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    Structural assembly of the bacterial essential interactome

    Jordi Gómez Borrego, Marc Torrent Burgas
    A new study reveals structural details of the bacterial essential interactome, opening new avenues for antibiotic discovery.
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    A computational model predicts sex-specific responses to calcium channel blockers in mammalian mesenteric vascular smooth muscle

    Gonzalo Hernandez-Hernandez, Samantha C O'Dwyer ... Colleen E Clancy
    A computer model predicts different mechanisms of blood pressure regulation and effective hypertensive therapy for males and females, thereby serving as a foundational tool for improved treatment precision.
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    The genetic and dietary landscape of the muscle insulin signalling network

    Julian van Gerwen, Stewart WC Masson ... David E James
    Genetic background and dietary environment interact to reshape metabolic signalling networks, and the resulting signalling diversity can illuminate regulatory mechanisms of complex traits.
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    A kinase to cytokine explorer to identify molecular regulators and potential therapeutic opportunities

    Marina Chan, Yuqi Kang ... Taranjit S Gujral
    KinCytE is a web-based platform that explores kinase-cytokine-driven signaling and its relevance to understanding and treating diseases linked to disruptions in these pathways.
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    Affected cell types for hundreds of Mendelian diseases revealed by analysis of human and mouse single-cell data

    Idan Hekselman, Assaf Vital ... Esti Yeger-Lotem
    The PrEDiCT scheme infers disease-affected cell types from the expression of disease-associated genes in single-cell expression atlases, thereby providing cellular context and enhancing mechanistic understanding for 328 Mendelian diseases.
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    Detection of new pioneer transcription factors as cell-type-specific nucleosome binders

    Yunhui Peng, Wei Song ... Anna R Panchenko
    A computational method has been developed for predicting the cell-type-specific binding of transcription factors to nucleosomes, and involves integration of ChIP-seq, MNase-seq, and DNase-seq data with details of nucleosome structure.
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Light-inducible protein degradation in E. coli with the LOVdeg tag

    Nathan Tague, Cristian Coriano-Ortiz ... Mary J Dunlop
    The LOVdeg tag is a versatile tool for bacterial optogenetics, offering modular, blue light-inducible protein degradation for a range of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering applications.
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    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Comparative interactome analysis of α-arrestin families in human and Drosophila

    Kyung-Tae Lee, Inez KA Pranoto ... Jin-Wu Nam
    Unveiling the high-confidence protein–protein interaction networks of human and fly α-arrestins provides insights into conserved and species-specific functional roles depending on their protein domains and motifs.
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    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Insulin Release: Synchronizing beta cells in the pancreas

    Bradford E Peercy, David J Hodson
    The secretion of insulin from the pancreas relies on both gap junctions and subpopulations of beta cells with specific intrinsic properties.
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    β-cell intrinsic dynamics rather than gap junction structure dictates subpopulations in the islet functional network

    Jennifer K Briggs, Anne Gresch ... Richard KP Benninger
    The functional network of β-cells in the pancreatic islet, which has been used to identify important subpopulations of β-cells implicated in diabetes progression, is indicative of intrinsic dynamics rather than structural communication, implying islet robustness.