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 7
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By Basic Sciences department Cell and Developmental Biology
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- Fission yeast Duc1 links to ER–PM contact sites and influences PM lipid composition and cytokinetic ring anchoring. Journal of Cell Science.
Alaina Willet*, Joshua Park, Chloe Snider, Jingdian Huang, Jun-Song Chen, Kathleen Gould*.
Journal of Cell Science: Cover; Duc1 regulates cytokinetic ring positioning in yeast
- Organization of a cytoskeletal superstructure in the apical domain of intestinal tuft cells. Journal of Cell Biology.
Jennifer Silverman*, Evan Krystofiak, Leah Caplan, Ken Lau, Matthew Tyska*.
- Evolution of pH-sensitive transcription termination in Escherichia coli during adaptation to repeated long-term starvation. PNAS.
Sarah Worthan*, Robert McCarthy, Benjamin Bratton, Megan Behringer*.
- Wnt/β-catenin signaling is a therapeutic target in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. Endocrine.
Diana Diaz*, Kensey Bergdorf, Matthew Loberg, Courtney Phifer, George Xu, Quanhu Sheng, Sheau-Chiann Chen, Jamal Byrant, Megan Tigue, Heather Hartmann, Sarah Rohde, James Netterville, Naira Baregamian, Jeremy Goettel, Fei Ye, Ethan Lee, Vivian Weiss*.
Molecular Physiology and Biophysics- Knockdown of microglial iron import gene, Slc11a2, worsens cognitive function and alters microglial transcriptional landscape in a sex-specific manner in the APP/PS1 model of Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroinflammation.
Katrina Volk Robertson, Alec Rodriguez, Jean-Philippe Cartailler, Shristi Shrestha, Michael Schleh, Kyle Schroeder, Arianna Valenti, Alec Kramer, Fiona Harrison*, Alyssa Hasty*.
- Expanding Automated Multiconformer Ligand Modeling to Macrocycles and Fragments (preprint). bioRxiv.
Jessica Flowers* (University of California, San Francisco), Stephanie Wankowicz*.
Pharmacology- Structure-guided in vitro evolution of nanobodies targeting new viral variants. PLOS Pathogens.
Gang Ye* (University of Minnesota Medical School), Benjamin Spiller, Brian Wadzinski.
- Binary mixtures of Vanderbilt University allosteric agonist thermolysis components act as volatile spatial repellents for malaria vector mosquitoes. Pest Management Science.
Luis Martinez, Ahmed Imami, Enzo de Jong, Ian Romaine, Laurence Zwiebel*.
- Synaptic basis of rapid antidepressant action. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.
Ege Kavalali*, Lisa Monteggia*.
- Seasonality in mood disorders: Probing association of accelerometer-derived physical activity with daylength and solar insolation. PLOS Mental Health.
Oleg Kovtun*, Sandra Rosenthal*.
Medical Xpress: Digital biomarkers shed light on seasonality in mood disorders
- Detection of distant relatedness in biobanks to identify undiagnosed cases of Mendelian disease as applied to Long QT syndrome. Nature Communications.
Megan Lancaster*, Hung-Hsin Chen, M. Benjamin Shoemaker, Matthew Fleming, Teresa Strickland, James Baker, Grahame Evans, Hannah Polikowsky, David Samuels, Dan Roden, Jennifer Below*.
VUMC News: Minor early changes in lungs can signal changes in progressive lung disease
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Other basic sciences papers- Discovery and characterization of a pan-betacoronavirus S2-binding antibody. Structure.
Nicole Johnson* (The University of Texas at Austin), Steven Wall*, Kevin Kramer*, Clinton Holt*, Naveenchandra Suryadevara, Andrea Shiakolas, Kelsey Pilewski, Rachel Nargi, Rachel Sutton, Alexandria Abu-Shmais, Robert Carnahan, James Crowe Jr., Ivelin Georgiev*.
- Isolation and characterization of IgG3 glycan-targeting antibodies with exceptional cross-reactivity for diverse viral families. PLOS Pathogens.
Matthew Vukovich, Andrea Shiakolas, Lindsay Bass, Alexandra Abu-Shmais, Sabina Leonard, Kathryn Gripenstraw, Ian Setliff, Rachel Bonami, Ivelin Georgiev*.
VUMC News: VUMC method tracks down rare, broadly reacting antibodies: study
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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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