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Week of October 16

Recently published

The USP46 deubiquitylase complex increases Wingless/Wnt signaling strength by stabilizing Arrow/LRP6. Nature Communications.
Zachary Spencer (Dartmouth College), Victoria Ng, Hassina Benchabane (Dartmouth College), Jamal Bryant, Anna Schwarzkopf, Sara Kassel, Ethan Lee.

Adhesion-based capture stabilizes nascent microvilli at epithelial cell junctions. Developmental Cell.

Caroline Cencer, Jennifer Silverman, Leslie Meenderink, Evan Krystofiak, Bryan Millis, Matthew Tyska.
Characterization of Pik1 function in fission yeast reveals its conserved role in lipid synthesis and not cytokinesis. Journal of Cell Science.
Alaina Willet, Lesley Turner, Joshua Park, Liping Ren, Chloe Snider, Kathleen Gould.
The QseB response regulator imparts tolerance to positively charged antibiotics by controlling metabolism and minor changes to LPS. mSphere.
Melanie Hurst, Connor Beebout, Alexis Hollingsworth, Kirsten Guckes, Tomas Bermudez, Diamond Williams, Seth Reasoner, Maria Hadjifrangiskou.

“A recent paper from the [Maria Hadjifrangiskou] lab uncovered a previously unknown mechanism of metabolic control of antibiotic tolerance that may be contributing to [antibiotic] treatment failure in the clinic,” VUMC Molecular Pathogenesis.

Book chapters

Chapter Two - Steroid 17α-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase (cytochrome P450 17A1). Methods in Enzymology: Steroid Biochemistry (volume 689).
F. Peter Guengerich, Kevin McCarty, Yasuhiro Tateishi, Lu Liu.

Highlights from the web

Cover of the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell, volume 34, number 11, October 1, 2023. The featured image is a field of S. pombe cells glowing with cyan dots; many of the cells have magenta lines across their middle (across their width, not their length).

Membrane binding of endocytic myosin-1s is inhibited by a class of ankyrin repeat proteins. Molecular Biology of the Cell.
Alaina Willet, Jun-Song Chen, Liping Ren, Kathleen Gould.

Highlighted on the cover of Molecular Biology of the Cell.

Targeting Stem Cells and Dysplastic Features with Dual MEK/ERK and STAT3 Suppression in Gastric Carcinogenesis. Gastroenterology.
Hyesung Kim, Bogun Jang, Changqing Zhang, Brianna Caldwell, James Goldenring, Eunyoung Choi.

Highlighted in the VUMC Reporter.

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