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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
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    1. Cell Biology

    Cellular modifiers of TDP-43 phase transition and cytoplasmic aggregation

    Natalie Chin, Qi Zhang ... Yihong Ye
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    MOTS-c is a mitochondrial-encoded interferon-linked host defense peptide

    Michelle C Rice, Maria Imun ... Changhan Lee
    MOTS-c, a mitochondrial-encoded microprotein, has immunological origins and functions, revealing for the first time that our immune system is encoded by both co-evolved nuclear and mitochondrial genomes.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    The bile acid receptor TGR5 is a modulator of bone marrow adipose tissue and the hematopoietic niche

    Alejandro Alonso-Calleja, Alessia Perino ... Olaia Naveiras
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    1. Cell Biology

    Polo-like kinase phosphorylation of the orphan kinesin KIN-G negatively regulates centrin arm biogenesis in Trypanosoma brucei

    Yasuhiro Kurasawa, Qing Zhou ... Ziyin Li
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    1. Cell Biology

    WNKs regulate mouse behavior and alter central nervous system glucose uptake and insulin signaling

    Ankita B Jaykumar, Derk Binns ... Melanie H Cobb
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    • Solid
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    1. Cell Biology

    Stress: How to give cells an identity crisis

    Paige Dillon, Julie Hollien
    The transcription factor CHOP helps cells switch from an emergency stress response to a chronic one, where cells survive but lose some of the functions that define their identity.
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    A biochemical mechanism for Stu2/XMAP215-family microtubule polymerases

    Binnu Gangadharan, Daniel L Kober, Luke M Rice
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    1. Cell Biology

    Aging-associated increase of GATA4 levels in articular cartilage is linked to impaired regenerative capacity of chondrocytes and osteoarthritis

    Meagan J Makarczyk, Yiqian Zhang ... Hang Lin
    GATA4 plays critical roles in chondrocyte aging, which may serve as a target to rejuvenation old chondrocytes.
    1. Cell Biology

    Pre-rRNA represses gene transcription in the XY body of male germ cells

    Linlin Chen, Xiaochen Gai ... Xiaochun Yu
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Cell Biology
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    Model of the heart. Image credit: Jesse Orrico (CC0)

    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
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Chemotherapy: Lipid balance and chemoresistance in cancer cells

    Kaori Kanemaru, Yoshikazu Nakamura

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