TORC2-dependent protein kinase Ypk1 phosphorylates ceramide synthase to stimulate synthesis of complex sphingolipids.

abstract：:Previous research showed that spontaneous neuronal activity presents sloppiness: the collective behavior is strongly determined by a small number of parameter combinations, defined as 'stiff' dimensions, while it is insensitive to many others ('sloppy' dimensions). Here, we analyzed neural population activity from the...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ponce-Alvarez A,Mochol G,Hermoso-Mendizabal A,de la Rocha J,Deco G

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species, including rats, are sensitive to social signals and their valuation is important in social learning. Here we introduce a task that investigates if mutual reward delivery in male rats can drive associative learning. We found that when actor rats have fully learned a stimulus-self-reward association, addin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： van Gurp S,Hoog J,Kalenscher T,van Wingerden M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain remains notoriously difficult to treat despite numerous drug targets. Here, we offer a novel explanation for this intractability. Computer simulations predicted that qualitative changes in primary afferent excitability linked to neuropathic pain arise through a switch in spike initiation dynamics when...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ratté S,Zhu Y,Lee KY,Prescott SA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive-strand RNA viruses, the largest genetic class of viruses, include numerous important pathogens such as Zika virus. These viruses replicate their RNA genomes in novel, membrane-bounded mini-organelles, but the organization of viral proteins and RNAs in these compartments has been largely unknown. We used cryo-...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ertel KJ,Benefield D,Castaño-Diez D,Pennington JG,Horswill M,den Boon JA,Otegui MS,Ahlquist P

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Although seasonality is widespread and can cause fluctuations in the intensity and direction of natural selection, we have little information about the consequences of seasonal fitness trade-offs for population dynamics. Here we exposed populations of Drosophila melanogaster to repeated seasonal changes in resources a...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Betini GS,McAdam AG,Griswold CK,Norris DR

更新日期：2017-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCR), the rate-limiting enzyme of the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway and the therapeutic target of statins, is post-transcriptionally regulated by sterol-accelerated degradation. Under cholesterol-replete conditions, HMGCR is ubiquitinated and degraded, but the identity of the E3 ubiqu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Menzies SA,Volkmar N,van den Boomen DJ,Timms RT,Dickson AS,Nathan JA,Lehner PJ

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The clone size distribution of the human naive T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is an important determinant of adaptive immunity. We estimated the abundance of TCR sequences in samples of naive T cells from blood using an accurate quantitative sequencing protocol. We observe most TCR sequences only once, consistent wi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： de Greef PC,Oakes T,Gerritsen B,Ismail M,Heather JM,Hermsen R,Chain B,de Boer RJ

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and other animals routinely identify and attend to sensory stimuli so as to rapidly acquire rewards or avoid aversive experiences. Emotional arousal, a process mediated by the amygdala, can enhance attention to stimuli in a non-spatial manner. However, amygdala neural activity was recently shown to encode spati...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Peck CJ,Salzman CD

更新日期：2014-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The knirps (kni) locus encodes transcription factors required for induction of the L2 wing vein in Drosophila. Here, we employ diverse CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools to generate a series of targeted lesions within the endogenous cis-regulatory module (CRM) required for kni expression in the L2 vein primordium. Pheno...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Xu XS,Gantz VM,Siomava N,Bier E

更新日期：2017-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns of spatial positioning of individuals within microbial communities are often critical to community function. However, understanding patterning in natural communities is hampered by the multitude of cell-cell and cell-environment interactions as well as environmental variability. Here, through simulations and ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Momeni B,Brileya KA,Fields MW,Shou W

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals can effortlessly adapt their behavior by generalizing from past aversive experiences, allowing to avoid harm in novel situations. We studied how visual information was sampled by eye-movements during this process called fear generalization, using faces organized along a circular two-dimensional perceptual cont...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kampermann L,Wilming N,Alink A,Büchel C,Onat S

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Overproduction of immunoglobulin light chains leads to systemic amyloidosis, a lethal disease characterized by the formation of amyloid fibrils in patients' tissues. Excess light chains are in equilibrium between dimers and less stable monomers which can undergo irreversible aggregation to the amyloid state. The dimer...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Brumshtein B,Esswein SR,Salwinski L,Phillips ML,Ly AT,Cascio D,Sawaya MR,Eisenberg DS

更新日期：2015-11-18 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：:Centering and decentering of cellular components is essential for internal organization of cells and their ability to perform basic cellular functions such as division and motility. How cells achieve proper localization of their organelles is still not well-understood, especially in large cells such as oocytes. Here, ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ierushalmi N,Malik-Garbi M,Manhart A,Abu Shah E,Goode BL,Mogilner A,Keren K

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The Deleted in Colorectal Carcinoma (Dcc) receptor plays a critical role in optic nerve development. Whilst Dcc is expressed postnatally in the eye, its function remains unknown as Dcc knockouts die at birth. To circumvent this drawback, we generated an eye-specific Dcc mutant. To study the organization of the retina ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Vigouroux RJ,Cesar Q,Chédotal A,Nguyen-Ba-Charvet KT

