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    1. Cell Biology

    The Kv2.2 channel mediates the inhibition of prostaglandin E2 on glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in pancreatic β-cells

    Chengfang Pan, Ying Liu ... Changlong Hu
    Prostaglandin E2 inhibits Kv2.2 channels via the EP2/4-PKA signaling pathway, leading to decreased glucose-stimulated action potential firing and insulin secretion in normal pancreatic β-cells.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Emergence of alternative stable states in microbial communities undergoing horizontal gene transfer

    Juken Hong, Wenzhi Xue, Teng Wang
    Mathematical models of horizontal gene transfer reveal the determinants underlying multistability of microbial communities, offering key insights for the predictive control and engineering of complex microbiota.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Electrostatics of salt-dependent reentrant phase behaviors highlights diverse roles of ATP in biomolecular condensates

    Yi-Hsuan Lin, Tae Hun Kim ... Hue Sun Chan
    A combination of polymer physics theories consistently rationalizes comprehensive experimental effects of salt, ATP, phosphorylation, and sequence charge and arginine/lysine patterns on the reentrant phase behaviors of intrinsically disordered proteins.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains

    Cristina Paissoni, Sarita Puri ... Carlo Camilloni
    Computational modeling and in vitro experiments identify a unique conformational state in amyloidogenic light chains, providing a structural basis for amyloidosis and a precise target for drug design.
    1. Neuroscience

    Bridging the 3D geometrical organisation of white matter pathways across anatomical length scales and species

    Hans Martin Kjer, Mariam Andersson ... Tim B Dyrby
    Common principles of white matter microstructure and pathway organisation was revealed using diffusion MRI and x-ray synchrotron imaging across resolutions, and employing diffusion tensor, micro-tensor, multi-fiber, and structure tensor models.
    1. Neuroscience

    An image-computable model of speeded decision-making

    Paul I Jaffe, Gustavo X Santiago-Reyes ... Russell A Poldrack
    Combining biologically-plausible neural network models of vision with traditional decision-making models enables a detailed characterization of how the visual system extracts representations that guide decisions from raw sensory inputs.
    1. Neuroscience

    Adaptive chunking improves effective working memory capacity in a prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia circuit

    Aneri Soni, Michael J Frank
    This frontostriatal neural network model links the source of working memory capacity limitations to challenges in learning resource management, and mitigates this challenge by learning a 'chunking' strategy.
    1. Neuroscience

    Volume electron microscopy reveals unique laminar synaptic characteristics in the human entorhinal cortex

    Sergio Plaza-Alonso, Nicolas Cano-Astorga ... Lidia Alonso-Nanclares
    3D electron microscopy provides the first extensive quantitative ultrastructural dataset of synapses of the human entorhinal cortex.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Emerging cooperativity between Oct4 and Sox2 governs the pluripotency network in early mouse embryos

    Yanlin Hou, Zhengwen Nie ... Hans R Scholer
    Although Oct4 is expressed earlier than Sox2 in mouse embryos, both of them begin to perform their role in activating pluripotency-related genes in the inner cell mass.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    PROTAC-induced protein structural dynamics in targeted protein degradation

    Kingsley Y Wu, Ta I Hung, Chia-en A Chang
    Multi-level molecular modeling reveals how PROTAC-induced protein structural dynamics of degradation machinery complexes promote ubiquitination processes.