , C . elegans , is roughly 1 mm long , made up of around 1000 cells and has two sexes: male and hermaphrodite . Hermaphrodite worms produce both eggs and sperm and can self-fertilize to generate around 300 offspring each time . Fertilization by a male , on the other hand , results in three times as ma... | [
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Evolution has often copied and repurposed the mitogen-activated protein kinase ( MAPK ) signaling module . Understanding how connections form during evolution , in disease and across individuals requires knowledge of the basic tenets that govern kinase-substrate interactions . We identify criteria sufficient for establ... | Nature has evolved a number of ways to link signals from a cell’s environment , like the concentration of a hormone , to the behavior of that cell . These new connections often form by reusing certain common signaling components , such as mitogen-activated protein kinases . These enzymes – referred to as MAPKs for shor... | [
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Most amino acids can be encoded by several synonymous codons , which are used at unequal frequencies . The significance of unequal codon usage remains unclear . One hypothesis is that frequent codons are translated relatively rapidly . However , there is little direct , in vivo , evidence regarding codon-specific trans... | Genes contain the instructions for making proteins from molecules called amino acids . These instructions are encoded in the order of the four building blocks that make up DNA , which are symbolized by the letters A , T , C , and G . The DNA of a gene is first copied to make a molecule of RNA , and then the letters in ... | [
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Social relationships have profound effects on health in humans and other primates , but the mechanisms that explain this relationship are not well understood . Using shotgun metagenomic data from wild baboons , we found that social group membership and social network relationships predicted both the taxonomic structure... | The digestive system is home to a complex community of microbes—known as the gut microbiome—that contributes to our health and wellbeing by digesting food , producing essential vitamins , and preventing the growth of harmful bacteria . The recent development of rapid genome sequencing techniques has made it much easier... | [
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Neuroimaging has been used to examine developmental changes of the brain . While PET studies revealed maturation-related changes , maturation of metabolic connectivity of the brain is not yet understood . Here , we show that rat brain metabolism is reconfigured to achieve long-distance connections with higher energy ef... | The brain consumes a great deal of a sugar called glucose , which is delivered to the brain through blood vessels . Active regions of the brain need more glucose , and so the brain has a metabolic network that controls when and where glucose is metabolized . Yet precisely how this metabolic network changes during brain... | [
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Much of the vertebrate skeleton develops from cartilage templates that are progressively remodeled into bone . Lineage tracing studies in mouse suggest that chondrocytes within these templates persist and become osteoblasts , yet the underlying mechanisms of this process and whether chondrocytes can generate other deri... | Our adult bones are made of a fatty tissue , called marrow , wrapped inside a hard outer layer produced by bone cells . They may appear stiff and unyielding , but our bones are actually dynamic structures . Early in life , most bones start as small ‘templates’ made of another , flexible tissue called cartilage . As the... | [
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Interoception , the sensitivity to visceral sensations , plays an important role in homeostasis and guiding motivated behaviour . It is also considered to be fundamental to self-awareness . Despite its importance , the developmental origins of interoceptive sensitivity remain unexplored . We here provide the first evid... | From the beginning till the end of a person’s life , parts of the body continuously send signals to the brain . Most of this happens without the person even being aware of it , yet people can become aware of the signals under certain circumstances . For example , we can feel our racing heart rate or the “butterflies in... | [
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Assembly , maintenance and function of synaptic junctions depend on extracellular matrix ( ECM ) proteins and their receptors . Here we report that Tenectin ( Tnc ) , a Mucin-type protein with RGD motifs , is an ECM component required for the structural and functional integrity of synaptic specializations at the neurom... | Nerve cells or neurons can communicate with each other by releasing chemical messengers into the gap between them , the synapse . Both neurons and synapses are surrounded by a network of proteins called the extracellular matrix , which anchors , protects and supports the synapse . The matrix also helps to regulate the ... | [
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SNARE proteins play a crucial role in intracellular trafficking by catalyzing membrane fusion , but assigning SNAREs to specific intracellular transport routes is challenging with current techniques . We developed a novel Förster resonance energy transfer-fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy ( FRET-FLIM ) -based te... | Many processes in living cells involve membranes coming together and fusing . For example , white blood cells known as dendritic cells rely on membrane fusion to fight off infections . When a dendritic cell detects a bacterial infection , it releases signaling molecules called cytokines to recruit other immune cells th... | [
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The evolutionarily conserved Crumbs protein is required for epithelial polarity and morphogenesis . Here we identify a novel role of Crumbs as a negative regulator of actomyosin dynamics during dorsal closure in the Drosophila embryo . Embryos carrying a mutation in the FERM ( protein 4 . 1/ezrin/radixin/moesin ) domai... | A layer of epithelial cells covers the body surface of animals . Epithelial cells have a property known as polarity; this means that they have two different poles , one of which is in contact with the environment . Midway through embryonic development , the Drosophila embryo is covered by two kinds of epithelial sheets... | [
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Zona pellucida ( ZP ) , the extracellular matrix sheltering mammalian oocytes and embryos , is composed by 3 to 4 proteins . The roles of the three proteins present in mice have been elucidated by KO models , but the function of the fourth component ( ZP4 ) , present in all other eutherian mammals studied so far , has ... | The egg cells of mammals , called oocytes , are encased in a protective layer called the zona pellucida . This layer is made from proteins called ZP1 to 4 . Most studies of the zona pellucida use mice , which do not have ZP4 . This means that the research community have limited knowledge of what ZP4 does in humans and ... | [
