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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Reprogramming of cardiac phosphoproteome, proteome, and transcriptome confers resilience to chronic adenylyl cyclase-driven stress

    Jia-Hua Qu, Khalid Chakir ... Edward G Lakatta
    Numerous pathways/function predictions were identified via gene sets, phosphopeptides, and phosphoproteins, which may point to potential novel therapeutic targets to enhance heart adaptivity, maintaining heart performance while avoiding cardiac dysfunction.
    1. Neuroscience

    Silencing long-descending inter-enlargement propriospinal neurons improves hindlimb stepping after contusive spinal cord injuries

    Courtney T Shepard, Brandon L Brown ... David SK Magnuson
    Silencing long-descending propriospinal neurons that connect C6 to L2 disrupts right-left alternation of both the forelimbs and hindlimbs in the intact animal, but leads to improved stepping after a mild-moderate thoracic contusion spinal cord injury.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Mitochondrial electron transport chain, ceramide, and coenzyme Q are linked in a pathway that drives insulin resistance in skeletal muscle

    Alexis Diaz-Vegas, Søren Madsen ... James G Burchfield
    In vitro and in vivo studies uncovered a molecular link between elevated mitochondrial ceramide levels, coenzyme Q depletion, and insulin resistance.
    1. Cell Biology

    Genome-wide screen reveals Rab12 GTPase as a critical activator of Parkinson’s disease-linked LRRK2 kinase

    Herschel S Dhekne, Francesca Tonelli ... Suzanne R Pfeffer
    Activating mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 cause Parkinson’s disease, and an unbiased genome-wide screen revealed an unexpected, specific role for Rab12 in activating this kinase directly for Rab GTPase phosphorylation.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Baited reconstruction with 2D template matching for high-resolution structure determination in vitro and in vivo without template bias

    Bronwyn A Lucas, Benjamin A Himes, Nikolaus Grigorieff
    2D template matching enables a streamlined single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy workflow that can be used to discover new high-resolution structural features in molecules and complexes, such as bound ligands and drugs.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Scaling of an antibody validation procedure enables quantification of antibody performance in major research applications

    Riham Ayoubi, Joel Ryan ... Carl Laflamme
    Open science and consensus antibody validation protocols can identify high-quality, renewable antibodies for the ~50% of the human proteome currently covered, enabling robust and reproducible biomedical research.
    1. Developmental Biology

    The myocardium utilizes a platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (Pdgfra)–phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling cascade to steer toward the midline during zebrafish heart tube formation

    Rabina Shrestha, Tess McCann ... Joshua Bloomekatz
    Research on heart tube assembly using zebrafish reveals a pivotal role for intrinsic Pdgfra–PI3K signaling in steering the movement of the myocardium and polarizing myocardial cell protrusions.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hierarchical temporal prediction captures motion processing along the visual pathway

    Yosef Singer, Luke Taylor ... Nicol S Harper
    Neural network modeling shows that hierarchical application of the simple computational principle of predicting future sensory input from its past can capture features of visual motion processing from the retina to the visual cortex.
    1. Neuroscience

    Competing neural representations of choice shape evidence accumulation in humans

    Krista Bond, Javier Rasero ... Timothy Verstynen
    Interactions between cortical and subcortical circuits in the mammalian brain flexibly control the flow of information streams that drive decisions by shifting the balance of power both within and between action representations.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular tuning of sea anemone stinging

    Lily S He, Yujia Qi ... Nicholas W Bellono
    Sea anemones use adapted ion channels to control stinging behavior.