Large domains of heterochromatin direct the formation of short mitotic chromosome loops.

abstract：:The production of action sequences is a fundamental aspect of motor skills. To examine whether primary motor cortex (M1) is involved in maintenance of sequential movements, we trained two monkeys (Cebus apella) to perform two sequential reaching tasks. In one task, sequential movements were instructed by visual cues, ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ohbayashi M

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

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：:The membrane-bound transcription factor ATF6α plays a cytoprotective role in the unfolded protein response (UPR), required for cells to survive ER stress. Activation of ATF6α promotes cell survival in cancer models. We used cell-based screens to discover and develop Ceapins, a class of pyrazole amides, that block ATF6...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Gallagher CM,Garri C,Cain EL,Ang KK,Wilson CG,Chen S,Hearn BR,Jaishankar P,Aranda-Diaz A,Arkin MR,Renslo AR,Walter P

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster males perform a series of courtship behaviors that, when successful, result in copulation with a female. For over a century, mutations in the yellow gene, named for its effects on pigmentation, have been known to reduce male mating success. Prior work has suggested that yellow influences mating...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Massey JH,Chung D,Siwanowicz I,Stern DL,Wittkopp PJ

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat exchange mechanism in the head of kissing bugs helps to prevent stress and regulate their temperature while they feed on warm blood. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Benoit JB,Denlinger DL

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding temporal dynamics of COVID-19 symptoms could provide fine-grained resolution to guide clinical decision-making. Here, we use deep neural networks over an institution-wide platform for the augmented curation of clinical notes from 77,167 patients subjected to COVID-19 PCR testing. By contrasting Electroni...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wagner T,Shweta F,Murugadoss K,Awasthi S,Venkatakrishnan AJ,Bade S,Puranik A,Kang M,Pickering BW,O'Horo JC,Bauer PR,Razonable RR,Vergidis P,Temesgen Z,Rizza S,Mahmood M,Wilson WR,Challener D,Anand P,Liebers M,Doct

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrioles are microtubule-based organelles crucial for cell division, sensing and motility. In Caenorhabditis elegans, the onset of centriole formation requires notably the proteins SAS-5 and SAS-6, which have functional equivalents across eukaryotic evolution. Whereas the molecular architecture of SAS-6 and its role...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Rogala KB,Dynes NJ,Hatzopoulos GN,Yan J,Pong SK,Robinson CV,Deane CM,Gönczy P,Vakonakis I

更新日期：2015-05-29 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：:During development, neurons form synapses with their fate-determined targets. While we begin to elucidate the mechanisms by which extracellular ligand-receptor interactions enhance synapse specificity by inhibiting synaptogenesis, our knowledge about their intracellular mechanisms remains limited. Here we show that Ra...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chen X,Shibata AC,Hendi A,Kurashina M,Fortes E,Weilinger NL,MacVicar BA,Murakoshi H,Mizumoto K

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Junín virus (JUNV) is one of five New World mammarenaviruses (NWMs) that causes fatal hemorrhagic disease in humans and is the etiological agent of Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF). The pathogenesis underlying AHF is poorly understood; however, a prolonged, elevated interferon-α (IFN-α) response is associated with a ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hickerson BT,Sefing EJ,Bailey KW,Van Wettere AJ,Penichet ML,Gowen BB

更新日期：2020-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the crystal structure of nuclear import receptor Importin-9 bound to its cargo, the histones H2A-H2B. Importin-9 wraps around the core, globular region of H2A-H2B to form an extensive interface. The nature of this interface coupled with quantitative analysis of deletion mutants of H2A-H2B suggests that the N...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Padavannil A,Sarkar P,Kim SJ,Cagatay T,Jiou J,Brautigam CA,Tomchick DR,Sali A,D'Arcy S,Chook YM

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic sequencing has implicated large numbers of genes and de novo mutations as potential disease risk factors. A high throughput in vivo model system is needed to validate gene associations with pathology. We developed a Drosophila-based functional system to screen candidate disease genes identified from Congenital...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhu JY,Fu Y,Nettleton M,Richman A,Han Z

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoplasmic dyneins are motor proteins in the AAA+ superfamily that transport cellular cargos toward microtubule minus-ends. Recently, ciliobrevins were reported as selective cell-permeable inhibitors of cytoplasmic dyneins. As is often true for first-in-class inhibitors, the use of ciliobrevins has in part been limit...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Steinman JB,Santarossa CC,Miller RM,Yu LS,Serpinskaya AS,Furukawa H,Morimoto S,Tanaka Y,Nishitani M,Asano M,Zalyte R,Ondrus AE,Johnson AG,Ye F,Nachury MV,Fukase Y,Aso K,Foley MA,Gelfand VI,Chen JK,Carter AP,Kapo

更新日期：2017-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic placement of the morphologically simple placozoans is crucial to understanding the evolution of complex animal traits. Here, we examine the influence of adding new genomes from placozoans to a large dataset designed to study the deepest splits in the animal phylogeny. Using site-heterogeneous substitu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Laumer CE,Gruber-Vodicka H,Hadfield MG,Pearse VB,Riesgo A,Marioni JC,Giribet G