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Microtubule asters - radial arrays of microtubules organized by centrosomes - play a fundamental role in the spatial coordination of animal cells . The standard model of aster growth assumes a fixed number of microtubules originating from the centrosomes . However , aster morphology in this model does not scale with ce... | Cells must carefully organize their contents in order to work effectively . Protein filaments called microtubules often play important roles in this organization , as well as giving structure to the cell . Many cells contain structures called asters that are formed of microtubules that radiate out from a central point ... | [
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The haptoglobin-haemoglobin receptor of the African trypanosome species , Trypanosoma brucei , is expressed when the parasite is in the bloodstream of the mammalian host , allowing it to acquire haem through the uptake of haptoglobin-haemoglobin complexes . Here we show that in Trypanosoma congolense this receptor is i... | Trypanosomes are single-celled parasites that infect a range of animal hosts . These parasites need a molecule called haem to grow properly and are mostly spread by insects that feed on the blood of mammals . Most haem in mammals is found in red blood cells and is bound to a protein called haemoglobin . When it is rele... | [
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Despite the central role that antibodies play in the adaptive immune system and in biotechnology , much remains unknown about the quantitative relationship between an antibody’s amino acid sequence and its antigen binding affinity . Here we describe a new experimental approach , called Tite-Seq , that is capable of mea... | Antibodies are proteins produced by cells of the immune system to tag or neutralize potential threats to the body , such as foreign substances and disease-causing microbes . Antibodies do this by binding to target molecules called antigens . An antibody’s ability to bind to an antigen depends on the sequence of amino a... | [
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The Ccr4-Not complex removes mRNA poly ( A ) tails to regulate eukaryotic mRNA stability and translation . RNA-binding proteins contribute to specificity by interacting with both Ccr4-Not and target mRNAs , but this is not fully understood . Here , we reconstitute accelerated and selective deadenylation of RNAs contain... | When a cell needs to make a particular protein , it first copies the instructions from the matching gene into a molecule known as a messenger RNA ( or an mRNA for short ) . The more mRNA copies it makes , the more protein it can produce . A simple way to control protein production is to raise or lower the number of the... | [
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Carotenoids are essential in oxygenic photosynthesis: they stabilize the pigment–protein complexes , are active in harvesting sunlight and in photoprotection . In plants , they are present as carotenes and their oxygenated derivatives , xanthophylls . While mutant plants lacking xanthophylls are capable of photoautotro... | Most life on Earth depends on photosynthesis , the process used by plants and many other organisms to store energy from sunlight and produce oxygen . The first steps of photosynthesis , the capture and conversion of sunlight into chemical energy , happen in large assemblies of proteins containing many pigment molecules... | [
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] | 2020 | Photosynthesis without β-carotene |
Individual recognition ( IR ) is essential for maintaining various social interactions in a group , and face recognition is one of the most specialised cognitive abilities in IR . We used both a mating preference system and an electric shock conditioning experiment to test IR ability in medaka , and found that signals ... | Being able to recognize each other is crucial for social interactions in humans , as well as many other animals . To humans , faces are the most important body part to differentiate between one another . Humans read the face as a whole , rather than look at parts of the face , which is why it is harder to recognise a f... | [
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Peptide transport plays an important role in cellular homeostasis as a key route for nitrogen acquisition in mammalian cells . PepT1 and PepT2 , the mammalian proton coupled peptide transporters ( POTs ) , function to assimilate and retain diet-derived peptides and play important roles in drug pharmacokinetics . A key ... | The cell membrane encases cells and functions as a protective barrier . Although this has the benefit of preventing harmful substances from entering a cell , it also keeps beneficial molecules out . The cell membrane therefore contains a system of different ‘gates’ , called transporters , through which selected supplie... | [
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] | 2014 | Thermodynamic evidence for a dual transport mechanism in a POT peptide transporter |
The 96-nm axonemal repeat includes dynein motors and accessory structures as the foundation for motility of eukaryotic flagella and cilia . However , high-resolution 3D axoneme structures are unavailable for organisms among the Excavates , which include pathogens of medical and economic importance . Here we report cryo... | The parasites that cause African sleeping sickness , known as trypanosomes , propel themselves forward using a structure called a flagellum , a bit like the tail of a human sperm . But rather than connect to the body of the cell just at the base , like in a sperm , the parasite flagellum runs along the side of the cell... | [
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] | 2019 | Cryo electron tomography with volta phase plate reveals novel structural foundations of the 96-nm axonemal repeat in the pathogen Trypanosoma brucei |
Canine transmissible venereal tumour ( CTVT ) is a clonally transmissible cancer that originated approximately 11 , 000 years ago and affects dogs worldwide . Despite the clonal origin of the CTVT nuclear genome , CTVT mitochondrial genomes ( mtDNAs ) have been acquired by periodic capture from transient hosts . We seq... | A unique cancer called canine transmissible venereal tumour ( CTVT ) causes ugly tumours to form on the genitals of dogs . Unlike most other cancers , CTVT is contagious: the cancer cells can be directly transferred from one dog to another when they mate . The disease originated from the cancer cells of one individual ... | [
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] | 2016 | Mitochondrial genetic diversity, selection and recombination in a canine transmissible cancer |
Neurons are sensitive to low oxygen ( hypoxia ) and employ a conserved pathway to combat its effects . Here , we show that p38 MAP Kinase ( MAPK ) modulates this hypoxia response pathway in C . elegans . Mutants lacking p38 MAPK components pmk-1 or sek-1 resemble mutants lacking the hypoxia response component and proly... | The brain accounts for 2% of our body weight , but consumes about 20% of our oxygen intake . This oxygen gluttony is due to the tremendous appetite of brain cells for energy , which neurons satisfy through oxygen-dependent ( aerobic ) metabolism . As a result , the loss of oxygen to the brain during a stroke , heart at... | [
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"cell",
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] | 2016 | The p38 MAP kinase pathway modulates the hypoxia response and glutamate receptor trafficking in aging neurons |
