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1. Dendritic cell Piezo1 directs the differentiation of TH1 and Treg cells in cancer

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Yuexin Wang
   2. Hui Yang
   3. Anna Jia
   4. Yufei Wang
   5. Qiuli Yang
   6. Yingjie Dong
   7. Yueru Hou
   8. Yejin Cao
   9. Lin Dong
   10. Yujing Bi
   11. Guangwei Liu

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     Evaluation Summary:

     Wang and colleagues report that the expression of Piezo1 (an ion channel and mechanical sensor) is upregulated on dendritic cells (DC) under conditions of inflammation/high environmental stiffness resulting in DC activation, maturation, and skewing in DC functional polarity and metabolism. They show that Piezo1 knockout results in faster tumor progression and accumulation of more regulatory T cells, and that Smad3 and STAT4 are involved in DC-mediated differentiation of Th1 and Treg. Overall this represents a mechanistic advance in our understanding of DC biology as it relates to cancer and other human pathologies.

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2. Learning-related contraction of gray matter in rodent sensorimotor cortex is associated with adaptive myelination

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Tomas Mediavilla
   2. Özgün Özalay
   3. Héctor M Estévez-Silva
   4. Bárbara Frias
   5. Greger Orädd
   6. Fahad R Sultan
   7. Claudio Brozzoli
   8. Benjamín Garzón
   9. Martin Lövdén
   10. Daniel J Marcellino

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This is a useful study employing a well-established one-pawed reaching/grasping paradigm for fine-motor skill learning to assess if learning is associated with cortical structural changes as assessed by longitudinal MRI measurements in mice. The authors report a non-linear time course of MRI signal changes representing a decrease in grey matter and an increase in white matter volumes in the cerebral cortex and other regions. The authors ascribe these changes to increased myelination, a conclusion that is supported by quantitative immunolabelling for the myelin protein MBP. These results represent an interesting addition to the literature around myelination changes associated with learning/activity (adaptive myelination). Additional histological analysis of changes in myelination would bolster support for the authors' conclusions.

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3. A spatiotemporal reconstruction of the C. elegans pharyngeal cuticle reveals a structure rich in phase-separating proteins

   This article has 15 authors:

   1. Muntasir Kamal
   2. Levon Tokmakjian
   3. Jessica Knox
   4. Peter Mastrangelo
   5. Jingxiu Ji
   6. Hao Cai
   7. Jakub W Wojciechowski
   8. Michael P Hughes
   9. Kristóf Takács
   10. Xiaoquan Chu
   11. Jianfeng Pei
   12. Vince Grolmusz
   13. Malgorzata Kotulska
   14. Julie Deborah Forman-Kay
   15. Peter J Roy

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     Evaluation Summary:

     Cuticles are specialized extracellular matrices that cover the bodies of ecdysozoans, which make up 85% of all animals. How cuticles are formed is very poorly understood, in particular in light of the fact that cuticles are shed and regrown as animals grow. The authors present a comprehensively and carefully curated resource of the components of the pharyngeal cuticle of C. elegans and provide a spatio-temporal framework to understand cuticle assembly. In doing so, the authors propose a function for a large class of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). The significance of this work is high because our understanding of both cuticle formation and of IDPs is poor.

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4. Recruitment of clathrin to intracellular membranes is sufficient for vesicle formation

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Cansu Küey
   2. Méghane Sittewelle
   3. Gabrielle Larocque
   4. Miguel Hernández-González
   5. Stephen J Royle

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This manuscript reports a striking finding, which should be of interest to cell biologists and biophysicists. The authors use an innovative approach to recruit clathrin to mitochondrial membranes and observe the budding and fission of clathrin-coated vesicles. The study leads to a much clearer view of how the clathrin lattice functions in endocytosis.

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5. Filamentation modulates allosteric regulation of PRPS

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Huan-Huan Hu
   2. Guang-Ming Lu
   3. Chia-Chun Chang
   4. Yilan Li
   5. Jiale Zhong
   6. Chen-Jun Guo
   7. Xian Zhou
   8. Boqi Yin
   9. Tianyi Zhang
   10. Ji-Long Liu

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The authors investigated the structure of phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) synthase (PRPPS) from Escherichia coli, a highly conserved enzyme from bacteria to mammals that catalyzes the synthesis of a key common compound for several metabolic pathways. Combining structural data with mutagenesis and activity assays, they demonstrate that the enzyme is regulated differently by allosteric effectors when assembled into one filament form or the other. The strength of the manuscript is the high-quality cryo-EM data, which allows the reconstruction of two different filament forms bound to different ligands.

