The E3 ligase Ubr3 regulates Usher syndrome and MYH9 disorder proteins in the auditory organs of Drosophila and mammals.

abstract：:Animals seek out relevant information by moving through a dynamic world, but sensory systems are usually studied under highly constrained and passive conditions that may not probe important dimensions of the neural code. Here, we explored neural coding in the barrel cortex of head-fixed mice that tracked walls with th...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sofroniew NJ,Vlasov YA,Hires SA,Freeman J,Svoboda K

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosensory neurons extract information about chemical cues from the environment. How is the activity in these sensory neurons transformed into behavior? Using Caenorhabditis elegans, we map a novel sensory neuron circuit motif that encodes odor concentration. Primary neurons, AWC(ON) and AWA, directly detect the foo...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Leinwand SG,Yang CJ,Bazopoulou D,Chronis N,Srinivasan J,Chalasani SH

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans and other animals base important decisions on estimates of number, and intraparietal cortex is thought to provide a crucial substrate of this ability. However, it remains debated whether an independent neuronal processing mechanism underlies this 'number sense', or whether number is instead judged indirectly on...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Castaldi E,Piazza M,Dehaene S,Vignaud A,Eger E

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Dsc E3 ligase complex has long been recognized as a Golgi-specific protein ubquitination system. It shares a striking sequence similarity to the Hrd1 complex that plays critical roles in the ER-associated degradation pathway. Using biochemical purification and mass spectrometry, we identified two novel Dsc s...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yang X,Arines FM,Zhang W,Li M

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are late onset neurodegenerative diseases that will require therapy over decades to mitigate the effects of disease-driving proteins such tau and α-synuclein (α-Syn). Previously we found that TRIM28 regulates the levels and toxicity of α-Syn and tau (journal_title：eLife

authors： Rousseaux MW,Revelli JP,Vázquez-Vélez GE,Kim JY,Craigen E,Gonzales K,Beckinghausen J,Zoghbi HY

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota of patients recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis is enriched in microbes belonging to the Prevotella genus. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mathis D

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In Drosophila larvae, Class IV sensory neurons respond to noxious thermal stimuli and provoke heat avoidance behavior. Previously, we showed that the activated neurons displayed characteristic fluctuations of firing rates, which consisted of repetitive high-frequency spike trains and subsequent pause periods, and we p...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Onodera K,Baba S,Murakami A,Uemura T,Usui T

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Metazoan development depends on tightly regulated gene expression programs that instruct progenitor cells to adopt specialized fates. Recent work found that posttranslational modifications, such as monoubiquitylation, can determine cell fate also independently of effects on transcription, yet how monoubiquitylation is...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Werner A,Baur R,Teerikorpi N,Kaya DU,Rape M

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage-mediated phagocytosis and cytokine production represent the front lines of resistance to bacterial invaders. A key feature of this pro-inflammatory response in mammals is the complex remodeling of cellular metabolism towards aerobic glycolysis. Although the function of bactericidal macrophages is highly con...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Krejčová G,Danielová A,Nedbalová P,Kazek M,Strych L,Chawla G,Tennessen JM,Lieskovská J,Jindra M,Doležal T,Bajgar A

更新日期：2019-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-bound transcription factor ATF6α plays a cytoprotective role in the unfolded protein response (UPR), required for cells to survive ER stress. Activation of ATF6α promotes cell survival in cancer models. We used cell-based screens to discover and develop Ceapins, a class of pyrazole amides, that block ATF6...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gallagher CM,Garri C,Cain EL,Ang KK,Wilson CG,Chen S,Hearn BR,Jaishankar P,Aranda-Diaz A,Arkin MR,Renslo AR,Walter P

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The segregation of the trophectoderm (TE) from the inner cell mass (ICM) in the mouse blastocyst is determined by position-dependent Hippo signaling. However, the window of responsiveness to Hippo signaling, the exact timing of lineage commitment and the overall relationship between cell commitment and global gene exp...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Posfai E,Petropoulos S,de Barros FRO,Schell JP,Jurisica I,Sandberg R,Lanner F,Rossant J

更新日期：2017-02-22 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：:Why does a first pregnancy after age 35 increase the risk of breast cancer, and what can be done to combat this? ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chakravarthi BV,Varambally S

更新日期：2013-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplicating chromosomes once each cell cycle produces sister chromatid pairs, which separate accurately at anaphase. In contrast, reduplicating chromosomes without separation frequently produces polytene chromosomes, a barrier to accurate mitosis. Chromosome reduplication occurs in many contexts, including: polytene t...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Stormo BM,Fox DT

更新日期：2016-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Researchers have identified two genes-follistatin and activin-as having an important role in the ability of certain flatworms to identify wounds that require the production of new tissue. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sánchez Alvarado A

