abstract：:The multi-domain splicing factor RBM5 regulates the balance between antagonistic isoforms of the apoptosis-control genes FAS/CD95, Caspase-2 and AID. An OCRE (OCtamer REpeat of aromatic residues) domain found in RBM5 is important for alternative splicing regulation and mediates interactions with components of the U4/U...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mourão A,Bonnal S,Soni K,Warner L,Bordonné R,Valcárcel J,Sattler M

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin is the master regulator of systemic iron homeostasis. Derived primarily from the liver, it inhibits the iron exporter ferroportin in the gut and spleen, the sites of iron absorption and recycling respectively. Recently, we demonstrated that ferroportin is also found in cardiomyocytes, and that its cardiac-spe...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lakhal-Littleton S,Wolna M,Chung YJ,Christian HC,Heather LC,Brescia M,Ball V,Diaz R,Santos A,Biggs D,Clarke K,Davies B,Robbins PA

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Polypyrimidine-tract binding protein PTBP1 can repress splicing during the exon definition phase of spliceosome assembly, but the assembly steps leading to an exon definition complex (EDC) and how PTBP1 might modulate them are not clear. We found that PTBP1 binding in the flanking introns allowed normal U2AF and U1 sn...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Wongpalee SP,Vashisht A,Sharma S,Chui D,Wohlschlegel JA,Black DL

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective autophagy is mediated by cargo receptors that link the cargo to the isolation membrane via interactions with Atg8 proteins. Atg8 proteins are localized to the membrane in an ubiquitin-like conjugation reaction, but how this conjugation is coupled to the presence of the cargo is unclear. Here we show that the...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fracchiolla D,Sawa-Makarska J,Zens B,Ruiter A,Zaffagnini G,Brezovich A,Romanov J,Runggatscher K,Kraft C,Zagrovic B,Martens S

更新日期：2016-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian lifespan differs by >100 fold, but the mechanisms associated with such longevity differences are not understood. Here, we conducted a study on primary skin fibroblasts isolated from 16 species of mammals and maintained under identical cell culture conditions. We developed a pipeline for obtaining species-spe...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Ma S,Upneja A,Galecki A,Tsai YM,Burant CF,Raskind S,Zhang Q,Zhang ZD,Seluanov A,Gorbunova V,Clish CB,Miller RA,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2016-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia are known to be involved in the planning, execution and control of gripping force and movement vigour. Here we aim to define the nature of the basal ganglia control signal for force and to decode gripping force based on local field potential (LFP) activities recorded from the subthalamic nucleus (STN...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tan H,Pogosyan A,Ashkan K,Green AL,Aziz T,Foltynie T,Limousin P,Zrinzo L,Hariz M,Brown P

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The link between the combined action of neuromodulators in the brain and global brain states remains a mystery. In this study, using biophysically realistic models of the thalamocortical network, we identified the critical intrinsic and synaptic mechanisms, associated with the putative action of acetylcholine (ACh), G...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Krishnan GP,Chauvette S,Shamie I,Soltani S,Timofeev I,Cash SS,Halgren E,Bazhenov M

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 infection cannot be cured because the virus persists as integrated proviral DNA in long-lived cells despite years of suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART). In a previous paper (Zanini et al, 2015) we documented HIV-1 evolution in 10 untreated patients. Here we characterize establishment, turnover, and evoluti...

journal_title：eLife

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

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits that control copulation in male flies have been identified. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Levine J

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroligins (NLGNs) are postsynaptic cell adhesion molecules that interact trans-synaptically with neurexins to mediate synapse development and function. NLGN2 is only at inhibitory synapses while NLGN3 is at both excitatory and inhibitory synapses. We found that NLGN3 function at inhibitory synapses in rat CA1 depend...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Nguyen QA,Horn ME,Nicoll RA

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:bicoid mRNA localises to the Drosophila oocyte anterior from stage 9 of oogenesis onwards to provide a local source for Bicoid protein for embryonic patterning. Live imaging at stage 9 reveals that bicoid mRNA particles undergo rapid Dynein-dependent movements near the oocyte anterior, but with no directional bias. Fu...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Trovisco V,Belaya K,Nashchekin D,Irion U,Sirinakis G,Butler R,Lee JJ,Gavis ER,St Johnston D

更新日期：2016-10-28 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：:Evolution persistently undermines vector control programs through insecticide resistance. Here we propose a novel strategy which instead exploits evolution to generate and sustain new control tools. Effective spatial repellents are needed to keep vectors out of houses. Our approach generates such new repellents by com...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lynch PA,Boots M