Small GTPases of the Rab family not only regulate target recognition in membrane traffic but also control other cellular functions such as cytoskeletal transport and autophagy . Here we show that Rab26 is specifically associated with clusters of synaptic vesicles in neurites . Overexpression of active but not of GDP-pr... | Our brain contains billions of cells called neurons that form an extensive network through which information is readily exchanged . These cells connect to each other via junctions called synapses . Our developing brain starts off with far more synapses than it needs , but the excess synapses are destroyed as the brain ... | [
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] | 2015 | The GTPase Rab26 links synaptic vesicles to the autophagy pathway |
The population genetics of most range expansions is thought to be shaped by the competition between Darwinian selection and random genetic drift at the range margins . Here , we show that the evolutionary dynamics during range expansions is highly sensitive to additional fluctuations induced by environmental heterogene... | Throughout evolution , countless populations have expanded their territories by invading new areas . This invasion can happen on the scale of kilometers and millennia – such as when humans migrated out of Africa – or millimeters and months , such as the growth of a population of cells in a solid tumor . During this exp... | [
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] | 2019 | Environmental heterogeneity can tip the population genetics of range expansions |
Liver metabolism follows diurnal fluctuations through the modulation of molecular clock genes . Disruption of this molecular clock can result in metabolic disease but its potential regulation by immune cells remains unexplored . Here , we demonstrated that in steady state , neutrophils infiltrated the mouse liver follo... | Every day , the body's biological processes work to an internal clock known as the circadian rhythm . This rhythm is controlled by ‘clock genes’ that are switched on or off by daily physical and environmental cues , such as changes in light levels . These daily rhythms are very finely tuned , and disturbances can lead ... | [
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"cell",
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"immunology",
"and",
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] | 2020 | Neutrophil infiltration regulates clock-gene expression to organize daily hepatic metabolism |
CRISPR-Cas systems provide sequence-specific immunity against phages and mobile genetic elements using CRISPR-associated nucleases guided by short CRISPR RNAs ( crRNAs ) . Type III systems exhibit a robust immune response that can lead to the extinction of a phage population , a feat coordinated by a multi-subunit effe... | Just as humans are susceptible to viruses , bacteria have their own viruses to contend with . These viruses – known as phages – attach to the surface of bacterial cells , inject their genetic material , and use the cells’ enzymes to multiply while destroying their hosts . To defend against a phage attack , bacteria hav... | [
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"disease"
] | 2019 | A type III-A CRISPR-Cas system employs degradosome nucleases to ensure robust immunity |
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever ( CCHF ) is the most widely distributed tick-borne viral infection in the world . Strikingly , reported mortality rates for CCHF are extremely variable , ranging from 5% to 80% ( Whitehouse , 2004 ) . CCHF virus ( CCHFV , Nairoviridae ) exhibits extensive genomic sequence diversity acros... | Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever ( CCHF ) is caused by infection with a virus spread by ticks in Europe , Africa and Asia . It can cause severe disease in humans , including high fevers and bleeding . How deadly CCHF is varies with between 5% to 80% of those infected dying . Scientists suspect genetic differences in var... | [
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] | 2020 | A single mutation in Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus discovered in ticks impairs infectivity in human cells |
In our dynamic world , decisions about noisy stimuli can require temporal accumulation of evidence to identify steady signals , differentiation to detect unpredictable changes in those signals , or both . Normative models can account for learning in these environments but have not yet been applied to faster decision pr... | Organisms gather information from their surroundings to make decisions . Traditionally , neuroscientists have investigated decision-making by first asking what would be optimal for the animal , and then seeing whether and how the brain implements the optimal process . This approach has assumed that the environment cons... | [
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] | 2015 | Normative evidence accumulation in unpredictable environments |
Elucidating cardiac evolution has been frustrated by lack of fossils . One celebrated enigma in cardiac evolution involves the transition from a cardiac outflow tract dominated by a multi-valved conus arteriosus in basal actinopterygians , to an outflow tract commanded by the non-valved , elastic , bulbus arteriosus in... | Modern research has majorly advanced our understanding of how the heart works , and has led to new therapies for cardiac diseases . However , little is known about how the heart has evolved throughout the history of animals with backbones – a group that is collectively referred to as vertebrates . This is partly becaus... | [
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"ecology",
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] | 2016 | Heart fossilization is possible and informs the evolution of cardiac outflow tract in vertebrates |
Organisms need to adapt to the ecological constraints in their habitat . How specific processes reflect such adaptations are difficult to model experimentally . We tested whether environmental shifts in oxygen tension lead to events in the adult newt brain that share features with processes occurring during neuronal re... | During the winter , red-spotted newts remain active in water that is covered by ice . The oxygen levels under the ice tend to drop and so the newts adjust their metabolism to cope with these conditions . However , when oxygen levels return to normal , this may result in the newts producing larger amounts of chemically ... | [
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] | 2015 | Environmental changes in oxygen tension reveal ROS-dependent neurogenesis and regeneration in the adult newt brain |
Gaining insights into the regulatory mechanisms that underlie the transcriptional variation observed between individual cells necessitates the development of methods that measure chromatin organization in single cells . Here I adapted Nucleosome Occupancy and Methylome-sequencing ( NOMe-seq ) to measure chromatin acces... | DNA contains all the information and instructions needed to build an organism and enables its cells to fulfil their role . There are many different cell types in animals , and each type only needs a small portion of the information found in the DNA to do its job . Hence , only the sections – also known as genes – speci... | [
