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    1. Cell Biology

    Engineering ATP Import in Yeast Uncovers a Synthetic Route to Extend Cellular Lifespan

    Naci Oz, Hetian Su ... Alaattin Kaya
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Intracellular growth of Chlamydia trachomatis leads to global histone hypermethylation by impairing demethylation

    Chloé I Charendoff, Félix V Louchez ... Agathe Subtil
    The metabolic pressure exerted by a pathogen with an intracellular lifestyle drives epigenetic modifications, which modulate the transcriptional response of the host to infection.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Allosteric disulfide control of ligand binding and endocytosis of KIR2DL4, the natural killer cell receptor for HLA-G

    Sumati Rajagopalan, Joyce Chiu ... Eric O Long
    Allosteric transition between two disulfide configurations of NK cell receptor KIR2DL4 is a functional switch that controls receptor residence at the cell surface for binding and internalization of soluble HLA-G.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Endosome-associated Rab GTPases control distinct aspects of neural circuit assembly

    Katherine X Dong, Yanbo Zhang ... Colleen N McLaughlin
    Systematic dissection of Rab GTPase function in developing neurons reveals that early and recycling endosome-associated Rabs regulate largely distinct aspects of neuronal morphogenesis and circuit assembly across developmental time.
    1. Cell Biology

    Whole human organ clearing and multimodal mapping

    Héloïse Policet-Bétend, Tomàs Jordà-Siquier ... Christophe M Lamy
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    P95-HER2 promotes metastatic progression by biasing MRTFA dependent signaling

    Joseph D Fernandes, Erin Bresnahan ... Joshua C Snyder
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A validated antibody toolbox for ALS research

    Riham Ayoubi, Emma J MacDougall ... Carl Laflamme
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    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Krüppel Regulates Cell Cycle Exit and Limits Adult Neurogenesis of Mushroom Body Neural Progenitors in Drosophila

    Dongni Shao Chen, Jin Man ... Yuu Kimata
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    1. Cell Biology

    Photo-downregulation of SIRT4 mitigates aging in mice by enhancing H3K9ac via fatty acid metabolism

    Fangqing Deng, Rong Yang ... Lianbing Zhang
    Periodic red-light irradiation promotes coupling between keratinocyte mitochondrial lipid metabolism and epigenetic remodeling, increasing acetyl-CoA availability and histone H3 lysine 9 acetylation to slow skin aging.
    1. Cell Biology

    Early recruitment of membrane-bound DNaseX to phagocytic cups in macrophages

    Arghajit Pyne, Vivek Pandey ... Xuefeng Wang
    Phagocytic cups of macrophages exhibit strong DNase activity during the early stage of phagocytosis, prior to cup closure.

Highlights

    1. Cell Biology
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    How to give cells an identity crisis

    Paige Dillon, Julie Hollien
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology
    Model of the heart. Image credit: Jesse Orrico (CC0)

    Following your heart as it takes shape

    Alexandra Trouilloud, Nicole C Dubois

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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