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Week of July 15

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

Roles for PMP22 in Schwann cell cholesterol homeostasis in health and disease. Biochemical Society Transactions.
Katherine Stefanski*, Mason Wilkinson, Charles Sanders*.
Dehydroalanine and dehydrobutyrine in aging and cataractous lenses reveal site-specific consequences of spontaneous protein degradation. Frontiers in Ophthalmology.
Jessica Paredes*, Zhen Wang, Purvi Patel, Kristie Rose, Kevin Schey*.

Cell and Developmental Biology

The Roles of RAC1 and RAC1B in Colorectal Cancer and Their Potential Contribution to Cetuximab Resistance. Cancers.
Claudia Wahoski*, Bhuminder Singh*.
Characterization of temperature-sensitive alleles of Schizosaccharomyces pombe septation initiation network components. microPublication Biology.
Lesley Turner*, Alaina Willet, Kathleen Gould*.
The core spindle pole body scaffold Ppc89 links the pericentrin ortholog Pcp1 to the fission yeast spindle pole body via an evolutionarily conserved interface. Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Jun-Song Chen*, Maya Igarashi, Liping Ren, Sarah Hanna, Lesley Turner, Nathan McDonald, Janel Beckley, Alaina Willet, Kathleen Gould*.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Beyond the numbers in treating hypertensive end-organ damage: role of formyl peptide receptor agonist Cmpd17b. Cardiovascular Research.
Claude Albritton*, Antentor Hinton Jr.*, Annet Kirabo*.

Pharmacology

Plaat1l1 controls feeding induced NAPE biosynthesis and contributes to energy balance regulation in zebrafish. Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators.
Zahra Mashhadi*, Linlin Yin, Noura Dosoky, Wenbiao Chen, Sean Davies*.
Activation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 3 Modulates Thalamo-accumbal Transmission and Rescues Schizophrenia-Like Physiological and Behavioral Deficits. Biological Psychiatry.
Shalini Dogra*, Caleb Aguayo, Zixiu Xiang, Jason Putnam, Joshua Smith, Craig Lindsley, Colleen Niswender, Jeffrey Conn*.
Chronic modulation of cAMP signaling elicits synaptic scaling irrespective of activity. iScience.
Elena Bagatelas*, Ege Kavalali*.
Prostanoid signaling in retinal vascular diseases. Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators.
Amy Stark, John Penn*.
Targeting soluble amyloid-beta oligomers with a novel nanobody. Scientific Reports.
Justin Haynes*, Clayton Whitmore, William Behof, Charlotte Landman, Henry Ong, Andrew Feld, Isabelle Suero, Celeste Greer, John Gore, Brian Wadzinski, Benjamin Spiller, Wellington Pham*.

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