The PrEDiCT scheme infers disease-affected cell types from the expression of disease-associated genes in single-cell expression atlases, thereby providing cellular context and enhancing mechanistic understanding for 328 Mendelian diseases.
Salman Shehzada, Tomoko Noto ... Kazufumi Mochizuki
The identification of a SUMO E3 ligase engaged in lncRNA transcription, subsequently leading to target-directed small RNA degradation, reveals an unexplored layer of regulatory mechanisms within small RNA-directed chromatin regulation.
Andrew T Lombardo, Cameron AR Mitchell ... Anthony Bretscher
ARHGAP18 specializes in controlling cell shape at the topmost layer of the cell membrane by regulating the interaction between the ERM protein family, RhoA signaling, and the actin cytoskeleton.
Sebastian Pöhl, Manuel Osorio-Valeriano ... Martin Thanbichler
Analyses of the stalked budding bacterium Hyphomonas neptunium and its spiral-shaped relative Rhodospirillum rubrum reveal a conserved morphogenetic module that controls the establishment of complex bacterial cell shapes.
A computational method has been developed for predicting the cell-type-specific binding of transcription factors to nucleosomes, and involves integration of ChIP-seq, MNase-seq, and DNase-seq data with details of nucleosome structure.
Carla de la Fuente, Alexandre Grondin ... Laurent Laplaze
Increased primary root growth in pearl millet is correlated with early water stress tolerance, an important constraint in agrosystems in the Sahel, and is associated with the regulation of root cell elongation by a glutaredoxin.
The physicochemical interactions among wild-type nucleosomes hold substantial significance and play a role in chromatin folding under physiological salt concentrations.
Expression of the appropriate repertoire of membrane channels, essential for activity of flight-promoting central dopaminergic neurons of Drosophila, requires store-operated Ca2+ entry during late pupal development and early adults.
A combination of molecular dynamics simulations and electron cryomicroscopy characterizes interactions of a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel with 25 lipid molecules, specifically in a functional state in which they were not previously observed.