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A small transparent crustacean called Parhyale hawaiensis has become a powerful model system for the study of limb and appendage regeneration. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Amaya E

更新日期：2016-10-25 00:00:00

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：:Trypanosome parasites are hiding in human skin, a discovery that may undermine efforts to eliminate sleeping sickness by 2020. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Casas-Sánchez A,Acosta-Serrano Á

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporary circuits amplify spontaneous activity in the visual system of neonatal rats. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Fogerson PM,Huguenard JR

更新日期：2016-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Notch signaling plays a crucial role in controling the proliferation and differentiation of stem and progenitor cells during embryogenesis or organogenesis, but its regulation is incompletely understood. BLOS2, encoded by the Bloc1s2 gene, is a shared subunit of two lysosomal trafficking complexes, biogenesis of lysos...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Zhou W,He Q,Zhang C,He X,Cui Z,Liu F,Li W

更新日期：2016-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type inactivation of potassium channels fine-tunes the electrical signaling in excitable cells through an internal timing mechanism that is mediated by a hydrogen bond network in the channels' selectively filter. Previously, we used nonsense suppression to highlight the role of the conserved Trp434-Asp447 indole hyd...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Lueck JD,Mackey AL,Infield DT,Galpin JD,Li J,Roux B,Ahern CA

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to cell death signals, an active apoptosome is assembled from Apaf-1 and procaspase-9 (pc-9). Here we report a near atomic structure of the active human apoptosome determined by cryo-electron microscopy. The resulting model gives insights into cytochrome c binding, nucleotide exchange and conformational ch...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Cheng TC,Hong C,Akey IV,Yuan S,Akey CW

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral replicase recruitment and long-range RNA interactions are essential for RNA virus replication, yet the mechanism of their interplay remains elusive. Flaviviruses include numerous important human pathogens, e.g., dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV). Here, we revealed a highly conserved, conformation-tunable...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Liu ZY,Li XF,Jiang T,Deng YQ,Ye Q,Zhao H,Yu JY,Qin CF

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticostriatal afferents can engage parvalbumin-expressing (PV+) interneurons to rapidly curtail the activity of striatal projection neurons (SPNs), thus shaping striatal output. Schemes of basal ganglia circuit dynamics generally consider striatal PV+ interneurons to be homogenous, despite considerable heterogeneity...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Garas FN,Shah RS,Kormann E,Doig NM,Vinciati F,Nakamura KC,Dorst MC,Smith Y,Magill PJ,Sharott A

更新日期：2016-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:LAMP1 and LAMP2 proteins are highly abundant, ubiquitous, mammalian proteins that line the lysosome limiting membrane, and protect it from lysosomal hydrolase action. LAMP2 deficiency causes Danon's disease, an X-linked hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. LAMP2 is needed for chaperone-mediated autophagy, and its expression i...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Li J,Pfeffer SR

更新日期：2016-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the brain captures transient experience and converts it into long lasting changes in neural circuits requires the identification and investigation of the specific ensembles of neurons that are responsible for the encoding of each experience. We have developed a Robust Activity Marking (RAM) system th...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Sørensen AT,Cooper YA,Baratta MV,Weng FJ,Zhang Y,Ramamoorthi K,Fropf R,LaVerriere E,Xue J,Young A,Schneider C,Gøtzsche CR,Hemberg M,Yin JC,Maier SF,Lin Y

更新日期：2016-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their importance in sexual differentiation and reproduction, Y chromosome genes are rarely described because they reside in repeat-rich regions that are difficult to study. Here, we show that Guy1, a unique Y chromosome gene of a major urban malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi, confers 100% female lethality w...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Criscione F,Qi Y,Tu Z

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a severe birth defect. Wt1-null mouse embryos develop CDH but the mechanisms regulated by WT1 are unknown. We have generated a murine model with conditional deletion of WT1 in the lateral plate mesoderm, using the G2 enhancer of the Gata4 gene as a driver. 80% of G2-Gata4(Cre);...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Carmona R,Cañete A,Cano E,Ariza L,Rojas A,Muñoz-Chápuli R