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] | 2017 | Simultaneous measurement of chromatin accessibility, DNA methylation, and nucleosome phasing in single cells |
Although shape perception is considered a function of the ventral visual pathway , evidence suggests that the dorsal pathway also derives shape-based representations . In two psychophysics and neuroimaging experiments , we characterized the response properties , topographical organization and perceptual relevance of th... | We rely on our sense of vision to perceive the world around us and the objects within it . We also use vision to guide our interactions with objects . One of the most influential theories in cognitive neuroscience is the idea that separate pathways within the brain support these two processes . The ventral pathway is i... | [
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] | 2017 | The large-scale organization of shape processing in the ventral and dorsal pathways |
Particulate matter ( PM ) air pollution causes cardiopulmonary mortality via macrophage-driven lung inflammation; however , the mechanisms are incompletely understood . RNA-sequencing demonstrated Acod1 ( Aconitate decarboxylase 1 ) as one of the top genes induced by PM in macrophages . Acod1 encodes a mitochondrial en... | Air pollution is a major global health problem that causes around 4 . 2 million deaths each year . Once inhaled , pollution particles can remain in the lungs , where they cause inflammation , tissue damage , and ultimately chronic disease . Macrophages , a population of immune cells in the lungs , are involved in this ... | [
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"cell",
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"immunology",
"and",
"inflammation"
] | 2020 | Endogenous itaconate is not required for particulate matter-induced NRF2 expression or inflammatory response |
Developmental programs sculpt plant morphology to meet environmental challenges , and these same programs have been manipulated to increase agricultural productivity ( Doebley et al . , 1997; Khush , 2001 ) . Hormones coordinate these programs , creating chemical circuitry ( Vanstraelen and Benková , 2012 ) that has be... | The genetic information of plants contains sets of instructions that shape a growing seedling . These ‘developmental programs’ are under the control of a range of hormones , such as auxin . Typically , the information from the hormones is relayed to the genetic material through proteins called transcription factors , w... | [
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"plant",
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] | 2018 | Synthetic hormone-responsive transcription factors can monitor and re-program plant development |
The beating of motile cilia generates fluid flow over epithelia in brain ventricles , airways , and Fallopian tubes . Here , we patch clamp single motile cilia of mammalian ependymal cells and examine their potential function as a calcium signaling compartment . Resting motile cilia calcium concentration ( [Ca2+] ~170 ... | Certain specialized cells in the brain , airways and Fallopian tubes have large numbers of hair-like structures called motile cilia on their surface . By beating in a synchronized manner , these cilia help to move fluids across the surface of the cells: for example , cilia on lung cells beat to clear mucus away , while... | [
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"cell",
"biology"
] | 2015 | Ion channels and calcium signaling in motile cilia |
Mammalian cardiomyocytes become post-mitotic shortly after birth . Understanding how this occurs is highly relevant to cardiac regenerative therapy . Yet , how cardiomyocytes achieve and maintain a post-mitotic state is unknown . Here , we show that cardiomyocyte centrosome integrity is lost shortly after birth . This ... | Muscle cells in the heart contract in regular rhythms to pump blood around the body . In humans , rats and other mammals , the vast majority of heart muscle cells lose the ability to divide shortly after birth . Therefore , the heart is unable to replace cells that are lost over the life of the individual , for example... | [
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] | 2015 | Developmental alterations in centrosome integrity contribute to the post-mitotic state of mammalian cardiomyocytes |
Antimicrobial peptides ( AMPs ) are broad spectrum antibiotics that selectively target bacteria . Here we investigate the activity of human AMP LL37 against Escherichia coli by integrating quantitative , population and single-cell level experiments with theoretical modeling . We observe an unexpected , rapid absorption... | Many organisms use molecules called antimicrobial peptides as a first line of defense against harmful bacteria . For example , in humans , these natural antibiotics are found in the airways , on the skin and in the urinary tract . Because antimicrobial peptides are positively charged , they function in a different way ... | [
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] | 2018 | Heterogeneous absorption of antimicrobial peptide LL37 in Escherichia coli cells enhances population survivability |
Truncating mutations in the giant sarcomeric protein Titin result in dilated cardiomyopathy and skeletal myopathy . The most severely affected dilated cardiomyopathy patients harbor Titin truncations in the C-terminal two-thirds of the protein , suggesting that mutation position might influence disease mechanism . Usin... | The heart is able to beat partly because of a large protein called Titin that helps to give heart muscle its elasticity . Mutations that shorten the gene that encodes Titin can cause part of the heart to become enlarged and weakened , a condition called dilated cardiomyopathy . Some people with shortened copies of this... | [
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"genetics",
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"genomics"
] | 2015 | An internal promoter underlies the difference in disease severity between N- and C-terminal truncation mutations of Titin in zebrafish |
Mammalian cerebral cortex is accepted as being critical for voluntary motor control , but what functions depend on cortex is still unclear . Here we used rapid , reversible optogenetic inhibition to test the role of cortex during a head-fixed task in which mice reach , grab , and eat a food pellet . Sudden cortical inh... | Many of the movements that humans and other animals make every day are deceptively complex and only appear easy because of extensive practice . For example , picking up an object involves several steps that must be precisely controlled , including reaching towards the item and holding it using the right amount of press... | [
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"neuroscience"
] | 2015 | Cortex commands the performance of skilled movement |
Exophilin-8 has been reported to play a role in anchoring secretory granules within the actin cortex , due to its direct binding activities to Rab27 on the granule membrane and to F-actin and its motor protein , myosin-Va . Here , we show that exophilin-8 accumulates granules in the cortical F-actin network not by dire... | The human body contains trillions of cells with hundreds of different jobs that must cooperate with each other . Many cells communicate using hormones and other chemical messengers that they release into the blood or tissues . These messengers are stored in containers called secretory granules , which are held just und... | [
