Cell Biology

Large-scale identification of plasma membrane repair proteins revealed spatiotemporal cellular responses to plasma membrane damage

1. Yuta Yamazaki
2. Keiko Kono

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  This work provides an important resource identifying 72 proteins as novel candidates for plasma membrane and/or cell wall damage repair in budding yeast, and describes the temporal coordination of exocytosis and endocytosis during the repair process. The data are convincing; however, additional experimental validation will better support the claim that repair proteins shuttle between the bud tip and the damage site.

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Linking Germline Telomere Removal to Global Programmed DNA Elimination in Tetrahymena Genome Differentiation

1. Kohei Nagao
2. Kazufumi Mochizuki

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study reveals intriguing connections between chromosome breakage and DNA elimination during programmed genome rearrangement in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. By developing a novel FISH approach that distinguishes germline and somatic telomeres, the authors provide compelling evidence that chromosome breakage removes germline telomeres along with hundreds of kilobases of germline-limited sequences. By disrupting a single chromosome breakage site, they further showed that DNA elimination was globally affected, which opens up a new direction for mechanistic studies. Thus, this work reveals additional similarity between the programmed DNA elimination in ciliates and nematodes that underlies the transition from germline to somatic telomeres.

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Fission yeast cells use distinct cell size control mechanisms for size adaptation to osmotic, oxidative, or low glucose conditions

1. Elena J. Cabral
2. Pablo Andres
3. Geraldin Argandona
4. Paige Duggan
5. Benjamin M. Kuran
6. Kristi E. Miller

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Bone marrow hemogenic endothelial cells contribute multilineage hematopoietic progenitors in adult mice

1. Jing-Xin Feng
2. Mei-Ting Yang
3. Caiyi C. Li
4. Ferenc Livák
5. Abdalla Abdelmaksoud
6. Dunrui Wang
7. Giovanna Tosato

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  The study proposed hemogenic endothelium in adult BM using lineage tracing. Though the study is potentially valuable, the data is incomplete due to the lack of control and insufficient analysis. There is potential for the study to be improved by further revision.

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IP3R2 mediated inter-organelle Ca ²⁺ signaling orchestrates melanophagy

1. Suman Saurav
2. Rajender K Motiani

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Active flows drive clustering and sorting of membrane components with differential affinity to dynamic actin cytoskeleton

1. Abrar Bhat
2. Amit Das
3. Meenakshi Iyer
4. Sarayu Beri
5. Sankarshan Talluri
6. Darius Koester
7. Madan Rao
8. Satyajit Mayor

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The dynamics of ciliogenesis in prepubertal mouse meiosis reveal new clues about testicular maturation during puberty

1. I Pérez-Moreno
2. P López-Jiménez
3. H Zapata
4. S Pérez-Martín
5. M López-Panadés
6. B Barbeito
7. J Urtasun-Elizari
8. I Roig
9. FR Garcia-Gonzalo
10. J Page
11. R Gómez

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Non-synaptic exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the submembrane periodic skeleton

1. Theresa Wiesner
2. Christopher Parperis
3. Fanny Boroni-Rueda
4. Nicolas Jullien
5. Afonso Mendes
6. Léa Marie
7. Louisa Mezache
8. Marie-Jeanne Papandréou
9. Ricardo Henriques
10. Christophe Leterrier

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The environmental stress response controls the biophysical properties of the cytoplasm and is critical for survival in quiescence

1. Lorena Kronig
2. Carmen A. Weber
3. Pablo Aurelio Gómez-García
4. Jonas S. Fischer
5. Christian Doerig
6. Agnès Michel
7. Paolo Ronchi
8. Sarah Khawaja
9. Paola Picotti
10. Benoît Kornmann
11. Karsten Weis

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Cardiac neurons expressing a glucagon-like receptor mediate cardiac arrhythmia induced by high-fat diet in Drosophila

1. Yunpo Zhao
2. Jianli Duan
3. Joyce van de Leemput
4. Zhe Han

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  eLife Assessment

  This study reports useful information on the mechanisms by which a high-fat diet induces arrhythmias in the model organism Drosophila. Specifically, the authors propose that adipokinetic hormone (Akh) secretion is increased with this diet, and through binding of Akh to its receptor on cardiac neurons, arrhythmia is induced. The authors have revised their manuscript, but in some areas the evidence remains incomplete, which the authors say future studies will be directed to closing the present gaps. Nonetheless, the data presented will be helpful to those who wish to extend the research to a more complex model system, such as the mouse.

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