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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    BetaII-Spectrin Gaps and Patches Emerge from the Patterned Assembly of the Actin/Spectrin Membrane Skeleton in Human Motor Neuron Axons

    Nahir Guadalupe Gazal, Maria Jose Castellanos-Montiel ... Nicolás Unsain
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Cell-to-cell signalling mediated via CO2: activity dependent axonal CO2 production opens Cx32 in the Schwann cell paranode

    Jack Butler, Lowell Mott ... Nicholas Dale
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    1. Cell Biology

    Sex-biased expression of enteroendocrine cell-derived hormones contributes to higher fat storage in Drosophila females

    Puja Biswas, Elizabeth J Rideout
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    1. Cell Biology

    Small brown planthopper infestation enhances it reproduction and insecticide tolerance by manipulating glucose distribution and levels in rice

    Hainan Zhang, Qi Zhang ... Jianjun Wang
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    1. Cell Biology

    FMRP Regulates Neuronal RNA Granules Containing Stalled Ribosomes, Not Where Ribosomes Stall

    Jewel T-Y Li, Mehdi Amiri ... Wayne S Sossin
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    The Par complex regulates apical-basal cell polarity through modulation of FAK signaling homeostasis

    Meiai He, Lining Liang ... Hui Zheng
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Deployment of endocytic machinery to periactive zones of nerve terminals is independent of active zone assembly and evoked release

    Javier Emperador-Melero, Steven J Del Signore ... Avital A Rodal
    Presynaptic endocytic machinery is constitutively deployed to periactive zones, indicating independent assembly pathways for the exo- and endocytic machineries of nerve terminals.
    1. Cell Biology

    The insulin / IGF axis is critically important for controlling gene transcription in the podocyte

    Jennifer A Hurcombe, Lusyan Dayalan ... Richard JM Coward
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    Reviewed Preprint v4
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    • Valuable
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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
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Canonical and phosphoribosyl ubiquitination coordinate to stabilize a proteinaceous structure surrounding the Legionella-containing vacuole

    Adriana Steinbach, Chetan Mokkapati ... Shaeri Mukherjee
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    1. Cell Biology
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    The role of lipids in hearing

    Yein Christina Park, Angela Ballesteros
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    2. Cell Biology

    Chemotherapy: Lipid balance and chemoresistance in cancer cells

    Kaori Kanemaru, Yoshikazu Nakamura
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Metabolism: How one nutrient controls cell size

    Angela Montero, Lydia WS Finley

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