Evaluated articles

A Window into Mammalian Basement Membrane Development: Insights from the mTurq2-Col4a1 Mouse Model

1. Rebecca A. Jones
2. Brandon Trejo
3. Parijat Sil
4. Katherine A. Little
5. H. Amalia Pasolli
6. Bradley Joyce
7. Eszter Posfai
8. Danelle Devenport

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LincRNAs enable germ cells differentiation by promoting PUF proteins condensation

1. Roni Falk
2. Noa Gilad
3. Hanna Achache
4. Yisrael Rappaport
5. Reut Shabtai
6. Hasan Ishtayeh
7. Laura Wolovelsky
8. Yonatan B. Tzur

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Competition and Synergy of Arp2/3 and Formins in Nucleating Actin Waves

1. Xiang Le Chua
2. Chee San Tong
3. X.J. Xŭ
4. Maohan Su
5. Shengping Xiao
6. Xudong Wu
7. Min Wu

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Metabolomic profiling reveals effects of marein on energy metabolism in HepG2 cells

1. Baoping Jiang
2. Liang Le
3. Keping Hu
4. Lijia Xu
5. Peigen Xiao

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Short disordered termini and proline-rich domain are major regulators of UBQLN1/2/4 phase separation

1. Thuy P. Dao
2. Anitha Rajendran
3. Sarasi K.K. Galagedera
4. William Haws
5. Carlos A. Castañeda

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Parallel gene size and isoform expansion of ancient neuronal genes

1. Matthew J. McCoy
2. Andrew Z. Fire

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Tardigrades dramatically upregulate DNA repair pathway genes in response to ionizing radiation

1. Courtney M. Clark-Hachtel
2. Jonathan D. Hibshman
3. Tristan De Buysscher
4. Bob Goldstein

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NAD+ metabolism is a key modulator of bacterial respiratory epithelial infections

1. Björn Klabunde
2. André Wesener
3. Wilhelm Bertrams
4. Isabell Beinborn
5. Nicole Paczia
6. Kristin Surmann
7. Sascha Blankenburg
8. Jochen Wilhelm
9. Javier Serrania
10. Kèvin Knoops
11. Eslam M. Elsayed
12. Katrin Laakmann
13. Anna Lena Jung
14. Andreas Kirschbaum
15. Sven Hammerschmidt
16. Belal Alshaar
17. Nicolas Gisch
18. Mobarak Abu Mraheil
19. Anke Becker
20. Uwe Völker
21. Evelyn Vollmeister
22. Birke J. Benedikter
23. Bernd Schmeck

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NAD(H) homeostasis is essential for host protection mediated by glycolytic myeloid cells in tuberculosis

1. Hayden T. Pacl
2. Krishna C. Chinta
3. Vineel P. Reddy
4. Sajid Nadeem
5. Ritesh R. Sevalkar
6. Kierveshan Nargan
7. Kapongo Lumamba
8. Threnesan Naidoo
9. Joel N. Glasgow
10. Anupam Agarwal
11. Adrie J. C. Steyn

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Mentoring practices predictive of doctoral student outcomes in a biological sciences cohort

1. Reena Debray
2. Emily A. Dewald-Wang
3. Katherine K. Ennis

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PUFFFIN: A novel, ultra-bright, customisable, single-plasmid system for labelling cell neighbourhoods

1. Tamina Lebek
2. Mattias Malaguti
3. Alistair Elfick
4. Sally Lowell

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Glutamate helps unmask the differences in driving forces for phase separation versus clustering of FET family proteins in sub-saturated solutions

1. Mrityunjoy Kar
2. Laura T. Vogel
3. Gaurav Chauhan
4. Hannes Ausserwöger
5. Timothy J. Welsh
6. Anjana R. Kamath
7. Tuomas P. J. Knowles
8. Anthony A. Hyman
9. Claus A. M. Seidel
10. Rohit V. Pappu

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The genome of the colonial hydroid Hydractinia reveals that their stem cells use a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals

