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Week of May 28

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

TOMOMAN: a software package for large scale cryo-electron tomography data preprocessing, community data sharing, and collaborative computing (preprint). bioRxiv.
Sagar Khavnekar*Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry), William Wan*.
Inhibition of mRNA nuclear export promotes SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. PNAS.
Menghan Mei*, Anastasija Cupic* (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), Komal Patel, Natalie Wilson, W. Hayes McDonald, Yi Ren.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Duration of Morning Hyperinsulinemia is Key to the Enhancement of Hepatic Glucose Uptake and Glycogen Storage Later in the Day (preprint). bioRxiv.
Hannah Waterman*, Mary Courtney Moore, Marta Smith, Ben Farmer, Melanie Scott, Dale Edgerton, Alan Cherrington.
Ablation of Sam50 is associated with fragmentation and alterations in metabolism in murine and human myotubes. Journal of Cellular Physiology.
Bryanna Shao*, Mason Killion*, Ashton Oliver*, Chia Vang*, Faben Zeleke, Kit Neikirk, Zer Vue, Qiana Williams, Christopher Altamura, Aaron Whiteside, Kinuthia Kabugi, Jessica McKenzie, Maria Ezedimma, Han Le, Alice Koh, Estevão Scudese, Larry Vang, Andrea Marshall, Amber Crabtree, Dominique Stephens, Jennifer Gaddy, Celestine Wanjalla, Heather Beasley, Antentor Hinton Jr.*
Ethnicity-related differences in mitochondrial regulation by insulin stimulation in diabetes. Journal of Cellular Physiology.
Kit Neikirk*, Kinuthia Kabugi, Margaret Mungai, Antentor Hinton Jr.*
Exercise to Prevent Accelerated Vascular Aging in People Living With HIV. Circulation Research.
Raymond Jones* (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Annet Kirabo, Antentor Hinton Jr.
HIV-Associated Hypertension: Risks, Mechanisms, and Knowledge Gaps. Circulation Research.
Prem Prakash* (Meharry Medical College), Cellestine Wanjalla, Antentor Hinton Jr., Annet Kirabo.
Connection Between HIV and Mitochondria in Cardiovascular Disease and Implications for Treatments. Circulation Research.
Antentor Hinton Jr.*, Zer Vue, Celestine Wanjalla.
HIV and Cardiovascular Disease. Circulation Research.
Jeremiah Afolabi*, Annet Kirabo.

Pharmacology

Elevated protease-activated receptor 4 (PAR4) gene expression in Alzheimer's disease predicts cognitive decline. Neurobiology of Aging.
Rebecca Winfree*, Kevin Erreger, Jared Phillips, Mabel Seto, Matthew Schrag, Timothy Hohman, Heidi Hamm*.

Other basic biomedical papers

Computationally restoring the potency of a clinical antibody against Omicron. Nature.
Thomas Desautels* (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Stephanie Cronin, Seth Zost, Elad Binshtein, Taylor Engdahl, Elaine Chen, Laura Handal, Lynn Hall, James Crowe Jr., Robert Carnahan.

VUMC News: Supercomputing redesign of a COVID monoclonal antibody.

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