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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae

    Duncan S Mearns, Sydney A Hunt ... Herwig Baier
    The evolution of hunting behavior in fish larvae has arrived at different, species-specific solutions, recombining a shared repertoire of locomotor and eye movement motifs.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Function and firing of the Streptomyces coelicolor contractile injection system requires the membrane protein CisA

    Bastien Casu, Joseph W Sallmen ... Susan Schlimpert
    CryoEM, genetic, and cell biological analyses reveal that the conserved membrane protein CisA mediates membrane recruitment of contractile injection systems Streptomyces coelicolor, enabling their activation under stress.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The C-terminus of the multi-drug efflux pump EmrE prevents proton leak by gating transport

    Merissa Brousseau, Da Teng ... Katherine A Henzler-Wildman
    The C-terminal tail acts as a secondary gate to regulate substrate access into the primary binding site for transport across the membrane.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    The ESCRT protein CHMP5 restricts bone formation by controlling endolysosome-mitochondrion-mediated cell senescence

    Fan Zhang, Yuan Wang ... Xianpeng Ge
    CHMP5 is crucial in preventing skeletal progenitor cell senescence and abnormal bone formation, and senolytic drugs represent potential therapeutic medicine for musculoskeletal abnormalities associated with a dysfunctional endolysosomal pathway.
    1. Medicine
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Magnetically steered cell therapy for reduction of intraocular pressure as a treatment strategy for open-angle glaucoma

    M Reza Bahranifard, Jessica Chan ... C Ross Ethier
    Magnetically steered mesenchymal stem cells significantly lowered intraocular pressure for 9 months in mice, motivating the translation of this technology for the treatment of glaucoma.
    1. Cell Biology

    The molecular logic of Gtr1/2- and Pib2-dependent TORC1 regulation in budding yeast

    Jacob H Cecil, Cristina M Padilla ... Andrew P Capaldi
    Dual regulation of TORC1 by Gtr1/2 and Pib2 drives cells into three distinct signaling states, establishing a new paradigm for graded TORC1 signaling.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Heat stress induces phage tolerance in Enterobacteriaceae

    Fan Zhang, Hao-Ze Chen ... Jia-Feng Liu
    Bacterial persistence against phages enables survival under infection, and heat treatment enhances this tolerance, facilitating resistance evolution and influencing the effectiveness of phage therapy.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Developmental Biology

    Drosophila hamlet mediates epithelial tissue assembly of the reproductive system

    Huazhen Wang, Ludivine Bertonnier-Brouty ... Qi Dai
    Hamlet regulates heterotypic epithelial fusion by controlling spatial and temporal expression of known and novel epithelial regulators like Wnt and Tl pathway components, a mechanism potentially conserved through evolution.
    1. Neuroscience

    The interplay between homeostatic synaptic scaling and homeostatic structural plasticity maintains the robust firing rate of neural networks

    Han Lu, Sandra Diaz-Pier ... Andreas Vlachos
    A biphasic structural plasticity rule interacts with homeostatic synaptic scaling to maintain firing rate homeostasis in neural networks.
    1. Plant Biology

    Competence for transcellular infection in the root cortex involves a post-replicative, cell-cycle exit decision in Medicago truncatula

    Morgane Batzenschlager, Beatrice Lace ... Thomas Ott
    Imaging deep root tissues with a combination of cell-cycle reporters reveals that a cortical cell file traversed by symbiotic bacteria exhibits reduced proliferative potential and enters a prolonged G2 phase.