In vitro grown human muscle fibers display remarkable self-organisation capacities at the tissue, cellular, and molecular levels that are coordinated by mechanical tension.
Live-cell single-molecule tracking reveals that hierarchical cooperation within the Polycomb Cbx7 protein between the low-affinity H3K27me3-binding module and the high-affinity DNA-binding cassette targets Polycomb repressive complex 1 to chromatin.
Leslie Duplaquet, Catherine Leroy ... David Tulasne
MET acts as a dependence receptor in vivo by promoting hepatocyte apoptosis, a response induced by a caspase generated fragment able to favor calcium exchange between endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria.
VGF was identified as a factor secreted from thalamocortical axons essential for the cytoarchitectonic features of neocortical layer 4 in the sensory areas in mice.
Maximilian AH Jakobs, Assaf Zemel, Kristian Franze
Biased growth of microtubules in the advancing axon tip contributes to the uniform orientation of microtubules in mature axons, which is essential for proper neuronal functioning.
Erika Tsingos, Burkhard Höckendorf ... Joachim Wittbrodt
3D niche topology imposes a spatially biased random stem cell loss, which is differentially fine-tuned in neural retina and retinal pigmented epithelium to regulate growth, shape, and cellular topology.
Ann Lin, Christopher J Giuliano ... Jason M Sheltzer
A putative therapeutic target undergoing clinical trials in breast cancer is non-essential and the drug used in those trials blocks cell division through an off-target effect.
Emanuela Abiusi, Paola Infante ... Francesco Danilo Tiziano
The identification of SMA-miR supports the pathogenic role of skeletal muscle in spinal muscular atrophy and, integrated in the SMA-score, may help to improve the phenotypic prediction for patients.