"Abstract",
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"cell",
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] | 2017 | Exophilin-8 assembles secretory granules for exocytosis in the actin cortex via interaction with RIM-BP2 and myosin-VIIa |
The subthalamic nucleus ( STN ) is a small almond-shaped subcortical structure classically known for its role in motor inhibition through the indirect pathway within the basal ganglia . Little is known about the role of the STN in mediating cognitive functions in humans . Here , we explore the role of the STN in human ... | Deep brain stimulation , or DBS for short , is used to treat movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease in patients who are responding inadequately to medications . It requires implanting an electrode into the brain and using electrical stimulation aimed at a specific cluster of brain cells to reduce unwanted symptoms... | [
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"neuroscience"
] | 2018 | Intermittent subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation induces risk-aversive behavior in human subjects |
Exosomes are extracellular vesicles that are released when endosomes fuse with the plasma membrane . They have been implicated in various functions in both health and disease , including intercellular communication , antigen presentation , prion transmission , and tumour cell metastasis . Here we show that inactivating... | Cells generally communicate with each other over short distances by direct contact , and over long distances by releasing chemicals such as hormones . But there is also a third way that is less well understood – small capsules or “vesicles” called exosomes can transfer molecules from one cell to another . Exosomes are ... | [
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"cell",
"biology"
] | 2016 | Tetherin is an exosomal tether |
Uromodulin is the most abundant protein in the urine . It is exclusively produced by renal epithelial cells and it plays key roles in kidney function and disease . Uromodulin mainly exerts its function as an extracellular matrix whose assembly depends on a conserved , specific proteolytic cleavage leading to conformati... | Several proteins in humans and other animals contain a region called a 'zona pellucida domain' . This domain enables these proteins to associate with each other and form long filaments . Uromodulin is one such protein that was first identified more than fifty years ago . This protein is known to play a role in human di... | [
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"biology",
"cell",
"biology"
] | 2015 | The serine protease hepsin mediates urinary secretion and polymerisation of Zona Pellucida domain protein uromodulin |
Tarantula toxins that bind to voltage-sensing domains of voltage-activated ion channels are thought to partition into the membrane and bind to the channel within the bilayer . While no structures of a voltage-sensor toxin bound to a channel have been solved , a structural homolog , psalmotoxin ( PcTx1 ) , was recently ... | Venomous animals like tarantulas or scorpions inject their prey with toxins to disable them . Some of these toxins work by altering the activity of proteins called ion channels , which are found within membranes in cells . These channels can allow potassium ions and/or other ions to pass through the membrane and have m... | [
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"structural",
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"biophysics"
] | 2015 | Tarantula toxins use common surfaces for interacting with Kv and ASIC ion channels |
Genome sequences diverge more rapidly in mammals than in other animal lineages , such as birds or insects . However , the effect of this rapid divergence on transcriptional evolution remains unclear . Recent reports have indicated a faster divergence of transcription factor binding in mammals than in insects , but othe... | The genetic information that makes each individual unique is encoded in DNA molecules . Cells read this molecular instruction manual by a process called transcription , in which proteins called transcription factors bind to DNA in specific places and regulate which sections of the DNA will be expressed . These 'transcr... | [
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"systems",
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] | 2015 | Evidence for a common evolutionary rate in metazoan transcriptional networks |
Genetic variants identified by genome-wide association studies explain only a modest proportion of heritability , suggesting that meaningful associations lie 'hidden' below current thresholds . Here , we integrate information from association studies with epigenomic maps to demonstrate that enhancers significantly over... | Most complex traits are governed by a large number of genetic contributors , each playing only a modest effect . This makes it difficult to identify the genetic variants that increase disease risk , hindering the discovery of new drug targets and the development of new therapeutics . To overcome this limitation in disc... | [
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"genetics",
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"genomics"
] | 2016 | Discovery and validation of sub-threshold genome-wide association study loci using epigenomic signatures |
Resistance to targeted cancer therapies is an important clinical problem . The discovery of anti-resistance drug combinations is challenging as resistance can arise by diverse escape mechanisms . To address this challenge , we improved and applied the experimental-computational perturbation biology method . Using stati... | Drugs that target the activity of specific genes could potentially form precise cancer therapies . Some cancers , including the aggressive skin cancer called melanoma , initially respond well to such treatments . However , resistance to drugs develops quickly , leading to the rapid regrowth of the tumors . Resistance c... | [
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"and",
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] | 2015 | Perturbation biology nominates upstream–downstream drug combinations in RAF inhibitor resistant melanoma cells |
Atoh1-null mice die at birth from respiratory failure , but the precise cause has remained elusive . Loss of Atoh1 from various components of the respiratory circuitry ( e . g . the retrotrapezoid nucleus ( RTN ) ) has so far produced at most 50% neonatal lethality . To identify other Atoh1-lineage neurons that contrib... | Breathing seems very simple: humans and other animals do it all the time without even thinking about it . Yet , many different cell types coordinate rhythmic breathing movements . Some cells set the breathing rhythm , motor neurons control the muscles , and other cells sense blood oxygen and carbon dioxide levels . Inf... | [
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"developmental",
"biology",
"neuroscience"
] | 2018 | Loss of Atoh1 from neurons regulating hypoxic and hypercapnic chemoresponses causes neonatal respiratory failure in mice |
