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    1. Cell Biology

    Single-cell lineage tracing identifies hemogenic endothelial cells in the adult mouse bone marrow

    Jing-Xin Feng, Mei-Ting Yang ... Giovanna Tosato
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    1. Cell Biology

    Large-scale identification of plasma membrane repair proteins revealed spatiotemporal cellular responses to plasma membrane damage

    Yuta Yamazaki, Keiko Kono
    Proteome-scale visual screening in budding yeast provides a functional catalog of plasma membrane repair proteins and reveals the coordinated cellular responses at the bud tip and the damage site.
    1. Cell Biology

    Desert Hedgehog mediates stem Leydig cell differentiation through Ptch2/Gli1/Sf1 signaling axis

    Changle Zhao, Yongxun Chen ... Jing Wei
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Identification and comparison of orthologous cell types from primate embryoid bodies shows limits of marker gene transferability

    Jessica Jocher, Philipp Janssen ... Ines Hellmann
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    1. Cell Biology

    Cardiac neurons expressing a glucagon-like receptor mediate cardiac arrhythmia induced by high-fat diet in Drosophila

    Yunpo Zhao, Jianli Duan ... Zhe Han
    A conserved glucagon signaling pathway links high-fat diet-induced metabolic imbalance to cardiac arrhythmia through hormone-producing cells and heart-innervating neurons that regulate rhythmicity.
    1. Cell Biology

    A high-throughput assay for the measurement of Ca2+-oscillations and insulin release from uniformly sized β-cell spheroids

    Stijn Robben, Patricia Davidson ... Thomas Voets
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Cell Biology

    Proteomic composition and mutual assembly of the C2a projection in vertebrate motile cilia

    Qian Lyu, Qingchao Li ... Huijie Zhao
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    1. Cell Biology

    SLC4A1 mutations that cause distal renal tubular acidosis alter cytoplasmic pH and cellular autophagy

    Grace Essuman, Midhat Rizvi ... Emmanuelle Cordat
    Distal renal tubular acidosis induced by some SLC4A1 variants is characterized by cytosolic pH alkalization, reduced ATP synthesis and defective autophagy degradative flux.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Contractile peri-nuclear actomyosin network repositions peripheral and polar chromosomes to promote early kinetochore–microtubule interactions

    Nooshin Sheidaei, John K Eykelenboom ... Tomoyuki U Tanaka
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    1. Cell Biology

    Nuclear export governs TDP-43 phase transitions and cytoplasmic aggregation

    Natalie Chin, Qi Zhang ... Yihong Ye
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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Highlights

    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology
    3. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Allosteric Regulation of Kinase Activity – call for papers

    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Imaging methods are vastly underreported

    Guillermo Marqués, Thomas Pengo, Mark A Sanders
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Philosophy of Biology: Knowledge and illusions

    Antony M Jose

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  1. Sofia J Araújo
    University of Barcelona, Spain
  2. Felix Campelo
    Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
  3. Jonathan A Cooper
    Jonathan A Cooper
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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