Drew B Headley, Benjamin Latimer ... Satish S Nair
Beta and gamma inhibitory rhythms are preferentially tuned to govern synaptic integration in layer 5 pyramidal neurons by differentially modulating responses to inputs targeting distal dendritic and perisomatic compartments.
Compared with human-specific transcriptional factors, human-specific lncRNAs identified upon human lncRNAs’ orthologs in mammals have greatly evolved DNA-binding sites in archaic and modern humans in genes determining human traits.
Mammalian oocytes utilize a conserved combination of cell cycle control, cytoskeletal organization, and polarity pathways that are fundamentally shared with other vertebrates and invertebrates.
Single-cell transcriptomics data from mouse bone-relevant cells was used to inform human bone mineral density genome-wide association studies and prioritize genetic targets with potential causal roles in the development of osteoporosis.
Prateek D Bansal, Maia Kinnebrew ... Diwakar Shukla
Multiple competing hypotheses concerning the cholesterol accessibility of oncoprotein Smoothened are quantitatively assessed and experimentally validated, showing that cholesterol takes two pathways from either membrane leaflet to the binding sites.
Roberta Carloni, Tadhg Devlin ... Robin C Allshire
Synthetic proteins designed to bind specific repetitive DNA sequences in the Trypanosoma brucei genome allow the identification of proteins enriched over different DNA elements.
Comprehensive mapping of wing sensory neurons in Drosophila reveals that some proprioceptors make direct connections onto flight steering motor neurons, enabling rapid feedback control during flight.
Alan Monziani, Juan Pablo Unfried ... Igor Ulitsky
EPB41L4A-AS1, a highly expressed snoRNA host long noncoding RNA, has multiple functions, positive regulation in cis of the EPB41L4A gene and a trans-acting role in supporting proper nucleolar biology.
Y-complex nucleoporin, Nup107, can regulate ecdysone production by affecting the transcription of Halloween genes and levels of RTK receptor, torso, for the metamorphic transition from larva to pupa.
