Cell Biology

Upregulated flotillins and sphingosine kinase 2 derail AXL vesicular traffic to promote epithelial-mesenchymal transition

1. Mallory Genest
2. Franck Comunale
3. Damien Planchon
4. Pauline Govindin
5. Dune Noly
6. Sophie Vacher
7. Ivan Bièche
8. Bruno Robert
9. Himanshu Malhotra
10. Andreas Schoenit
11. Liubov A. Tashireva
12. Josefina Casas
13. Cécile Gauthier-Rouvière
14. Stéphane Bodin

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Differential interferon-α subtype immune signatures suppress SARS-CoV-2 infection

1. J. Schuhenn
2. T.L. Meister
3. D. Todt
4. T. Bracht
5. K. Schork
6. J.-N. Billaud
7. C. Elsner
8. N Heinen
9. Z. Karakoese
10. S. Haid
11. S. Kumar
12. L. Brunotte
13. M. Eisenacher
14. J. Chen
15. Z Yuan
16. T. Pietschmann
17. B. Wiegmann
18. H. Beckert
19. C. Taube
20. VTK. Le-Trilling
21. M. Trilling
22. A. Krawczyk
23. S. Ludwig
24. B. Sitek
25. E. Steinmann
26. U. Dittmer
27. K. Sutter
28. S. Pfaender

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A  conserved ubiquitin- and ESCRT-dependent pathway internalizes human lysosomal membrane proteins for degradation

1. Weichao Zhang
2. Xi Yang
3. Liang Chen
4. Yun-Yu Liu
5. Varsha Venkatarangan
6. Lucas Reist
7. Phyllis Hanson
8. Haoxing Xu
9. Yanzhuang Wang
10. Ming Li

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Protective mitochondrial fission induced by stress-responsive protein GJA1-20k

1. Daisuke Shimura
2. Esther Nuebel
3. Rachel Baum
4. Steven E Valdez
5. Shaohua Xiao
6. Junco S Warren
7. Joseph A Palatinus
8. TingTing Hong
9. Jared Rutter
10. Robin M Shaw

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This study identifies a cardioprotective factor, GJA1-20k (a truncated form of Cx43), which appears to confer protection against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury via promotion of mitochondrial fission. This finding is particularly interesting given that hyperfission is generally thought of as an index of toxicity in I/R or hypoxic injury. I/R lesion size in a GJA1 heterozygous mutant mouse is strikingly exacerbated compared to control animals, providing strong in vivo evidence supporting a role for this factor in protection from I/R. However, while the findings are interesting and novel, key results require additional experimental support, including to address the lack of key control data, and a significant revision will be necessary to address these issues.

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Immunolocalization studies of vimentin and ACE2 on the surface of cells exposed to SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins

1. Vasiliki Lalioti
2. Silvia González-Sanz
3. Irene Lois-Bermejo
4. Patricia González-Jiménez
5. Álvaro Viedma-Poyatos
6. Andrea Merino
7. María A. Pajares
8. Dolores Pérez-Sala

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Design principles of the ESCRT-III Vps24-Vps2 module

1. Sudeep Banjade
2. Yousuf H Shah
3. Shaogeng Tang
4. Scott D Emr

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Different ESCRT-III subunits share sequence similarity but have been characterized in distinct conformations and perform distinct roles in the polymerization process that is central to ESCRT membrane fission pathways. Here it is shown that mutations in one ESCRT-III subunit can compensate for loss of a different subunit by encoding the specialized roles of both subunits within one polypeptide. These findings will be of interest to investigators studying ESCRT pathway mechanisms and those more generally interested in the adaptability of protein sequences and functions.

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High-fidelity, efficient, and reversible labeling of endogenous proteins using CRISPR-based designer exon insertion

1. Haining Zhong
2. Cesar C Ceballos
3. Crystian I Massengill
4. Michael A Muniak
5. Lei Ma
6. Maozhen Qin
7. Stefanie Kaech Petrie
8. Tianyi Mao

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The reviewers found your description of the new method interesting and potentially useful for the field. They raised concerns about fusion protein's functionality and reagent accessibility among other technical questions.

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DLL4 and PDGF-BB regulate migration of human iPSC-derived skeletal myogenic progenitors

1. Giulia Ferrari
2. SungWoo Choi
3. Louise A. Moyle
4. Kirsty Mackinlay
5. Naira Naouar
6. Christine Wells
7. Francesco Muntoni
8. Francesco Saverio Tedesco

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Rabaptin5 targets autophagy to damaged endosomes and Salmonella vacuoles via FIP200 and ATG16L1

1. Valentina Millarte
2. Simon Schlienger
3. Simone Kälin
4. Martin Spiess

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A New Model of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Based on (Hydroxy) Chloroquine Activity

1. Robert J. Sheaff

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