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription at individual genes in single cells is often pulsatile and stochastic. A key question emerges regarding how this behaviour contributes to tissue phenotype, but it has been a challenge to quantitatively analyse this in living cells over time, as opposed to studying snap-shots of gene expression state. We ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Featherstone K,Hey K,Momiji H,McNamara AV,Patist AL,Woodburn J,Spiller DG,Christian HC,McNeilly AS,Mullins JJ,Finkenstädt BF,Rand DA,White MR,Davis JR

更新日期：2016-02-01 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 importance of cultural processes to behavioural diversity in our closest living relatives is central to revealing the evolutionary origins of human culture. However, the bonobo is often overlooked as a candidate model. Further, a prominent critique to many examples of proposed animal cultures is premature exclusio...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Samuni L,Wegdell F,Surbeck M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The IFNλ family of interferons controls the spread of viruses in the upper respiratory tract and transmission between mice. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wack A

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sparse, sequential patterns of neural activity have been observed in numerous brain areas during timekeeping and motor sequence tasks. Inspired by such observations, we construct a model of the striatum, an all-inhibitory circuit where sequential activity patterns are prominent, addressing the following key challenges...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Murray JM,Escola GS

更新日期：2017-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed 2898 scientific papers published between 1995 and 2017 in which two or more authors shared the first author position. For papers in which the first and second authors made equal contributions, mixed-gender combinations were most frequent, followed by male-male and then female-female author combinations. Fo...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Broderick NA,Casadevall A

更新日期：2019-01-29 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：:Striatal dysfunction plays an important role in dystonia, but the striatal cell types that contribute to abnormal movements are poorly defined. We demonstrate that conditional deletion of the DYT1 dystonia protein torsinA in embryonic progenitors of forebrain cholinergic and GABAergic neurons causes dystonic-like twis...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pappas SS,Darr K,Holley SM,Cepeda C,Mabrouk OS,Wong JM,LeWitt TM,Paudel R,Houlden H,Kennedy RT,Levine MS,Dauer WT

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod and cone photoreceptors are highly similar in many respects but they have important functional and molecular differences. Here, we investigate genome-wide patterns of DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility in mouse rods and cones and correlate differences in these features with gene expression, histone marks,...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mo A,Luo C,Davis FP,Mukamel EA,Henry GL,Nery JR,Urich MA,Picard S,Lister R,Eddy SR,Beer MA,Ecker JR,Nathans J

更新日期：2016-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional (2D) human skeletal muscle fiber cultures are ill-equipped to support the contractile properties of maturing muscle fibers. This limits their application to the study of adult human neuromuscular junction (NMJ) development, a process requiring maturation of muscle fibers in the presence of motor neuron...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Afshar Bakooshli M,Lippmann ES,Mulcahy B,Iyer N,Nguyen CT,Tung K,Stewart BA,van den Dorpel H,Fuehrmann T,Shoichet M,Bigot A,Pegoraro E,Ahn H,Ginsberg H,Zhen M,Ashton RS,Gilbert PM

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely argued that personalized instruction based on individual differences in learning styles or genetic predispositions could improve learning outcomes. However, this proposition has resisted clear demonstration in human studies, where it is difficult to control experience and quantify outcomes. Here, we take ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mets DG,Brainard MS

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:How circuits assemble starting from stem cells is a fundamental question in developmental neurobiology. We test the hypothesis that, in neuronal stem cells, temporal transcription factors predictably control neuronal terminal features and circuit assembly. Using the Drosophila motor system, we manipulate expression of...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Meng JL,Marshall ZD,Lobb-Rabe M,Heckscher ES

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, intra-chromosomal recombination generates DNA circles, but little is known about how cells react to them. In yeast, partitioning of such circles to the mother cell at mitosis ensures their loss from the population but promotes replicative ageing. Nevertheless, the mechanisms of partitioning are debated....

journal_title：eLife

authors： Denoth-Lippuner A,Krzyzanowski MK,Stober C,Barral Y

更新日期：2014-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells can avoid the effects of so-called 'nonsense' mutations by several methods, including a newly discovered mechanism driven by microRNA molecules. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jopling CL

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy complications are poorly represented in the archeological record, despite their importance in contemporary and ancient societies. While excavating a Byzantine cemetery in Troy, we discovered calcified abscesses among a woman's remains. Scanning electron microscopy of the tissue revealed 'ghost cells', result...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Devault AM,Mortimer TD,Kitchen A,Kiesewetter H,Enk JM,Golding GB,Southon J,Kuch M,Duggan AT,Aylward W,Gardner SN,Allen JE,King AM,Wright G,Kuroda M,Kato K,Briggs DE,Fornaciari G,Holmes EC,Poinar HN,Pepperell CS

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00