New and Noteworthy Publications

Transcription processes compete with loop extrusion to homogenize promoter and enhancer dynamics

Platania A, Erb C, Barbieri M, Molcrette B, Grandgirard E, de Kort MAC, Pomp W, Meaburn K, Taylor T, Shchuka VM, Kocanova S, Nazarova M, Oliveira GM, Mitchell JA, Soutoglou E, Lenstra TL, Molina N, Papantonis A, Bystricky K, Sexton T
2024, Science Advances, 10.1126/sciadv.adq0987

Calcium signaling triggers early high humidity responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Hussain S, Suda H, Nguyen CH, Yan D, Toyota M, Yoshioka K, Nambara E
2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2416270121

Stress disrupts engram ensembles in lateral amygdala to generalize threat memory in mice

Lesuis SL, Park S, Hoorn A, Rashid AJ, Mocle AJ, Salter EW, Vislavski S, Gray MT, Torelli AM, DeCristofaro A, Driever WP, van der Stelt M, Zweifel LS, Collingridge GL, Lefebvre JL, Walters BJ, Frankland PW, Hill MN, Josselyn SA
2024, Cell, 10.1016/j.cell.2024.10.034

20 years of the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology

Sullivan A, Lombardo M, Pasha A, Lau V, Zhuang J, Christendat A, Pereira B, Zhao T, Li Y, Wong R, Qureshi F, Provart N
2024, Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkae920

Rubisco supplies pyruvate for the 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol-4-phosphate pathway

Evans SE, Xu Y, Bergman ME, Ford SA, Liu Y, Sharkey TD, Phillips MA
2024, Nature Plants, 10.1038/s41477-024-01791-z

Modulation of fungal phosphate homeostasis by the plant hormone strigolactone

Bradley JM, Bunsick M, Ly G, Aquino B, Wang FZ, Holbrook-Smith D, Suginoo S, Bradizza D, Kato N, As’sadiq O, Marsh N, Osada H, Boyer F, McErlean CS, Tsuchiya Y, Subramaniam R, Bonetta D, McCourt P, Lumba S
2024, Molecular Cell, 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.09.004

Brainstem inhibitory neurons enhance behavioral feature selectivity by sharpening the tuning of excitatory neurons

He Y, Chou X, Lavoie A, Liu J, Russo M, Liu B
2024, Current Biology, 10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.037

Xyloglucan side chains enable polysaccharide secretion to the plant cell wall

Hoffmann N, McFarlane HE
2024, Developmental Cell, 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.06.006

Confinement promotes nematic alignment of spindle-shaped cells during Drosophila embryogenesis

Ray T, Shi D, Harris TJC
2024, Development, 10.1242/dev.202577

Centrosome-organized plasma membrane infoldings linked to growth of a cortical actin domain

Tam R, Harris TJ
2024, Journal of Cell Biology, 10.1083/jcb.202403115

The effector-triggered immunity landscape of tomato against Pseudomonas syringae

Lonjon F, Lai Y, Askari N, Aiyar N, Bundalovic-Torma C, Laflamme B, Wang PW, Desveaux D, Guttman DS
2024, Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-024-49425-4

Two-phase kinetics and cell cortex elastic behavior in Xenopus gastrula cell-cell adhesion

Parent SE, Luu O, Bruce AE, Winklbauer R
2023, Developmental Cell, 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.11.014

Dynamic changes to the plant cuticle include the production of volatile cuticular wax–derived compounds

Chen JY, Kuruparan A, Zamani-Babgohari M, Gonzales-Vigil E
2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2307012120

Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2

Alderson TR, Pritišanac I, Kolarić Đ, Moses AM, Forman-Kay JD
2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2304302120

Convergent evolution of dim light vision in owls and deep-diving whales

Castiglione GM, Chiu YL, Gutierrez EdA, Van Nynatten A, Hauser FE, Preston M, Bhattacharyya N, Schott RK, Chang BS
2023, Current Biology, 10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.015

Epigenetic reprogramming of a distal developmental enhancer cluster drives SOX2 overexpression in breast and lung adenocarcinoma

Abatti LE, Lado-Fernández P, Huynh L, Collado M, Hoffman M, Mitchell J
2023, Nucleic Acids Research, 10.1093/nar/gkad734

