Molecular Biology

RNA-Seq is not required to determine stable reference genes for qPCR normalization

1. Nirmal Kumar Sampathkumar
2. Venkat Krishnan Sundaram
3. Prakroothi S. Danthi
4. Rasha Barakat
5. Shiden Solomon
6. Mrityunjoy Mondal
7. Ivo Carre
8. Tatiana El Jalkh
9. Aïda Padilla-Ferrer
10. Julien Grenier
11. Charbel Massaad
12. Jacqueline C. Mitchell

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Rif2 protects Rap1-depleted telomeres from MRX-mediated degradation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1. Fernando Rodrigo Rosas Bringas
2. Sonia Stinus
3. Pien de Zoeten
4. Marita Cohn
5. Michael Chang

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This study investigates the tolerance to change in the sequence of telomere repeats, by analyzing a strain expressing mutant TLC1, the RNA component of the telomerase. The authors conclude that Rif2 protects telomere ends in the absence of RAP1 by inhibiting MRX and promoting Rad51-dependent homologous recombination to maintain telomere homeostasis. The study clarifies the role of Rif2 in telomere homeostais and describes how cells can extend telomeres and control senescence in the absence of Rap1 binding to telomeres. The possibility of coping with telomere sequence modification through flexibility and redundancy of capping proteins is of general interest in terms of telomere evolution.

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Exploring functional protein covariation across single cells using nPOP

1. Andrew Leduc
2. R. Gray Huffman
3. Joshua Cantlon
4. Saad Khan
5. Nikolai Slavov

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A rapid bead-based assay for screening of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies

1. Santhik Subhasingh Lupitha
2. Pramod Darvin
3. Aneesh Chandrasekharan
4. Shankara Narayanan Varadarajan
5. Soumya Jaya Divakaran
6. Sreekumar Easwaran
7. Shijulal Nelson-Sathi
8. Perunthottathu K Umasankar
9. Sara Jones
10. Iype Joseph
11. Madhavan Radhakrishna Pillai
12. Thankayyan Retnabai Santhoshkumar

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SARS-CoV-2 infects and replicates in photoreceptor and retinal ganglion cells of human retinal organoids

1. Yotam Menuchin-Lasowski
2. André Schreiber
3. Aarón Lecanda
4. Angeles Mecate-Zambrano
5. Linda Brunotte
6. Olympia E. Psathaki
7. Stephan Ludwig
8. Thomas Rauen
9. Hans R. Schöler

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Secondary Structure of Subgenomic RNA M of SARS-CoV-2

1. Marta Soszynska-Jozwiak
2. Agnieszka Ruszkowska
3. Ryszard Kierzek
4. Collin A. O’Leary
5. Walter N. Moss
6. Elzbieta Kierzek

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Highly resolved spatial transcriptomics for detection of rare events in cells

1. Silvia Groiss
2. Daniela Pabst
3. Cynthia Faber
4. Andreas Meier
5. Annette Bogdoll
6. Conny Unger
7. Benedikt Nilges
8. Sascha Strauss
9. Esther Föderl-Höbenreich
10. Melina Hardt
11. Andreas Geipel
12. Frank Reinecke
13. Christian Korfhage
14. Kurt Zatloukal

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A bacteria-based assay to study SARS-CoV-2 protein-protein interactions

1. Benjamin L. Springstein
2. Padraig Deighan
3. Grzegorz Grabe
4. Ann Hochschild

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ACE2 pathway regulates thermogenesis and energy metabolism

1. Xi Cao
2. Ting-Ting Shi
3. Chuan-Hai Zhang
4. Wan-Zhu Jin
5. Li-Ni Song
6. Yi-Chen Zhang
7. Jing-Yi Liu
8. Fang-Yuan Yang
9. Charles N Rotimi
10. Aimin Xu
11. Jin-Kui Yang

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  Evaluation Summary:

  With a series of elegant experiments, the authors have shown that the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) plays a critical role in thermogenesis. Involvement of brown fat and mitochondrial chain open new scenarios that may be helpful to define new target pathways for the treatment of obesity and diabetes.

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Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein palmitoylation reduces virus infectivity

1. Ahmed A. Ramadan
2. Karthick Mayilsamy
3. Andrew R. McGill
4. Anandita Ghosh
5. Marc A. Giulianotti
6. Haley M. Donow
7. Shyam S. Mohapatra
8. Subhra Mohapatra
9. Bala Chandran
10. Robert J. Deschenes
11. Arunava Roy

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