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abstract：:A spring-loaded mechanism can explain the activation process for a protein that has a crucial role in maintaining the genomic integrity of immature eggs cells. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Amelio I,Melino G

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic dynein plays critical roles within the developing and mature nervous systems, including effecting nuclear migration, and retrograde transport of various cargos. Unsurprisingly, mutations in dynein are causative of various developmental neuropathies and motor neuron diseases. These 'dyneinopathies' define a...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Marzo MG,Griswold JM,Ruff KM,Buchmeier RE,Fees CP,Markus SM

更新日期：2019-07-31 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：:Protein aggregation appears to originate from partially unfolded conformations that are sampled through stochastic fluctuations of the native protein. It has been a challenge to characterize these fluctuations, under native like conditions. Here, the conformational dynamics of the full-length (23-231) mouse prion prot...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Goluguri RR,Sen S,Udgaonkar J

更新日期：2019-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain neuron types fire spontaneously at high rates, an ability that is crucial for their function in brain circuits. The spontaneously active GABAergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr), a major output of the basal ganglia, provide tonic inhibition of downstream brain areas. A depolarizing 'leak...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lutas A,Lahmann C,Soumillon M,Yellen G

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA molecules cause the proteins involved in the formation of germ granules to coalesce into liquid droplets. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Trcek T,Lehmann R

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The human insular cortex is a heterogeneous brain structure which plays an integrative role in guiding behavior. The cytoarchitectonic organization of the human insula has been investigated over the last century using postmortem brains but there has been little progress in noninvasive in vivo mapping of its microstruc...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Menon V,Gallardo G,Pinsk MA,Nguyen VD,Li JR,Cai W,Wassermann D

更新日期：2020-06-04 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：:Organisms possessing genetic codes with unassigned codons raise the question of how cellular machinery resolves such codons and how this could impact horizontal gene transfer. Here, we use a genomically recoded Escherichia coli to examine how organisms address translation at unassigned UAG codons, which obstruct propa...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ma NJ,Hemez CF,Barber KW,Rinehart J,Isaacs FJ

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:mTOR inhibition is beneficial in neurodegenerative disease models and its effects are often attributable to the modulation of autophagy and anti-apoptosis. Here, we report a neglected but important bioenergetic effect of mTOR inhibition in neurons. mTOR inhibition by rapamycin significantly preserves neuronal ATP leve...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zheng X,Boyer L,Jin M,Kim Y,Fan W,Bardy C,Berggren T,Evans RM,Gage FH,Hunter T

更新日期：2016-03-23 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：:How does attentional modulation of neural activity enhance performance? Here we use a deep convolutional neural network as a large-scale model of the visual system to address this question. We model the feature similarity gain model of attention, in which attentional modulation is applied according to neural stimulus ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lindsay GW,Miller KD

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deinococcus radiodurans (DR) survives in the presence of hundreds of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) breaks by efficiently repairing such breaks. RecO, a protein that is essential for the extreme radioresistance of DR, is one of the major recombination mediator proteins in the RecA-loading process in the RecFOR pathway. H...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hwang J,Kim JY,Kim C,Park S,Joo S,Kim SK,Lee NK

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Holliday junctions (HJs) are key DNA intermediates in homologous recombination. They link homologous DNA strands and have to be faithfully removed for proper DNA segregation and genome integrity. Here, we present the crystal structure of human HJ resolvase GEN1 complexed with DNA at 3.0 Å resolution. The GEN1 core is ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lee SH,Princz LN,Klügel MF,Habermann B,Pfander B,Biertümpfel C

更新日期：2015-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of current channelrhodopsin-based optogenetic tools is limited by the lack of strict ion selectivity and the inability to extend the spectra sensitivity into the near-infrared (NIR) tissue transmissible range. Here we present an NIR-stimulable optogenetic platform (termed 'Opto-CRAC') that selectively ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： He L,Zhang Y,Ma G,Tan P,Li Z,Zang S,Wu X,Jing J,Fang S,Zhou L,Wang Y,Huang Y,Hogan PG,Han G,Zhou Y

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic replisome assembles around the CMG helicase, which stably associates with DNA replication forks throughout elongation. When replication terminates, CMG is ubiquitylated on its Mcm7 subunit and disassembled by the Cdc48/p97 ATPase. Until now, the regulation that restricts CMG ubiquitylation to terminatio...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Deegan TD,Mukherjee PP,Fujisawa R,Polo Rivera C,Labib K

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible cancers, in which cancer cells themselves act as an infectious agent, have been identified in Tasmanian devils, dogs, and four bivalves. We investigated a disseminated neoplasia affecting geographically distant populations of two species of mussels (Mytilus chilensis in South America and M. edulis in Eur...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yonemitsu MA,Giersch RM,Polo-Prieto M,Hammel M,Simon A,Cremonte F,Avilés FT,Merino-Véliz N,Burioli EA,Muttray AF,Sherry J,Reinisch C,Baldwin SA,Goff SP,Houssin M,Arriagada G,Vázquez N,Bierne N,Metzger MJ

