The serine protease hepsin mediates urinary secretion and polymerisation of Zona Pellucida domain protein uromodulin.

abstract：:Nutritional regulation by ants emerges from a distributed process: food is collected by a small fraction of workers, stored within the crops of individuals, and spread via local ant-to-ant interactions. The precise individual-level underpinnings of this collective regulation have remained unclear mainly due to difficu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Greenwald EE,Baltiansky L,Feinerman O

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A major puzzle in biology is how mammalian sperm maintain the correct swimming direction during various phases of the sexual reproduction process. Whilst chemotaxis may dominate near the ovum, it is unclear which cues guide spermatozoa on their long journey towards the egg. Hypothesized mechanisms range from peristalt...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kantsler V,Dunkel J,Blayney M,Goldstein RE

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian two-pore-channels (TPC1, 2; TPCN1, TPCN2) are ubiquitously- expressed, PI(3,5)P2-activated, Na+-selective channels in the endosomes and lysosomes that regulate luminal pH homeostasis, membrane trafficking, and Ebola viral infection. Whereas the channel activity of TPC1 is strongly dependent on membrane volta...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhang X,Chen W,Li P,Calvo R,Southall N,Hu X,Bryant-Genevier M,Feng X,Geng Q,Gao C,Yang M,Tang K,Ferrer M,Marugan JJ,Xu H

更新日期：2019-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the contribution of a central clock in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) to circadian behavior and the organization of peripheral clocks, we generated forebrain/SCN-specific Bmal1 knockout mice by using floxed Bmal1 and pan-neuronal Cre lines. The forebrain knockout mice showed >90% del...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Izumo M,Pejchal M,Schook AC,Lange RP,Walisser JA,Sato TR,Wang X,Bradfield CA,Takahashi JS

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In most vertebrate neurons, action potentials are triggered at the distal end of the axon initial segment (AIS). Both position and length of the AIS vary across and within neuron types, with activity, development and pathology. What is the impact of AIS geometry on excitability? Direct empirical assessment has proven ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Goethals S,Brette R

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The expansion of bacterial swarms and the spreading of biofilms can be described by a unified biophysical theory that involves both active and passive processes. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jeckel H,Matthey N,Drescher K

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Larval recruitment, the transition of pelagic larvae into reef-associated juveniles, is a critical step for the resilience of marine fish populations but its molecular control is unknown. Here, we investigate whether thyroid-hormones (TH) and their receptors (TR) coordinate the larval recruitment of the coral-reef-fis...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Holzer G,Besson M,Lambert A,François L,Barth P,Gillet B,Hughes S,Piganeau G,Leulier F,Viriot L,Lecchini D,Laudet V

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:During embryogenesis, chromatin accessibility profiles control lineage-specific gene expression by modulating transcription, thus impacting multipotent progenitor states and subsequent fate choices. Subsets of cardiac and pharyngeal/head muscles share a common origin in the cardiopharyngeal mesoderm, but the chromatin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Racioppi C,Wiechecki KA,Christiaen L

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:MyD88 is the main adaptor molecule for TLR and IL-1R family members. Here, we demonstrated that T-cell intrinsic MyD88 signaling is required for proliferation, protection from apoptosis and expression of activation/memory genes during infection with the intracellular parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, as evidenced by transcr...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Oliveira AC,Gomes-Neto JF,Barbosa CD,Granato A,Reis BS,Santos BM,Fucs R,Canto FB,Nakaya HI,Nóbrega A,Bellio M

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of preprints in the life sciences has been reported widely and is driving policy changes for journals and funders, but little quantitative information has been published about preprint usage. Here, we report how we collected and analyzed data on all 37,648 preprints uploaded to bioRxiv.org, the largest biol...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Abdill RJ,Blekhman R

更新日期：2019-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative regulators of adult neurogenesis are of particular interest as targets to enhance neuronal repair, but few have yet been identified. Planarians can regenerate their entire CNS using pluripotent adult stem cells, and this process is robustly regulated to ensure that new neurons are produced in proper abundance...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Karge A,Bonar NA,Wood S,Petersen CP

更新日期：2020-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin is the master regulator of systemic iron homeostasis. Derived primarily from the liver, it inhibits the iron exporter ferroportin in the gut and spleen, the sites of iron absorption and recycling respectively. Recently, we demonstrated that ferroportin is also found in cardiomyocytes, and that its cardiac-spe...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lakhal-Littleton S,Wolna M,Chung YJ,Christian HC,Heather LC,Brescia M,Ball V,Diaz R,Santos A,Biggs D,Clarke K,Davies B,Robbins PA

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Arm-amputation involves two powerful drivers for brain plasticity-sensory deprivation and altered use. However, research has largely focused on sensory deprivation and maladaptive change. Here we show that adaptive patterns of limb usage after amputation drive cortical plasticity. We report that individuals with conge...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Makin TR,Cramer AO,Scholz J,Hahamy A,Henderson Slater D,Tracey I,Johansen-Berg H

更新日期：2013-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial fitness screens are a key technique in functional genomics. We present an all-in-one solution, pyphe, for automating and improving data analysis pipelines associated with large-scale fitness screens, including image acquisition and quantification, data normalisation, and statistical analysis. Pyphe is versat...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kamrad S,Rodríguez-López M,Cotobal C,Correia-Melo C,Ralser M,Bähler J

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are motivated to seek information from their environment. How the brain motivates this behavior is unknown. One speculation is that the brain employs neuromodulatory systems implicated in primary reward-seeking, in particular dopamine, to instruct information-seeking. However, there has been no causal test for ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Vellani V,de Vries LP,Gaule A,Sharot T

