Structure of the E3 ligase CRL2-ZYG11B with substrates reveals the molecular basis for N-degron recognition and ubiquitination

Kavli Affiliate: Yifan Cheng | Authors: Xi Liu, Yang Li, Lennice Castro, Zanlin Yu, Yifan Cheng, Matthew D Daugherty and John D Gross | Summary: ZYG11B is a substrate specificity factor for Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase (CRL2) involved in many biological processes, including Gly/N-degron pathways. Yet how the binding of ZYG11B with CRL2 is coupled to […]


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Nonlinear compliance of NompC gating spring and its implication in mechanotransduction

Kavli Affiliate: Yuh Nung and Jan Yifan Cheng and Yuh Nung Jan | Authors: Yukun Wang, Peng Jin, Avinash Kumar, Lily Jan, Yifan Cheng, Yuh-Nung Jan and Yongli Zhang | Summary: TCytoskeleton-tethered mechanosensitive channels (MSCs) utilize compliant proteins or protein domains called gating springs to convert mechanical stimuli into electric signals, enabling sound and touch […]


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Oxytocin receptor function regulates neural signatures of pair bonding and fidelity in the nucleus accumbens

Kavli Affiliate: Devanand Manoli | Authors: Kimberly Lorraine Page Long, Nerissa Emmy Graetz Hoglen, Alex J. Keip, Robert M. Klinkel, Déjenaé L. See, Joseph Maa, Jenna C. Wong, Michael Sherman and Devanand Manoli | Summary: The formation of enduring relationships dramatically influences future behavior, promoting affiliation between familiar individuals. How such attachments are encoded to […]


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Transgenerational transmission of post-zygotic mutations suggests symmetric contribution of first two blastomeres to human germline

Kavli Affiliate: Flora Vaccarino | Authors: Yeongjun Jang, Livia Tomasini, Taejeong Bae, Anna Szekely, Flora M. Vaccarino and Alexej Abyzov | Summary: Little is known about the origin of germ cells in humans. We previously leveraged post-zygotic mutations to reconstruct zygote-rooted cell lineage ancestry trees in a phenotypically normal woman, termed NC0. Here, by sequencing […]


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Cortical synaptic vulnerabilities revealed in a α-synuclein aggregation model of Parkinson′s disease

Kavli Affiliate: Michael J Higley | Authors: Saroj Sah, Andrew D Sauerbeck, Jyoti Gupta, Dayana Pérez-Acuña, Jacob E Reiber, Dreson Russell, Thomas Goralski, Michael Henderson, Laura A Volpicelli-Daley, Michael J Higley, Terrance T Kummer and Thomas Biederer | Summary: Cognitive impairment is a frequent non-motor symptom in Parkinson’s disease, and cortical Lewy pathology is strongly […]


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Reproducibility of in-vivo electrophysiological measurements in mice

Kavli Affiliate: Liam Paninski | Authors: The International Brain Laboratory, Kush Banga, Julius Benson, Niccolò Bonacchi, Sebastian A Bruijns, Rob Campbell, Gaëlle A Chapuis, Anne K Churchland, M Felicia Davatolhagh, Hyun Dong Lee, Mayo Faulkner, Fei Hu, Julia Hunterberg, Anup Khanal, Christopher Krasniak, Guido T Meijer, Nathaniel J Miska, Zeinab Mohammadi, Jean-Paul Noel, Liam Paninski, […]


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Ancient midbrain inhibitory neurons control selective spatial attention

Kavli Affiliate: Shreesh P. Mysore | Authors: Ninad B Kothari, Wen-Kai You, Arunima Banerjee, Qingcheng Zhang and Shreesh P Mysore | Summary: Animal behavior at any instant is guided by information from only a subset of the plethora of stimuli in their sensory environments. The neural circuit mechanisms that select a behaviorally relevant ‘target’ from […]


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Reelin marks cocaine-activated striatal ensembles, promotes neuronal excitability, and regulates cocaine reward

Kavli Affiliate: Keri Martinowich | Authors: Kasey L Brida, Emily T Jorgensen, Robert A Phillips III, Catherine E Newman, Jennifer J Tuscher, Emily K Morring, Morgan E Zipperly, Lara Ianov, Kelsey D Montgomery, Madhavi Tippani, Thomas M Hyde, Kristen R Maynard, Keri Martinowich and Jeremy J Day | Summary: Drugs of abuse activate defined neuronal […]


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PCM1 conveys centrosome asymmetry to polarized endosome dynamics in regulating daughter cell fate

Kavli Affiliate: Su Guo | Authors: Xiang Zhao, Wang Yiqi, Ahmet Can Solak, Jason Garcia, Vincent Mouilleau, Xingye Chen, Christopher J Wilkinson, Loic Alain Royer, Zhiqiang Alain Dong and Su Guo | Summary: Vertebrate radial glia progenitors (RGPs), the principal neural stem cells, balance self-renewal and differentiation through asymmetric cell division (ACD), during which unequal […]


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Event structure sculpts neural population dynamics in the lateral entorhinal cortex

Kavli Affiliate: Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser | Authors: Benjamin R Kanter, Christine M Lykken, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser | Summary: Our experience of the world is a continuous stream of events which must be segmented and organized simultaneously at multiple timescales. The neural mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown. Here, we simultaneously […]


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