1. Christine E. Schnitzler
2. E. Sally Chang
3. Justin Waletich
4. Gonzalo Quiroga-Artigas
5. Wai Yee Wong
6. Anh-Dao Nguyen
7. Sofia N. Barreira
8. Liam B. Doonan
9. Paul Gonzalez
10. Sergey Koren
11. James M. Gahan
12. Steven M. Sanders
13. Brian Bradshaw
14. Timothy Q. DuBuc
15. Febrimarsa
16. Danielle de Jong
17. Eric P. Nawrocki
18. Alexandra Larson
19. Samantha Klasfeld
20. Sebastian G. Gornik
21. R. Travis Moreland
22. Tyra G. Wolfsberg
23. Adam M. Phillippy
24. James C. Mullikin
25. Oleg Simakov
26. Paulyn Cartwright
27. Matthew Nicotra
28. Uri Frank
29. Andreas D. Baxevanis

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TLR2 regulates hair follicle cycle and regeneration via BMP signaling

1. Luyang Xiong
2. Irina Zhevlakova
3. Xiaoxia Z West
4. Detao Gao
5. Rakhilya Murtazina
6. Anthony Horak
7. J Mark Brown
8. Iuliia Molokotina
9. Eugene A Podrez
10. Tatiana V Byzova

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  Toll like receptor 2 (TLR2) signaling has traditionally been viewed a surface protein that induces innate immune responses and improves acquired immunity. Here, the authors suggest a different role for TLR2 in the hair cycle. By using a Cre reporter that is largely, but not solely active in hair follicle stem cells, the authors conditionally delete Tlr2 in mice and report that BMP signaling is sustained and hair cycle entry is delayed. Delving further, the authors identify CEP (2-ω-carboxyethyl pyrrole) as an endogenous ligand of TLR2 in hair follicle stem cell regulation. Although a role for TLR2 signaling in hair follicle stem cells is potentially novel and important, the reviewers remain in consensus that evidence presented in two significant areas continues to be incomplete: 1) where TLR2 and CEP are expressed and how specific is their expression to the hair follicle stem cells; 2) whether as the authors suggest, TLR2 functions by regulating BMP signaling in the stem cell niche of the hair follicle.

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Optical Control of G-Actin with a Photoswitchable Latrunculin

1. Nynke A. Vepřek
2. Madeline H. Cooper
3. Laura Laprell
4. Emily Jie-Ning Yang
5. Sander Folkerts
6. Ruiyang Bao
7. Malgorzata Boczkowska
8. Nicholas J. Palmer
9. Roberto Dominguez
10. Thomas G. Oertner
11. Liza A. Pon
12. J. Bradley Zuchero
13. Dirk H. Trauner

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Hypoxia blunts angiogenic signaling and upregulates the antioxidant system in elephant seal endothelial cells

1. Kaitlin N Allen
2. Julia María Torres-Velarde
3. Juan Manuel Vazquez
4. Diana D Moreno-Santillan
5. Peter H Sudmant
6. José Pablo Vázquez-Medina

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Mechano-dependent sorbitol accumulation supports biomolecular condensate

1. Stephanie Torrino
2. William M Oldham
3. Andrés R Tejedor
4. Ignacio S. Burgos
5. Nesrine Rachedi
6. Kéren Fraissard
7. Caroline Chauvet
8. Chaima Sbai
9. Brendan P. O’Hara
10. Sophie Abélanet
11. Frederic Brau
12. Stephan Clavel
13. Rosana Collepardo-Guevara
14. Jorge R. Espinosa
15. Issam Ben-Sahra
16. Thomas Bertero

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CRISPR-dependent Base Editing Screens Identify Separation of Function Mutants of RADX with Altered RAD51 Regulatory Activity

1. Madison B. Adolph
2. Atharv S. Garje
3. Swati Balakrishnan
4. Florian Morati
5. Mauro Modesti
6. Walter J. Chazin
7. David Cortez

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Proteasome condensate formation is driven by multivalent interactions with shuttle factors and K48-linked ubiquitin chains

1. Kenrick A. Waite
2. Gabrielle Vontz
3. Stella Y. Lee
4. Jeroen Roelofs

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A Phosphoproteomics Data Resource for Systems-level Modeling of Kinase Signaling Networks

1. Song Feng
2. James A. Sanford
3. Thomas Weber
4. Chelsea M. Hutchinson-Bunch
5. Panshak P. Dakup
6. Vanessa L. Paurus
7. Kwame Attah
8. Herbert M. Sauro
9. Wei-Jun Qian
10. H. Steven Wiley

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