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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    A functional screen of RNA binding proteins identifies genes that promote or limit the accumulation of CD138+ plasma cells

    David J Turner, Alexander Saveliev ... Martin Turner
    A genetic screening approach identifies RNA binding proteins that enhance or inhibit the accumulation of CD138+ plasma cells in vitro, and chimeric mouse models demonstrate that YTHDF2 promotes the accumulation of antibody secreting cells in vivo.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Detection of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors in patients with neurofibromatosis using aneuploidy and mutation identification in plasma

    Austin K Mattox, Christopher Douville ... Chetan Bettegowda
    Detection of aneuploidy and/or mutations in ctDNA may represent a promising approach to detecting patients with MPNST.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Genetic variation of putative myokine signaling is dominated by biological sex and sex hormones

    Leandro M Velez, Cassandra Van ... Marcus M Seldin
    Genetic architecture of muscle secreted protein functions are dominated by sex.
    1. Medicine

    Utility of estimated pulse wave velocity for assessing vascular stiffness: comparison of methods

    Stefan Möstl, Fabian Hoffmann ... Jens Jordan
    Novel blood pressure devices provide an estimated pulse wave velocity, which is no substitute for measured pulse wave velocity and clinicians should be aware that it only reflects trends derived from representative population samples based on age and blood pressure.
    1. Neuroscience

    Widespread nociceptive maps in the human neonatal somatosensory cortex

    Laura Jones, Madeleine Verriotis ... Maria Fitzgerald
    Widespread somatosensory cortical activation following a single localised skin breaking procedure indicates a diffuse pain map in the human infant brain.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Neutrophil extracellular traps arm DC vaccination against NPM-mutant myeloproliferation

    Claudio Tripodo, Barbara Bassani ... Sabina Sangaletti
    Neutrophil extracellular traps are an immunogenic source of leukemia antigens in dendritic cell-based vaccination and are able to instruct antileukemia CD8 T-cell responses.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Cross-species analysis of LZTR1 loss-of-function mutants demonstrates dependency to RIT1 orthologs

    Antonio Cuevas-Navarro, Laura Rodriguez-Muñoz ... Pau Castel
    Biochemical and genetic analysis of the functional relationship between RIT1 and its regulatory protein, LZTR1, across various model organisms helps define the substrate specificity of LZTR1 for RAS GTPases.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cryo-EM structure of the human somatostatin receptor 2 complex with its agonist somatostatin delineates the ligand-binding specificity

    Yunseok Heo, Eojin Yoon ... Weontae Lee
    The atomic resolution cryo-EM structure of somatostatin receptor 2 (SSTR2) provides insights into the mechanism by which SSTRs recognize their ligands and will serve as a platform to develop selective agonists and therapeutics.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Sampling alternative conformational states of transporters and receptors with AlphaFold2

    Diego del Alamo, Davide Sala ... Jens Meiler
    Alternative conformations of membrane protein structures can be predicted to high accuracy with AlphaFold2 by reducing the depth of the multiple sequence alignments used for modeling.
    1. Medicine

    Drug targeting Nsp1-ribosomal complex shows antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2

    Mohammad Afsar, Rohan Narayan ... Tanweer Hussain
    Drug targeting Nsp1-ribosome interaction shows rescue of Nsp1-mediated translation inhibition and has antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2.