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abstract：:To understand the neural origins of rhythmic behavior one must characterize the central pattern generator circuit and quantify the population size needed to sustain functionality. Breathing-related interneurons of the brainstem pre-Bötzinger complex (preBötC) that putatively comprise the core respiratory rhythm genera...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wang X,Hayes JA,Revill AL,Song H,Kottick A,Vann NC,LaMar MD,Picardo MC,Akins VT,Funk GD,Del Negro CA

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin exerts a heritable form of eukaryotic gene repression and contributes to chromosome segregation fidelity and genome stability. However, to date there has been no quantitative evaluation of the stability of heterochromatic gene repression. We designed a genetic strategy to capture transient losses of ge...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dodson AE,Rine J

更新日期：2015-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral replicase recruitment and long-range RNA interactions are essential for RNA virus replication, yet the mechanism of their interplay remains elusive. Flaviviruses include numerous important human pathogens, e.g., dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV). Here, we revealed a highly conserved, conformation-tunable...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Liu ZY,Li XF,Jiang T,Deng YQ,Ye Q,Zhao H,Yu JY,Qin CF

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal conduction velocity can change substantially during ongoing activity, thus modifying spike interval structures and, potentially, temporal coding. We used a biophysical model to unmask mechanisms underlying the history-dependence of conduction. The model replicates activity in the unmyelinated axon of the crusta...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhang Y,Bucher D,Nadim F

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms are biological oscillations that schedule daily changes in physiology. Outside the laboratory, circadian clocks do not generally free-run but are driven by daily cues whose timing varies with the seasons. The principles that determine how circadian clocks align to these external cycles are not well u...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Leypunskiy E,Lin J,Yoo H,Lee U,Dinner AR,Rust MJ

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between disease-microbiome associations and ageing has not been explored in detail. Here, using age/region-matched sub-sets, we analysed the gut microbiome differences across five major diseases in a multi-cohort dataset constituting more than 2500 individuals from 20 to 89 years old. We show that disease-...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ghosh TS,Das M,Jeffery IB,O'Toole PW

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The integration of cellular and molecular structural data is key to understanding the function of macromolecular assemblies and complexes in their in vivo context. Here we report on the outcomes of a workshop that discussed how to integrate structural data from a range of public archives. The workshop identified two m...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Patwardhan A,Brandt R,Butcher SJ,Collinson L,Gault D,Grünewald K,Hecksel C,Huiskonen JT,Iudin A,Jones ML,Korir PK,Koster AJ,Lagerstedt I,Lawson CL,Mastronarde D,McCormick M,Parkinson H,Rosenthal PB,Saalfeld S,Saibil

更新日期：2017-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many pathogens possess the capacity for sex through outcrossing, despite being able to reproduce also asexually and/or via selfing. Given that sex is assumed to come at a cost, these mixed reproductive strategies typical of pathogens have remained puzzling. While the ecological and evolutionary benefits of outcrossing...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Laine AL,Barrès B,Numminen E,Siren JP

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The CRISPR-Cas9 bacterial surveillance system has become a versatile tool for genome editing and gene regulation in eukaryotic cells, yet how CRISPR-Cas9 contends with the barriers presented by eukaryotic chromatin is poorly understood. Here we investigate how the smallest unit of chromatin, a nucleosome, constrains t...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Isaac RS,Jiang F,Doudna JA,Lim WA,Narlikar GJ,Almeida R

更新日期：2016-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual recognition (IR) is essential for maintaining various social interactions in a group, and face recognition is one of the most specialised cognitive abilities in IR. We used both a mating preference system and an electric shock conditioning experiment to test IR ability in medaka, and found that signals near...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wang MY,Takeuchi H

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy has been linked to longevity in many species, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Using a GFP-tagged and a new tandem-tagged Atg8/LGG-1 reporter, we quantified autophagic vesicles and performed autophagic flux assays in multiple tissues of wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans and long-lived daf-2/insulin/...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chang JT,Kumsta C,Hellman AB,Adams LM,Hansen M

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, tissue repair, and tumor growth, most blood vessel networks are generated through angiogenesis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a key regulator of this process and currently both VEGF and its receptors, VEGFR1, VEGFR2, and Neuropilin1 (NRP1), are targeted in therapeutic strategies for ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gelfand MV,Hagan N,Tata A,Oh WJ,Lacoste B,Kang KT,Kopycinska J,Bischoff J,Wang JH,Gu C

更新日期：2014-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain metabolism can profoundly influence neuronal excitability. Mice with genetic deletion or alteration of Bad (BCL-2 agonist of cell death) exhibit altered brain-cell fuel metabolism, accompanied by resistance to acutely induced epileptic seizures; this seizure protection is mediated by ATP-sensitive potassium (KAT...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Martínez-François JR,Fernández-Agüera MC,Nathwani N,Lahmann C,Burnham VL,Danial NN,Yellen G

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic events recruit neuronal activity in the basal ganglia and cerebellum, but their roles remain elusive. In monkeys attempting to detect a single omission of isochronous visual stimulus, we found that neurons in the caudate nucleus showed increased activity for each stimulus in sequence, while those in the cereb...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kameda M,Ohmae S,Tanaka M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis can measure the activity of the enzymes that remodel the cell wall to ensure that the levels of activity are 'just right'. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kim IM,Szurmant H

