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    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Novel genetic loci affecting facial shape variation in humans

    Ziyi Xiong, Gabriela Dankova ... Manfred Kayser
    A comprehensive genome scan of 18,000 multi-ethnic individuals with 3-dimensional facial images highlighted multiple face-associated genetic loci for which regulatory activities in human neural cells were established.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Regulation of posterior body and epidermal morphogenesis in zebrafish by localized Yap1 and Wwtr1

    David Kimelman, Natalie L Smith ... Didier YR Stainier
    Analysis of a double mutant in the Hippo pathway transcription factors Yap1 and Wwtr1 reveals novel roles for these factors in posterior body formation and epidermal morphogenesis in the vertebrate embryo.
    1. Cell Biology

    Neurofibromin controls macropinocytosis and phagocytosis in Dictyostelium

    Gareth Bloomfield, David Traynor ... Robert R Kay
    Inactivation of the Dictyostelium orthologue of the tumour suppressor Neurofibromin (NF1) enables amoebae to ingest dissolved nutrients using macropinocytosis more rapidly, and to prey on larger organisms using phagocytosis.
    1. Cell Biology

    COPI mediates recycling of an exocytic SNARE by recognition of a ubiquitin sorting signal

    Peng Xu, Hannah M Hankins ... Todd R Graham
    COPI vesicle coat protein recognizes a ubiquitin sorting signal on an exocytic v-SNARE to mediate recycling.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    A filter at the entrance of the Golgi that selects vesicles according to size and bulk lipid composition

    Maud Magdeleine, Romain Gautier ... Bruno Antonny
    The golgin GMAP-210 captures vesicles at the cis Golgi by merely recognizing the high curvature and lipid unsaturation level of transport vesicles.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    C9orf72 polyPR directly binds to various nuclear transport components

    Hamidreza Jafarinia, Erik van der Giessen, Patrick R Onck
    Length-dependent interference of arginine-containing dipeptide repeat proteins with multiple components of the nucleocytoplasmic transport machinery is a potential mechanistic pathway of C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or frontotemporal dementia toxicity.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Organisms with alternative genetic codes resolve unassigned codons via mistranslation and ribosomal rescue

    Natalie Jing Ma, Colin F Hemez ... Farren J Isaacs
    Cells resolve unassigned codons with near-cognate suppression, frameshifting, and ribosomal rescue mechanisms, demonstrating that unassigned codons are permissible in both natural and engineered genetic codes as barriers to horizontal gene transfer.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Ribosome recycling is not critical for translational coupling in Escherichia coli

    Kazuki Saito, Rachel Green, Allen R Buskirk
    Without ribosome recycling factor, ribosomes in Escherichia coli accumulate in 3'-UTRs and queue upstream of stop codons, but no effects were observed on the translational coupling of neighboring genes.
    1. Cell Biology

    Kazrin promotes dynein/dynactin-dependent traffic from early to recycling endosomes

    Ines Hernandez-Perez, Javier Rubio ... María Isabel Geli
    Kazrin, a protein widely expressed in vertebrates whose depletion causes defects in cell adhesion and migration, is recruited to early endosomes and promotes dynein/dynactin-dependent traffic of endocytosed cargo to the recycling endosomes.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural basis for activation and non-canonical catalysis of the Rap GTPase activating protein domain of plexin

    Yuxiao Wang, Heath G Pascoe ... Xuewu Zhang
    The crystal structures of the intracellular part of the plexin receptor in the active dimer form, and its complex with a key downstream signalling protein Rap, provide insights into how plexin initiates a signalling cascade involved in axon guidance.