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanistic understanding of eukaryotic ribosome formation requires a detailed structural knowledge of the numerous assembly intermediates, generated along a complex pathway. Here, we present the structure of a late pre-40S particle at 3.6 Å resolution, revealing in molecular detail how assembly factors regulate the t...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Heuer A,Thomson E,Schmidt C,Berninghausen O,Becker T,Hurt E,Beckmann R

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of the host factors required for norovirus replication has been hindered by the challenges associated with culturing human noroviruses. We have combined proteomic analysis of the viral translation and replication complexes with a CRISPR screen, to identify host factors required for norovirus infection. The c...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hosmillo M,Lu J,McAllaster MR,Eaglesham JB,Wang X,Emmott E,Domingues P,Chaudhry Y,Fitzmaurice TJ,Tung MK,Panas MD,McInerney G,Locker N,Wilen CB,Goodfellow IG

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The two centrioles of the centrosome in quiescent cells are inherently asymmetric structures that differ in age, morphology and function. How these asymmetric properties are established and maintained during quiescence remains unknown. Here, we show that a daughter centriole-associated ciliopathy protein, Cep120, play...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Betleja E,Nanjundappa R,Cheng T,Mahjoub MR

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 80% of multiple-tested siRNAs and shRNAs targeting CD95 or CD95 ligand (CD95L) induce a form of cell death characterized by simultaneous activation of multiple cell death pathways preferentially killing transformed and cancer stem cells. We now show these si/shRNAs kill cancer cells through canonical RNAi by targ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Putzbach W,Gao QQ,Patel M,van Dongen S,Haluck-Kangas A,Sarshad AA,Bartom ET,Kim KA,Scholtens DM,Hafner M,Zhao JC,Murmann AE,Peter ME

更新日期：2017-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling molecules activate distinct patterns of gene expression to coordinate embryogenesis, but how spatiotemporal expression diversity is generated is an open question. In zebrafish, a BMP signaling gradient patterns the dorsal-ventral axis. We systematically identified target genes responding to BMP and found tha...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Rogers KW,ElGamacy M,Jordan BM,Müller P

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:While specific mutations allow organisms to adapt to stressful environments, most changes in an organism's DNA negatively impact fitness. The mutation rate is therefore strictly regulated and often considered a slowly-evolving parameter. In contrast, we demonstrate an unexpected flexibility in cellular mutation rates ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Swings T,Van den Bergh B,Wuyts S,Oeyen E,Voordeckers K,Verstrepen KJ,Fauvart M,Verstraeten N,Michiels J

更新日期：2017-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The spliceosome is a complex machine composed of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and accessory proteins that excises introns from pre-mRNAs. After assembly the spliceosome is activated for catalysis by rearrangement of subunits to form an active site. How this rearrangement is coordinated is not well-underst...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hoskins AA,Rodgers ML,Friedman LJ,Gelles J,Moore MJ

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Dedifferentiation of acini to duct-like cells occurs during the physiologic damage response in the pancreas, but this process can be co-opted by oncogenic Kras to drive carcinogenesis. Myeloid cells infiltrate the pancreas during the onset of pancreatic cancer, and promote carcinogenesis. Here, we show that the functi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhang Y,Yan W,Mathew E,Kane KT,Brannon A 3rd,Adoumie M,Vinta A,Crawford HC,Pasca di Magliano M

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments on Drosophila have shown that the histones that are normally bound to lipid droplets inside cells can be released to provide protection against infection. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kolter R

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals vary in their responses to stroke and trauma, hampering predictions of outcomes. One reason might be that neural circuits contain hidden variability that becomes relevant only when those individuals are challenged by injury. We found that in the mollusc, Tritonia diomedea, subtle differences between animal...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sakurai A,Tamvacakis AN,Katz PS

更新日期：2014-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms generating epileptic neuronal networks following insults such as severe seizures are unknown. We have previously shown that interfering with the function of the neuron-restrictive silencer factor (NRSF/REST), an important transcription factor that influences neuronal phenotype, attenuated development of...

journal_title：eLife

authors： McClelland S,Brennan GP,Dubé C,Rajpara S,Iyer S,Richichi C,Bernard C,Baram TZ

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishing how neurocircuit activation causes particular behaviors requires modulating the activity of specific neurons. Here, we demonstrate that magnetothermal genetic stimulation provides tetherless deep brain activation sufficient to evoke motor behavior in awake mice. The approach uses alternating magnetic fiel...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Munshi R,Qadri SM,Zhang Q,Castellanos Rubio I,Del Pino P,Pralle A

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous presence of inhibitory interneurons in the thalamus of primates contrasts with the sparsity of interneurons reported in mice. Here, we identify a larger than expected complexity and distribution of interneurons across the mouse thalamus, where all thalamic interneurons can be traced back to two developm...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jager P,Moore G,Calpin P,Durmishi X,Salgarella I,Menage L,Kita Y,Wang Y,Kim DW,Blackshaw S,Schultz SR,Brickley S,Shimogori T,Delogu A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00