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The crosstalk between autophagy and the phagocytosis of apoptotic cells, two cellular clearance pathways, promotes the fusion of the double-membrane autophagosomes to the phagosomes and plays an important role in the degradation of engulfed apoptotic cells.

An acetyl-CoA-mediated metabolic and epigenetic network has been elucidated that stimulates histone acetylation and anti-oxidative stress gene expression for heart repair after myocardial infarction.

Tools and methodologies to create and diversify recombinant antibodies and antibody fragments provide researchers with the ability to generate low-cost, high-yield immunological reagents.

Cryo-electron tomography of close-to-native rod outer segments resolves connectors between disks and a scaffold at the disk rim enforcing the high membrane curvature of the unique long-range organization in these rhodopsin-rich light-sensitive subcellular organelles.

Binding of the translation initiation factor eIF3 to the messenger RNAs encoding the T cell receptor subunits alpha and beta is required to drive a short burst in their translation and promote a strong T cell response.

MIR20B has a deteriorating effect in NAFLD by suppressing PPARA, and may serve as a therapeutic target for combination therapy with fenofibrate for NAFLD.

Electron tomography and biochemical approaches demonstrate a direct role for WDR35, beyond integrity of the IFT-A holocomplex, in the formation and fusion of electron-dense-coated vesicles to the ciliary sheath and pocket for delivery of cargos necessary for axoneme elongation.

Bi-allelic tagging enables the biophysical analysis of oncogenic β-catenin genetic variants in Wnt signaling.

Super-resolution imaging uncovers sparse occludin vs. clustered ZO1/claudin-5 architecture, and claudin-5 arrangement compacting during blood-brain-barrier tight-junction (TJ) maturation in which TJs become first restrictive to large and later to small molecules.

Novel Cas9 fusion with DNA polymerase delta subunit 3 (POLD3), identified via high-throughput screening of more than 450 DNA repair proteins, enhances editing by speeding up the initiation of DNA repair.