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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Characterization of full-length CNBP expanded alleles in myotonic dystrophy type 2 patients by Cas9-mediated enrichment and nanopore sequencing

    Massimiliano Alfano, Luca De Antoni ... Marzia Rossato
    A novel sequencing-based method to characterize CNBP microsatellite expansions in DM2 patients demonstrates benefits for an improved dissection of DM2 genetic architecture, thus potentially ameliorating patient stratification and genetic counseling.
    1. Neuroscience

    Value representations in the rodent orbitofrontal cortex drive learning, not choice

    Kevin J Miller, Matthew M Botvinick, Carlos D Brody
    Neurons in the OFC signal expected reward specifically when this information is used for learning rather than for choosing, and silencing these neurons impairs use of this information to learn.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Aminomethanesulfonic acid illuminates the boundary between full and partial agonists of the pentameric glycine receptor

    Josip Ivica, Hongtao Zhu ... Lucia G Sivilotti
    The sulfonate analog of glycine is very efficacious in activating glycine channels and causes conformational changes in this pentameric ligand-gated channel that are similar to those produced by glycine itself.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    GENESPACE tracks regions of interest and gene copy number variation across multiple genomes

    John T Lovell, Avinash Sreedasyam ... Jeremy Schmutz
    GENESPACE lets users track related chromosomal sequences across multiple reference genomes.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Automatically tracking feeding behavior in populations of foraging C. elegans

    Elsa Bonnard, Jun Liu ... Monika Scholz
    A new tool enables measuring feeding and locomotion simultaneously which will enable insights into environmental, developmental, neuronal, and genetic factors underlying behavioral regulation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Redox-controlled reorganization and flavin strain within the ribonucleotide reductase R2b–NrdI complex monitored by serial femtosecond crystallography

    Juliane John, Oskar Aurelius ... Martin Högbom
    The flavoprotein NrdI in class Ib ribonucleotide reductase controls superoxide generation and metal site oxidation by tuning the redox properties of its flavin cofactor via steric strain induced by the formation of the R2b–NrdI protein complex.
    1. Developmental Biology

    High hedgehog signaling is transduced by a multikinase-dependent switch controlling the apico-basal distribution of the GPCR smoothened

    Marina Gonçalves Antunes, Matthieu Sanial ... Isabelle Becam
    Hedgehog leads to Smoothened accumulation by favoring its recycling and high Hedgehog levels promote a basolateral enrichment of Smoothened via its phosphorylation by the protein kinase Fused.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Single-molecule analysis of the entire perfringolysin O pore formation pathway

    Conall McGuinness, James C Walsh ... Till Böcking
    Arc-shaped PFO oligomers consisting of at least four subunits can insert into the membrane in a kinetically controlled process opening a transmembrane pore, whereby post-insertion growth may ultimately lead to formation of a complete ring.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    The scaffolding protein flot2 promotes cytoneme-based transport of wnt3 in gastric cancer

    Daniel Routledge, Sally Rogers ... Steffen Scholpp
    Signalling filopodia, also known as cytonemes, are a crucial transport mechanism of Wnt3 in gastric cancer and their emergence is controlled by Flot2.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    HLJ1 amplifies endotoxin-induced sepsis severity by promoting IL-12 heterodimerization in macrophages

    Wei-Jia Luo, Sung-Liang Yu ... Kang-Yi Su
    Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals HLJ1 as a novel immunomodulator for multicellular pathway of macrophages and NK cells, contributing to organ injury and sepsis death through amplified IL-12/IFN-γ axis.