Sst- and Vip-Cre mouse lines without age-related hearing loss

Kavli Affiliate: Andrea Hasenstaub | Authors: Calvin T Foss, Timothy Olsen, James Bigelow and Andrea R Hasenstaub | Summary: GABAergic interneurons, including somatostatin (SST) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) positive cells, play a crucial role in cortical circuit processing. Cre recombinase-mediated manipulation of these interneurons is facilitated by commercially available knock-in mouse strains such as […]


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High Throughput Variant Libraries and Machine Learning Yield Design Rules for Retron Gene Editors

Kavli Affiliate: Seth Shipman | Authors: Kate D. Crawford, Asim G. Khan, Santiago C. Lopez, Hani Goodarzi and Seth Shipman | Summary: The bacterial retron reverse transcriptase system has served as an intracellular factory for single-stranded DNA in many biotechnological applications. In these technologies, a natural retron non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is modified to encode a […]


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Neural Stem Cell Relay from B1 to B2 cells in the adult mouse Ventricular-Subventricular Zone

Kavli Affiliate: Arturo Alvarez-Buylla | Authors: Arantxa Cebrian-Silla, Marcos Assis Nascimento, Walter Mancia Leon, Susana Gonzalez-Granero, Ricardo Romero-Rodriguez, Kirsten Obernier, David M Steffen, Daniel A Lim, Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla | Summary: Neurogenesis and gliogenesis continue in the Ventricular-Subventricular Zone (V-SVZ) of the adult rodent brain. B1 cells are astroglial cells derived from […]


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Unifying community-wide whole-brain imaging datasets enables robust automated neuron identification and reveals determinants of neuron positioning in C. elegans

Kavli Affiliate: Saul Kato | Authors: Daniel Yutaka Sprague, Kevin Rusch, Raymond L Dunn, Jackson Borchardt, Greg Bubnis, Grace Chiu, Chentao Wen, Ryoga Suzuki, Shivesh Chaudhary, Ben Dichter, Ryan Ly, Shuichi Onami, Hang Lu, Kotaro Kimura, Eviatar I Yemini and Saul Kato | Summary: We develop a data harmonization approach for C. elegans volumetric microscopy […]


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Structure of the human K2P13.1(THIK-1) channel reveals a novel hydrophilic pore restriction and lipid cofactor site

Kavli Affiliate: Daniel Minor | Authors: Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury, Seil Jang, Fayal Abderemane-Ali, Fiona Naughton, Michael Grabe and Daniel L Minor, Jr. | Summary: The halothane-inhibited K2P leak potassium channel K2P13.1 (THIK-1)1–3 is found in diverse cells1,4 including neurons1,5 and microglia6–8 where it affects surveillance6, synaptic pruning7, phagocytosis7, and inflammasome-mediated interleukin-1β release6,8,9. As with many K2Ps1,5,10–14 […]


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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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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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Data-driven fine-grained region discovery in the mouse brain with transformers

Kavli Affiliate: Reza Abbasi Asl | Authors: Alex Jihun Lee, Shenqin Yao, Nicholas Lusk, Hongkui Zeng, Bosiljka Tasic and Reza Abbasi-Asl | Summary: Technologies such as spatial transcriptomics offer unique opportunities to define the spatial organization of the mouse brain. We developed an unsupervised training scheme and novel transformer-based deep learning architecture to detect spatial […]


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