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    A Gs-coupled purinergic receptor boosts Ca2+ influx and vascular contractility during diabetic hyperglycemia

    Maria Paz Prada, Arsalan U Syed ... Manuel F Navedo
    A multi-pronged approach shows that a Gs-coupled purinergic receptor is a sensor for glucose-mediated, PKA-dependent potentiation of vascular L-type calcium channels and vasoconstriction.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    EFHC1, implicated in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, functions at the cilium and synapse to modulate dopamine signaling

    Catrina M Loucks, Kwangjin Park ... Michel R Leroux
    C. elegans EFHC1 influences neuronal transmission through the cilium and the synapse.
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Basalin is an evolutionarily unconstrained protein revealed via a conserved role in flagellum basal plate function

    Samuel Dean, Flavia Moreira-Leite, Keith Gull
    Basalins are intrinsically disordered proteins with astonishingly high-sequence divergence that are essential for building the transition zone basal plate and for proper central pair nucleation.
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    2. Neuroscience

    Transsynaptic interactions between IgSF proteins DIP-α and Dpr10 are required for motor neuron targeting specificity

    James Ashley, Violet Sorrentino ... Robert A Carrillo
    Synaptic partner recognition in the Drosophila neuromuscular circuit requires interactions between the Dpr and DIP subfamilies of immunoglobulin cell-surface proteins.
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    Kinesin-6 regulates cell-size-dependent spindle elongation velocity to keep mitosis duration constant in fission yeast

    Lara Katharina Krüger, Jérémie-Luc Sanchez ... Phong Thanh Tran
    The scaling of spindle elongation velocity with cell size is regulated by the amounts of Kinesin-6 molecules and the number of binding sites for the motor to the mitotic spindle.
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    Human VPS13A is associated with multiple organelles and influences mitochondrial morphology and lipid droplet motility

    Wondwossen M Yeshaw, Marianne van der Zwaag ... Ody CM Sibon
    VPS13A is associated with the endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria and lipid droplets and is required for cellular processes that require interaction between these organells.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    JNK-dependent cell cycle stalling in G2 promotes survival and senescence-like phenotypes in tissue stress

    Andrea Cosolo, Janhvi Jaiswal ... Anne-Kathrin Classen
    Tissue damage induces a reversible cell cycle arrest in G2, which promotes survival and mitogenic signals to facilitate tissue regeneration but drives senescence-like phenotypes under chronic stress conditions.
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    Reactivation of a developmental Bmp2 signaling center is required for therapeutic control of the murine periosteal niche

    Valerie S Salazar, Luciane P Capelo ... Vicki Rosen
    A periosteal Bmp2 signaling center couples bone length to bone width during development and must be reactivated by clinical bone anabolic therapies to reduce fracture risk and accelerate fracture repair.
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    Electron cryo-tomography provides insight into procentriole architecture and assembly mechanism

    Sam Li, Jose-Jesus Fernandez ... David A Agard
    A detailed description of the structure of procentriole MT triplet by cryoET, along with its associated non-tubulin proteins and its assembly intermediates, reveals possible molecular mechanism for the procentriole assembly.
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    2. Developmental Biology

    zGrad is a nanobody-based degron system that inactivates proteins in zebrafish

    Naoya Yamaguchi, Tugba Colak-Champollion, Holger Knaut
    The F-box/anti-GFP nanobody fusion protein zGrad depletes GFP-tagged proteins with spatial and temporal control in zebrafish.