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6. A connectomics-based taxonomy of mammals

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Laura E Suarez
   2. Yossi Yovel
   3. Martijn P van den Heuvel
   4. Olaf Sporns
   5. Yaniv Assaf
   6. Guillaume Lajoie
   7. Bratislav Misic

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This paper uses an impressively rich dataset (obtained and curated by the authors) to compare the structural brain connectomes of many animals spanning 6 taxonomic orders. The approach is innovative and relies on graph theoretical measures to describe the connectivity, which means it can be done without the need to spatially/functionally match the brains. The authors find that there is more variability between than within order. They attribute this effect to changes in local connectivity features, whereas global patterns are preserved. The approach can potentially be a useful way to study phylogeny and brain evolution.

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7. Automated hippocampal unfolding for morphometry and subfield segmentation with HippUnfold

   This article has 7 authors:

   1. Jordan DeKraker
   2. Roy AM Haast
   3. Mohamed D Yousif
   4. Bradley Karat
   5. Jonathan C Lau
   6. Stefan Köhler
   7. Ali R Khan

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This paper presents an exciting new automated package to investigate the hippocampal organization in new ways. As such, this package will be equally interesting for the fundamental basic and clinical neurosciences.

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8. Nuclear receptor corepressor 1 controls regulatory T cell subset differentiation and effector function

   This article has 24 authors:

   1. Valentina Stolz
   2. Rafael de Freitas e Silva
   3. Ramona Rica
   4. Ci Zhu
   5. Teresa Preglej
   6. Patricia Hamminger
   7. Daniela Hainberger
   8. Marlis Alteneder
   9. Lena Müller
   10. Monika Waldherr
   11. Darina Waltenberger
   12. Anastasiya Hladik
   13. Benedikt Agerer
   14. Michael Schuster
   15. Tobias Frey
   16. Thomas Krausgruber
   17. Sylvia Knapp
   18. Clarissa Campbell
   19. Klaus Schmetterer
   20. Michael Trauner
   21. Andreas Bergthaler
   22. Christoph Bock
   23. Nicole Boucheron
   24. Wilfried Ellmeier

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The study shows that the LXRbeta - NCOR1 axis restricts the terminal differentiation of Treg cells into effector Tregs. It also suggests that, in addition to an impact on effector Treg differentiation, loss of NCOR1 leads to impaired suppression function in Treg cells. The results may contribute to our understanding of Treg cell differentiation and function.

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9. Obligate sexual reproduction of a homothallic fungus closely related to the Cryptococcus pathogenic species complex

   This article has 12 authors:

   1. Andrew Ryan Passer
   2. Shelly Applen Clancey
   3. Terrance Shea
   4. Márcia David-Palma
   5. Anna Floyd Averette
   6. Teun Boekhout
   7. Betina M Porcel
   8. Minou Nowrousian
   9. Christina A Cuomo
   10. Sheng Sun
   11. Joseph Heitman
   12. Marco A Coelho

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     Evaluation Summary:

     There are various ways in which self-fertility has arisen in the fungal kingdom. This study describes a novel form of self-fertility that evolved in a species closely related to the Cryptococcus species causing serious human lung disease, in which sexual development is achieved by self signaling of a cognate pheromone and pheromone receptor pair. Through a combination of high-quality genomic analysis and experimental gene expression and manipulation work, the study adds to our understanding of the evolution and flexibility of fungal breeding systems. This work will be of interest to colleagues studying fungi as well as mating systems in any eukaryote.

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10. Spatial modulation of individual behaviors enables an ordered structure of diverse phenotypes during bacterial group migration

    This article has 6 authors:

    1. Yang Bai
    2. Caiyun He
    3. Pan Chu
    4. Junjiajia Long
    5. Xuefei Li
    6. Xiongfei Fu

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      Evaluation Summary:

      The authors present a study on the cohesion maintenance of E.coli during collective migration in a self-generated gradient. They performed experiments and complemented the study with a predictive model and simulation to understand how bacteria with different phenotype are able to move as a cohesive group and how the individual bacterium defines its own position within the group. Particularly interesting aspects of the study are the use of titration of behavior with chemoreceptor abundance and the use of potential wells to model the attraction of bacteria to the center of their cohesive group. This approach will be of interest to physicists and biologists interested in collective motility and migration.

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