Paternal environmental conditions can influence phenotypes in future generations , but it is unclear whether offspring phenotypes represent specific responses to particular aspects of the paternal exposure history , or a generic response to paternal ‘quality of life’ . Here , we establish a paternal effect model based ... | Until recently , it seemed impossible that the conditions a person or animal experiences during their lifetime might affect the health of their offspring and future generations . Research over the past decade , however , has shown that a parent’s environment can cause changes that can be passed to future generations . ... | [
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"gene",
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] | 2017 | Paternal nicotine exposure alters hepatic xenobiotic metabolism in offspring |
Transcription activator-like effectors ( TALEs ) bind DNA through an array of tandem 34-residue repeats . How TALE repeat domains wrap around DNA , often extending more than 1 . 5 helical turns , without using external energy is not well understood . Here , we examine the kinetics of DNA binding of TALE arrays with var... | The DNA contains all the information needed to build an organism . It is made up of two strands that wind around each other like a twisted ladder to form the double helix . The strands consist of sugar and phosphate molecules , which attach to one of for bases . Genes are built from DNA , and contain specific sequences... | [
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] | 2019 | Functional instability allows access to DNA in longer transcription Activator-Like effector (TALE) arrays |
Distributed neural activity patterns are widely proposed to underlie object identification and categorization in the brain . In the olfactory domain , pattern-based representations of odor objects are encoded in piriform cortex . This region receives both afferent and associative inputs , though their relative contribu... | Imagine bringing your groceries home and tucking them into the refrigerator . You’ll probably organize the items by categories: lemons and oranges into the fruit drawer , carrots and cauliflower into the vegetable drawer . Categorization is essential , allowing us to interact with the world in the most efficient way po... | [
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"neuroscience"
] | 2016 | The role of piriform associative connections in odor categorization |
Mammalian visual behaviors , as well as responses in the neural systems underlying these behaviors , are driven by luminance and color contrast . With constantly improving tools for measuring activity in cell-type-specific populations in the mouse during visual behavior , it is important to define the extent of luminan... | Color is a key part of our visual experience . Humans can distinguish between colors thanks to light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye called cones . Our eyes contain three types of cones , most simply named red , green and blue . When light enters the eye , it activates each cone type to a different degree . The ... | [
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"neuroscience"
] | 2018 | Mouse color and wavelength-specific luminance contrast sensitivity are non-uniform across visual space |
HIV replication requires nuclear export of unspliced and singly spliced viral transcripts . Although a unique RNA structure has been proposed for the Rev-response element ( RRE ) responsible for viral mRNA export , how it recruits multiple HIV Rev proteins to form an export complex has been unclear . We show here that ... | HIV is a virus that causes the immune system of an infected person to gradually fail , which can eventually result in AIDS . The virus consists of an RNA molecule—which encodes its genetic information—surrounded by coats of proteins . Once HIV enters a host cell , its RNA genome is converted into a DNA molecule , which... | [
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The mammalian circadian clock drives daily oscillations in physiology and behavior through an autoregulatory transcription feedback loop present in central and peripheral cells . Ablation of the core clock within the endocrine pancreas of adult animals impairs the transcription and splicing of genes involved in hormone... | Circadian rhythms – ‘inbuilt’ 24-hour cycles – control many aspects of behaviour and physiology . In mammals , they operate in nearly all tissues , including those involved in glucose metabolism . Recent studies have shown that mice with faulty genes involved in circadian rhythms , the core clock genes , can develop di... | [
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Over the last 50 years , anatomical models of memory have repeatedly highlighted the hippocampal inputs to the mammillary bodies via the postcommissural fornix . Such models downplay other projections to the mammillary bodies , leaving them largely ignored . The present study challenged this dominant view by removing ,... | The hippocampus is a seahorse-shaped structure in the brain and its role in memory has been recognized since the 1950s . However , much less is known about two small structures called the mammillary bodies that are found near the hippocampus . These bodies are part of the limbic system—a network of brain regions that a... | [
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A substantial fraction of the metazoan transcriptome undergoes circadian oscillations in many cells and tissues . Based on the transcription feedback loops important for circadian timekeeping , it is commonly assumed that this mRNA cycling reflects widespread transcriptional regulation . To address this issue , we dire... | Many biological processes oscillate with a period of roughly 24 hr , and the ability of organisms as diverse as bacteria and humans to maintain such circadian rhythms , even under conditions of continuous darkness , influences a range of phenomena , including sleep , migration and reproduction . One characteristic of c... | [
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The functional repertoire of surface ion channels is sustained by dynamic processes of trafficking , sorting , and degradation . Dysregulation of these processes underlies diverse ion channelopathies including cardiac arrhythmias and cystic fibrosis . Ubiquitination powerfully regulates multiple steps in the channel li... | Cells are surrounded by a membrane that separates the outside of the cell from its inside . Proteins called ion channels are embedded within this membrane and allow charged ions to move in and out of the cell . The movement of ions generates electrical currents that are essential for many processes that keep us alive ,... | [
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We lack detailed knowledge about the spatio-temporal physiological signatures of REM sleep , especially in humans . By analyzing intracranial electrode data from humans , we demonstrate for the first time that there are prominent beta ( 15–35 Hz ) and theta ( 4–8 Hz ) oscillations in both the anterior cingulate cortex ... | Over the course of a night we cycle through several different stages of sleep . During one of these stages , our eyes move rapidly from side to side behind our closed eyelids . This movement gives this stage its name: rapid eye movement sleep , or REM sleep for short . Most other muscles are paralyzed during REM sleep ... | [
