Integration of locomotion and auditory signals in the mouse inferior colliculus.

abstract：:The number of ions required to drive substrate transport through a secondary active transporter determines the protein's ability to create a substrate gradient, a feature essential to its physiological function, and places fundamental constraints on the transporter's mechanism. Stoichiometry is known for a wide array ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fitzgerald GA,Mulligan C,Mindell JA

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a small-molecule communication mechanism was discovered in a range of Bacillus-infecting bacteriophages, which these temperate phages use to inform their lysis-lysogeny decision. We present a mathematical model of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of such viral communication, and show that a communica...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Doekes HM,Mulder GA,Hermsen R

更新日期：2021-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the relationships between different properties of data, such as whether a genome or connectome has information about disease status, is increasingly important. While existing approaches can test whether two properties are related, they may require unfeasibly large sample sizes and often are not interpret...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Vogelstein JT,Bridgeford EW,Wang Q,Priebe CE,Maggioni M,Shen C

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells respond to changes in their environment through signaling networks that modulate cytoskeleton and membrane organization to coordinate cell-cycle progression, polarized cell growth and multicellular development. Here, we define a novel regulatory mechanism by which the motor activity and function of the fission y...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Baker K,Gyamfi IA,Mashanov GI,Molloy JE,Geeves MA,Mulvihill DP

更新日期：2019-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms are biological oscillations that schedule daily changes in physiology. Outside the laboratory, circadian clocks do not generally free-run but are driven by daily cues whose timing varies with the seasons. The principles that determine how circadian clocks align to these external cycles are not well u...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Leypunskiy E,Lin J,Yoo H,Lee U,Dinner AR,Rust MJ

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of fitness landscapes is critical for understanding adaptive protein evolution. Previous empirical studies on fitness landscapes were confined to either the neighborhood around the wild type sequence, involving mostly single and double mutants, or a combinatorially complete subgraph involving only two am...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wu NC,Dai L,Olson CA,Lloyd-Smith JO,Sun R

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic starch reserves that accumulate in Arabidopsis leaves during the day decrease approximately linearly with time at night to support metabolism and growth. We find that the rate of decrease is adjusted to accommodate variation in the time of onset of darkness and starch content, such that reserves last al...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Scialdone A,Mugford ST,Feike D,Skeffington A,Borrill P,Graf A,Smith AM,Howard M

更新日期：2013-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR), found in strictly anaerobic methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea, catalyzes the reversible production and consumption of the potent greenhouse gas methane. The α subunit of MCR (McrA) contains several unusual post-translational modifications, including a rare thioamidation of glyc...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nayak DD,Mahanta N,Mitchell DA,Metcalf WW

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a surveillance pathway that degrades aberrant mRNAs and also regulates the expression of a wide range of physiological transcripts. RUVBL1 and RUVBL2 AAA-ATPases form an hetero-hexameric ring that is part of several macromolecular complexes such as INO80, SWR1, and R2TP. Interesti...

journal_title：eLife

authors： López-Perrote A,Hug N,González-Corpas A,Rodríguez CF,Serna M,García-Martín C,Boskovic J,Fernandez-Leiro R,Caceres JF,Llorca O

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:XMAP215/Stu2/Alp14 proteins accelerate microtubule plus-end polymerization by recruiting tubulins via arrays of tumor overexpressed gene (TOG) domains, yet their mechanism remains unknown. Here, we describe the biochemical and structural basis for TOG arrays in recruiting and polymerizing tubulins. Alp14 binds four tu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nithianantham S,Cook BD,Beans M,Guo F,Chang F,Al-Bassam J

更新日期：2018-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid plaques, consisting of deposited beta-amyloid (Aβ), are a neuropathological hallmark of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Cerebral vessels play a major role in AD, as Aβ is cleared from the brain by pathways involving the cerebrovasculature, most AD patients have cerebrovascular amyloid (cerebral amyloid angiopathy (C...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Robert J,Button EB,Yuen B,Gilmour M,Kang K,Bahrabadi A,Stukas S,Zhao W,Kulic I,Wellington CL

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is clear that trisomy 21 causes Down syndrome, the molecular events acting downstream of the trisomy remain ill defined. Using complementary genomics analyses, we identified the interferon pathway as the major signaling cascade consistently activated by trisomy 21 in human cells. Transcriptome analysis rev...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sullivan KD,Lewis HC,Hill AA,Pandey A,Jackson LP,Cabral JM,Smith KP,Liggett LA,Gomez EB,Galbraith MD,DeGregori J,Espinosa JM

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease involving cytotoxic conformations of Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1). A major challenge in understanding ALS disease pathology has been the identification and atomic-level characterization of these conformers. Here, we use a combination ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sekhar A,Rumfeldt JA,Broom HR,Doyle CM,Bouvignies G,Meiering EM,Kay LE

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac conduction defects decrease life expectancy in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), a CTG repeat disorder involving misbalance between two RNA binding factors, MBNL1 and CELF1. However, how DM1 condition translates into conduction disorders remains poorly understood. Here we simulated MBNL1 and CELF1 misbalance in...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Auxerre-Plantié E,Nakamori M,Renaud Y,Huguet A,Choquet C,Dondi C,Miquerol L,Takahashi MP,Gourdon G,Junion G,Jagla T,Zmojdzian M,Jagla K

