Natural depletion of histone H1 in sex cells causes DNA demethylation, heterochromatin decondensation and transposon activation.

abstract：:Sudden changes in the level of a coenzyme called NADPH might be the underlying cause of aging in cells. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Barral Y

更新日期：2013-02-05 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：:More than half of long-term brain tumor survivors develop irreversible cognitive decline that severely affect their quality of life. However, there is no pre-clinical model that allows long-term assessment of cognition, and there is no treatment which ameliorates cognitive deficits in patients. Here, we report a novel...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Feng X,Liu S,Chen D,Rosi S,Gupta N

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve tissue contains a high density of chemical synapses, about 1 per µm3 in the mammalian cerebral cortex. Thus, even for small blocks of nerve tissue, dense connectomic mapping requires the identification of millions to billions of synapses. While the focus of connectomic data analysis has been on neurite reconstru...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Staffler B,Berning M,Boergens KM,Gour A,Smagt PV,Helmstaedter M

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of events are ubiquitous in sensory, motor, and cognitive function. Key computational operations, including pattern recognition, event prediction, and plasticity, involve neural discrimination of spatio-temporal sequences. Here, we show that synaptically-driven reaction-diffusion pathways on dendrites can pe...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bhalla US

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex-specific synaptic connectivity is beginning to emerge as a remarkable, but little explored feature of animal brains. We describe here a novel mechanism that promotes sexually dimorphic neuronal function and synaptic connectivity in the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We demonstrate that a ph...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bayer EA,Stecky RC,Neal L,Katsamba PS,Ahlsen G,Balaji V,Hoppe T,Shapiro L,Oren-Suissa M,Hobert O

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The integration of direct bottom-up inputs with contextual information is a core feature of neocortical circuits. In area V1, neurons may reduce their firing rates when their receptive field input can be predicted by spatial context. Gamma-synchronized (30-80 Hz) firing may provide a complementary signal to rates, ref...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Peter A,Uran C,Klon-Lipok J,Roese R,van Stijn S,Barnes W,Dowdall JR,Singer W,Fries P,Vinck M

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Jellyfish, with their tetraradial symmetry, offer a novel paradigm for addressing patterning mechanisms during regeneration. Here we show that an interplay between mechanical forces, cell migration and proliferation allows jellyfish fragments to regain shape and functionality rapidly, notably by efficient restoration ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sinigaglia C,Peron S,Eichelbrenner J,Chevalier S,Steger J,Barreau C,Houliston E,Leclère L

更新日期：2020-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:As the demographics of the modern world skew older, understanding and mitigating the effects of aging is increasingly important within biomedical research. Recent studies in model organisms demonstrate that the aging process is frequently modified by an organism's ability to perceive and respond to changes in its envi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Miller HA,Dean ES,Pletcher SD,Leiser SF

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:While the dynamin GTPase Drp1 plays a critical role during mitochondrial fission, mechanisms controlling its recruitment to fission sites are unclear. A current assumption is that cytosolic Drp1 is recruited directly to fission sites immediately prior to fission. Using live-cell microscopy, we find evidence for a diff...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ji WK,Hatch AL,Merrill RA,Strack S,Higgs HN

更新日期：2015-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoinducers are small signaling molecules that mediate intercellular communication in microbial populations and trigger coordinated gene expression via 'quorum sensing'. Elucidating the mechanisms that control autoinducer production is, thus, pertinent to understanding collective microbial behavior, such as virulence...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bauer M,Knebel J,Lechner M,Pickl P,Frey E

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to neurons induces widespread cellular and transcriptional reconfiguration. Here, we characterized global epigenomic changes during the direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts to neurons using whole-genome base-resolution DNA methylation (mC) sequencing. We found that the pioneer ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Luo C,Lee QY,Wapinski O,Castanon R,Nery JR,Mall M,Kareta MS,Cullen SM,Goodell MA,Chang HY,Wernig M,Ecker JR

更新日期：2019-01-15 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：:Although activation/deactivation of specific brain regions has been shown to be predictive of successful memory encoding, the relationship between time-varying large-scale brain networks and fluctuations of memory encoding performance remains unclear. Here, we investigated time-varying functional connectivity patterns...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Keerativittayayut R,Aoki R,Sarabi MT,Jimura K,Nakahara K