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Sleep deprivation has marked effects on food intake , shifting food choices toward energy-dense options . Here we test the hypothesis that neural processing in central olfactory circuits , in tandem with the endocannabinoid system ( ECS ) , plays a key role in mediating this relationship . We combined a partial sleep-d... | People who do not get enough sleep often start to favor sweet and fatty foods , which contributes to weight gain . While the exact mechanisms are still unknown , lack of sleep seems to change food preferences by influencing the levels of molecules that regulate food intake . In particular , it could have an effect on t... | [
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] | 2019 | Olfactory connectivity mediates sleep-dependent food choices in humans |
A major feature of embryogenesis is the specification of stem cell systems , but in contrast to the situation in most animals , plant stem cells remain quiescent until the postembryonic phase of development . Here , we dissect how light and metabolic signals are integrated to overcome stem cell dormancy at the shoot ap... | Plants are able to grow and develop throughout their lives thanks to groups of stem cells at the tips of their shoots and roots , which can constantly divide to produce new cells . Energy captured from sunlight during a process called photosynthesis is the main source of energy for most plants . Therefore , the amount ... | [
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] | 2016 | Integration of light and metabolic signals for stem cell activation at the shoot apical meristem |
The detection of foreign antigens in vivo has relied on fluorescent conjugation or indirect read-outs such as antigen presentation . In our studies , we found that these widely used techniques had several technical limitations that have precluded a complete picture of antigen trafficking or retention across lymph node ... | The lymphatic system is a network of ducts that transports fluid , proteins , and immune cells from different organs around the body . Lymph nodes provide pit stops at hundreds of points along this network where immune cells reside , and lymph fluid can be filtered and cleaned . When pathogens , such as viruses or bact... | [
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As exome sequencing gives way to genome sequencing , the need to interpret the function of regulatory DNA becomes increasingly important . To test whether evolutionary conservation of cis-regulatory modules ( CRMs ) gives insight into human gene regulation , we determined transcription factor ( TF ) binding locations o... | Stretches of DNA called cis-regulatory modules ( or CRMs for short ) could help researchers to identify the regions of DNA that are most important for controlling genes . CRMs are regions where multiple transcription factors—proteins that control when and how genes are expressed—bind to DNA . As important biological pa... | [
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] | 2014 | Multi-species, multi-transcription factor binding highlights conserved control of tissue-specific biological pathways |
Genomic sequencing has implicated large numbers of genes and de novo mutations as potential disease risk factors . A high throughput in vivo model system is needed to validate gene associations with pathology . We developed a Drosophila-based functional system to screen candidate disease genes identified from Congenita... | Around one in 100 children are born with heart defects caused by congenital heart disease . Studying the genetic sequences of people with congenital heart disease has revealed many genes that may play a role in causing the condition , but few of these findings have been confirmed experimentally in animal model systems ... | [
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] | 2017 | High throughput in vivo functional validation of candidate congenital heart disease genes in Drosophila |
High-speed atomic force microscopy was employed to observe structural changes in actin filaments induced by cofilin binding . Consistent with previous electron and fluorescence microscopic studies , cofilin formed clusters along actin filaments , where the filaments were 2-nm thicker and the helical pitch was ∼25% shor... | Actin is one of the most abundant proteins found inside all eukaryotic cells including plant , animal , and fungal cells . This protein is involved in a wide range of biological processes that are essential for an organism's survival . Actin proteins form long filaments that help cells to maintain their shape and also ... | [
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] | 2015 | Cofilin-induced unidirectional cooperative conformational changes in actin filaments revealed by high-speed atomic force microscopy |
Large social insect colonies exhibit a remarkable ability for recognizing group members via colony-specific cuticular pheromonal signatures . Previous work suggested that in some ant species , colony-specific pheromonal profiles are generated through a mechanism involving the transfer and homogenization of cuticular hy... | Honey bees are social insects that live in large groups called colonies , within structures known as hives . The young adult bees stay within the hive to build nests and care for the young , while the older bees leave the hive to forage for food . Honey bees store food and other valuable resources in their hives , so t... | [
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] | 2019 | The cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of honey bee workers develop via a socially-modulated innate process |
Caspase-3 carries out the executioner phase of apoptosis , however under special circumstances , cells can survive its activity . To document systematically where and when cells survive caspase-3 activation in vivo , we designed a system , CasExpress , which drives fluorescent protein expression , transiently or perman... | Every day , individual cells in our body actively decide whether to live or die . There are enzymes called executioner caspases that help cells to die in a carefully controlled process called apoptosis . Although the activation of executioner caspases generally leads to apoptosis , there are some circumstances in which... | [
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] | 2016 | CasExpress reveals widespread and diverse patterns of cell survival of caspase-3 activation during development in vivo |
A number of TP53-MDM2 inhibitors are currently under investigation as therapeutic agents in a variety of clinical trials in patients with TP53 wild type tumors . Not all wild type TP53 tumors are sensitive to such inhibitors . In an attempt to improve selection of patients with TP53 wild type tumors , an mRNA expressio... | Damaged cells in the human body can develop into tumors if left unchecked . TP53 ( also called p53 ) is a protein that normally helps to repair or eliminate these damaged cells and prevent tumors from forming . About half of all cancerous tumors have mutations that prevent TP53 from working . In tumors with normal TP53... | [
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Tau pathology first appears in the transentorhinal and anterolateral entorhinal cortex ( alEC ) in the aging brain . The transition to Alzheimer’s disease ( AD ) is hypothesized to involve amyloid-β ( Aβ ) facilitated tau spread through neural connections . We contrasted functional connectivity ( FC ) of alEC and poste... | The changes in the brain that cause Alzheimer's disease begin up to 25 years before the first symptoms appear . During this long incubation period , two proteins accumulate in brain tissue: amyloid-β and tau . Amyloid-β forms clumps known as plaques , while tau forms structures called tangles . But whereas amyloid plaq... | [
