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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    On the origin of universal cell shape variability in confluent epithelial monolayers

    Souvik Sadhukhan, Saroj Kumar Nandi
    The nearly universal nature of scaled cell shape variability in an epithelial monolayer is unavoidable, irrespective of health or disease, as it comes from a mathematical property.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Vocal communication is tied to interpersonal arousal coupling in caregiver-infant dyads

    Sam Wass, Emily Phillips ... Louise Goupil
    Infants' vocalisations are contingent on their own stress physiology, and alter the inter-personal dynamics of how stress states are shared across the infant-caregiver dyad.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Transcriptional profiling of Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome fibroblasts reveals deficits in mesenchymal stem cell commitment to differentiation related to early events in endochondral ossification

    Rebeca San Martin, Priyojit Das ... Rachel Patton McCord
    Age-stratified comparisons of gene expression in progeria patient fibroblasts reveals disruption of mesenchymal lineage pathways and points to a deficit in chondrogenic commitment in early development and a depletion of the mesenchymal lineage stem cell pool.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Adaptation dynamics between copy-number and point mutations

    Isabella Tomanek, Călin C Guet
    In bacteria, frequent adaptive copy-number mutations can hinder the fixation of beneficial point mutations and hence the divergence of duplicated DNA sequences.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Proteome-wide systems genetics identifies UFMylation as a regulator of skeletal muscle function

    Jeffrey Molendijk, Ronnie Blazev ... Benjamin L Parker
    The maintenance of skeletal muscle function improves the quality of life, and therefore understanding how changes in the genome drive changes in the skeletal muscle proteome has revealed novel regulators of muscle physiology.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    A novel fold for acyltransferase-3 (AT3) proteins provides a framework for transmembrane acyl-group transfer

    Kahlan E Newman, Sarah N Tindall ... Marjan W Van Der Woude
    The modelled structure of a membrane protein supports the hypothesis that it has a new fold with a channel that allows a chemical group to cross the membrane to decorate surface structures.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Longitudinal analysis of invariant natural killer T cell activation reveals a cMAF-associated transcriptional state of NKT10 cells

    Harry Kane, Nelson M LaMarche ... Lydia Lynch
    Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells have some shared yet some distinct metabolic and transcriptional programs for their in vivo effector functions, including a novel population of memory-like regulatory iNKT cells.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Disrupting the ciliary gradient of active Arl3 affects rod photoreceptor nuclear migration

    Amanda M Travis, Samiya Manocha ... Jillian N Pearring
    Dominant mutations in Arl3, linked to inherited retinal dystrophy, disrupt the active Arl3-GTP ciliary gradient and cause a defect in rod photoreceptor nuclear migration that can be rescued by elevating ciliary Arl3 activity or reducing aberrant non-ciliary Arl3 activity.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Computational design of peptides to target NaV1.7 channel with high potency and selectivity for the treatment of pain

    Phuong T Nguyen, Hai M Nguyen ... Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy
    Rationally designed peptide inhibitors of human voltage-gated channels have transformative potential to define a new class of biologics to treat pain.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Inducible lncRNA transgenic mice reveal continual role of HOTAIR in promoting breast cancer metastasis

    Qing Ma, Liuyi Yang ... Howard Y Chang
    HOTAIR is required in an ongoing manner when it regulates epigenetic status and reprograms cancer cell gene expression in promoting breast cancer metastasis.