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins play essential roles in the development and function of auditory organs and multiple myosin genes are associated with hereditary forms of deafness. Using a forward genetic screen in Drosophila, we identified an E3 ligase, Ubr3, as an essential gene for auditory organ development. Ubr3 negatively regulates the ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Li T,Giagtzoglou N,Eberl DF,Jaiswal SN,Cai T,Godt D,Groves AK,Bellen HJ

更新日期：2016-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of nonlinear stimulus transformations by neural circuits is hindered by the lack of comprehensive yet interpretable computational modeling frameworks. Here, we propose a data-driven approach based on deep neural networks to directly model arbitrarily nonlinear stimulus-response mappings. Reformulatin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Keshishian M,Akbari H,Khalighinejad B,Herrero JL,Mehta AD,Mesgarani N

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between membrane protein interfaces in lipid bilayers play an important role in membrane protein folding but quantification of the strength of these interactions has been challenging. Studying dimerization of ClC-type transporters offers a new approach to the problem, as individual subunits adopt a stable...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chadda R,Krishnamani V,Mersch K,Wong J,Brimberry M,Chadda A,Kolmakova-Partensky L,Friedman LJ,Gelles J,Robertson JL

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Synonymous codon usage (SCU) varies widely among human genes. In particular, genes involved in different functional categories display a distinct codon usage, which was interpreted as evidence that SCU is adaptively constrained to optimize translation efficiency in distinct cellular states. We demonstrate here that SC...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pouyet F,Mouchiroud D,Duret L,Sémon M

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the crystal structure of nuclear import receptor Importin-9 bound to its cargo, the histones H2A-H2B. Importin-9 wraps around the core, globular region of H2A-H2B to form an extensive interface. The nature of this interface coupled with quantitative analysis of deletion mutants of H2A-H2B suggests that the N...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Padavannil A,Sarkar P,Kim SJ,Cagatay T,Jiou J,Brautigam CA,Tomchick DR,Sali A,D'Arcy S,Chook YM

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats exhibit 'empathy' making them a model to understand the neural underpinnings of such behavior. We show data consistent with these findings, but also that behavior and dopamine (DA) release reflects subjective rather than objective evaluation of appetitive and aversive events that occur to another. We recorded DA ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lichtenberg NT,Lee B,Kashtelyan V,Chappa BS,Girma HT,Green EA,Kantor S,Lagowala DA,Myers MA,Potemri D,Pecukonis MG,Tesfay RT,Walters MS,Zhao AC,Blair RJR,Cheer JF,Roesch MR

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules control different aspects of cell polarization. In cells with a radial microtubule system, a pivotal role in setting up asymmetry is attributed to the relative positioning of the centrosome and the nucleus. Here, we show that centrosome loss had no effect on the ability of endothelial cells to polarize an...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Martin M,Veloso A,Wu J,Katrukha EA,Akhmanova A

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience-dependent modifications of synaptic connections are thought to change patterns of network activities and stimulus tuning with learning. However, only a few studies explored how synaptic plasticity shapes the response dynamics of cortical circuits. Here, we investigated the mechanism underlying sharpening of...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lim S

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:CpG islands are gene regulatory elements associated with the majority of mammalian promoters, yet how they regulate gene expression remains poorly understood. Here, we identify FBXL19 as a CpG island-binding protein in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells and show that it associates with the CDK-Mediator complex. We discov...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dimitrova E,Kondo T,Feldmann A,Nakayama M,Koseki Y,Konietzny R,Kessler BM,Koseki H,Klose RJ

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmentation of the axial skeleton in amniotes depends on the segmentation clock, which patterns the paraxial mesoderm and the sclerotome. While the segmentation clock clearly operates in teleosts, the role of the sclerotome in establishing the axial skeleton is unclear. We severely disrupt zebrafish paraxial segmenta...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lleras Forero L,Narayanan R,Huitema LF,VanBergen M,Apschner A,Peterson-Maduro J,Logister I,Valentin G,Morelli LG,Oates AC,Schulte-Merker S

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat exchange mechanism in the head of kissing bugs helps to prevent stress and regulate their temperature while they feed on warm blood. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Benoit JB,Denlinger DL

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The speed at which a cell fate decision in nematode worms evolves is due to the number of genes that control the decision, rather than to a high mutation rate. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yang B,Rifkin SA

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The actomyosin ring generates force to ingress the cytokinetic cleavage furrow in animal cells, yet its filament organization and the mechanism of contractility is not well understood. We quantified actin filament order in human cells using fluorescence polarization microscopy and found that cleavage furrow ingression...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Spira F,Cuylen-Haering S,Mehta S,Samwer M,Reversat A,Verma A,Oldenbourg R,Sixt M,Gerlich DW

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channel models are the building blocks of computational neuron models. Their biological fidelity is therefore crucial for the interpretation of simulations. However, the number of published models, and the lack of standardization, make the comparison of ion channel models with one another and with experimental dat...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Podlaski WF,Seeholzer A,Groschner LN,Miesenböck G,Ranjan R,Vogels TP

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans possesses a simple embryonic nervous system with few enough neurons that the growth of each cell could be followed to provide a systems-level view of development. However, studies of single cell development have largely been conducted in fixed or pre-twitching live embryos, because ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Christensen RP,Bokinsky A,Santella A,Wu Y,Marquina-Solis J,Guo M,Kovacevic I,Kumar A,Winter PW,Tashakkori N,McCreedy E,Liu H,McAuliffe M,Mohler W,Colón-Ramos DA,Bao Z,Shroff H

更新日期：2015-12-03 00:00:00