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Latest articles

    1. Cell Biology

    Naa10 regulates hippocampal neurite outgrowth via Btbd3 N-α-acetylation-mediated actin dynamics

    Chien-Te Chou, Ming-Lun Kang ... Li-Jung Juan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary rescue of spherical mreB deletion mutants of the rod-shape bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25

    P Richard J Yulo, Nicolas Desprat ... Heather L Hendrickson
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    TPR is required for cytoplasmic chromatin fragment formation during senescence

    Bethany M Bartlett, Yatendra Kumar ... Wendy A Bickmore
    Evidence is provided suggesting that heterochromatin re-organisation during cell senescence can compromise the structural integrity of the nucleus, leading to activation of an inflammatory process.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Medicine

    Long non-coding RNA Malat1 fine-tunes bone homeostasis and repair by orchestrating cellular crosstalk and β-catenin-OPG/Jagged1 pathway

    Yongli Qin, Jumpei Shirakawa ... Baohong Zhao
    Malat1 is a key skeletal regulator, unveiling how lncRNAs integrate cellular crosstalk and molecular networks to regulate bone remodeling and regeneration, establishing a novel paradigm in tissue homeostasis and repair.
    1. Cell Biology

    Impairment of lipid homeostasis causes lysosomal accumulation of endogenous protein aggregates through ESCRT disruption

    John Yong, Jacqueline E Villalta ... Calvin H Jan
    Genome-wide CRISPRi screens and proteome profiling of lysosomes link lipid dysregulation to ESCRT disruption and proteostasis defect.
    1. Cell Biology

    Genome concentration limits cell growth and modulates proteome composition in Escherichia coli

    Jarno Mäkelä, Alexandros Papagiannakis ... Christine Jacobs-Wagner
    Genome dilution limits cell growth by modulating the activities, rather than the concentrations, of RNA polymerases and ribosomes, and is accompanied by changes in proteome composition.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Human formin FHOD3-mediated actin elongation is required for sarcomere integrity in cardiomyocytes

    Dylan A Valencia, Angela N Koeberlein ... Margot E Quinlan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Cell Biology

    A fat-2(wa17) suppressor screen in C. elegans reveals genetic adaptations to polyunsaturated fatty acid deficiency

    Delaney Kaper, Uroš Radović ... Marc Pilon
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1

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    University of Barcelona, Spain
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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    University of Geneva, Switzerland
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