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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Fluid mechanics of luminal transport in actively contracting endoplasmic reticulum

    Pyae Hein Htet, Edward Avezov, Eric Lauga
    The viscous hydraulics of contracting endoplasmic reticulum networks challenge common solute transport theories, suggesting the contraction of peripheral sheets as a plausible driving mechanism.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    An engineered transcriptional reporter of protein localization identifies regulators of mitochondrial and ER membrane protein trafficking in high-throughput CRISPRi screens

    Robert Coukos, David Yao ... Alice Y Ting
    HiLITR is a molecular reporter of protein localization that enables straightforward, large-scale, fluorescence-activated cell sorting-based discovery of genes that regulate complex cellular processes, such as mitochondrial and ER tail-anchored protein trafficking.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Isoleucine gate blocks K+ conduction in C-type inactivation

    Werner Treptow, Yichen Liu ... Benoit Roux
    The conformation of an isoleucine gate located along the TM6 segment on the intracellular side below the selectivity filter is a critical component leading to a non-conductive state in the C-type inactivation process of K+ channels.
    1. Neuroscience

    Distinct roles for innexin gap junctions and hemichannels in mechanosensation

    Denise S Walker, William R Schafer
    The innexin protein UNC-7, a homologue of vertebrate pannexins, plays a specific, gap junction-independent role in C. elegans mechanosensation.
    1. Cell Biology

    Generation of contractile actomyosin bundles depends on mechanosensitive actin filament assembly and disassembly

    Sari Tojkander, Gergana Gateva ... Pekka Lappalainen
    Mechanosensitive inhibition of actin polymerization through VASP phosphorylation is required for stress fiber maturation and alignment.
    1. Neuroscience

    Drosulfakinin signaling encodes early-life memory for adaptive social plasticity

    Jiwon Jeong, Kujin Kwon ... Chunghun Lim
    Social clustering behaviors in Drosophila are closely tied to compensatory mechanisms for developmental traits and adaptive behavior plasticity, requiring early-life social experiences and the memory-encoding neuropeptide signaling pathway.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Ancient mechanisms for the evolution of the bicoid homeodomain's function in fly development

    Qinwen Liu, Pinar Onal ... Joseph W Thornton
    Transgenic animals carrying reconstructed ancestral alleles reveal how two ancient mutations allowed a regulatory protein to evolve a controlling role in embryonic development in flies.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Protein-based condensation mechanisms drive the assembly of RNA-rich P granules

    Helen Schmidt, Andrea Putnam ... Geraldine Seydoux
    P granule assembly depends in part on protein-protein interactions that drive condensation independent of RNA.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    CryoEM structures of membrane pore and prepore complex reveal cytolytic mechanism of Pneumolysin

    Katharina van Pee, Alexander Neuhaus ... Özkan Yildiz
    The near-atomic cryoEM pore complex structure of pneumolysin, the main virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae, shows how the individual domains rearrange during the pore formation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Agonist-mediated switching of ion selectivity in TPC2 differentially promotes lysosomal function

    Susanne Gerndt, Cheng-Chang Chen ... Christian Grimm
    The lysosomal ion channel TPC2 emerges as an example of an ion channel in which ion selectivity is not fixed but rather agonist-selective.