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Week of October 2

Recently published

Nectin-3 and shed forms of CSPG4 can serve as epithelial cell receptors for Clostridioides difficile TcdB. Host-Microbial Interactions.
Kevin Childress, Caroline Cencer, Matthew Tyska, Borden Lacy.
Revised fission yeast gene and allele nomenclature guidelines for machine readability. Genetics.
Manuel Lera-Ramírez (University College London), Kathleen Gould.
Deletion of Ascl 1 in pancreatic β-cells improves insulin secretion, promotes parasympathetic innervation, and attenuates dedifferentiation during metabolic stress. Molecular Metaoblism.
Anna Osipovich, Frank Zhou, Judy Chong, Linh Trinh, Mathew Cottam, Shristi Shrestha, Jean-Phillippe Cartailler, Mark Magnuson.
Comparative analysis of the physical properties of murine and human S100A7: insight into why zinc piracy is mediated by human but not murine S100A7. Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Simone Harrison, Anais Naretto, Swati Balakrishnan, Yasiru Perera, Walter Chazin.

Editorial

Catalyst for change: future of DEI in academia. Trends in Chemistry.

Jamaine Davis (Meharry Medical College), Steven Damo (Fisk University), Elsie Spencer, Zer Vue, Antentor Hinton Jr.

Review

Drug repurposing for Alzheimer’s disease from 2012–2022—a 10-year literature review. Frontiers in Pharmacology.
Monika Grabowska, Annabelle Huang, Bingshan Li, Wei-Qi Wei.

Highlights from the web

SETD2 safeguards the genome against isochromosome formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Frank Mason, Emily Kounlavong, Anteneh Tebeje, Tiffany Guess, Logan Vlach, Stephen Norris, Courtney Lovejoy, Kimryn Rathmell.

Highlighted in the VUMC Reporter.

In the media

ArtLab Artist-in-Residence Program. WSMV, Channel 4, Nashville.
ArtLab is featured.
Pathway to Independence. Development.
An interview with Loic Fort, a postdoctoral fellow in the Ian Macara lab.

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