Adaptive thermal plasticity enhances sperm and egg performance in a model insect.

abstract：:Translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) during S-phase uses specialized TLS DNA polymerases to replicate a DNA lesion, allowing stringent DNA synthesis to resume beyond the offending damage. Human TLS involves the conjugation of ubiquitin to PCNA clamps encircling damaged DNA and the role of this post-translational modificati...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hedglin M,Pandey B,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：2016-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcineurin is responsible for mediating a wide variety of cellular processes in response to dynamic calcium (Ca(2+)) signals, yet the precise mechanisms involved in the spatiotemporal control of calcineurin signaling are poorly understood. Here, we use genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors to directly probe the ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mehta S,Aye-Han NN,Ganesan A,Oldach L,Gorshkov K,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced microscopy and labeling techniques reveal that bacteria localize mRNAs within their cells in a similar way to eukaryotes. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jan CH

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal-based biomedical research, both the sex and the age of the animals studied affect disease phenotypes by modifying their susceptibility, presentation and response to treatment. The accurate reporting of experimental methods and materials, including the sex and age of animals, is essential so that other resear...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Flórez-Vargas O,Brass A,Karystianis G,Bramhall M,Stevens R,Cruickshank S,Nenadic G

更新日期：2016-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of nonlinear stimulus transformations by neural circuits is hindered by the lack of comprehensive yet interpretable computational modeling frameworks. Here, we propose a data-driven approach based on deep neural networks to directly model arbitrarily nonlinear stimulus-response mappings. Reformulatin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Keshishian M,Akbari H,Khalighinejad B,Herrero JL,Mehta AD,Mesgarani N

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenazines are natural bacterial antibiotics that can protect crops from disease. However, for most crops it is unknown which producers and specific phenazines are ecologically relevant, and whether phenazine biodegradation can counter their effects. To better understand their ecology, we developed and environmentally...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dar D,Thomashow LS,Weller DM,Newman DK

更新日期：2020-09-15 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 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：:Iron storage proteins are essential for cellular iron homeostasis and redox balance. Ferritin proteins are the major storage units for bioavailable forms of iron. Some organisms lack ferritins, and it is not known how they store iron. Encapsulins, a class of protein-based organelles, have recently been implicated in m...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Giessen TW,Orlando BJ,Verdegaal AA,Chambers MG,Gardener J,Bell DC,Birrane G,Liao M,Silver PA

更新日期：2019-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The inferior colliculus (IC) is the major midbrain auditory integration center, where virtually all ascending auditory inputs converge. Although the IC has been extensively studied for sound processing, little is known about the neural activity of the IC in moving subjects, as frequently happens in natural hearing con...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yang Y,Lee J,Kim G

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate protein localization is crucial to generate and maintain organization in all cells. Achieving accuracy is challenging, as the molecular signals that dictate a protein's cellular destination are often promiscuous. A salient example is the targeting of an essential class of tail-anchored (TA) proteins, whose so...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Rao M,Okreglak V,Chio US,Cho H,Walter P,Shan SO

更新日期：2016-12-07 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：:Dyneins are motor proteins responsible for transport in the cytoplasm and the beating of axonemes in cilia and flagella. They bind and release microtubules via a compact microtubule-binding domain (MTBD) at the end of a coiled-coil stalk. We address how cytoplasmic and axonemal dynein MTBDs bind microtubules at near a...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lacey SE,He S,Scheres SH,Carter AP

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a longstanding debate on whether original fear memory is inhibited or erased after extinction. One possibility that reconciles this uncertainty is that the inhibition and erasure mechanisms are engaged in different phases (early or late) of extinction. In this study, using single-session extinction trai...

journal_title：eLife

authors： An B,Kim J,Park K,Lee S,Song S,Choi S

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Though neurotransmitters are essential elements in neuronal signal transduction, techniques for in vivo analysis are still limited. Here, we describe an organic electrochemical transistor array (OECT-array) technique for monitoring catecholamine neurotransmitters (CA-NTs) in rat brains. The OECT-array is an active sen...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Xie K,Wang N,Lin X,Wang Z,Zhao X,Fang P,Yue H,Kim J,Luo J,Cui S,Yan F,Shi P

更新日期：2020-02-11 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：:Actin, spectrin, and associated molecules form a periodic sub-membrane lattice structure in axons. How this membrane skeleton is developed and why it preferentially forms in axons are unknown. Here, we studied the developmental mechanism of this lattice structure. We found that this structure emerged early during axon...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhong G,He J,Zhou R,Lorenzo D,Babcock HP,Bennett V,Zhuang X

