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    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Stochastic social behavior coupled to COVID-19 dynamics leads to waves, plateaus, and an endemic state

    Alexei V Tkachenko, Sergei Maslov ... Nigel Goldenfeld
    Time-varying heterogeneous social activity explains transient suppression of epidemic waves followed by long plateaus and eventual transition towards the endemic state of an emergent pathogen, such as COVID-19.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A genome-phenome association study in native microbiomes identifies a mechanism for cytosine modification in DNA and RNA

    Weiwei Yang, Yu-Cheng Lin ... Laurence Ettwiller
    A novel DNA/RNA modifying enzyme catalyzing a previously unknown 5-carbamoyloxymethylcytosine modification has been discovered using a novel framework called Metagenomics Genome-Phenome Association.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular architecture of the human tRNA ligase complex

    Alena Kroupova, Fabian Ackle ... Martin Jinek
    Biochemical and structural investigations of the human tRNA ligase complex reveal the details of its molecular assembly and provide insights into the reaction mechanism of its catalytic subunit.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Rpl24Bst mutation suppresses colorectal cancer by promoting eEF2 phosphorylation via eEF2K

    John RP Knight, Nikola Vlahov ... Owen J Sansom
    Signalling that maintains rapid translation elongation in KRAS-mutant colorectal cancer models can be targeted by mutation of the ribosomal protein RPL24 to suppress tumour proliferation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Assembly status transition offers an avenue for activity modulation of a supramolecular enzyme

    Yao Chen, Weiya Xu ... Chengdong Huang
    Mechanistic studies of glutamine synthetase reveals how the complex quaternary structure organizations of a supramolecular enzyme provides a platform necessary for intricate activity regulation machinery to take place.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Wnt signaling mediates acquisition of blood–brain barrier properties in naïve endothelium derived from human pluripotent stem cells

    Benjamin D Gastfriend, Hideaki Nishihara ... Eric V Shusta
    Activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling in endothelial progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells partially induces the specialized blood–brain barrier phenotype while the same treatment in matured endothelial cells is less efficacious.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Concomitant activation of GLI1 and Notch1 contributes to racial disparity of human triple negative breast cancer progression

    Sumit Siddharth, Sheetal Parida ... Dipali Sharma
    Elucidation of GLI1-Notch1 axis as key determinant of racial disparity in TNBC growth in African American and White American women.
    1. Neuroscience

    Glial Nrf2 signaling mediates the neuroprotection exerted by Gastrodia elata Blume in Lrrk2-G2019S Parkinson’s disease

    Yu-En Lin, Chin-Hsien Lin ... Cheng-Ting Chien
    The traditional herbal medicine Gastrodia elata Blume, in the water-extracted form as food supplement, improves locomotion and protects dopaminergic neurons in Lrrk2-G2019S Parkinson’s disease models through Nrf2 activation in glia.
    1. Neuroscience

    Working memory capacity of crows and monkeys arises from similar neuronal computations

    Lukas Alexander Hahn, Dmitry Balakhonov ... Jonas Rose
    Despite differences in cellular architecture the brains of monkeys and crows produce comparable limits of working memory with comparable mechanisms.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Hydrogen sulfide blocks HIV rebound by maintaining mitochondrial bioenergetics and redox homeostasis

    Virender Kumar Pal, Ragini Agrawal ... Amit Singh
    A gaseous signaling molecule hydrogen sulfide stimulates mitochondrial bioenergetics, maintains glutathione redox poise, and suppresses ROS to subvert viral rebound in latently infected CD4+ T cells from HIV subjects.