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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Diverse and complex muscle spindle afferent firing properties emerge from multiscale muscle mechanics

    Kyle P Blum, Kenneth S Campbell ... Lena H Ting
    Diverse muscle spindle firing, critical for a range of sensorimotor behaviors, is compactly explained by first principles of force development in specialized muscle fibers within the sensors.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Cancer-associated fibroblasts and their influence on tumor immunity and immunotherapy

    Richard Lee Barrett, Ellen Puré
    Long under-appreciated, fibroblast biology is a key aspect of understanding how the immune system responds to tumors and may hold the key to improving immunotherapy in this tricky space.
    1. Neuroscience

    Disruption of Nrxn1α within excitatory forebrain circuits drives value-based dysfunction

    Opeyemi O Alabi, M Felicia Davatolhagh ... Marc Vincent Fuccillo
    Disruption of the disease-associated synaptic adhesion molecule Neurexin1a in cortical excitatory neurons perturbs decision making and disrupts value-associated neural activity in downstream striatal circuits.
    1. Plant Biology

    Altered N-glycan composition impacts flagella-mediated adhesion in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Nannan Xu, Anne Oltmanns ... Michael Hippler
    Adhesion force measurements reveal that proper N-glycosylation of flagellar membrane proteins is crucial for adhering C. reinhardtii cells onto surfaces.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Co-movement of astral microtubules, organelles and F-actin by dynein and actomyosin forces in frog egg cytoplasm

    James F Pelletier, Christine M Field ... Timothy J Mitchison
    Live imaging of multiple cytoplasmic networks in frog egg extracts calls for new models for how egg cytoplasm is physically organized during cleavage divisions.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Selective activation of FZD7 promotes mesendodermal differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells

    Diana Gumber, Myan Do ... Karl Willert
    Selective activation of FZD7 signaling with an engineered WNT mimetic promotes early developmental programs, including endodermal lineage specification, in human pluripotent stem cells.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV-1 Vpr antagonizes innate immune activation by targeting karyopherin-mediated NF-κB/IRF3 nuclear transport

    Hataf Khan, Rebecca P Sumner ... Greg J Towers
    HIV-1 Vpr antagonises innate immune sensing of viral and non-viral stimuli by preventing activated IRF3 and NF-κB nuclear transport.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Functional implications of MIR domains in protein O-mannosylation

    Antonella Chiapparino, Antonija Grbavac ... Irmgard Sinning
    The MIR domain of protein-O-mannosyltransferases participates in glycosylation by binding mannosylated peptides and regulates enzyme processivity.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    On the emergence of P-Loop NTPase and Rossmann enzymes from a Beta-Alpha-Beta ancestral fragment

    Liam M Longo, Jagoda Jabłońska ... Dan S Tawfik
    Analysisof P-loop NTPases and Rossmans, the most ancient and diverse enzyme lineages, suggests their divergence from one ancestral polypeptide.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Calcium depletion challenges endoplasmic reticulum proteostasis by destabilising BiP-substrate complexes

    Steffen Preissler, Claudia Rato ... David Ron
    Regulation of the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP by calcium.