Meru couples planar cell polarity with apical-basal polarity during asymmetric cell division.

abstract：:Presence of multiple copies of the microtubule-binding NDC80 complex is an evolutionary conserved feature of kinetochores, points of attachment of chromosomes to spindle microtubules. This may enable multivalent attachments to microtubules, with implications that remain unexplored. Using recombinant human kinetochore ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Volkov VA,Huis In 't Veld PJ,Dogterom M,Musacchio A

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the retina, synaptic transmission between photoreceptors and downstream ON-bipolar neurons (ON-BCs) is mediated by a GPCR pathway, which plays an essential role in vision. However, the mechanisms that control signal transmission at this synapse and its relevance to behavior remain poorly understood. In this study w...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sarria I,Pahlberg J,Cao Y,Kolesnikov AV,Kefalov VJ,Sampath AP,Martemyanov KA

更新日期：2015-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic cycles are a fundamental element of cellular and organismal function. Among the most critical in higher organisms is the Cori Cycle, the systemic cycling between lactate and glucose. Here, skeletal muscle-specific Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier (MPC) deletion in mice diverted pyruvate into circulating lactat...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sharma A,Oonthonpan L,Sheldon RD,Rauckhorst AJ,Zhu Z,Tompkins SC,Cho K,Grzesik WJ,Gray LR,Scerbo DA,Pewa AD,Cushing EM,Dyle MC,Cox JE,Adams C,Davies BS,Shields RK,Norris AW,Patti G,Zingman LV,Taylor EB

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief periods of sleep loss have long-lasting consequences such as impaired memory consolidation. Structural changes in synaptic connectivity have been proposed as a substrate of memory storage. Here, we examine the impact of brief periods of sleep deprivation on dendritic structure. In mice, we find that five hours o...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Havekes R,Park AJ,Tudor JC,Luczak VG,Hansen RT,Ferri SL,Bruinenberg VM,Poplawski SG,Day JP,Aton SJ,Radwańska K,Meerlo P,Houslay MD,Baillie GS,Abel T

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, large conductance voltage- and calcium-dependent potassium (BK) channels are regulated allosterically by transmembrane voltage and intracellular Ca2+. Divalent cation binding sites reside within the gating ring formed by two Regulator of Conductance of Potassium (RCK) domains per subunit. Using patch-clamp ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Miranda P,Holmgren M,Giraldez T

更新日期：2018-12-11 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：:The neural correlates of consciousness are typically sought by comparing the overall brain responses to perceived and unperceived stimuli. However, this comparison may be contaminated by non-specific attention, alerting, performance, and reporting confounds. Here, we pursue a novel approach, tracking the neuronal codi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Salti M,Monto S,Charles L,King JR,Parkkonen L,Dehaene S

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing fruit fly brain, a protein called Trithorax increases the number of neural cells produced from a single stem cell, in part by regulating the transcription of the target genes buttonhead and pointed. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jiang Y,Reichert H

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that govern assembly of the gut microbiota are insufficiently understood. Here, we test the hypothesis that inter-individual microbiota variation can arise solely from differences in the order and timing by which the gut is colonized early in life. Experiments in which mice were inoculated in sequence eith...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Martínez I,Maldonado-Gomez MX,Gomes-Neto JC,Kittana H,Ding H,Schmaltz R,Joglekar P,Cardona RJ,Marsteller NL,Kembel SW,Benson AK,Peterson DA,Ramer-Tait AE,Walter J

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The prefrontal cortex (PFC)'s functions are thought to include working memory, as its activity can reflect information that must be temporarily maintained to realize the current goal. We designed a flexible spatial working memory task that required rats to navigate - after distractions and a delay - to multiple possib...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Böhm C,Lee AK

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli DNA replication machinery has been used as a road map to uncover design rules that enable DNA duplication with high efficiency and fidelity. Although the enzymatic activities of the replicative DNA Pol III are well understood, its dynamics within the replisome are not. Here, we test the accepted v...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lewis JS,Spenkelink LM,Jergic S,Wood EA,Monachino E,Horan NP,Duderstadt KE,Cox MM,Robinson A,Dixon NE,van Oijen AM

更新日期：2017-04-22 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：:Wnt plays important role during development and in various diseases. Because Wnts are lipidated and highly hydrophobic, they can only be purified in the presence of detergents, limiting their use in various in vitro and in vivo assays. We purified N-terminally tagged recombinant Wnt3a secreted from cells and accidenta...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mihara E,Hirai H,Yamamoto H,Tamura-Kawakami K,Matano M,Kikuchi A,Sato T,Takagi J

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The clathrin adaptor complex AP2 is thought to be an obligate heterotetramer. We identify null mutations in the α subunit of AP2 in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. α-adaptin mutants are viable and the remaining μ2/β hemicomplex retains some function. Conversely, in μ2 mutants, the alpha/sigma2 hemicomplex is loca...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gu M,Liu Q,Watanabe S,Sun L,Hollopeter G,Grant BD,Jorgensen EM

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cellular features have a range of states, but understanding the mechanisms responsible for interspecific divergence is a challenge for evolutionary cell biology. Models are developed for the distribution of mean phenotypes likely to evolve under the joint forces of mutation and genetic drift in the face of consta...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lynch M