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparing the brains of related species faces the challenges of establishing homologies whilst accommodating evolutionary specializations. Here we propose a general framework for understanding similarities and differences between the brains of primates. The approach uses white matter blueprints of the whole cortex bas...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mars RB,Sotiropoulos SN,Passingham RE,Sallet J,Verhagen L,Khrapitchev AA,Sibson N,Jbabdi S

更新日期：2018-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:PKMζ is a persistently active PKC isoform proposed to maintain late-LTP and long-term memory. But late-LTP and memory are maintained without PKMζ in PKMζ-null mice. Two hypotheses can account for these findings. First, PKMζ is unimportant for LTP or memory. Second, PKMζ is essential for late-LTP and long-term memory i...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tsokas P,Hsieh C,Yao Y,Lesburguères E,Wallace EJC,Tcherepanov A,Jothianandan D,Hartley BR,Pan L,Rivard B,Farese RV,Sajan MP,Bergold PJ,Hernández AI,Cottrell JE,Shouval HZ,Fenton AA,Sacktor TC

更新日期：2016-05-17 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

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：:When a human catches a ball, they estimate future target location based on the current trajectory. How animals, small and large, encode such predictive processes at the single neuron level is unknown. Here we describe small target-selective neurons in predatory dragonflies that exhibit localized enhanced sensitivity f...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wiederman SD,Fabian JM,Dunbier JR,O'Carroll DC

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Toothed whales use sonar to detect, locate, and track prey. They adjust emitted sound intensity, auditory sensitivity and click rate to target range, and terminate prey pursuits with high-repetition-rate, low-intensity buzzes. However, their narrow acoustic field of view (FOV) is considered stable throughout target ap...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wisniewska DM,Ratcliffe JM,Beedholm K,Christensen CB,Johnson M,Koblitz JC,Wahlberg M,Madsen PT

更新日期：2015-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in neuroscience is to longitudinally monitor whole brain activity across multiple spatial scales in the same animal. Functional UltraSound (fUS) is an emerging technology that offers images of cerebral blood volume over large brain portions. Here we show for the first time its capability to resolve t...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bimbard C,Demene C,Girard C,Radtke-Schuller S,Shamma S,Tanter M,Boubenec Y

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been shown to act as important cell biological regulators including cell fate decisions but are often ignored in human genetics. Combining differential lncRNA expression during neuronal lineage induction with copy number variation morbidity maps of a cohort of children with autism sp...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ang CE,Ma Q,Wapinski OL,Fan S,Flynn RA,Lee QY,Coe B,Onoguchi M,Olmos VH,Do BT,Dukes-Rimsky L,Xu J,Tanabe K,Wang L,Elling U,Penninger JM,Zhao Y,Qu K,Eichler EE,Srivastava A,Wernig M,Chang HY

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many organisms lose the capacity to regenerate damaged tissues as they mature. Damaged Drosophila imaginal discs regenerate efficiently early in the third larval instar (L3) but progressively lose this ability. This correlates with reduced damage-responsive expression of multiple genes, including the WNT genes wingles...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Harris RE,Setiawan L,Saul J,Hariharan IK

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition plays a powerful role in regulating network excitation and plasticity; however, the activity of defined interneuron types during spatial exploration remain poorly understood. Using two-photon calcium imaging, we recorded hippocampal CA1 somatostatin- and parvalbumin-expressing interneurons as mice performed...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Arriaga M,Han EB

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms generating epileptic neuronal networks following insults such as severe seizures are unknown. We have previously shown that interfering with the function of the neuron-restrictive silencer factor (NRSF/REST), an important transcription factor that influences neuronal phenotype, attenuated development of...

journal_title：eLife

authors： McClelland S,Brennan GP,Dubé C,Rajpara S,Iyer S,Richichi C,Bernard C,Baram TZ

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia are known to be involved in the planning, execution and control of gripping force and movement vigour. Here we aim to define the nature of the basal ganglia control signal for force and to decode gripping force based on local field potential (LFP) activities recorded from the subthalamic nucleus (STN...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tan H,Pogosyan A,Ashkan K,Green AL,Aziz T,Foltynie T,Limousin P,Zrinzo L,Hariz M,Brown P

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:During mitosis chromosomes reorganise into highly compact, rod-shaped forms, thought to consist of consecutive chromatin loops around a central protein scaffold. Condensin complexes are involved in chromatin compaction, but the contribution of other chromatin proteins, DNA sequence and histone modifications is less un...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fitz-James MH,Tong P,Pidoux AL,Ozadam H,Yang L,White SA,Dekker J,Allshire RC

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The twin-arginine protein translocation system (Tat) transports folded proteins across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane and the thylakoid membranes of plant chloroplasts. The Tat transporter is assembled from multiple copies of the membrane proteins TatA, TatB, and TatC. We combine sequence co-evolution analysis, mo...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Alcock F,Stansfeld PJ,Basit H,Habersetzer J,Baker MA,Palmer T,Wallace MI,Berks BC

更新日期：2016-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The immediate evolutionary space accessible to HIV is largely determined by how single amino acid mutations affect fitness. These mutational effects can shift as the virus evolves. However, the prevalence of such shifts in mutational effects remains unclear. Here, we quantify the effects on viral growth of all amino a...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Haddox HK,Dingens AS,Hilton SK,Overbaugh J,Bloom JD

更新日期：2018-03-28 00:00:00