Issue 20 kick-starts our metabolism review series with
@JohannesMeiser
&
@FrezzaLab
Structure of the type I-F Cas8-HNH system
Fitness cost of spurious phosphorylation
Resource: i-motif distribution in the human genome
Cover:
@MishaKudryashev
and colleagues
Should you worry about not finishing revision experiments in time because of the current
#COIVD19
crisis – we don’t. Just contact us to discuss the situation & possible extension. We’ll extend scooping protection to the time needed!
Congratulations to Tasuku Honjo and his team on the
#NobelPrize
in physiology or medicine for opening up
#immunotherapy
. Here, the first paper on PD-1 - already characterized as immunoglobulin superfamily, but years before immunoregulatory role emerged.
Once we received your manuscript
@embojournal
, we know your work was done before that competing paper came out just now - applies also when transferring further to other
@EMBOpress
journals or when you’ve posted recent
#preprint
on
@biorxivpreprint
ISSUE 15
Review: How RNA Pol II speed shapes transcriptomes
N&V: vacuolar cargo selection by ZZ domains
Cover:
@Paras__Sehgal
@SridharSivasub3
@vinodscaria
et al
and: dendritic cell quorum sensing, post-synaptic eat-me signal, SMC5/6 substrate selection…
Presenting metabolomics analyses: what’s in a number?
As part of a methods advice series, Meiser and Frezza highlight frequent pitfalls and offers guidance related to designing, processing, and communicating metabolomics analyses
@JohannesMeiser
@FrezzaLab
ISSUE 14:
Reciprocal RTK priming on endosomes
Neuronal Miro1 and mitophagy
Spliceosome mutation in human mosaic aneuploidy
Redox homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in host cells
Review on apoptosis inhibition treatment
Cover by Duerr et al
Issue 16 features circRNA review, highlighted work on phase separation in DNA repair & organellar proteasomes in antigen presentation, senataxin roles in transcription termination, & cancer cell secretion of collagen linearizer. Cover by
@hipp_o_neill
lab
New Issue 19:
Autophagy in human disease Review
Proteostasis reporter mice Resource
Tubulin acetylation & lysosomal acidification
TRIM46 degrading HDAC1 in breast cancer
Cover by Güttler, Aksu, Dobbelstein, Görlich et al &
@TeamSciStories
Final 2019 issue: Mitochondria fixing their own mistakes, a niche for aged muscle stem cells, LIN28A and Parkinson’s disease, pH changes in plant pathogen response, mechanisms of repeat-mediated DNA deletion...
Cover by Takii, Nakai et al
New issue! Read on exercise-induced metabolites stimulating muscle hypertrophy, deposition of H2A.Z in plants & of CENP-A in flies, & chromatin players at uncapped telomeres & in endothelial inflammatory response. Recombinase monkeys by
@TheFedePao
et al
New review by Koji Okamoto and colleagues gives an update on selective
#autophagy
of
#mitochondria
across species, and how
#mitophagy
pathways cooperate in normal or disease physiology
Issue
#3
of our anniversary year:
Bacterial phage tolerance response
Unusual biogenesis of secretory IgM
N-RNA rings and glycoproteins in RSV virion structure
Cover by Soung-Hun Roh & Stephan Wilkens groups
What is the significance of transcription factor binding to regulatory RNA?
