Dual histone methyl reader ZCWPW1 facilitates repair of meiotic double strand breaks in male mice.

abstract：:Claims that magnetic fields can be used to manipulate biological systems contradict some basic laws of physics. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Anikeeva P,Jasanoff A

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A pair of neurons is required for nematodes to be able to navigate using the Earth's magnetic field. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Rankin CH,Lin CH

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The >800 human G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are responsible for transducing diverse chemical stimuli to alter cell state- and are the largest class of drug targets. Their myriad structural conformations and various modes of signaling make it challenging to understand their structure and function. Here, we devel...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Jones EM,Lubock NB,Venkatakrishnan AJ,Wang J,Tseng AM,Paggi JM,Latorraca NR,Cancilla D,Satyadi M,Davis JE,Babu MM,Dror RO,Kosuri S

更新日期：2020-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A major puzzle in biology is how mammalian sperm maintain the correct swimming direction during various phases of the sexual reproduction process. Whilst chemotaxis may dominate near the ovum, it is unclear which cues guide spermatozoa on their long journey towards the egg. Hypothesized mechanisms range from peristalt...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kantsler V,Dunkel J,Blayney M,Goldstein RE

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical force and Wnt signaling activate β-catenin-mediated transcription to promote proliferation and tissue expansion. However, it is unknown whether mechanical force and Wnt signaling act independently or synergize to activate β-catenin signaling and cell division. We show that mechanical strain induced Src-depe...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Benham-Pyle BW,Sim JY,Hart KC,Pruitt BL,Nelson WJ

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin filaments assemble inside the nucleus in response to multiple cellular perturbations, including heat shock, protein misfolding, integrin engagement, and serum stimulation. We find that DNA damage also generates nuclear actin filaments-detectable by phalloidin and live-cell actin probes-with three characteristic ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Belin BJ,Lee T,Mullins RD

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Being exposed to cannabinoids in the womb has different consequences for male and female rats. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Musardo S,Bellone C

更新日期：2018-09-28 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：: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：:A strain of budding yeast that contains one large chromosome reveals how the telomere capping complex CST maintains linear but not circular chromosomes. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nugent C,Sugimoto K

更新日期：2020-08-05 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：: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：:The enteric nervous system controls a variety of gastrointestinal functions including intestinal motility. The minimal neuronal circuit necessary to direct peristalsis is well-characterized but several intestinal regions display also other motility patterns for which the underlying circuits and connectivity schemes th...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Li Z,Hao MM,Van den Haute C,Baekelandt V,Boesmans W,Vanden Berghe P

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We present in vivo single-cell FRET measurements in the Escherichia coli chemotaxis system that reveal pervasive signaling variability, both across cells in isogenic populations and within individual cells over time. We quantify cell-to-cell variability of adaptation, ligand response, as well as steady-state output le...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Keegstra JM,Kamino K,Anquez F,Lazova MD,Emonet T,Shimizu TS

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain remains notoriously difficult to treat despite numerous drug targets. Here, we offer a novel explanation for this intractability. Computer simulations predicted that qualitative changes in primary afferent excitability linked to neuropathic pain arise through a switch in spike initiation dynamics when...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ratté S,Zhu Y,Lee KY,Prescott SA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrites shape information flow in neurons. Yet, there is little consensus on the level of spatial complexity at which they operate. Through carefully chosen parameter fits, solvable in the least-squares sense, we obtain accurate reduced compartmental models at any level of complexity. We show that (back-propagating)...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wybo WA,Jordan J,Ellenberger B,Marti Mengual U,Nevian T,Senn W

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical imaging has become a powerful tool for studying brains in vivo. The opacity of adult brains makes microendoscopy, with an optical probe such as a gradient index (GRIN) lens embedded into brain tissue to provide optical relay, the method of choice for imaging neurons and neural activity in deeply buried brain s...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Meng G,Liang Y,Sarsfield S,Jiang WC,Lu R,Dudman JT,Aponte Y,Ji N

