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    1. Neuroscience

    The cation channel mechanisms of subthreshold inward depolarizing currents in the mice VTA dopaminergic neurons and their roles in the chronic-stress-induced depression-like behavior

    Jing Wang, Min Su ... Hailin Zhang
    NALCN and TRPC6 drive the subthreshold depolarization of VTA DA neurons and down regulation of TRPC6 contributes to reduced VTA DA neuron firing and chronic stress-induced depression-like behavior of mice.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The C-terminal region of the motor protein MCAK controls its structure and activity through a conformational switch

    Sandeep K Talapatra, Bethany Harker, Julie PI Welburn
    Structural analysis of the kinesin-13 MCAK bound to its C-terminal tail reveals the molecular basis for the conformation of kinesin-13 in solution and the mechanism that triggers long-range conformational changes upon microtubule binding.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A cellular and regulatory map of the GABAergic nervous system of C. elegans

    Marie Gendrel, Emily G Atlas, Oliver Hobert
    GABAergic neurons in the nervous system of C. elegans have been comprehensively mapped allowing analysis of regulatory factors that program GABAergic neuron identity.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    FAK/PYK2 promotes the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and intestinal tumorigenesis by phosphorylating GSK3β

    Chenxi Gao, Guangming Chen ... Jing Hu
    Dual FAK/PYK2 kinase inhibition disrupts GSK3β phosphorylation and may present a new treatment for colorectal cancer in patients carrying APC mutations.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Single-amino acid variants reveal evolutionary processes that shape the biogeography of a global SAR11 subclade

    Tom O Delmont, Evan Kiefl ... A Murat Eren
    An in-depth metagenomic analysis of possibly the most abundant and widespread microbial lineage in the surface ocean teases apart evolutionary processes that maintain its genomic heterogeneity and biogeography.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Agl24 is an ancient archaeal homolog of the eukaryotic N-glycan chitobiose synthesis enzymes

    Benjamin H Meyer, Panagiotis S Adam ... Helge C Dorfmueller
    The crenarchaeon Sulfolobus synthesizes the N-glycan core in the identical way as all Eukaryotes, which strengthens the hypothesis that the eukaryotic N-glycosylation is acquired from an ancient archaeon during eukaryogenesis.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Sequestration of host metabolism by an intracellular pathogen

    Lena Gehre, Olivier Gorgette ... Agathe Subtil
    The bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis, a human pathogen, hijacks its host’s energy supplies by using the parasitophorous vacuole as a glycogen synthesis and storage compartment.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cryo-EM structure of the CBC-ALYREF complex

    Bradley P Clarke, Alexia E Angelos ... Yi Ren
    Structural studies reveal the mechanism by which the mRNA nuclear export machinery engages with nascent transcripts through interaction with the cap binding complex.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Approaching boiling point stability of an alcohol dehydrogenase through computationally-guided enzyme engineering

    Friso S Aalbers, Maximilian JLJ Fürst ... Marco W Fraaije
    By combining structure-based computational predictions and a thorough structural analysis, a highly thermostable enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, has been engineered.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Phosphoregulation of DSB-1 mediates control of meiotic double-strand break activity

    Heyun Guo, Ericca L Stamper ... Peter M Carlton
    Opposing activities of ATR kinase and PP4 phosphatase balance phosphorylation of the protein DSB-1 to produce sufficient but not excessive amount of DNA double-strand breaks during meiotic prophase in Caenorhabditis elegans.