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    1. Neuroscience

    Optogenetic stimulation of the locus coeruleus enhances appetitive extinction in rats

    Simon Lui, Ashleigh K Brink, Laura H Corbit
    The long-term retention of extinction is enhanced by ontogenetic stimulation of locus coeruleus neurons applied during extinction of a reward-seeking response, further implicating noradrenaline in appetitive extinction.
    1. Cell Biology

    Rapid binding to protofilament edge sites facilitates tip tracking of EB1 at growing microtubule plus-ends

    Samuel J Gonzalez, Julia M Heckel ... Melissa K Gardner
    Computational modeling combined with biophysical and cellular experiments reveal that rapid binding to incomplete, partial microtubule binding sites facilitates tracking of the end-binding protein EB1 with growing microtubule plus-ends.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Developmental patterning function of GNOM ARF-GEF mediated from the cell periphery

    Maciek Adamowski, Ivana Matijević, Jiří Friml
    The plant developmental regulator GNOM performs its unique function from the cell periphery, through sequence features present in all its domains, and not by the control of endocytosis.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Mobile barrier mechanisms for Na+-coupled symport in an MFS sugar transporter

    Parameswaran Hariharan, Yuqi Shi ... Lan Guan
    The use of a conformation-selective inhibitory nanobody provides critical information on MelB at a low-sugar affinity inward-facing Na+-bound state for establishing the mobile barrier and substrate-releasing mechanisms.
    1. Neuroscience

    Sexual coordination in a whole-brain map of prairie vole pair bonding

    Morgan L Gustison, Rodrigo Muñoz-Castañeda ... Steven M Phelps
    A brain-wide map of neural activation reveals how sexual experience becomes a pair bond in the monogamous prairie vole.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Autotrophic growth of Escherichia coli is achieved by a small number of genetic changes

    Roee Ben Nissan, Eliya Milshtein ... Ron Milo
    Achieving autotrophy in E. coli by introducing a small number of genetic changes crosses a milestone in engineering major metabolic transitions and paves a way for sustainable bio-production from CO2.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Energetics of the microsporidian polar tube invasion machinery

    Ray Chang, Ari Davydov ... Manu Prakash
    Unraveling the ultrafast polar tube ejection in microsporidia reveals extreme cellular hydraulics, providing a data-driven model for infectious cargo transport, with implications for physical approaches to understanding microsporidia transmission.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Epistasis between mutator alleles contributes to germline mutation spectrum variability in laboratory mice

    Thomas A Sasani, Aaron R Quinlan, Kelley Harris
    Germline mutation rates in mice are shaped by two mutator alleles that interact epistatically, showing that DNA repair defects that map to different loci can have snowballing effects.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Diameter dependence of transport through nuclear pore complex mimics studied using optical nanopores

    Nils Klughammer, Anders Barth ... Cees Dekker
    Nuclear pore complex mimics based on solid-state nanopores show significant selectivity below a diameter of 55 nm, which decreases gradually for larger pore diameters.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Energy conservation by collective movement in schooling fish

    Yangfan Zhang, George V Lauder
    Fish schools showed an U-shaped metabolism-speed curve and reduced the energy use per tail beat up to 56% at high swimming speeds compared to solitary fish.