更新日期：2019-01-04 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：:Cognitive functions such as working memory (WM) are emergent properties of large-scale network interactions. Synchronisation of oscillatory activity might contribute to WM by enabling the coordination of long-range processes. However, causal evidence for the way oscillatory activity shapes network dynamics and behavio...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Violante IR,Li LM,Carmichael DW,Lorenz R,Leech R,Hampshire A,Rothwell JC,Sharp DJ

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid sterility is one of the reproductive isolation mechanisms leading to speciation. Prdm9, the only known vertebrate hybrid-sterility gene, causes failure of meiotic chromosome synapsis and infertility in male hybrids that are the offspring of two mouse subspecies. Within species, Prdm9 determines the sites of pro...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gregorova S,Gergelits V,Chvatalova I,Bhattacharyya T,Valiskova B,Fotopulosova V,Jansa P,Wiatrowska D,Forejt J

更新日期：2018-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular architecture of the ventral tegmental area (VTA), the main hub of the brain reward system, remains only partially characterized. To extend the characterization to inhibitory neurons, we have identified three distinct subtypes of somatostatin (Sst)-expressing neurons in the mouse VTA. These neurons differ ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nagaeva E,Zubarev I,Bengtsson Gonzales C,Forss M,Nikouei K,de Miguel E,Elsilä L,Linden AM,Hjerling-Leffler J,Augustine GJ,Korpi ER

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer stem cells (BCSCs) contribute to intra-tumoral heterogeneity and therapeutic resistance. However, the binary concept of universal BCSCs co-existing with bulk tumor cells is over-simplified. Through single-cell RNA-sequencing, we found that Neu, PyMT and BRCA1-null mammary tumors each corresponded to a sp...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Yeo SK,Zhu X,Okamoto T,Hao M,Wang C,Lu P,Lu LJ,Guan JL

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Metazoan development depends on tightly regulated gene expression programs that instruct progenitor cells to adopt specialized fates. Recent work found that posttranslational modifications, such as monoubiquitylation, can determine cell fate also independently of effects on transcription, yet how monoubiquitylation is...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Werner A,Baur R,Teerikorpi N,Kaya DU,Rape M

更新日期：2018-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual perception and behavior are mediated by cortical areas that have been distinguished using architectonic and retinotopic criteria. We employed fluorescence imaging and GCaMP6 reporter mice to generate retinotopic maps, revealing additional regions of retinotopic organization that extend into barrel and retrosple...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhuang J,Ng L,Williams D,Valley M,Li Y,Garrett M,Waters J

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional Ly6Chi monocytes have developmental plasticity for a spectrum of differentiated phagocytes. Here we show, using conditional deletion strategies in a mouse model of Toll-like receptor (TLR) 7-induced inflammation, that the spectrum of developmental cell fates of Ly6Chi monocytes, and the resultant inflamma...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gamrekelashvili J,Kapanadze T,Sablotny S,Ratiu C,Dastagir K,Lochner M,Karbach S,Wenzel P,Sitnow A,Fleig S,Sparwasser T,Kalinke U,Holzmann B,Haller H,Limbourg FP

更新日期：2020-07-29 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：: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：: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：:Postmitotic tissues are incapable of replacing damaged cells through proliferation, but need to rely on buffering mechanisms to prevent tissue disintegration. By constitutively activating the Ras/MAPK-pathway via RasV12-overexpression in the postmitotic salivary glands of Drosophila larvae, we overrode the glands adap...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Krautz R,Khalili D,Theopold U

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans are motivated to seek information from their environment. How the brain motivates this behavior is unknown. One speculation is that the brain employs neuromodulatory systems implicated in primary reward-seeking, in particular dopamine, to instruct information-seeking. However, there has been no causal test for ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Vellani V,de Vries LP,Gaule A,Sharot T

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00