Epigenetic silencing of callose synthase by VIL1 promotes bud-growth transition in lily bulbs

Pan W, Li J, Du Y, Zhao Y, Xin Y, Wang S, Liu C, Lin Z, Fang S, Yang Y, Zaccai M, Zhang X, Yi M, Gazzarrini S, Wu J
2023, Nature Plants, 10.1038/s41477-023-01492-z

Polyvalent immunization elicits a synergistic broadly neutralizing immune response to hypervariable region 1 variants of hepatitis C virus

Mosa A, Campo D, Khudyakov Y, AbouHaidar M, Gehring A, Zahoor A, Ball J, Urbanowicz R, Feld J
2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2220294120

Structural analysis of a hormone-bound Striga strigolactone receptor

Arellano-Saab A, Skarina T, Xu Z, McErlean CSP, Savchenko A, Lumba S, Stogios PJ, McCourt P
2023, Nature Plants, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01423-y

Immortal orexin cell transplants restore motor-arousal synchrony during cataplexy

Pintwala SK, Fraigne JJ, Belsham DD, Peever JH
2023, Current Biology, 10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.077

Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments

Castiglione GM, Hauser FE, Van Nynatten A, Chang BSW
2023, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 10.1093/molbev/msad030

Cooperative virulence via the collective action of secreted pathogen effectors

Ruiz-Bedoya T, Wang PW, Desveaux D, Guttman DS
2023, Nature Microbiology, 10.1038/s41564-023-01328-8

Enhancer–promoter interactions can bypass CTCF-mediated boundaries and contribute to phenotypic robustness

Chakraborty S, Kopitchinski N, Zuo Z, Eraso A, Awasthi P, Chari R, Mitra A, Tobias IC, Moorthy SD, Dale RK, Mitchell JA, Petros TJ, Rocha PP
2023, Nature Genetics, 10.1038/s41588-022-01295-6

Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating

Wu T, Ge M, Wu M, Duan F, Liang J, Chen M, Gracida X, Liu H, Yang W, Dar AR, Li C, Butcher RA, Saltzman AL, Zhang Y
2023, Nature, 10.1038/s41586-022-05561-9

The α-Catenin mechanosensing M region is required for cell adhesion during tissue morphogenesis

Sheppard L, Green DG, Lerchbaumer G, Rothenberg KE, Fernandez-Gonzalez R, Tepass U
2022, Journal of Cell Biology, 10.1083/jcb.202108091

Membrane ruffling is a mechanosensor of extracellular fluid viscosity

Pittman M, Iu E, Li K, Wang M, Chen J, Taneja N, Jo MH, Park S, Jung W, Liang L, Barman I, Ha T, Gaitanaros S, Liu J, Burnette D, Plotnikov S, Chen Y
2022, Nature Physics, 10.1038/s41567-022-01676-y

Eph/ephrin signaling controls cell contacts and formation of a structurally asymmetrical tissue boundary in the Xenopus gastrula

Barua D, Winklbauer R
2022, Developmental Biology, 10.1016/j.ydbio.2022.07.007

Ancient whale rhodopsin reconstructs dim-light vision over a major evolutionary transition: Implications for ancestral diving behavior

Dungan SZ, Chang BSW
2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2118145119

Transcriptional regulation and chromatin architecture maintenance are decoupled functions at the Sox2 locus.

Taylor T, Sikorska N, Shchuka VM, Chahar S, Ji C, Macpherson NN, Moorthy SD, de Kort MAC, Mullany S, Khader N, Gillespie ZE, Langroudi L, Tobias IC, Lenstra TL, Mitchell JA, Sexton T
2022, Genes & development, 35710138

Idiosyncratic epistasis leads to global fitness–correlated trends

Bakerlee CW, Nguyen Ba AN, Shulgina Y, Rojas Echenique JI, Desai MM
2022, Science, 10.1126/science.abm4774

Autophagy is required for self-incompatible pollen rejection in two transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana accessions

Macgregor SR, Lee HK, Nelles H, Johnson DC, Zhang T, Ma C, Goring DR
2022, Plant Physiology, 10.1093/plphys/kiac026

Elevated tyrosine results in the cytosolic retention of 3‐deoxy‐ d ‐arabino‐heptulosonate 7‐phosphate synthase in Arabidopsis thaliana

