Latest research

1. 1. Ecology
   2. Plant Biology

   The decoration of specialized metabolites influences stylar development

   Jiancai Li et al.

   Regulation of diterpene glycoside malonylation status influences stylar elongation through affecting auxin signaling in Nicotiana attenuata.
2. 1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   A novel pH-dependent membrane peptide that binds to EphA2 and inhibits cell migration

   Daiane S Alves et al.

   The transmembrane domain of the EphA2 receptor has been transformed into a novel amphitropic peptide that binds to the EphA2 receptor and inhibits cell migration.
3. 1. Plant Biology

   A plant chitinase controls cortical infection thread progression and nitrogen-fixing symbiosis

   Anna Malolepszy et al.

   Lotus japonicus chitinase modulates the level of rhizobial Nod factor and thereby enables cortical infection and functional symbiosis in root nodules.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Changes to social feeding behaviors are not sufficient for the fitness gains of the C. elegans N2 reference strain

   Yuehui Zhao et al.
5. 1. Human Biology and Medicine
   2. Neuroscience

   Characterization of small fiber pathology in a mouse model of Fabry disease

   Lukas Hofmann et al.
6. 1. Developmental Biology

   Feedback regulation of cytoneme-mediated transport shapes a tissue-specific FGF morphogen gradient

   Lijuan Du et al.
7. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Tuning site-specific dynamics to drive allosteric activation in a pneumococcal zinc uptake regulator

   Daiana A Capdevila et al.
8. 1. Neuroscience

   Persistent coding of outcome-predictive cue features in the rat nucleus accumbens

   Jimmie M Gmaz et al.

   Neural activity in the rat nucleus accumbens provides a rich task representation that includes not only expected outcomes, but also the specific identity of the cues that predict these outcomes.
9. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

   The role of Pitx2 and Pitx3 in muscle stem cells gives new insights into P38α MAP kinase and redox regulation of muscle regeneration

   Aurore L'honoré et al.

   Modulation of muscle stem cell redox state in culture both improves their amplification while maintaining a similar grafting potential as freshly isolated stem cells.
10. 1. Cell Biology

    Phase transitioned nuclear Oskar promotes cell division of Drosophila primordial germ cells

    Kathryn E Kistler et al.

    The scaffolding protein Oskar organizes two types of germ granules by phase transition within the same cell but with distinct morphologies, composition and biological functions.