Cell Biology

Contractile perinuclear actomyosin network promotes peripheral and polar chromosome interaction with the mitotic spindle

1. Nooshin Sheidaei
2. John K Eykelenboom
3. Zuojun Yue
4. Graeme Ball
5. Alexander JR Booth
6. Tomoyuki U Tanaka

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study demonstrates that a perinuclear actomyosin network, present in some types of human cells, facilitates kinetochore-spindle attachment of chromosomes in unfavorable locations, thereby reducing their missegregation rate. This actomyosin network and its general role have been studied previously, but this study convincingly clarifies the underlying mechanism and expands the investigation to additional cell lines. The results are relevant to understanding chromosome missegregation in cancer cells.

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Muscular dystrophy-associated lamin variants disrupt cellular organization through a nucleolar-ribosomal axis controlling cytoplasmic macromolecular crowding

1. Xiangyi Ding
2. Sweta Kumari
3. Ellen Gregory
4. Daniel A. Starr
5. G. W. Gant Luxton

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Noncanonical amino acid incorporation enables minimally disruptive labeling of stress granule and TDP-43 proteinopathy

1. Hao Chen
2. Haocheng Wang
3. Yuning Lu
4. Peng Chen
5. Zhongfan Zheng
6. Tao Zhang
7. Jiou Wang

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  eLife Assessment

  This paper demonstrates that a genetic code expansion to tag two amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) proteins associated with stress granules is useful in an experimental context. The data are solid and demonstrate the feasibility of using ANAP-fluorescence for live cell imaging.

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Syntaxin11 Deficiency Inhibits CRAC Channel Priming to Suppress Cytotoxicity and Gene Expression in T Lymphocytes

1. Sritama Datta
2. Abhikarsh Gupta
3. Kunal Mukesh Jagetiya
4. Resmi Bera
5. Vikas Tiwari
6. Atharva Rahul Yande
7. Megumi Yamashita
8. Abdul Rishad
9. Vishal Malik
10. Sreejith Raran-Kurussi
11. Sandra Ammann
12. Mohammad Shahrooei
13. Kalyaneswar Mandal
14. Ramanathan Sowdhamini
15. Murali Prakriya
16. Adish Dani
17. Monika Vig

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  eLife Assessment

  This study reports a novel function for syntaxin 11, a specialized SNARE protein critical for the immune system whose mutations cause familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis type 4. The data convincingly show that depletion of STX11 impairs store-operated calcium entry in Jurkat T cells and that this defect is recapitulated in primary cells from a patient suffering from the disease; the authors further show that the syntaxin interacts with the pore subunit of the ORAI1 channel and propose that it primes the channel by promoting the assembly of multimers before activation by its endogenous ligand, the ER Ca2+ sensing protein STIM1. This is a conceptually important claim that challenges the prevailing view that all structural transitions in ORAI1 are STIM-driven. The data are high-quality and broadly consistent with the interpretation, but alternative mechanisms for the defects are not considered; additional work should rule out vesicular trafficking, discuss other mechanisms, and address methodological issues.

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The functional maturation of mouse spermatozoa is underpinned by global remodeling of the cellular phosphoproteome

1. David A. Skerrett-Byrne
2. Amanda L. Anderson
3. Raffaele Teperino
4. Nathan D. Burke
5. Elizabeth G. Bromfield
6. Matthew D. Dun
7. Valérie Gailus-Durner
8. Helmut Fuchs
9. Susan Marschall
10. Martin Hrabě de Angelis
11. Sean J. Humphrey
12. Brett Nixon

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Cell size modulates ferroptosis susceptibility

1. Evgeny Zatulovskiy
2. Magdalena B Murray
3. Shuyuan Zhang
4. Scott J Dixon
5. Jan M Skotheim

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study highlights how cell size influences various cellular responses, with a particular focus on ferroptosis. The evidence presented is convincing, employing multiple model systems and experimental approaches to support the conclusions. This work will be of significant interest to the fields of cell size, ferroptosis, and cancer biology.

  [Editors' note: this paper was reviewed by Review Commons.]

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Fibroblast alignment coordinates epithelial migration and maintains intestinal tissue integrity

1. Jordi Comelles
2. Aina Abad-Lázaro
3. Verónica Acevedo
4. David Bartolomé-Català
5. Aitor Otero-Tarrazón
6. Anna Esteve-Codina
7. Xavier Hernando-Momblona
8. Eduard Batlle
9. Vanesa Fernández-Majada
10. Elena Martinez

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Analysis of cancer mutations introduced into the Drosophila Notch Negative Regulatory Region uncovers a diversity of regulatory outcomes

1. Hideyuki Shimizu
2. Martin Baron

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study presents a technically rigorous and carefully controlled analysis of the signalling potential of cancer-associated gain-of-function Notch alleles. The work is clearly presented, and the experiments are robust, comprehensive, and well-controlled. While some data primarily establish the system or report negative findings, the comparative approach in a well-characterized model provides convincing mechanistic evidence for how these Notch variants function. This study will be of interest to researchers in both developmental and cancer biology.

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An ancient transcription factor functions as the master regulator of primary cilia formation

1. Weihua Wang
2. Xiqi Zhang
3. Yaxuan Qiu
4. Xiangrui Meng
5. Sitong Cheng
6. Yutong Chen
7. Siqi Liu
8. Wenhui Chen
9. Jiayan Yi
10. Xiwen You
11. Hongni Liu
12. Junqiao Xing
13. Cheng Xu
14. Haochen Jiang
15. Haibo Wang
16. Guangmei Tian
17. Zhangfeng Hu

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  eLife Assessment

  This useful study identified XAP5 as an ancient transcriptional regulator critical for primary ciliogenesis. The evidence supporting the conceptual framework linking evolutionary conservation to functional specialization in primary ciliogenesis remains incomplete. This work will be of interest to developmental biologists and to those studying diseases caused by ciliopathies.

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Spatiotemporal dynamics of DNA repair proteins between the Golgi and nucleus maintain genomic stability

1. George Galea
2. Karolina Kuodyte
3. Muzamil M. Khan
4. Peter Thul
5. Beate Neumann
6. Emma Lundberg
7. Rainer Pepperkok

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