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The Reading List is a newsletter from the School of Medicine Basic Sciences in which we amplify biomedical research from our four departments and campus-wide collaborators.

Week of February 3

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

Structures and mRNP remodeling mechanism of the TREX-2 complex. Structure.
Yihu Xie*, Bradley Clarke, Menghan Mei, Pate Hill, Alexia Angelos, Mariam Haider, Scott Collier, Melissa Chambers, Yi Ren*.

Supported by the Cryo-EM Facility and the Mass Spectrometry Research Center.

Cell and Developmental Biology

Human TSC2 mutant cells exhibit aberrations in early neurodevelopment accompanied by changes in the DNA Methylome. Human Molecular Genetics.
Mary-Bronwen Chalkley, Lindsey Guerin, Tenhir Iyer, Samantha Mallahan, Sydney Nelson, Emily Hodges, Kevin Ess, Rebecca Ihrie.

Supported by the Cell Imaging Shared Resource.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Activity dependent Clustering of Neuronal L-Type Calcium Channels by CaMKII (preprint). bioRxiv.
Qian Yang*, Lan Hu, Dorian Lawson-Qureshi, Roger Colbran*.
TrueSpot: A robust automated tool for quantifying signal puncta in fluorescent imaging (preprint). bioRxiv.
Blythe Hospelhorn*, Benjamin Kesler, Hossein Jashnsaz, Gregor Neuert*.
Positive autoregulation of Sox17 is necessary for gallbladder and extrahepatic bile duct formation. Development.
Linh Trinh*, Ryan Finnel*, Anna Osipovich, Jessica Musselman, Leesa Sampson, Christopher Wright, Mark Magnuson*.

School of Medicine Basic Sciences: Developmental biologists discover how a critical protein shapes gallbladder formation

Pharmacology

The Role of Individual Residues in the N-Terminus of Arrestin-1 in Rhodopsin Binding. International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Sergey Vishnivetskiy*, Eugenia Gurevich, Vsevolod Gurevich*.
Clinical criteria for limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy. Alzheimer's & Dementia.
David Wolk* (University of Pennsylvania), Timothy Hohman.

First or corresponding authors are identified with a *. Faculty with appointments in Basic Sciences are listed in red. Only Vanderbilt collaborators are listed except for first authors.

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