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    1. Plant Biology

    Increased signal-to-noise ratios within experimental field trials by regressing spatially distributed soil properties as principal components

    Jeffrey C Berry, Mingsheng Qi ... Rebecca S Bart
    A method to reduce the noise present in field experiments by accounting for heterogeneity in field soils.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Morphometric analysis of lungfish endocasts elucidates early dipnoan palaeoneurological evolution

    Alice M Clement, Tom J Challands ... John A Long
    Cranial endocasts of fossil and extant lungfish, analysed via tomography and novel principle component analyses designed for use with missing data, show that lungfish forebrain and inner ear regions show the most variation in brain shape evolution through time.
    1. Neuroscience

    BK channel properties correlate with neurobehavioral severity in three KCNMA1-linked channelopathy mouse models

    Su Mi Park, Cooper E Roache ... Andrea Meredith
    Among three new models for KCNMA1 channelopathy, the most severe gain-of-function variant (Kcnma1N999S/WT) displays a particular type of immobilizing paroxysmal dyskinesia observed in patients, including amphetamine responsiveness.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Rapid and specific degradation of endogenous proteins in mouse models using auxin-inducible degrons

    Lewis Macdonald, Gillian C Taylor ... Andrew J Wood
    Auxin-inducible degradation of CRISPR-tagged endogenous proteins in mice reveals cell-type-specific dependence on the mitotic chromosome condensation proteins.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Determinants of trafficking, conduction, and disease within a K+ channel revealed through multiparametric deep mutational scanning

    Willow Coyote-Maestas, David Nedrud ... Daniel Schmidt
    By measuring the impacts of thousands of mutations on potassium channel trafficking and function, we illuminate the molecular basis of folding, structure–function relationships, and how these are altered in disease.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Conserved structural elements specialize ATAD1 as a membrane protein extraction machine

    Lan Wang, Hannah Toutkoushian ... Peter Walter
    A mitochondrial membrane-bound protein ATAD1 uses conserved structural elements to remove mislocalized membrane proteins from the outer mitochondrial membrane, achieving proper cell organization.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host chitinase 3-like-1 is a universal therapeutic target for SARS-CoV-2 viral variants in COVID-19

    Suchitra Kamle, Bing Ma ... Jack A Elias
    Intervention of CHI3L1 using anti-CHI3L1 monoclonal antibody or chitinase inhibitor kasugamycin blocks epithelial infection of various SARS-CoV2 variants, suggesting that CHI3L1 is a universal and effective therapeutic target of COVID-19 infection, including recent omicron variants.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Loss of Elp1 disrupts trigeminal ganglion neurodevelopment in a model of familial dysautonomia

    Carrie E Leonard, Jolie Quiros ... Lisa A Taneyhill
    Trigeminal nerve deficits observed in familial dysautonomia, which arises from mutations in ELP1, are due to loss of neural crest-derived TrkA nociceptors, while placode-derived TrkB and TrkC neurons are spared.
    1. Neuroscience

    Age-associated changes to neuronal dynamics involve a disruption of excitatory/inhibitory balance in C. elegans

    Gregory S Wirak, Jeremy Florman ... Christopher V Gabel
    Comprehensive multi-neuron fluorescence imaging in C. elegans reveals age-associated changes in neuronal activity that include a breakdown of system-wide organization, changes in neuronal frequency dynamics, and a disruption of the balance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling.
    1. Cell Biology

    Lipolysis of bone marrow adipocytes is required to fuel bone and the marrow niche during energy deficits

    Ziru Li, Emily Bowers ... Ormond A MacDougald
    Bone marrow adipocyte lipolysis is required for maintaining bone mass under conditions of energy deficiency and is necessary for myelopoiesis following caloric restriction and irradiation.