Cell Biology

Golgi compaction facilitates microtubule nucleation to drive adult vertebrate peripheral neuron regeneration

1. Alice E Mortimer
2. Adam J Reid
3. Raman M Das

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LAPTM4B Alleviates Pulmonary Fibrosis by Enhancing NEDD4L-Mediated TGF-β Signaling Suppression

1. Kai Xu
2. Xiaoyue Pan
3. Hui Lian
4. Yaxuan Wang
5. Ruyan Wan
6. Zhongzheng Li
7. Xin Pan
8. Yajun Li
9. Juntang Yang
10. Ivan Rosas
11. Lan Wang
12. Guoying Yu

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  eLife Assessment

  In this valuable manuscript, the authors propose that the lysosomal protein LAPTM4B plays a role in suppressing the TGF-β/SMAD signaling pathway and suggest that enhancing LAPTM4B function could be a potential therapeutic strategy for alleviating bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis. The findings will be of interest to the lung disease field, and the data presented to support the authors' conclusions is solid. However, it remains unclear whether the suppressive effect of LAPTM4b on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is mediated by Nedd4l.

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Cigarette smoke impairs the endocytotic process in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1. Aditya Shukla
2. Srimonti Sarkar
3. Alok Kumar Sil

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Global coordination of protrusive forces in migrating immune cells

1. Patricia Reis-Rodrigues
2. Nikola Canigova
3. Mario J. Avellaneda
4. Florian Gaertner
5. Kari Vaahtomeri
6. Michael Riedl
7. Jack Merrin
8. Robert Hauschild
9. Yoshinori Fukui
10. Alba Juanes Garcia
11. Michael Sixt

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Pharmacologically inducing regenerative cardiac cells by small molecule drugs

1. Wei Zhou
2. Kezhang He
3. Chiyin Wang
4. Pengqi Wang
5. Dan Wang
6. Bowen Wang
7. Han Geng
8. Hong Lian
9. Tianhua Ma
10. Yu Nie
11. Sheng Ding

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  eLife Assessment

  This manuscript offers valuable information on the combinatory effect of small molecules, CHIR99021 and A-485 (2C), during the reprogramming of mature cardiomyocytes into regenerative cardiac cells on stimulating cardiac cell regeneration. Although the study used several hESC lines and an in vivo model of myocardial injury to demonstrate the regenerative potential of cardiac cells, the manuscript is still incomplete as several concerns remain unanswered, including the lack of validation of the conclusions from scRNA-seq. It is still unclear how a small fraction of dedifferentiating cardiac cells can offer such broad effects on regeneration both in vitro and in vivo. If validated, this study might unlock potential therapeutic strategies for cardiac regeneration.

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Ciliary length regulation by intraflagellar transport in zebrafish

1. Yi Sun
2. Zhe Chen
3. Minjun Jin
4. Haibo Xie
5. Chengtian Zhao

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  eLife Assessment

  The manuscript represents a valuable conceptual and technical contribution to our understanding of ciliogenesis and intraflagellar transport in vertebrates. Through a series of solid and technically superb live imaging experiments to directly visualize intraflagellar transport in various zebrafish ciliated tissues, the authors unveil the surprising breadth of intraflagellar transport speed among differing organs and link this to cell type-specific differences in cilia length and intraflagellar transport train size. This work will be of broad interest to researchers in numerous fields, including development, cell biology, and imaging.

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Epigenetic deprogramming driven by disruption of CIZ1-RNA nuclear assemblies in early-stage breast cancers

1. Dawn Coverley

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Mechanical Centrosome Fracturing during Cell Navigation

1. Madeleine T. Schmitt
2. Mauricio J.A. Ruiz-Fernandez
3. Kasia Stefanowski
4. Janina Kroll
5. Robert Hauschild
6. Jack Merrin
7. Thomas Penz
8. Eva Kiermaier
9. Christoph Bock
10. Tobias Straub
11. Jörg Renkawitz

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Quantitative Comparison of Monomeric StayGold Variants Using Protein Nanocages in Living Cells

1. Giulia Viola
2. Kyle A. Jacobs
3. Joël Lemière
4. Matthew L. Kutys
5. Torsten Wittmann

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Visualizing sarcomere and cellular dynamics in skeletal muscle to improve cell therapies

1. Judith Hüttemeister
2. Franziska Rudolph
3. Michael H Radke
4. Claudia Fink
5. Dhana Friedrich
6. Stephan Preibisch
7. Martin Falcke
8. Eva Wagner
9. Stephan E Lehnart
10. Michael Gotthardt

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  eLife Assessment

  This study offers valuable information on how titin derived from different nuclei within the syncytium is organized and integrated during skeletal muscle development and remodeling. The authors developed a novel mCherry titin knock-in mice with the fluorophore mCherry inserted into titin's Z-disk region to track the titin during cell fusion. The approach using mcherry adds to understanding of the role and localization of titin in controlling stiffness of striated muscles and fine tuning contraction. The results demonstrate that the integration of titin into the sarcomere is tightly regulated, with its unexpected mobility aiding in the uniform distribution of titin post-cell fusion. Although the experimental approach is convincing, the work is very qualitative in its approaches, and the data needs rigorous statistical analysis. There is a need for some clarification concerning numbers of animals and control groups. Future studies will need more rigorous data analysis and interpretation.

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