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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV-1 Vpr induces cell cycle arrest and enhances viral gene expression by depleting CCDC137

    Fengwen Zhang, Paul D Bieniasz
    A key target of the HIV-1 Vpr accessory protein is identified, whose depletion causes increased HIV-1gene expression and cell cycle arrest.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Wnt/β-catenin signaling is an evolutionarily conserved determinant of chordate dorsal organizer

    Iryna Kozmikova, Zbynek Kozmik
    Wnt/beta-catenin signaling is essential for the specification of dorsal cell fate in amphioxus, suggesting a common evolutionary origin for the formation of the dorsal organizer in chordates.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The architecture of EMC reveals a path for membrane protein insertion

    John P O'Donnell, Ben P Phillips ... Ramanujan S Hegde
    Structural and biochemical analysis of an abundant and conserved protein complex called EMC shows how it is likely to insert nascent membrane proteins into the endoplasmic reticulum membrane.
    1. Cell Biology

    The copy-number and varied strengths of MELT motifs in Spc105 balance the strength and responsiveness of the spindle assembly checkpoint

    Babhrubahan Roy, Simon JY Han ... Ajit P Joglekar
    Cell biological and genetic analyses reveal how budding yeast cells optimize Spindle Assembly checkpoint signaling to maximize chromosome segregation accuracy and minimize unnecessary delays in anaphase onset.
    1. Cell Biology

    Apolipoprotein L-1 renal risk variants form active channels at the plasma membrane driving cytotoxicity

    Joseph A Giovinazzo, Russell P Thomson ... Ryan Schreiner
    Cytotoxicity associated with APOL1 renal-risk variants occurs through its plasma-membrane localization, where aberrant channel activity drives a sustained sodium and calcium influx leading to cell swelling and eventually cell death.
    1. Neuroscience

    Remyelination alters the pattern of myelin in the cerebral cortex

    Jennifer Orthmann-Murphy, Cody L Call ... Dwight E Bergles
    Regeneration of oligodendrocytes in the cerebral cortex results in reorganization of the pattern of myelination, potentially impacting information processing within cortical networks in diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Spatial inter-centromeric interactions facilitated the emergence of evolutionary new centromeres

    Krishnendu Guin, Yao Chen ... Kaustuv Sanyal
    Proximity and homology guided inter-chromosomal translocations drive karyotype evolution.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Signaling diversity enabled by Rap1-regulated plasma membrane ERK with distinct temporal dynamics

    Jeremiah Keyes, Ambhighainath Ganesan ... Jin Zhang
    An individual extracellular signal regulates multiple cellular actions through differences in the temporal dynamics of spatially distinct populations of the central signaling enzyme, extracellular-signal regulated kinase.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Insights into herpesvirus assembly from the structure of the pUL7:pUL51 complex

    Benjamin G Butt, Danielle J Owen ... Stephen C Graham
    A conserved viral protein complex that promotes membrane wrapping of nascent herpesvirus particles shows structural similarity to cellular membrane-remodelling proteins, suggesting functional mimicry.
    1. Plant Biology

    FRET kinase sensor development reveals SnRK2/OST1 activation by ABA but not by MeJA and high CO2 during stomatal closure

    Li Zhang, Yohei Takahashi ... Julian I Schroeder
    Development of a real-time SnRK2 kinase FRET reporter reveals rapid SnRK2 activation by ABA, but not by Methyl-Jasmonate or elevated CO2, while directly demonstrating basal SnRK2 activity in guard cells.