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiatives to improve research communication can benefit from listening to graduate students, postdocs and newly-independent group leaders. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Patterson M,Schekman R

更新日期：2018-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory processing depends upon inhibitory signaling by interneurons, even at its earliest stages in the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN). Remarkably, to date only a single subtype of inhibitory neuron has been documented in the VCN, a projection neuron termed the D-stellate cell. With the use of a transgenic mouse lin...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ngodup T,Romero GE,Trussell LO

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:How different helicase families with a conserved catalytic 'helicase core' evolved to function on varied RNA and DNA substrates by diverse mechanisms remains unclear. In this study, we used Mss116, a yeast DEAD-box protein that utilizes ATP to locally unwind dsRNA, to investigate helicase specificity and mechanism. Ou...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mallam AL,Sidote DJ,Lambowitz AM

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to their role in desensitization and internalization of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), β-arrestins are essential scaffolds linking GPCRs to Erk1/2 signaling. However, their role in GPCR-operated Erk1/2 activation differs between GPCRs and the underlying mechanism remains poorly characterized. Here, w...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Cassier E,Gallay N,Bourquard T,Claeysen S,Bockaert J,Crépieux P,Poupon A,Reiter E,Marin P,Vandermoere F

更新日期：2017-02-07 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：:Clinical trials are currently underway to assess the efficacy of forniceal deep brain stimulation (DBS) for improvement of memory in Alzheimer's patients, and forniceal DBS has been shown to improve learning and memory in a mouse model of Rett syndrome (RTT), an intellectual disability disorder caused by loss-of-funct...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Pohodich AE,Yalamanchili H,Raman AT,Wan YW,Gundry M,Hao S,Jin H,Tang J,Liu Z,Zoghbi HY

更新日期：2018-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding genome to phenotype linkages has been greatly enabled by genomic sequencing. However, most genome analysis is typically confined to the nuclear genome. We conducted a metabolomic QTL analysis on a reciprocal RIL population structured to examine how variation in the organelle genomes affects phenotypic va...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Joseph B,Corwin JA,Li B,Atwell S,Kliebenstein DJ

更新日期：2013-10-08 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：:miR-128, a brain-enriched microRNA, has been implicated in the control of neurogenesis and synaptogenesis but its potential roles in intervening processes have not been addressed. We show that post-transcriptional mechanisms restrict miR-128 accumulation to post-mitotic neurons during mouse corticogenesis and in adult...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Franzoni E,Booker SA,Parthasarathy S,Rehfeld F,Grosser S,Srivatsa S,Fuchs HR,Tarabykin V,Vida I,Wulczyn FG

更新日期：2015-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Massed synchronised neuronal firing is detrimental to information processing. When networks of task-irrelevant neurons fire in unison, they mask the signal generated by task-critical neurons. On a macroscopic level, such synchronisation can contribute to alpha/beta (8-30 Hz) oscillations. Reducing the amplitude of the...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Griffiths BJ,Mayhew SD,Mullinger KJ,Jorge J,Charest I,Wimber M,Hanslmayr S

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Unresolved ER stress followed by cell death is recognized as the main cause of a multitude of pathologies including neonatal diabetes. A systematic analysis of the mechanisms of β-cell loss and dysfunction in Akita mice, in which a mutation in the proinsulin gene causes a severe form of permanent neonatal diabetes, sh...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Riahi Y,Israeli T,Yeroslaviz R,Chimenez S,Avrahami D,Stolovich-Rain M,Alter I,Sebag M,Polin N,Bernal-Mizrachi E,Dor Y,Cerasi E,Leibowitz G

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis ends when a ribosome reaches an mRNA stop codon. Release factors (RFs) decode the stop codon, hydrolyze peptidyl-tRNA to release the nascent protein, and then dissociate to allow ribosome recycling. To visualize termination by RF2, we resolved a cryo-EM ensemble of E. coli 70S•RF2 structures at up to...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Svidritskiy E,Demo G,Loveland AB,Xu C,Korostelev AA

更新日期：2019-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Pattern completion, or the ability to retrieve stable neural activity patterns from noisy or partial cues, is a fundamental feature of memory. Theoretical studies indicate that recurrently connected auto-associative or discrete attractor networks can perform this process. Although pattern completion and attractor dyna...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bolding KA,Nagappan S,Han BX,Wang F,Franks KM

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00