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    1. Neuroscience

    Relative timescale of channel voltage dependence and channel density regulation impacts assembly and recovery of activity

    Yugarshi Mondal, Ronald L Calabrese, Eve Marder
    Ion channel voltage-dependence alterations can shape intrinsic homeostatic plasticity, even if operating faster than other intrinsic regulatory processes—where timescale separation would suggest its influence should be negligible.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Characterization of binding kinetics and intracellular signaling of new psychoactive substances targeting cannabinoid receptor using transition-based reweighting method

    Soumajit Dutta, Diwakar Shukla
    New psychoactive substances activate cannabinoid receptors using distinct ligand-receptor interactions.
    1. Cell Biology

    Distinct functions of cardiac β-adrenergic receptors in the T-tubule vs. outer surface membrane

    George WP Madders, Marion Barthé ... Rodolphe Fischmeister
    A size exclusion strategy using PEGylation of isoprenaline allowed to demonstrate that cardiac β-adrenergic receptors located in the outer surface membrane control mainly cAMP/PKA in the cytosol while those located in the T-tubule membrane control cAMP/PKA in the nucleus.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Migrating mesoderm cells self-organize into a dynamic meshwork structure during chick gastrulation

    Yukiko Nakaya, Mitsusuke Tarama ... Tatsuo Shibata
    A novel form of collective mesenchymal cell migration is identified during chick gastrulation, where a dynamic 3D meshwork supported by N-cadherin-mediated adhesion coordinates movement and enhances directional migration in the unconfined space between ectoderm and endoderm.
    1. Cell Biology

    Septins function in exocytosis via physical interactions with the exocyst complex in fission yeast cytokinesis

    Davinder Singh, Yajun Liu ... Jian-Qiu Wu
    Protein–protein interactions and localization dependencies between septin cytoskeleton and the exocyst complex using the fission yeast model system reveal one of the most conserved functions of septins in exocytosis.
    1. Plant Biology

    Companion cells with high florigen production express other small proteins and reveal a nitrogen-sensitive FT repressor

    Hiroshi Takagi, Shogo Ito ... Takato Imaizumi
    A distinct subset of leaf companion cells expresses high levels of the florigen gene, and the same cells also produce other possible mobile floral regulators and small proteins.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Dissociation of the nuclear basket triggers chromosome loss in aging yeast

    Mihailo Mirkovic, Jordan McCarthy ... Yves Barral
    Aging results in remodeling of the nuclear pore complex and leakage of intron-containing pre-mRNA out of the nucleus, altering gene function and mitotic stability of old cells.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Non-equilibrium strategies enabling ligand specificity by signaling receptors

    Andrew Goetz, Jeremy Barrios ... Purushottam D Dixit
    Non-equilibrium thermodynamics allows signaling networks to signal downstream of certain ligands but avoid signaling from others.
    1. Neuroscience

    Axonal injury signaling is restrained by a spared synaptic branch

    Laura J Smithson, Juliana L Zang ... Catherine A Collins
    Transcriptional responses to axonal damage are required for circuit repair, but these responses are restrained in injuries that leave spared axonal branches.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Detecting, mapping, and suppressing the spread of a decade-long Pseudomonas aeruginosa nosocomial outbreak with genomics

    William Stribling, Lindsey R Hall ... Francois Lebreton
    Routine genomic surveillance uncovered a decades-long multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak sustained by patient reservoirs and hospital plumbing, enabling targeted infection control measures that ultimately curtailed transmission.