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] | 2019 | Cortical tau deposition follows patterns of entorhinal functional connectivity in aging |
Different types of neurons in the retina are organized vertically into layers and horizontally in a mosaic pattern that helps ensure proper neural network formation and information processing throughout the visual field . The vertebrate Dscams ( DSCAM and DSCAML1 ) are cell adhesion molecules that support the developme... | Neurons in a part of the eye called the retina detect light and convert it into electrical signals that are sent to the brain . Different types of neurons in the retina are arranged vertically into layers and horizontally in a mosaic pattern so that two neurons of the same type are not next to each other . To establish... | [
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] | 2016 | Replacing the PDZ-interacting C-termini of DSCAM and DSCAML1 with epitope tags causes different phenotypic severity in different cell populations |
LINE-1 ( L1 ) retrotransposons represent approximately one sixth of the human genome , but only the human-specific L1HS-Ta subfamily acts as an endogenous mutagen in modern humans , reshaping both somatic and germline genomes . Due to their high levels of sequence identity and the existence of many polymorphic insertio... | Retrotransposons , also known as jumping genes , have invaded the genomes of most living organisms . These fragments of DNA have the ability to move or copy themselves from one location of a chromosome to another . Depending on where they insert themselves , retrotransposons can modify the sequence of nearby genes , wh... | [
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Several genes positively influence final leaf size in Arabidopsis when mutated or overexpressed . The connections between these growth regulators are still poorly understood although such knowledge would further contribute to understand the processes driving leaf growth . In this study , we performed a combinatorial sc... | Different individuals of the same species are not usually identical . Humans , for example , have a range of different values for various traits , such as height and weight , and similar variations are seen in other animals and plants . Some of this variation can be explained by the individual animals or plants inherit... | [
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] | 2014 | Combining growth-promoting genes leads to positive epistasis in Arabidopsis thaliana |
The delta-protocadherins ( δ-Pcdhs ) play key roles in neural development , and expression studies suggest they are expressed in combination within neurons . The extent of this combinatorial diversity , and how these combinations influence cell adhesion , is poorly understood . We show that individual mouse olfactory s... | Multicellular life depends on cells being able to stick together . The human body , for example , consists of trillions of cells grouped into tissues and organs . The brain alone contains some 87 billion neurons organized into complex networks . To stay together , cells use proteins on their surface called cell adhesio... | [
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] | 2018 | Tuning of delta-protocadherin adhesion through combinatorial diversity |
Initiation of transcription is a primary means for controlling gene expression . In bacteria , the RNA polymerase ( RNAP ) holoenzyme binds and unwinds promoter DNA , forming the transcription bubble of the open promoter complex ( RPo ) . We have determined crystal structures , refined to 4 . 14 Å-resolution , of RPo c... | Inside cells , molecules of double-stranded DNA encode the instructions needed to make proteins . To make a protein , the two strands of DNA that make up a gene are separated and one strand acts as a template to make molecules of messenger ribonucleic acid ( or mRNA for short ) . This process is called transcription . ... | [
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] | 2015 | Structure of a bacterial RNA polymerase holoenzyme open promoter complex |
In animals , microtubules and centrosomes direct the migration of gamete pronuclei for fertilization . By contrast , flowering plants have lost essential components of the centrosome , raising the question of how flowering plants control gamete nuclei migration during fertilization . Here , we use Arabidopsis thaliana ... | Sexual reproduction involves combining the genetic material from two parents to create an offspring . The genetic material in the male sperm cell and the female egg cell is contained in the nucleus of each cell . Once these two cells fuse at fertilization , their nuclei must then navigate towards each other and fuse . ... | [
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"plant",
"biology"
] | 2014 | Dynamic F-actin movement is essential for fertilization in Arabidopsis thaliana |
Natural selection of variants within the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock can be attributed to adaptation to varying environments . To define a basis for such variation , we examined clock speed in a reporter-modified Bay-0 x Shakdara recombinant inbred line and localized heritable variation . Extensive variation l... | Life on Earth tends to follow a daily rhythm: some animals are awake during the day and asleep at night , whilst others are more active at night , or during the twilight around dawn and dusk . For many living things , these cycles of activity are driven by an internal body clock that helps the organism to adapt to the ... | [
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] | 2014 | Natural variation reveals that intracellular distribution of ELF3 protein is associated with function in the circadian clock |
Engineering light-sensitivity into proteins has wide ranging applications in molecular studies and neuroscience . Commonly used tethered photoswitchable ligands , however , require solvent-accessible protein labeling , face structural constrains , and are bulky . Here , we designed a set of optocontrollable NMDA recept... | Nerve cells communicate with each other by releasing chemicals , also known as neurotransmitters , from one cell to the next . Once released , these neurotransmitters bind to specific docking stations , called receptors , which are located on the surface of the neighboring cell . Due to changes in neurotransmitter rele... | [
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Numerous brain regions have been shown to have neural correlates of gradually accumulating evidence for decision-making , but the causal roles of these regions in decisions driven by accumulation of evidence have yet to be determined . Here , in rats performing an auditory evidence accumulation task , we inactivated th... | Imagine that you have to buy a computer before the start of the school year . You have a few options , such as a laptop or a desktop , each with its own advantages and disadvantages . A laptop is relatively light and portable , whereas a desktop has more memory and is cheaper . You will gradually accumulate evidence fo... | [
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] | 2015 | Distinct effects of prefrontal and parietal cortex inactivations on an accumulation of evidence task in the rat |
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