@DimpleNotani
and colleagues
@NCBS_Bangalore
show that it stabilizes ERα binding to promoters with weak recognition motifs, but also reduces their transcriptional output
Cover issue 23 by John Rouse
@tarankhanam
et al
Featured: neurotransmitters shaping cortical interneuron migration
Protein crowding in the inner mitochondrial membrane
Human replisome structure
HDAC limiting divergent non-coding transcription
Latest issue! Read about microglia subtypes, yeast models of plant hormone signaling, nitric oxide roles in endothelial redox homeostasis, lncRNA-elicited DNA looping, and converging bacterial nucleotide signaling pathways. Cover by Lepko, Ninkovic et al
Issue 18:
Reviews on Cancer Evolution, EMT Roles in Tumor Progression
plus: Piwi/piRNA affect chromatin, DNA-protein crosslink repair via SUMO, dynamic adaptation in Notch signaling, DNA methylation in adult neurogenesis…
@rustenlab
cover by Todd Schoborg
Apoptotic mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization MOMP is proinflammatory because of mitochondrial membrane protein ubiquitylation leading to NEMO recruitment and NF-kB activation
Stephen Tait and colleagues
@MitosRUs
@CRUK_SI
Positive Ultra-bright Fluorescent Fusion For Identifying Neighbours (PUFFFIN) allows visualization and isolation of surrounding cells in culture, tissues, or embryos, for profiling non-cell-autonomous responses
@_CellySally_
et al
We are saddened and shocked to learn of the sudden passing of John Tooze, long-term
@EMBO
Executive Secretary and forever remembered as the founding editor of
@embojournal
, which he edited from 1982-2003
Issue 20 features FOXA2 control of pancreatic cancer cells, cyclin F cell-cycle control via E2Fs, a new convention-defying p53 mutant, & review on embryonic organization by tissue rheology. Cover image by
@katpyxa
&
@feline_lindhout
, Hoogenraad et al
MemPrep: combined with proteomics & quantitative lipidomics, a new method for isolating specific organellar membranes from yeast establishes molecular fingerprints of membrane-based forms of endoplasmic reticulum stress
John Reinhard, Robert Ernst et al
Issue 22:
Inflammation caused by DNA hypomethylation
Evolution of microtubule drug resistance
Featured:
Material transfer by photoreceptor nanotubes, lipid metabolism control by PKM2-TMEM33
Resource:
PET imaging deep neuronal circuits
Cover by
@LabThoma
Final issue of EJ volume 40!
Features on viral super cell fusers and SNX10-mediated LPS sensing
Plus: bacterial dual-function RNA, UBR7 as histone chaperone, asparagine and adipose thermogenesis
@ajknights7
et al cover illustration by
@skrahl
Issue 15 features ERAD doppelgänger EGAD, ERp18 activation of ATF6 in UPR, proteomics markers of melanoma MAPKi resistance, events at ER-mitochondria interfaces, bacterial replication origin unwinding, & review on cancer models. Cover by
@FrischknechtLab
Issue 20:
Catching BAK in action at membranes (incl. N&V)
Subcellular localization of nucleolin
CTCF modulation of UV DNA damage
Neuropeptide-driven circadian neuronal network
...
Cover: Wang, Shao and colleagues
@TeamSciStories
A protein condensate that carries specific mRNAs!
The kinesin-3 KIF1C undergoes liquid-liquid phase separation for accumulation of specific transcripts at the cell periphery
New chapter in our ongoing RNA Review Series:
@JavierFCaceres1
et al discuss
#mRNA
quality control mechanisms including non-stop and no-go mRNA decay pathways and the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway
Translation-coupled mRNA quality control mechanisms
Autophagy in major human diseases –
@FedericoPietr12
@deadoc80
et al. bring together broad perspectives on the contribution of
#autophagy
to multiple pathological phenotypes, and discuss the therapeutic potential of autophagy modulation
In the latest issue: Tissue macrophage identity guardians, ATRX roles in ALT telomere maintenance, lymph vessels in a hairy niche, TRAPP stress granules arresting secretion, & cellular plasticity commentary. Cover by Kortzak, Machtens, Fahlke et al
Issue 6: Resources on ncRNA
@genenames
& ovarian cancer organoids; transcription rewires chromatin/lamina interactions, precursor miRNAs hitchhike on endosomes, & excessive proofreading at replication hurdles. Cover by Marlieke Jongsma et al
