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Week of November 20

Biochemistry

Stepwise requirements for polymerases δ and θ in theta-mediated end joining. Nature.
Susanna Stroik (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Juan Carvajal-Garcia.
Self-reversal facilitates the resolution of HMCES DNA-protein crosslinks in cells. Cell Reports.

Jorge Rúa-Fernández, Courtney Lovejoy, Kavi Mehta, Katherine Paulin, Yasmine Toudji, Celeste Giansanti, Brandt Eichman, David Cortez.
Jedi-1/MEGF12-mediated phagocytosis controls the pro-neurogenic properties of microglia in the ventricular-subventricular zone. Cell Reports.

Vivianne Morrison, Matthew Houpert, Jonathan Trapani, Asa Brockman, Philip Kingsley, Ketaki Katdare, Hillary Layden, Gabriela Nguena-Jones, Alexandra Trevisan, Lawrence Marnett, Rebecca Ihrie, Bruce Carter.

Cell and Developmental Biology

Clostridioides difficile ferrosome organelles combat nutritional immunity. Nature.
Hualiang Pi (Yale University School of Medicine), Rong Sun, James McBride, Angela Kruse, Katherine Gibson-Corley, Evan Krystofiak, Maribeth Nicholson, Jeffrey Spraggins, Qiangjun Zhou, Eric Skaar.

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Hitting the brakes on transcription to extend lifespan. Trends in Genetics.

Kristopher Burkewitz.
Preparation of Whole-mount Mouse Islets on Vascular Extracellular Matrix for Live Islet Cell Microscopy. Bio-Protocol.
Kung-Hsien Ho, Guoqiang Gu, Irina Kaverina.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Cucurbit[7]uril Enhances Distance Measurements of Spin-Labeled Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Zhimin Yang (University of Nebraska), Hassane Mchaourab.
A quick guide to networking for scientists. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences.
Heather Beasley, Ky’Era Acktins, Andrea Marshall, Celestine Wanjalla, Annet Kirabo, Antentor Hinton Jr.
Environmental Toxicant Exposure Paralyzes Human Placental Macrophage Responses to Microbial Threat. ACS Infectious Diseases.
Victoria Stephens, Rebecca Moore, Sabrina Spicer, Julie Talbert, Jacky Lu, Riya Chinni, Schuyler Chambers, Steven Townsend, Zer Vue, Kit Neikirk, Antentor Hinton Jr., Steven Damo, Kristen Noble, Alison Eastman, Monique McCallister, Kevin Osteen, Jennifer Gaddy.
3D reconstruction of murine mitochondria reveals changes in structure during aging linked to the MICOS complex. Aging Cell.
Zer Vue, Edgar Garza-Lopez (University of Iowa), Kit Neikirk, Prasanna Katti (National Institutes of Health), Larry Vang, Heather Beasley, Andrea Marshall, Amber Crabtree, Margaret Mungai, Mason Killion, Dominique Stephens, Ho-Jin Koh, Alice Koh, Jamaine Davis, Nina Devine, Saleem Muhammod, Jennifer Gaddy, Genesis Wilson, Elma Zaganjor, Annet Kirabo, Steven Damo, Bret Mobley, Jose Gomez, Antentor Hinton Jr.
Latent transforming growth factor beta binding protein 4: A regulator of mitochondrial function in acute kidney injury. Aging Cell.
Kit Neikirk, Adaku Ume (Wright State University), Praveena Prasad (Pennsylvania State University), Andrea Marshall, Antentor Hinton Jr.

Other Biomedical Basic Sciences Papers

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Mutexa: A Computational Ecosystem for Intelligent Protein Engineering. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
Zhongyue Yang, Qianzhen Shao, Yaoyukun Jiang, Christopher Jurich, Xinchun Ran, Reecan Juarez, Bailu Yan, Sebastian Stull, Anvita Gollu, Ning Ding.

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