Cell Biology

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1. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

   Recruitment of Polo-like kinase couples synapsis to meiotic progression via inactivation of CHK-2

   Liangyu Zhang, Weston T Stauffer ... Abby F Dernburg
2. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Novel analytical tools reveal that local synchronization of cilia coincides with tissue-scale metachronal waves in zebrafish multiciliated epithelia

   Christa Ringers, Stephan Bialonski ... Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi
3. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Desmosomal connectomics of all somatic muscles in an annelid larva

   Sanja Jasek, Csaba Verasztó ... Gáspár Jékely

   Volume-EM reconstruction of a whole-body desmosomal connectome including all muscles and their desmosomal partners in a Platynereis larva provides a detailed view of the organisation of the entire locomotor system in an animal.
4. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Unconventional secretion of α-synuclein mediated by palmitoylated DNAJC5 oligomers

   Shenjie Wu, Nancy C Hernandez Villegas ... Randy Schekman

   A pathway of unconventional secretion for alpha-synuclein, a protein which may spread in the brain as part of the pathology of Parkinson’s disease.
5. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

   LSD1 defines the fiber type-selective responsiveness to environmental stress in skeletal muscle

   Hirotaka Araki, Shinjiro Hino ... Mitsuyoshi Nakao

   Lysine-specific demethylase-1 acts as an epigenetic barrier against glucocorticoid-induced atrophy and exercise-induced hypertrophy in skeletal muscle.
6. 1. Cell Biology

   A concerted mechanism involving ACAT and SREBPs by which oxysterols deplete accessible cholesterol to restrict microbial infection

   David B Heisler, Kristen A Johnson ... Arun Radhakrishnan
7. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Structures of human dynein in complex with the lissencephaly 1 protein, LIS1

   Janice M Reimer, Morgan E DeSantis ... Andres E Leschziner
8. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Cell Biology

   The conserved centrosomin motif, γTuNA, forms a dimer that directly activates microtubule nucleation by the γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC)

   Michael J Rale, Brianna Romer ... Sabine Petry

   An evolutionarily conserved protein sequence present in diverse species like yeast, frogs, chickens, and humans binds a well-known template for microtubule nucleation, the gamma-tubulin ring complex, activating and enhancing its ability to nucleate microtubules, even under low tubulin concentrations.
9. 1. Cell Biology

   A CRISPR-screen in intestinal epithelial cells identifies novel factors for polarity and apical transport

   Katharina MC Klee, Michael W Hess ... Lukas A Huber
10. 1. Cell Biology

    Tissue libraries enable rapid determination of conditions that preserve antibody labeling in cleared mouse and human tissue

    Theodore J Zwang, Rachel E Bennett ... Bradley T Hyman