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    1. Cell Biology

    PI3K/HSCB axis facilitates FOG1 nuclear translocation to promote erythropoiesis and megakaryopoiesis

    Gang Liu, Yunxuan Hou ... Xiumei Jiang
    HSCB could be activated by PI3K signaling to facilitate FOG1 nuclear translocation to promote human erythropoiesis and megakaryopoiesis, highlighting an important, previously unrecognized iron–sulfur cluster delivery independent function of HSCB.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    SCC3 is an axial element essential for homologous chromosome pairing and synapsis

    Yangzi Zhao, Lijun Ren ... Zhukuan Cheng
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Heparan sulfate dependent phase separation of CCL5 and its chemotactic activity

    Xiaolin Yu, Guangfei Duan ... Shi-Zhong Luo
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Remodeling of skeletal muscle myosin metabolic states in hibernating mammals

    Christopher TA Lewis, Elise G Melhedegaard ... Julien Ochala
    During hibernation, animals remodel the structure of their relaxed muscle via a protein called myosin and this enables vast temperature changes.
    1. Cell Biology

    Mecp2 fine-tunes quiescence exit by targeting nuclear receptors

    Jun Yang, Shitian Zou ... Xiaochun Bai
    Mecp2 expression is cell cycle-dependent and negatively regulates quiescence exit.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Exosomes: How tumors escape the immune system

    Stefanie Schmieder
    Mutations in the gene for β-catenin cause liver cancer cells to release fewer exosomes, which reduces the number of immune cells infiltrating the tumor.
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    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Felix Campelo
    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
  3. Jonathan A Cooper
    Jonathan A Cooper
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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