更新日期：2020-02-25 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：:Oncogenic human papillomaviruses (HPV) are small DNA viruses that infect keratinocytes. After HPV binding to cell surface receptors, a cascade of molecular interactions mediates the infectious cellular internalization of virus particles. Aside from the virus itself, important molecular players involved in virus entry ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mikuličić S,Finke J,Boukhallouk F,Wüstenhagen E,Sons D,Homsi Y,Reiss K,Lang T,Florin L

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels enable potassium efflux and membrane repolarization in excitable tissues. Many Kv channels undergo a progressive loss of ion conductance in the presence of a prolonged voltage stimulus, termed slow inactivation, but the atomic determinants that regulate the kinetics of this proces...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pless SA,Galpin JD,Niciforovic AP,Kurata HT,Ahern CA

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Across species, sleep in young animals is critical for normal brain maturation. The molecular determinants of early life sleep remain unknown. Through an RNAi-based screen, we identified a gene, pdm3, required for sleep maturation in Drosophila. Pdm3, a transcription factor, coordinates an early developmental program ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chakravarti Dilley L,Szuperak M,Gong NN,Williams CE,Saldana RL,Garbe DS,Syed MH,Jain R,Kayser MS

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The training of PhD students and early-career scientists is largely an apprenticeship in which the trainee associates with an expert to become an independent scientist. But when is a PhD student ready to graduate, a postdoctoral scholar ready for an independent position, or an early-career scientist ready for advanced...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Verderame MF,Freedman VH,Kozlowski LM,McCormack WT

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated induced excitatory neurons (iNeurons, iNs) from chimpanzee, bonobo, and human stem cells by expressing the transcription factor neurogenin-2 (NGN2). Single-cell RNA sequencing showed that genes involved in dendrite and synapse development are expressed earlier during iNs maturation in the chimpanzee and b...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Schörnig M,Ju X,Fast L,Ebert S,Weigert A,Kanton S,Schaffer T,Nadif Kasri N,Treutlein B,Peter BM,Hevers W,Taverna E

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells use multiple feedback controls to regulate metabolism in response to nutrient and signaling inputs. However, feedback creates the potential for unstable network responses. We examined how concentrations of key metabolites and signaling pathways interact to maintain homeostasis in proliferating human cells, using...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hung YP,Teragawa C,Kosaisawe N,Gillies TE,Pargett M,Minguet M,Distor K,Rocha-Gregg BL,Coloff JL,Keibler MA,Stephanopoulos G,Yellen G,Brugge JS,Albeck JG

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed in Drosophila melanogaster embryos that low-affinity Ultrabithorax (Ubx)-responsive shavenbaby (svb) enhancers drive expression using localized transcriptional environments and that active svb enhancers on different chromosomes tended to colocalize (Tsai et al., 2017). Here, we test the hypothesis...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tsai A,Alves MR,Crocker J

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The axolotl can regenerate multiple organs, including the brain. It remains, however, unclear whether neuronal diversity, intricate tissue architecture, and axonal connectivity can be regenerated; yet, this is critical for recovery of function and a central aim of cell replacement strategies in the mammalian central n...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Amamoto R,Huerta VG,Takahashi E,Dai G,Grant AK,Fu Z,Arlotta P

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) encodes information supporting mnemonic and cognitive processes. We show here that a rat's position can be decoded with high spatiotemporal resolution from ACC activity. ACC neurons encoded the current state of the animal and task, except for brief excursions that sometimes occurred...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mashhoori A,Hashemnia S,McNaughton BL,Euston DR,Gruber AJ

更新日期：2018-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic positions underlie precise circuit connectivity. Synaptic positions can be established during embryogenesis and sustained during growth. The mechanisms that sustain synaptic specificity during allometric growth are largely unknown. We performed forward genetic screens in C. elegans for regulators of this proc...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fan J,Ji T,Wang K,Huang J,Wang M,Manning L,Dong X,Shi Y,Zhang X,Shao Z,Colón-Ramos DA

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The permeability barrier of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) controls bulk nucleocytoplasmic exchange. It consists of nucleoporin domains rich in phenylalanine-glycine motifs (FG domains). As a bottom-up nanoscale model for the permeability barrier, we have used planar films produced with three different end-grafted FG d...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zahn R,Osmanović D,Ehret S,Araya Callis C,Frey S,Stewart M,You C,Görlich D,Hoogenboom BW,Richter RP

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in school closures and distancing requirements that have disrupted both work and family life for many. Concerns exist that these disruptions caused by the pandemic may not have influenced men and women researchers equally. Many medical journals have published papers on the pandemic, ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Andersen JP,Nielsen MW,Simone NL,Lewiss RE,Jagsi R

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation appears to originate from partially unfolded conformations that are sampled through stochastic fluctuations of the native protein. It has been a challenge to characterize these fluctuations, under native like conditions. Here, the conformational dynamics of the full-length (23-231) mouse prion prot...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Goluguri RR,Sen S,Udgaonkar J

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lissencephaly ('smooth brain') is a severe brain disease associated with numerous symptoms, including cognitive impairment, and shortened lifespan. The main causative gene of this disease - lissencephaly-1 (LIS1) - has been a focus of intense scrutiny since its first identification almost 30 years ago. LIS1 is a criti...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Markus SM,Marzo MG,McKenney RJ

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00