Kanaris M, Poulin J, Shahinas D, Johnson D, Crowley VM, Fucile G, Provart N, Christendat D
2021, The Plant Journal, 10.1111/tpj.15590

Usher syndrome type 1-associated gene, pcdh15b, is required for photoreceptor structural integrity in zebrafish

Miles A, Blair C, Emili A, Tropepe V
2021, Disease Models & Mechanisms, 10.1242/dmm.048965

Force-dependent activation of actin elongation factor mDia1 protects the cytoskeleton from mechanical damage and promotes stress fiber repair

Valencia FR, Sandoval E, Du J, Iu E, Liu J, Plotnikov SV
2021, Developmental Cell, 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.11.004

p38-mediated cell growth and survival drive rapid embryonic wound repair

Scepanovic G, Hunter MV, Kafri R, Fernandez-Gonzalez R
2021, Cell Reports, 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109874

Simultaneous expression of UV and violet SWS1 opsins expands the visual palette in a group of freshwater snakes

Hauzman E, Pierotti MER, Bhattacharyya N, Tashiro JH, Yovanovich CAM, Campos PF, Ventura DF, Chang BSW, Yoder A
2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 10.1093/molbev/msab285

Cell–cell contact landscapes in Xenopus gastrula tissues

Barua D, Nagel M, Winklbauer R
2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2107953118

Multiple phosphorylation events of the mitochondrial membrane protein, TTM1, regulate cell death during senescence

Karia P, Yoshioka K, Moeder W
2021, The Plant Journal, 10.1111/tpj.15470

Three mutations repurpose a plant karrikin receptor to a strigolactone receptor

Arellano-Saab A, Bunsick M, Al Galib H, Zhao W, Schuetz S, Bradley JM, Xu Z, Adityani C, Subha A, McKay H, de Saint Germain A, Boyer F, McErlean CSP, Toh S, McCourt P, Stogios PJ, Lumba S
2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2103175118

Self-tunable engineered yeast probiotics for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

Scott BM, Gutiérrez-Vázquez C, Sanmarco LM, da Silva Pereira JA, Li Z, Plasencia A, Hewson P, Cox LM, O’Brien M, Chen SK, Moraes-Vieira PM, Chang BSW, Peisajovich SG, Quintana FJ
2021, Nature Medicine, 10.1038/s41591-021-01390-x

Capillarity and active cell movement at mesendoderm translocation in the Xenopus gastrula

Nagel M, Barua D, Damm EW, Kashef J, Hofmann R, Ershov A, Cecilia A, Moosmann J, Baumbach T, Winklbauer R
2021, Development, 10.1242/dev.198960

Recreated Ancestral Opsin Associated with Marine to Freshwater Croaker Invasion Reveals Kinetic and Spectral Adaptation

Van Nynatten A, Castiglione GM, de A. Gutierrez E, Lovejoy NR, Chang BSW
2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 10.1093/molbev/msab008

Conserved biophysical features of the CaV2 presynaptic Ca2+ channel homologue from the early-diverging animal Trichoplax adhaerens

Gauberg J, Abdallah S, Elkhatib W, Harracksingh AN, Piekut T, Stanley EF, Senatore A
2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 10.1074/jbc.RA120.015725

Global regulatory features of alternative splicing across tissues and within the nervous system of C. elegans

Koterniak B, Pilaka PP, Gracida X, Schneider L, Pritišanac I, Zhang Y, Calarco JA
2020, Genome Research, 10.1101/gr.267328.120

EPSIN1 and MTV1 define functionally overlapping but molecularly distinct trans-Golgi network subdomains in Arabidopsis

Heinze L, Freimuth N, Rößling A, Hahnke R, Riebschläger S, Fröhlich A, Sampathkumar A, McFarlane HE, Sauer M
2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.2004822117

Integration of Migratory Cells into a New Site In Vivo Requires Channel-Independent Functions of Innexins on Microtubules

Miao G, Godt D, Montell DJ
2020, Developmental Cell, 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.06.024

Spatiotemporal Restriction of FUSCA3 Expression by Class I BPCs Promotes Ovule Development and Coordinates Embryo and Endosperm Growth

Wu J, Mohamed D, Dowhanik S, Petrella R, Gregis V, Li J, Wu L, Gazzarrini S
2020, The Plant Cell, 10.1105/tpc.19.00764