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    1. Cell Biology

    GAS5 protects against osteoporosis by targeting UPF1/SMAD7 axis in osteoblast differentiation

    Ming Li, Zhongyu Xie ... Huiyong Shen
    GAS5 is related to osteoporosis by regulating the differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells that acts as a promising treatment target for osteoporosis.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Mapping endothelial-cell diversity in cerebral cavernous malformations at single-cell resolution

    Fabrizio Orsenigo, Lei Liu Conze ... Elisabetta Dejana
    Single-cell RNA analysis of brain endothelium identifies the angiogenic venous capillary subset and respective resident endothelial progenitors at the origin of CCM lesions, while arterial endothelial cells are unaffected.
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    Atg43 tethers isolation membranes to mitochondria to promote starvation-induced mitophagy in fission yeast

    Tomoyuki Fukuda, Yuki Ebi ... Tomotake Kanki
    Atg43 serves as a selective autophagy receptor by tethering isolation membranes to mitochondria to promote mitophagy and plays a mitophagy-independent role that facilitates normal cell growth in fission yeast.
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    A conserved LDL-receptor motif regulates corin and CD320 membrane targeting in polarized renal epithelial cells

    Ce Zhang, Yue Chen ... Qingyu Wu
    A conserved motif in corin and CD320 LDL receptor modules regulates specific apical trafficking in polarized renal epithelial cells.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The wtf4 meiotic driver utilizes controlled protein aggregation to generate selective cell death

    Nicole L Nuckolls, Anthony C Mok ... Sarah E Zanders
    The Wtf4 antidote protein assembles with the Wtf4 poison protein and promotes the transportation of the assembled proteins to the vacuole for sequestration or destruction.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular mechanism for direct actin force-sensing by α-catenin

    Lin Mei, Santiago Espinosa de los Reyes ... Gregory M Alushin
    Biophysical and structural studies reveal how low piconewton forces across actin enhance binding by the critical cell-cell adhesion protein α-catenin versus its force insensitive homolog vinculin.
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    2. Plant Biology

    Parallel global profiling of plant TOR dynamics reveals a conserved role for LARP1 in translation

    M Regina Scarpin, Samuel Leiboff, Jacob O Brunkard
    Plants and humans use a shared mechanism, the eukaryotic metabolic sensor TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN protein kinase and its substrate, an RNA-binding protein called LARP1, to coordinate post-transcriptional gene expression.
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    2. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Feedback control of Wnt signaling based on ultrastable histidine cluster co-aggregation between Naked/NKD and Axin

    Melissa V Gammons, Miha Renko ... Mariann Bienz
    An unusual molecular mechanism has been revealed based on ultrastable histidine cluster co-aggregation underlying feedback control of an ancient cell communication pathway.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Light-regulated allosteric switch enables temporal and subcellular control of enzyme activity

    Mark Shaaya, Jordan Fauser ... Andrei V Karginov
    Light-sensitive allosteric switch module, a broadly applicable protein engineering method, is used for the regulation of protein activity with tight temporal control and spatial precision.
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Artemisinin exposure at the ring or trophozoite stage impacts Plasmodium falciparum sexual conversion differently

    Harvie P Portugaliza, Shinya Miyazaki ... Alfred Cortés
    Treatment of malaria parasites with the frontline antimalarial drug artemisinin can increase the proportion of parasites that convert into transmission forms.