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    1. Cell Biology

    Mitochondrial-derived compartments buffer outer membrane protein load during acute mitochondrial adaptation

    Bo J Price, Sai Sangeetha Balasubramaniam, Adam L Hughes
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Cell Biology

    Ferroptosis is executed through caspase-5 cleavage of gasdermin E in ovarian cancer cells

    Mahmuda Akter, Lei Sun ... Shuang Huang
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    1. Cell Biology

    Targeting Lysosomal MCOLN1/TRPML1 Ion Channels to Finely Alleviate Diabetes Mellitus via a Ca2+- CaMKKβ-AMPK pathway

    Jiaxuan Zhu, Zhaonan Pan ... Dan Li
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    1. Cell Biology

    Prophase Chromosomes Relocalization to Nuclear Periphery in NPP-3/NUP205 Depletion Protects Genome Stability

    Ling Jiang, Yu Chung Tse, Karen Wing Yee Yuen
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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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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
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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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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
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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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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
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    1. Cell Biology
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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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