Latest research

1. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Genetic analysis of the Arabidopsis TIR1/AFB auxin receptors reveals both overlapping and specialized functions

   Michael J Prigge et al.

   Genetic analyses reveal that the TIR1/AFB auxin receptors have broadly overlapping functions throughout plant development, but that the AFB1 receptor has a specialized role in a rapid auxin response.
2. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Plasmodium-infected erythrocytes induce secretion of IGFBP7 to form type II rosettes and escape phagocytosis

   Wenn-Chyau Lee et al.

   Plasmodium parasites use host-derived factors to form more rosettes and hamper phagocytosis, representing a new escape mechanism for the malaria parasites.
3. 1. Neuroscience

   Cell-type specific innervation of cortical pyramidal cells at their apical dendrites

   Ali Karimi et al.
4. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Structures of the ATP-fueled ClpXP proteolytic machine bound to protein substrate

   Xue Fei et al.
5. 1. Neuroscience

   Categorical representation from sound and sight in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind

   Stefania Mattioni et al.
6. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   A tryparedoxin-coupled biosensor reveals a mitochondrial trypanothione metabolism in trypanosomes

   Samantha Ebersoll et al.

   African trypanosomes have a trypanothione-based mitochondrial thiol redox metabolism.
7. 1. Neuroscience

   Medial entorhinal cortex activates in a traveling wave in the rat

   J Jesús Hernández-Pérez et al.

   The existence of traveling waves in the medial entorhinal cortex, like those observed in the hippocampus, supports the hypothesis that traveling waves coordinate the activity of anatomically distributed circuits.
8. 1. Developmental Biology

   A phenotypic screening platform utilising human spermatozoa identifies compounds with contraceptive activity

   Franz S Gruber et al.

   A high-throughput phenotypic human sperm screening platform was developed which allows for major drug discovery programmes for male contraception.
9. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Receptor-based mechanism of relative sensing and cell memory in mammalian signaling networks

   Eugenia Lyashenko et al.

   Preferential endocytosis of activated receptors allows cells to memorize their past and perform relative sensing.
10. 1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Reticulon proteins modulate autophagy of the endoplasmic reticulum in maize endosperm

    Xiaoguo Zhang et al.

    Plant reticulons bind Atg8 under ER stress to promote reticulophagy and ameliorate ER stress in the maize endosperm.