更新日期：2018-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of developing cancer is correlated with body size and lifespan within species. Between species, however, there is no correlation between cancer and either body size or lifespan, indicating that large, long-lived species have evolved enhanced cancer protection mechanisms. Elephants and their relatives (Probosc...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Vazquez JM,Lynch VJ

更新日期：2021-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatin exerts a heritable form of eukaryotic gene repression and contributes to chromosome segregation fidelity and genome stability. However, to date there has been no quantitative evaluation of the stability of heterochromatic gene repression. We designed a genetic strategy to capture transient losses of ge...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dodson AE,Rine J

更新日期：2015-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments on mitochondrial DNA in worms highlight that cheating does not always pay off. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Camus MF

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits that control copulation in male flies have been identified. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Levine J

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Synonymous codon usage (SCU) varies widely among human genes. In particular, genes involved in different functional categories display a distinct codon usage, which was interpreted as evidence that SCU is adaptively constrained to optimize translation efficiency in distinct cellular states. We demonstrate here that SC...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pouyet F,Mouchiroud D,Duret L,Sémon M

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:SynGAP is a postsynaptic density (PSD) protein that binds to PDZ domains of the scaffold protein PSD-95. We previously reported that heterozygous deletion of Syngap1 in mice is correlated with increased steady-state levels of other key PSD proteins that bind PSD-95, although the level of PSD-95 remains constant (Walku...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mastro TL,Preza A,Basu S,Chattarji S,Till SM,Kind PC,Kennedy MB

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical plasticity is fundamental to motor recovery following cortical perturbation. However, it is still unclear how this plasticity is induced at a functional circuit level. Here, we investigated motor recovery and underlying neural plasticity upon optogenetic suppression of a cortical area for eye movement. Using ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sato TR,Itokazu T,Osaki H,Ohtake M,Yamamoto T,Sohya K,Maki T,Sato TK

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic network rewiring is the rerouting of metabolism through the use of alternate enzymes to adjust pathway flux and accomplish specific anabolic or catabolic objectives. Here, we report the first characterization of two parallel pathways for the breakdown of the short chain fatty acid propionate in Caenorhabditi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Watson E,Olin-Sandoval V,Hoy MJ,Li CH,Louisse T,Yao V,Mori A,Holdorf AD,Troyanskaya OG,Ralser M,Walhout AJ

更新日期：2016-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosome parasites are hiding in human skin, a discovery that may undermine efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness by 2020. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Casas-Sánchez A,Acosta-Serrano Á

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infection cannot be cured because the virus persists as integrated proviral DNA in long-lived cells despite years of suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART). In a previous paper (Zanini et al, 2015) we documented HIV-1 evolution in 10 untreated patients. Here we characterize establishment, turnover, and evoluti...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Brodin J,Zanini F,Thebo L,Lanz C,Bratt G,Neher RA,Albert J

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The biology of sponges provides clues about how early animals may have dealt with low levels of oxygen. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Rytkönen KT

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational modeling of behavior has revolutionized psychology and neuroscience. By fitting models to experimental data we can probe the algorithms underlying behavior, find neural correlates of computational variables and better understand the effects of drugs, illness and interventions. But with great power comes ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wilson RC,Collins AG

更新日期：2019-11-26 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：:C-type inactivation of potassium channels fine-tunes the electrical signaling in excitable cells through an internal timing mechanism that is mediated by a hydrogen bond network in the channels' selectively filter. Previously, we used nonsense suppression to highlight the role of the conserved Trp434-Asp447 indole hyd...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lueck JD,Mackey AL,Infield DT,Galpin JD,Li J,Roux B,Ahern CA

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The actomyosin ring generates force to ingress the cytokinetic cleavage furrow in animal cells, yet its filament organization and the mechanism of contractility is not well understood. We quantified actin filament order in human cells using fluorescence polarization microscopy and found that cleavage furrow ingression...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Spira F,Cuylen-Haering S,Mehta S,Samwer M,Reversat A,Verma A,Oldenbourg R,Sixt M,Gerlich DW

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-established cascade of transcription factor (TF) activity orchestrates adipogenesis in response to chemical cues, yet how cell-intrinsic determinants of differentiation such as cell shape and/or seeding density inform this transcriptional program remain enigmatic. Here, we uncover a novel mechanism licensing tr...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Cohen DM,Won KJ,Nguyen N,Lazar MA,Chen CS,Steger DJ

更新日期：2015-06-25 00:00:00