更新日期：2019-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbial populations rapidly adapt to changing environments with multiple variants competing for survival. To quantify such complex evolutionary dynamics in vivo, time resolved and genome wide data including rare variants are essential. We performed whole-genome deep sequencing of HIV-1 populations in 9 untreate...

journal_title：eLife

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

更新日期：2015-12-11 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：:The transcription factor ASCIZ (ATMIN, ZNF822) has an unusually high number of recognition motifs for the product of its main target gene, the hub protein LC8 (DYNLL1). Using a combination of biophysical methods, structural analysis by NMR and electron microscopy, and cellular transcription assays, we developed a mode...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Clark S,Myers JB,King A,Fiala R,Novacek J,Pearce G,Heierhorst J,Reichow SL,Barbar EJ

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TMEM16A is a ligand-gated anion channel that is activated by intracellular Ca2+. This channel comprises two independent pores and closely apposed Ca2+ binding sites that are contained within each subunit of a homodimeric protein. Previously we characterized the influence of positively charged pore-lining residues on a...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lam AK,Dutzler R

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:IQ scores are correlated with the morphology and activity of certain neurons in the human temporal cortex. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Miller EN,Sherwood CC

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor cortex (M1) has lateralized outputs, yet neurons can be active during movements of either arm. What is the nature and role of activity across the two hemispheres? We recorded muscles and neurons bilaterally while monkeys cycled with each arm. Most neurons were active during movement of either arm. Responses were...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ames KC,Churchland MM

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In Arabidopsis thaliana, winter is registered during vernalization through the temperature-dependent repression and epigenetic silencing of floral repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). Natural Arabidopsis accessions show considerable variation in vernalization. However, which aspect of the FLC repression mechanism is mos...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hepworth J,Antoniou-Kourounioti RL,Berggren K,Selga C,Tudor EH,Yates B,Cox D,Collier Harris BR,Irwin JA,Howard M,Säll T,Holm S,Dean C

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A key hallmark of visual perceptual awareness is robustness to instabilities arising from unnoticeable eye and eyelid movements. In previous human intracranial (iEEG) work (Golan et al., 2016) we found that excitatory broadband high-frequency activity transients, driven by eye blinks, are suppressed in higher-level bu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Golan T,Davidesco I,Meshulam M,Groppe DM,Mégevand P,Yeagle EM,Goldfinger MS,Harel M,Melloni L,Schroeder CE,Deouell LY,Mehta AD,Malach R

更新日期：2017-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human-based modelling and simulations are becoming ubiquitous in biomedical science due to their ability to augment experimental and clinical investigations. Cardiac electrophysiology is one of the most advanced areas, with cardiac modelling and simulation being considered for virtual testing of pharmacological therap...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tomek J,Bueno-Orovio A,Passini E,Zhou X,Minchole A,Britton O,Bartolucci C,Severi S,Shrier A,Virag L,Varro A,Rodriguez B

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans employ different strategies when making decisions. Previous research has reported reduced reliance on model-based strategies with aging, but it remains unclear whether this is due to cognitive or motivational factors. Moreover, it is not clear how aging affects the metacontrol of decision making, that is the dy...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bolenz F,Kool W,Reiter AM,Eppinger B

更新日期：2019-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Layer (L) 2/3 pyramidal neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) are sparsely active, spontaneously and during sensory stimulation. Long-range inputs from higher areas may gate L2/3 activity. We investigated their in vivo impact by expressing channelrhodopsin in three main sources of feedback to rat S1: primar...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhang W,Bruno RM

更新日期：2019-02-11 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

abstract：:Synaptic positions underlie precise circuit connectivity. Synaptic positions can be established during embryogenesis and sustained during growth. The mechanisms that sustain synaptic specificity during allometric growth are largely unknown. We performed forward genetic screens in C. elegans for regulators of this proc...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fan J,Ji T,Wang K,Huang J,Wang M,Manning L,Dong X,Shi Y,Zhang X,Shao Z,Colón-Ramos DA

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how fungi specialize on their plant host is crucial for developing sustainable disease control. A traditional, centuries-old rice agro-system of the Yuanyang terraces was used as a model to show that virulence effectors of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzaeh play a key role in its specialization on...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Liao J,Huang H,Meusnier I,Adreit H,Ducasse A,Bonnot F,Pan L,He X,Kroj T,Fournier E,Tharreau D,Gladieux P,Morel JB

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies identified the BIN1 locus as a leading modulator of genetic risk in Alzheimer's disease (AD). One limitation in understanding BIN1's contribution to AD is its unknown function in the brain. AD-associated BIN1 variants are generally noncoding and likely change expression. Here, we determ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Voskobiynyk Y,Roth JR,Cochran JN,Rush T,Carullo NV,Mesina JS,Waqas M,Vollmer RM,Day JJ,McMahon LL,Roberson ED

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Binary fission has been well studied in rod-shaped bacteria, but the mechanisms underlying cell division in spherical bacteria are poorly understood. Rod-shaped bacteria harbor regulatory proteins that place and remodel the division machinery during cytokinesis. In the spherical human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, w...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Eswara PJ,Brzozowski RS,Viola MG,Graham G,Spanoudis C,Trebino C,Jha J,Aubee JI,Thompson KM,Camberg JL,Ramamurthi KS

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00