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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A biochemical mechanism for Stu2/XMAP215-family microtubule polymerases

    Binnu Gangadharan, Daniel L Kober, Luke M Rice
    Evolutionarily unrelated microtubule and actin regulatory factors use the same mechanism to accelerate polymerization.
    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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    1. Cell Biology

    Cardiolipin deficiency disrupts electron transport chain and drives steatohepatitis

    Marisa J Brothwell, Guoshen Cao ... Katsuhiko Funai
    Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease is associated with reduced mitochondrial cardiolipin concentration in mice and humans, and cardiolipin deficiency was sufficient to drive steatosis and fibrosis in the liver.
    1. Cell Biology

    Xkr regulates phosphatidylserine transport via ER-PM contact sites to promote apoptotic cell clearance

    Qian Zheng, Xinyu Ma ... Hui Xiao
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    1. Cell Biology

    MARBL: A Live-Cell Method for Profiling Bioenergetic Heterogeneity by Noncanonical Methionine Labeling of the Cell Surface Proteome

    Lillian R Delacruz, Ming Ye ... Alison E Ringel
    Not revised
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    1. Cell Biology

    Functional High Throughput Drug Screening Reveals Cyproheptadine as a Novel Treatment for LMNA-related Cardiomyopathy

    Hananeh Fonoudi, Ali Negahi Shirazi ... Paul W Burridge
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Tau hyperphosphorylation impairs cooperative binding to microtubules and perturbs organelle trafficking in neurons

    Daniel Beaudet, Christopher L Berger, Adam G Hendricks
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    1. Cell Biology

    SETD6-mediated methylation of PPARγ establishes a transcriptional feedback circuit promoting lipid accumulation in liver-derived cells

    Noa Nashnaz, Dana Goldberg ... Dan Levy
    SETD6-mediated methylation of PPARγ establishes a positive feedback mechanism that enhances transcriptional activation and promotes hepatic lipid accumulation.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tracking maternal proteins uncovers a central role for the residual body in organelle recycling during Toxoplasma gondii replication

    Julia von Knoerzer-Suckow, Parnian Sazegar ... Markus Meissner
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    1. Cell Biology

    Zasp52’s differentially expressed intrinsically disordered region confers thin filament stability at the Z-disc

    Nikolai Ho, Frieder Schöck
    The Z-disc of muscle sarcomeres is a solid aggregate stabilized by the intrinsically disordered region of the Alp/Enigma family protein Zasp52.

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    How to give cells an identity crisis

    Paige Dillon, Julie Hollien
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology
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    Following your heart as it takes shape

    Alexandra Trouilloud, Nicole C Dubois
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The role of lipids in hearing

    Yein Christina Park, Angela Ballesteros

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