The Reading List is a newsletter from the School of Medicine Basic Sciences in which we amplify the research from our four departments, as well as biomedical research from campus-wide collaborators.
Week of October 14
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By Basic Sciences department Biochemistry- Single-Stranded Hairpin Loop RNAs (loopmeRNAs) Potently Induce Gene Silencing through the RNA Interference Pathway. Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Krishna Aluri* (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), Li Lei, Joel Harp, Pradeep Pallan, Martin Egli.
- Strand dependent bypass of DNA lesions during fork reversal by ATP-dependent translocases SMARCAL1, ZRANB3, and HLTF. bioRxiv.
Madison Adolph*, Garrett Warren, Frank Couch, Briana Greer, Brandt Eichman, David Cortez.
- Ribosome Assembly and Repair. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.
Yoon-Mo Yang* (The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology), Katrin Karbstein*.
- Cellular NS1-BP Protein Interacts with the mRNA Export Receptor NXF1 to Mediate Nuclear Export of Influenza Virus M mRNAs. Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Ke Zhang* (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Tolga Cagatay* (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center), Alexia Angelos, Yi Ren.
- Purified CDT toxins and a clean deletion within the CDT locus provide novel insights into the contribution of binary toxin in cellular inflammation and Clostridioides difficile infection. PLOS Pathogens.
Kateryna Nabukhotna*, Shannon Kordus, John Shupe, Rubén Cano Rodríguez, Anna Smith, Julia Bohannon, Mary Kay Washington, Borden Lacy*.
“This work brings a synthesized perspective for the C. difficile toxin field moving forward,” Kateryna Nabukhotna.
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics- Changes in Myofibril Size, Shape, and Network Connectivity in Aging Muscle (preprint). bioRxiv.
Peter Ajayi* (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute), Zer Vue, Antentor Hinton Jr.
- Increased cGMP improves microvascular exercise training adaptations independent of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (preprint). bioRxiv.
Nathan Winn*, David Cappel, Ethan Pollock, Louise Lantier, Payton Debrow, Deanna Bracy, David Wasserman.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in a polarized world: Navigating challenges and opportunities in STEMM. Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Vijayvardhan Kamalumpundi* (Mayo Clinic), Kit Neikirk, Zer Vue, Neng Vue, Antentor Hinton Jr.*
Pharmacology
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John M. Jumper, DeepMind researcher and Vanderbilt alum, shares 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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First or corresponding authors are identified with an asterisk. Faculty with appointments in Basic Sciences are listed in red. Only Vanderbilt collaborators are listed except for first authors.
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