Highlights

  • Water influx helps cells migrate

    Clarifying the role of water influx and swelling as neutrophils migrate in response to chemoattractants.

    Tamas L Nagy, Evelyn Strickland, Orion D. Weiner
    Reviewed Preprint Updated
  • Follow the leader

    Study reveals a leader-follower relation between the two flagella responsible for moving the single-cell alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

    Da Wei, Greta Quaranta ... Daniel SW Tam
    Research Article
  • Iron metabolism and cancer

    MEMO1 is an iron-binding protein that modulates iron homeostasis in cancer cells.

    Natalia Dolgova, Eva-Maria E Uhlemann ... Oleg Y Dmitriev
    Research Article Updated

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    1. Neuroscience

    Nitric oxide modulates contrast suppression in a subset of mouse retinal ganglion cells

    Dominic Gonschorek, Matías A. Goldin ... Thomas Euler
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Dynamic Tracking of Native Polyclonal Hematopoiesis in Adult Mice

    Suying Liu, Sarah E. Adams ... Peter Kurre
    1. Neuroscience

    Stochastic characterization of navigation strategies in an automated variant of the Barnes maze

    Ju-Young Lee, Dahee Jung, Sébastien Royer
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Fitness landscape of substrate-adaptive mutations in evolved APC transporters

    Foteini Karapanagioti, Úlfur Á. Atlason ... Sebastian Obermaier
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Rapid, DNA-induced interface swapping by DNA gyrase

    Thomas RM Germe, Natassja G Bush ... Anthony Maxwell
    DNA gyrase, a regulator of bacterial genomes topology, is shown to undergo rearrangements while functioning on DNA in vitro, with important potential consequences for gyrase-targeted antibiotics activity and bacterial evolution.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cell-autonomous role of leucine-rich repeat kinase in the protection of dopaminergic neuron survival

    Jongkyun Kang, Guodong Huang ... Jie Shen
    LRRK plays an essential, cell-intrinsic role in the protection of dopaminergic neurons during aging, and new genetic findings suggest that LRRK2 mutations may impair its function, leading to dopaminergic neurodegeneration in PD.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    7,8-Dihydroxyflavone is a direct inhibitor of human and murine pyridoxal phosphatase

    Marian Brenner, Christoph Zink ... Antje Gohla
    Direct inhibition of pyridoxal phosphatase activity by 7,8-dihydroxyflavone indicates a pharmacological entry point into brain disorders associated with vitamin B6 deficiency.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Deciphering the genetic code of neuronal type connectivity through bilinear modeling

    Mu Qiao
    A novel bilinear modeling approach reveals genetic code of neuronal connectivity, offering insights for targeted genetic interventions in neural circuits.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Medicine

    Single-cell transcriptome analysis of cavernous tissues reveals the key roles of pericytes in diabetic erectile dysfunction

    Seo-Gyeong Bae, Guo Nan Yin ... Jihwan Park
    Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of diabetic mouse cavernous tissue revealed that LBH is a novel pericyte marker and may interact with Crystallin Alpha B and Vimentin to promote neurovascular regeneration.