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy complications are poorly represented in the archeological record, despite their importance in contemporary and ancient societies. While excavating a Byzantine cemetery in Troy, we discovered calcified abscesses among a woman's remains. Scanning electron microscopy of the tissue revealed 'ghost cells', result...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Devault AM,Mortimer TD,Kitchen A,Kiesewetter H,Enk JM,Golding GB,Southon J,Kuch M,Duggan AT,Aylward W,Gardner SN,Allen JE,King AM,Wright G,Kuroda M,Kato K,Briggs DE,Fornaciari G,Holmes EC,Poinar HN,Pepperell CS

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer prevention is predicted to result in more positive therapeutic outcomes than post-diagnostic interventions, and so may be a viable option for future personalized medicine. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Komarova NL

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether somatic mutations contribute functional diversity to brain cells is a long-standing question. Single-neuron genomics enables direct measurement of somatic mutation rates in human brain and promises to answer this question. A recent study (Upton et al., 2015) reported high rates of somatic LINE-1 element (L1) r...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Evrony GD,Lee E,Park PJ,Walsh CA

更新日期：2016-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to dogma, evolutionarily young and dynamic genes can encode essential functions. We find that evolutionarily dynamic ZAD-ZNF genes, which encode the most abundant class of insect transcription factors, are more likely to encode essential functions in Drosophila melanogaster than ancient, conserved ZAD-ZNF gen...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kasinathan B,Colmenares SU 3rd,McConnell H,Young JM,Karpen GH,Malik HS

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pervasive expression of circular RNA is a recently discovered feature of eukaryotic gene expression programs, yet its function remains largely unknown. The presumed biogenesis of these RNAs involves a non-canonical 'backsplicing' event. Recent studies in mammalian cell culture posit that backsplicing is facilitated by...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Barrett SP,Wang PL,Salzman J

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed in Drosophila melanogaster embryos that low-affinity Ultrabithorax (Ubx)-responsive shavenbaby (svb) enhancers drive expression using localized transcriptional environments and that active svb enhancers on different chromosomes tended to colocalize (Tsai et al., 2017). Here, we test the hypothesis...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tsai A,Alves MR,Crocker J

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong kinetochore-microtubule attachments are essential for faithful segregation of sister chromatids during mitosis. The Dam1 and Ndc80 complexes are the main microtubule binding components of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae kinetochore. Cooperation between these two complexes enhances kinetochore-microtubule coupling ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kim JO,Zelter A,Umbreit NT,Bollozos A,Riffle M,Johnson R,MacCoss MJ,Asbury CL,Davis TN

更新日期：2017-02-13 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：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent illness that can be precipitated by acute or chronic stress. Studies of patients with Wolfram syndrome and carriers have identified Wfs1 mutations as causative for MDD. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is known to be involved in depression and behavioral resilience, al...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Shrestha P,Mousa A,Heintz N

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric disassembly of the synaptonemal complex (SC) is crucial for proper meiotic chromosome segregation. However, the signaling mechanisms that directly regulate this process are poorly understood. Here we show that the mammalian Rho GEF homolog, ECT-2, functions through the conserved RAS/ERK MAP kinase signaling...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nadarajan S,Mohideen F,Tzur YB,Ferrandiz N,Crawley O,Montoya A,Faull P,Snijders AP,Cutillas PR,Jambhekar A,Blower MD,Martinez-Perez E,Harper JW,Colaiacovo MP

更新日期：2016-02-27 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：:The design of synthetic optogenetic tools that allow precise spatiotemporal control of biological processes previously inaccessible to optogenetic control has developed rapidly over the last years. Rational design of such tools requires detailed knowledge of allosteric light signaling in natural photoreceptors. To und...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Heintz U,Schlichting I

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of polarity correlates with progression of epithelial cancers, but how plasma membrane misorganization drives oncogenic transcriptional events remains unclear. The polarity regulators of the Drosophila Scribble (Scrib) module are potent tumor suppressors and provide a model for mechanistic investigation. RNA prof...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bunker BD,Nellimoottil TT,Boileau RM,Classen AK,Bilder D

更新日期：2015-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Convenient, efficient and fast whole-brain delivery of transgenes presents a persistent experimental challenge in neuroscience. Recent advances demonstrate whole-brain gene delivery by retro-orbital injection of virus, but slow and sparse expression and the large injection volumes required make this approach cumbersom...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hamodi AS,Martinez Sabino A,Fitzgerald ND,Moschou D,Crair MC

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug treatment of 3D cancer spheroids more accurately reflects in vivo therapeutic responses compared to adherent culture studies. In EGFR-mutated lung adenocarcinoma, EGFR-TKIs show enhanced efficacy in spheroid cultures. Simultaneous inhibition of multiple parallel RTKs further enhances EGFR-TKI effectiveness. We sh...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Theard PL,Sheffels E,Sealover NE,Linke AJ,Pratico DJ,Kortum RL

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomes are universally important in biology and their production is dysregulated by developmental disorders, cancer, and virus infection. Although presumed required for protein synthesis, how ribosome biogenesis impacts virus reproduction and cell-intrinsic immune responses remains untested. Surprisingly, we find t...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Bianco C,Mohr I

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00