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    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Mitochondrial fusion supports increased oxidative phosphorylation during cell proliferation

    Cong-Hui Yao, Rencheng Wang ... Gary J Patti
    In addition to increasing glycolysis, some proliferating cells exhibiting the Warburg effect also increase oxidative phosphorylation through mitochondrial fusion.
    1. Cell Biology

    Autophagy: COPII vesicles and the expansion of the phagophore

    Catherine Rabouille
    A new study has identified the proteins that adapt COPII vesicles to the needs of starving cells.
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    A liquid-like organelle at the root of motile ciliopathy

    Ryan L Huizar, Chanjae Lee ... John B Wallingford
    DynAPs reveal that biological phase separation provides the organizing principle for the complex process of dynein motor assembly in cells with motile cilia.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    FGF21 trafficking in intact human cells revealed by cryo-electron tomography with gold nanoparticles

    Maia Azubel, Stephen D Carter ... Roger D Kornberg
    Specific attachment of molecularly defined gold nanoparticles enables precise localization, critical for structural studies in vivo, of proteins of unknown structure within the cellular milieu by cryo-electron tomography.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Cumulative mitochondrial activity correlates with ototoxin susceptibility in zebrafish mechanosensory hair cells

    Sarah B Pickett, Eric D Thomas ... David W Raible
    The history of mitochondrial activity predicts whether zebrafish mechanosensory hair cells live or die after toxic drug exposure.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Mechanical force regulates tendon extracellular matrix organization and tenocyte morphogenesis through TGFbeta signaling

    Arul Subramanian, Lauren Fallon Kanzaki ... Thomas Friedrich Schilling
    Perturbation of mechanical force at muscle attachments and its effects on tendon morphogenesis provides insights into the mechanisms underlying cellular responses to tensional force and resulting extracellular matrix production.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Mechanotransduction: How muscle contraction strengthens tendons

    Nicole O Glenn, Clarissa A Henry
    The force generated by muscles leads to signaling that helps to shape nearby tendon precursor cells.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Chronology of motor-mediated microtubule streaming

    Arvind Ravichandran, Özer Duman ... Gerhard Gompper
    Microtubule streaming driven by molecular motors covers characteristic times that span several orders of magnitude from fast, single-microtubule sliding on molecular scales to slow, collective motion on cellular scales.
    1. Cell Biology

    The unfolded protein response and endoplasmic reticulum protein targeting machineries converge on the stress sensor IRE1

    Diego Acosta-Alvear, G Elif Karagöz ... Peter Walter
    The coordination of protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum and the unfolded protein response through the stress sensor IRE1 ensures quality control of the secreted and transmembrane proteomes.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Munc18-1 catalyzes neuronal SNARE assembly by templating SNARE association

    Junyi Jiao, Mengze He ... Yongli Zhang
    Sec1/Munc18-family proteins chaperone SNARE assembly via a common templating mechanism.