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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Non-canonical Wnt signaling regulates junctional mechanocoupling during angiogenic collective cell migration

    Joana R Carvalho, Isabela C Fortunato ... Claudio A Franco
    Analysis of axial polarity distributions shows that Wnt5a regulates collective cell migration in vivo by stabilizing vinculin at adherens junctions and fine-tuning mechanocoupling between neighbouring cells.
    1. Cell Biology

    A two-step mechanism for the inactivation of microtubule organizing center function at the centrosome

    Jérémy Magescas, Jenny C Zonka, Jessica L Feldman
    The microtubule organizing potential of the centrosome is inactivated in a stepwise process through phosphatase activity and mechanical disruption to remove an aging matrix of proteins.
    1. Cell Biology

    Impaired skeletal muscle mitochondrial pyruvate uptake rewires glucose metabolism to drive whole-body leanness

    Arpit Sharma, Lalita Oonthonpan ... Eric B Taylor
    Skeletal muscle mitochondrial pyruvate carrier disruption increases muscle fatty acid oxidation and systemic glucose turnover that drive whole-body leanness.
    1. Cell Biology

    Type-I myosins promote actin polymerization to drive membrane bending in endocytosis

    Hetty E Manenschijn, Andrea Picco ... Marko Kaksonen
    Monomeric myosins can stimulate growth of actin filaments under load.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Identification of TMEM206 proteins as pore of PAORAC/ASOR acid-sensitive chloride channels

    Florian Ullrich, Sandy Blin ... Thomas J Jentsch
    TMEM206 proteins are identified as constituting the pore of the widely expressed acid-activated chloride channel PAORAC/ASOR, which is important in acid toxicity.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Electrostatic lateral interactions drive ESCRT-III heteropolymer assembly

    Sudeep Banjade, Shaogeng Tang ... Scott D Emr
    ESCRT-III heteropolymers utilize non-specific lateral electrostatic interactions to recognize one another, which may enable the polymers to slide along one another and adapt to different curvatures.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Metabolic constraints drive self-organization of specialized cell groups

    Sriram Varahan, Adhish Walvekar ... Sunil Laxman
    In a developing yeast colony, cells go from homogeneous states to spatially organized, specialized metabolic states, and the new metabolic states depend on resources produced by the original state.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Electroporated recombinant proteins as tools for in vivo functional complementation, imaging and chemical biology

    Amal Alex, Valentina Piano ... Stefano Maffini
    An electroporation-based method allows the direct delivery of recombinant proteins into mammalian cells for in vivo functional studies.
    1. Cell Biology

    In vivo identification of GTPase interactors by mitochondrial relocalization and proximity biotinylation

    Alison K Gillingham, Jessie Bertram ... Sean Munro
    Relocation of Rab, Ras and Rho family GTPases to the surface of mitochondria enables efficient identification of their effectors, exchange factors and GAPs by proximity biotinylation.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Translational regulation of protrusion-localized RNAs involves silencing and clustering after transport

    Konstadinos Moissoglu, Kyota Yasuda ... Stavroula Mili
    RNAs enriched at cell protrusions are translated regardless of their location in the cytoplasm but are dynamically repressed in retracting protrusions and incorporated into heterogeneous RNA clusters.