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transcription can be activated by decreasing the duration of RNA polymerase II pausing in the promoter-proximal region, but how this is achieved remains unclear. Here we use a 'multi-omics' approach to demonstrate that the duration of polymerase pausing generally limits the productive frequency of transcription i...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gressel S,Schwalb B,Decker TM,Qin W,Leonhardt H,Eick D,Cramer P

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Axolotls are uniquely able to mobilize neural stem cells to regenerate all missing regions of the spinal cord. How a neural stem cell under homeostasis converts after injury to a highly regenerative cell remains unknown. Here, we show that during regeneration, axolotl neural stem cells repress neurogenic genes and rea...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Rodrigo Albors A,Tazaki A,Rost F,Nowoshilow S,Chara O,Tanaka EM

更新日期：2015-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Progression through the mitotic cell cycle requires periodic regulation of gene function at the levels of transcription, translation, protein-protein interactions, post-translational modification and degradation. However, the role of alternative splicing (AS) in the temporal control of cell cycle is not well understoo...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dominguez D,Tsai YH,Weatheritt R,Wang Y,Blencowe BJ,Wang Z

更新日期：2016-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we showed that serum and monocytes from patients with CF exhibit an enhanced NLRP3-inflammasome signature with increased IL-18, IL-1β, caspase-1 activity and ASC speck release (Scambler et al. eLife 2019). Here we show that CFTR modulators down regulate this exaggerated proinflammatory response following L...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jarosz-Griffiths HH,Scambler T,Wong CH,Lara-Reyna S,Holbrook J,Martinon F,Savic S,Whitaker P,Etherington C,Spoletini G,Clifton I,Mehta A,McDermott MF,Peckham D

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell growth and/or proliferation may require the reprogramming of metabolic pathways, whereby a switch from oxidative to glycolytic metabolism diverts glycolytic intermediates towards anabolic pathways. Herein, we identify a novel role for TRIM32 in the maintenance of glycolytic flux mediated by biochemical interactio...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bawa S,Brooks DS,Neville KE,Tipping M,Sagar MA,Kollhoff JA,Chawla G,Geisbrecht BV,Tennessen JM,Eliceiri KW,Geisbrecht ER

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Apical constriction is a widely utilized cell shape change linked to folding, bending and invagination of polarized epithelia. It remains unclear how apical constriction is regulated spatiotemporally during tissue invagination and how this cellular process contributes to tube formation in different developmental conte...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chung S,Kim S,Andrew DJ

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome-scale transcriptional programs that specify the mammalian trachea and esophagus are unknown. Though NKX2-1 and SOX2 are hypothesized to be co-repressive master regulators of tracheoesophageal fates, this is untested at a whole transcriptomic scale and their downstream networks remain unidentified. By combin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kuwahara A,Lewis AE,Coombes C,Leung FS,Percharde M,Bush JO

更新日期：2020-06-09 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：:To improve chemical cross-linking of proteins coupled with mass spectrometry (CXMS), we developed a lysine-targeted enrichable cross-linker containing a biotin tag for affinity purification, a chemical cleavage site to separate cross-linked peptides away from biotin after enrichment, and a spacer arm that can be label...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tan D,Li Q,Zhang MJ,Liu C,Ma C,Zhang P,Ding YH,Fan SB,Tao L,Yang B,Li X,Ma S,Liu J,Feng B,Liu X,Wang HW,He SM,Gao N,Ye K,Dong MQ,Lei X

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of transcription programs is challenged during mitosis when chromatin becomes condensed and transcription is silenced. How do the daughter cells re-establish the original transcription program? Here, we report that the TATA-binding protein (TBP), a key component of the core transcriptional machinery, remai...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Teves SS,An L,Bhargava-Shah A,Xie L,Darzacq X,Tjian R

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila larvae and adults possess a potent innate immune response, but the response of Drosophila eggs is poor. In contrast to Drosophila, eggs of the beetle Tribolium are protected by a serosa, an extraembryonic epithelium that is present in all insects except higher flies. In this study, we test a possible immune...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jacobs CG,Spaink HP,van der Zee M

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Spore killers in fungi are selfish genetic elements that distort Mendelian segregation in their favor. It remains unclear how many species harbor them and how diverse their mechanisms are. Here, we discover two spore killers from a natural isolate of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Both killers belong to ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hu W,Jiang ZD,Suo F,Zheng JX,He WZ,Du LL

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to dogma, evolutionarily young and dynamic genes can encode essential functions. We find that evolutionarily dynamic ZAD-ZNF genes, which encode the most abundant class of insect transcription factors, are more likely to encode essential functions in Drosophila melanogaster than ancient, conserved ZAD-ZNF gen...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kasinathan B,Colmenares SU 3rd,McConnell H,Young JM,Karpen GH,Malik HS

更新日期：2020-11-10 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：:Current models successfully describe the auditory cortical response to natural sounds with a set of spectro-temporal features. However, these models have hardly been linked to the ill-understood neurobiological changes that occur in the aging auditory cortex. Modelling the hemodynamic response to a rich natural sound ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Erb J,Schmitt LM,Obleser J

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00