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- Multiple membrane extrusion sites drive megakaryocyte migration into bone marrow blood vessels
Megakaryocytes enter bone marrow sinusoids to generate platelets by extrusion of internal membrane into the plasma membrane at fusion sites rather than microtubule-driven proplatelet extension.
- Serine catabolism is essential to maintain mitochondrial respiration in mammalian cells
Mitochondrial respiratory complex assembly requires the one-carbon unit generated from serine catabolism.
- Pervasive allele-specific regulation on RNA decay in hybrid mice
Using a F1 hybrid mouse system, this study globally investigates the effects of cis-regulatory divergence on RNA decay in mammals and reveals the evolutionary roles of RNA decay regulation.
- Proteomics and C9orf72 neuropathology identify ribosomes as poly-GR/PR interactors driving toxicity
Proteomics and neuropathological validation show that aberrant poly-GR/PR proteins in C9orf72 ALS/FTD bind STAU2 and ribosomes and inhibit translation.
- β-Tubulin carboxy-terminal tails exhibit isotype-specific effects on microtubule dynamics in human gene-edited cells
This study used human gene-edited cell models and image analysis to reveal that the tubulin C-terminal tails specifically regulate the dynamics of individual microtubules and coordinate microtubule behavior across the cell.
- Regulation of microtubule dynamic instability by the carboxy-terminal tail of β-tubulin
This work examines how the carboxy-terminal tail domain of β-tubulin governs microtubule dynamic instability and the structure of plus ends using complementary in vivo and in vitro experiments.
- The expansion in lymphoid organs of IL-4+ BATF+ T follicular helper cells is linked to IgG4 class switching in vivo
T follicular helper cells that secrete IL-4 accumulate in lymphoid organs in IgG4-related disease and are linked to IgG4 class switching.
- Life Science Alliance, from the Academic Editors
Life Science Alliance is a community-driven journal that brings together research from diverse fields. The journal is first-of-its-kind in uniting not-for-profit publishers and employing the scientific community to change the way authors can publish their work.
- BACE2 distribution in major brain cell types and identification of novel substrates
β-Site APP-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) inhibition to treat Alzheimer’s disease also inhibits BACE2. This work shows BACE2 expression in the mouse brain and identifies its substrates. Increased BACE2 processing of vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 during inflammatory conditions cautions the use of current nonspecific BACE1 inhibitors in the clinic.
- CHRAC/ACF contribute to the repressive ground state of chromatin
Chromatin accessibility complex/ATP-utilizing chromatin assembly and remodeling factor help to establish basal transcriptional repression, conceivably through improving the regular spacing of nucleosomes in euchromatin.