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies had shown that the integration of genome wide expression profiles, in metabolic tissues, with genetic and phenotypic variance, provided valuable insight into the underlying molecular mechanisms. We used RNA-Seq to characterize hypothalamic transcriptome in 99 inbred strains of mice from the Hybrid Mou...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hasin-Brumshtein Y,Khan AH,Hormozdiari F,Pan C,Parks BW,Petyuk VA,Piehowski PD,Brümmer A,Pellegrini M,Xiao X,Eskin E,Smith RD,Lusis AJ,Smith DJ

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary changes in transcription networks are an important source of diversity across species, yet the quantitative consequences of network evolution have rarely been studied. Here we consider the transcriptional 'rewiring' of the three GAL genes that encode the enzymes needed for cells to convert galactose to gl...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Dalal CK,Zuleta IA,Mitchell KF,Andes DR,El-Samad H,Johnson AD

更新日期：2016-09-10 00:00:00

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：:One of the major unanswered questions in evolutionary biology is when and how the transition between diderm (two membranes) and monoderm (one membrane) cell envelopes occurred in Bacteria. The Negativicutes and the Halanaerobiales belong to the classically monoderm Firmicutes, but possess outer membranes with lipopoly...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Antunes LC,Poppleton D,Klingl A,Criscuolo A,Dupuy B,Brochier-Armanet C,Beloin C,Gribaldo S

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ki-67 and RepoMan have key roles during mitotic exit. Previously, we showed that Ki-67 organizes the mitotic chromosome periphery and recruits protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) to chromatin at anaphase onset, in a similar manner as RepoMan (Booth et al., 2014). Here we show how Ki-67 and RepoMan form mitotic exit phosphatas...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Kumar GS,Gokhan E,De Munter S,Bollen M,Vagnarelli P,Peti W,Page R

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief periods of sleep loss have long-lasting consequences such as impaired memory consolidation. Structural changes in synaptic connectivity have been proposed as a substrate of memory storage. Here, we examine the impact of brief periods of sleep deprivation on dendritic structure. In mice, we find that five hours o...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Havekes R,Park AJ,Tudor JC,Luczak VG,Hansen RT,Ferri SL,Bruinenberg VM,Poplawski SG,Day JP,Aton SJ,Radwańska K,Meerlo P,Houslay MD,Baillie GS,Abel T

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Smoothened (Smo) inhibition by Patched (Ptch) is central to Hedgehog (Hh) signaling. Ptch, a proton driven antiporter, is required for Smo inhibition via an unknown mechanism. Hh ligand binding to Ptch reverses this inhibition and activated Smo initiates the Hh response. To determine whether Ptch inhibits Smo strictly...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Roberts B,Casillas C,Alfaro AC,Jägers C,Roelink H

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A new study reveals that a protein called talin forms a vital link between microtubules and focal adhesions at the surface of cells. ...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Armitage SK,Plotnikov SV

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered insulin signaling has been linked to widespread nervous system dysfunction including cognitive dysfunction, neuropathy and susceptibility to neurodegenerative disease. However, knowledge of the cellular mechanisms underlying the effects of insulin on neuronal function is incomplete. Here, we show that cell aut...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Mahoney RE,Azpurua J,Eaton BA

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nervous systems distinguish between self- and other-generated movements by monitoring discrepancies between planned and performed actions. To do so, corollary discharges are conveyed to sensory areas and gate expected reafference. Such gating is observed in neonatal rats during wake-related movements. In contrast, twi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Tiriac A,Blumberg MS

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between membrane protein interfaces in lipid bilayers play an important role in membrane protein folding but quantification of the strength of these interactions has been challenging. Studying dimerization of ClC-type transporters offers a new approach to the problem, as individual subunits adopt a stable...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Chadda R,Krishnamani V,Mersch K,Wong J,Brimberry M,Chadda A,Kolmakova-Partensky L,Friedman LJ,Gelles J,Robertson JL

更新日期：2016-08-03 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：:Newly born cells either continue to proliferate or exit the cell division cycle. This decision involves delaying expression of Cyclin E that promotes DNA replication. ORC1, the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) large subunit, is inherited into newly born cells after it binds to condensing chromosomes during the precedi...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Hossain M,Stillman B

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fluc family of F(-) ion channels protects prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes from the toxicity of environmental F(-). In bacteria, these channels are built as dual-topology dimers whereby the two subunits assemble in antiparallel transmembrane orientation. Recent crystal structures suggested that Fluc channels conta...

journal_title：eLife

authors： Last NB,Kolmakova-Partensky L,Shane T,Miller C

更新日期：2016-07-23 00:00:00