Watching single molecules in action.

abstract：:During outbreaks of high-consequence pathogens, airport screening programs have been deployed to curtail geographic spread of infection. The effectiveness of screening depends on several factors, including pathogen natural history and epidemiology, human behavior, and characteristics of the source epidemic. We develop...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gostic KM,Kucharski AJ,Lloyd-Smith JO

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells (PCs) are essential for protection from infection, and at the origin of incurable cancers. Current studies do not circumvent the limitations of removing PCs from their microenvironment and confound formation and maintenance. Also, the investigation of PC population dynamics has mostly relied on nucleotide...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Xu AQ,Barbosa RR,Calado DP

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue Virus (DENV), a flavivirus spread by mosquito vectors, can cause vascular leakage and hemorrhaging. However, the processes that underlie increased vascular permeability and pathological plasma leakage during viral hemorrhagic fevers are largely unknown. Mast cells (MCs) are activated in vivo during DENV infecti...

journal_title：eLife

authors： St John AL,Rathore AP,Raghavan B,Ng ML,Abraham SN

更新日期：2013-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Signals delivered by costimulatory molecules are implicated in driving T cell expansion. The requirements for these signals, however, vary from dispensable to essential in different infections. We examined the underlying mechanisms of this differential T cell costimulation dependence and found that the viral context d...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Welten SP,Redeker A,Franken KL,Oduro JD,Ossendorp F,Čičin-Šain L,Melief CJ,Aichele P,Arens R

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, we published a Registered Report (Blum et al., 2015), that described how we intended to replicate selected experiments from the paper 'Transcriptional amplification in tumor cells with elevated c-Myc' (Lin et al., 2012). Here we report the results. We found overe...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lewis LM,Edwards MC,Meyers ZR,Talbot CC Jr,Hao H,Blum D,Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology.

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A universal and unquestioned characteristic of eukaryotic cells is that the genome is divided into multiple chromosomes and encapsulated in a single nucleus. However, the underlying mechanism to ensure such a configuration is unknown. Here, we provide evidence that pericentromeric satellite DNA, which is often regarde...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jagannathan M,Cummings R,Yamashita YM

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:When a T cell and an antigen-presenting cell form an immunological synapse, rapid dynein-driven translocation of the centrosome toward the contact site leads to reorganization of microtubules and associated organelles. Currently, little is known about how the regulation of microtubule dynamics contributes to this proc...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hooikaas PJ,Damstra HG,Gros OJ,van Riel WE,Martin M,Smits YT,van Loosdregt J,Kapitein LC,Berger F,Akhmanova A

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:During early embryogenesis, cells must exit pluripotency and commit to multiple lineages in all germ-layers. How this transition is operated in vivo is poorly understood. Here, we report that MEK1 and the Nanog-related transcription factor Ventx2 coordinate this transition. MEK1 was required to make Xenopus pluripoten...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Scerbo P,Marchal L,Kodjabachian L

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenazines are natural bacterial antibiotics that can protect crops from disease. However, for most crops it is unknown which producers and specific phenazines are ecologically relevant, and whether phenazine biodegradation can counter their effects. To better understand their ecology, we developed and environmentally...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dar D,Thomashow LS,Weller DM,Newman DK

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We are writing to comment on the recent study by Olesen et al., 2018 on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pouwels KB,Butler CC,Robotham JV

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:When an individual makes a judgement about the actions of another individual, taking the latter's viewpoint into consideration enhances cooperation in society at large. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Masuda N,Santos FC

更新日期：2019-04-29 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：:Previously, we found that in the mammalian retina, inhibitory inputs onto starburst amacrine cells (SACs) are required for robust direction selectivity of On-Off direction-selective ganglion cells (On-Off DSGCs) against noisy backgrounds (Chen et al., 2016). However, the source of the inhibitory inputs to SACs and how...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chen Q,Smith RG,Huang X,Wei W

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive control proactively configures information processing to suit expected task demands. Predictions of forthcoming demand can be driven by explicit external cues or be generated internally, based on past experience (cognitive history). However, it is not known whether and how the brain reconciles these two sour...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jiang J,Wagner AD,Egner T

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic blood pressure is determined, in part, by arterial smooth muscle cells (myocytes). Several Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channels are proposed to be expressed in arterial myocytes, but it is unclear if these proteins control physiological blood pressure and contribute to hypertension in vivo. We generate...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bulley S,Fernández-Peña C,Hasan R,Leo MD,Muralidharan P,Mackay CE,Evanson KW,Moreira-Junior L,Mata-Daboin A,Burris SK,Wang Q,Kuruvilla KP,Jaggar JH

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Parvalbumin-expressing (PV+) GABAergic interneurons mediate feedforward and feedback inhibition and have a key role in gamma oscillations and information processing. The importance of fast synaptic recruitment and action potential initiation and repolarization, and rapid synchronous GABA release by PV+ cells, is well ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Cornford JH,Mercier MS,Leite M,Magloire V,Häusser M,Kullmann DM

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The controversy surrounding 'gain-of-function' experiments on high-consequence avian influenza viruses has highlighted the role of ferret transmission experiments in studying the transmission potential of novel influenza strains. However, the mapping between influenza transmission in ferrets and in humans is unsubstan...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Buhnerkempe MG,Gostic K,Park M,Ahsan P,Belser JA,Lloyd-Smith JO

更新日期：2015-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is crucial for signaling mediated by stress-induced high levels of glucocorticoids. The lateral nucleus of the amygdala (LA) is a key structure underlying auditory-cued fear conditioning. Here, we demonstrate that genetic disruption of GR in the LA (LAGRKO) resulted in an auditory-cued fea...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Inoue R,Abdou K,Hayashi-Tanaka A,Muramatsu SI,Mino K,Inokuchi K,Mori H

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model shows how the shape of early multicellular organisms may have helped cells evolve specialized roles. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Staps M,Tarnita C

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Context-dependent memories may guide adaptive behavior relaying in previous experience while updating stored information through reconsolidation. Retrieval can be triggered by partial and shared cues. When the cue is presented, the most relevant memory should be updated. In a contextual version of the object recogniti...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Morici JF,Miranda M,Gallo FT,Zanoni B,Bekinschtein P,Weisstaub NV

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue elongation and its control by spatiotemporal signals is a major developmental question. Currently, it is thought that Drosophila ovarian follicular epithelium elongation requires the planar polarization of the basal domain cytoskeleton and of the extra-cellular matrix, associated with a dynamic process of rotat...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Alégot H,Pouchin P,Bardot O,Mirouse V

更新日期：2018-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) encompass a variety of vesicles secreted into the extracellular space. EVs have been implicated in promoting tumor metastasis, but the molecular composition of tumor-derived EV sub-types and the mechanisms by which molecules are sorted into EVs remain mostly unknown. We report the separati...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Temoche-Diaz MM,Shurtleff MJ,Nottingham RM,Yao J,Fadadu RP,Lambowitz AM,Schekman R

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In all living organisms, ribosomes translating membrane proteins are targeted to membrane translocons early in translation, by the ubiquitous signal recognition particle (SRP) system. In eukaryotes, the SRP Alu domain arrests translation elongation of membrane proteins until targeting is complete. Curiously, however, ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fluman N,Navon S,Bibi E,Pilpel Y

更新日期：2014-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic kinetochores connect spindlemicrotubules to chromosomal centromeres. A group of proteins called the Ctf19 complex (Ctf19c) in yeast and the constitutive centromere associated network (CCAN) in other organisms creates the foundation of a kinetochore. The Ctf19c/CCAN influences the timing of kinetochore assem...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hinshaw SM,Harrison SC

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lung adenocarcinoma exhibits a propensity for de-differentiation, complicating diagnosis and treatment, and predicting poorer patient survival. In genetically engineered mouse models of lung cancer, expression of the BRAFV600E oncoprotein kinase initiates the growth of benign tumors retaining characteristics of ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： van Veen JE,Scherzer M,Boshuizen J,Chu M,Liu A,Landman A,Green S,Trejo C,McMahon M

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular architecture of the ventral tegmental area (VTA), the main hub of the brain reward system, remains only partially characterized. To extend the characterization to inhibitory neurons, we have identified three distinct subtypes of somatostatin (Sst)-expressing neurons in the mouse VTA. These neurons differ ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nagaeva E,Zubarev I,Bengtsson Gonzales C,Forss M,Nikouei K,de Miguel E,Elsilä L,Linden AM,Hjerling-Leffler J,Augustine GJ,Korpi ER

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of host-targeted drugs by the microbiome can substantially impact host treatment success. However, since many host-targeted drugs inadvertently hamper microbiome growth, repeated drug administration can lead to microbiome evolutionary adaptation. We tested if evolved bacterial resistance against host-target...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Rosener B,Sayin S,Oluoch PO,García González AP,Mori H,Walhout AJ,Mitchell A

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodontal disease is an age-associated disorder clinically defined by periodontal bone loss, inflammation of the specialized tissues that surround and support the tooth, and microbiome dysbiosis. Currently, there is no therapy for reversing periodontal disease, and treatment is generally restricted to preventive mea...

journal_title：eLife

authors： An JY,Kerns KA,Ouellette A,Robinson L,Morris HD,Kaczorowski C,Park SI,Mekvanich T,Kang A,McLean JS,Cox TC,Kaeberlein M

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic DNA is packaged into nucleosome arrays, which are repositioned by chromatin remodeling complexes to control DNA accessibility. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae RSC (Remodeling the Structure of Chromatin) complex, a member of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeler family, plays critical roles in genome maintenance, tra...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Patel AB,Moore CM,Greber BJ,Luo J,Zukin SA,Ranish J,Nogales E

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in DNA sequencing have revolutionized our ability to read genomes. However, even in the most well-studied of organisms, the bacterium Escherichia coli, for ≈65% of promoters we remain ignorant of their regulation. Until we crack this regulatory Rosetta Stone, efforts to read and write genomes will remain haph...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ireland WT,Beeler SM,Flores-Bautista E,McCarty NS,Röschinger T,Belliveau NM,Sweredoski MJ,Moradian A,Kinney JB,Phillips R

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00