@UniLeidenNews
Clara Sánchez-Rodríguez
@ETH_en
et al use genetically encoded sensors for absolute pH changes across plant plasma membranes in response to biotic stress, reveal direct connections between apoplast acidification, pathogen defense, and plant growth:
New issue with… neurological chimera commentary, cGAS in DNA repair, ribosome capture by viral IRES, RNF8 regulation by p97/ATX3, and inflammasome instruction by adaptive immunity
Noncanonical
#phosphorylation
cover by
@phospho
for
@ClaireEEyers
et al
What happens to human cells at very cold temperatures, as during surgery? Andre Furger
@UniofOxford
and colleagues find
#chromatin
compaction and nuclear retention of clock mRNAs, whose release upon rewarming reset the cellular
#circadian
clock
Adjusting protein turnover rates to bioenergetic demand:
@langer_lab
@MPIAGE
identify TMBIM5 as a calcium/proton exchanger and inhibitor of m-AAA protease in the
#mitochondrial
inner membrane
Issue 17: Editorial to our Cancer Series & Review on tumor cell competition
Cover by
@brajabandhu_p
et al
Plus: adaptive tolerance against autoimmune reactions, tubulin glutamylation in axonal transport, Tudor staphylococcal nuclease & stress granule
Issue
#2
with
@TeamSciStories
cover & feature on Rosselot, Moore, Hong et al
Review by
@CedricBlanpain
on tumor states at single-cell resolution
Plus: Amyloid assembly via heterotypic beta interactions; tBID as BAX-like apoptosis effector
Phase separation of Hippo signalling complexes
@ThompsonLab
shows that mechanical strain and growth factor signaling regulate the condensation of Hippo pathway components in Drosophila and mammalian epithelia
How do nutrient-starved cells preserve a basal supply of dormant ribosomes?
Michael Hall and colleagues
@biozentrum
@UniBasel_en
identify conserved TORC1 phosphorylation and inhibition of ribosome-binding factor Stm1/SERBP1 in yeast and human cells
New issue! Read on LRRK2 in ER/mitochondrial tethering, pluripotent state interconversion by Zfp281, centromeric determinants of chromosome-specific aneuploidy, & how plant phosphate status governs host microbial preferences. Cover by Schäfer, Schuck et al
How does
#centrosome
amplification -common in cancer- promote cell migration through confined spaces?
@godinho_susana
et al
@QMBCI
show that it alters intracellular organization via effects on tubulin acetylation and organelle transport along microtubules
A network of small RNAs regulates sporulation initiation in Clostridioides difficile
@franzifaber
& colleagues
@Helmholtz_HIRI
@Uni_WUE
Small RNA/target interaction maps reveal first RNA chaperone Hfq-dependent RNA interactome in a gram-positive pathogen
Creativity as antidote to research becoming too predictable
In this commentary, Markus Baer
@groth_anja
@AndersHLund
& Katrine Sonne-Hansen argue why risk-taking & blue-sky research should be actively fostered in budding scientists
Cf.
@nightsciencepod
A link between dysfunctional
#mitochondrial
translation and
#lysosomal
function - via HIF1a-regulated NAD+ production supporting local glycolytic ATP generation around lysosomes – find Takeshi Uchiumi and coworkers
Seminal
#ubiquitin
paper from
#40yearsEMBOJ
:
Cecile Pickart and colleagues defined tetra-ubiquitin chains as minimum requirement for proteasomal recognition
Our new issue with insights on peroxide-induced cell death, antiviral immune signaling, single-cell transcriptomics of human retina, and more! Featuring review on DNA damage checkpoint signaling at 30 and cover by
@klausenhauser
@structplantbio
et al
Combined single-cell sequencing and ex vivo imaging reveals the earliest cell fate markers and mesenchymal cues instructing mouse embryonic mammary branching
Silvia Fre
@slvfre
Bethan Lloyd-Lewis
@BethLloydLewis
and coworkers
How can APC/C E3 recognize & inactivate CDK1 as soon as the spindle checkpoint is switched off?
@LucaCirillo17
, Rose Young et al identify chromosome as key platform recruiting both Cyclin B1 and APC3 via their arginine anchor motifs
@PinesLab
@calfieri84
TOLLIP acts as a cargo adaptor to promote lysosomal degradation of aberrant ER membrane proteins
Hidenori Ichijo et al find TOLLIP piggybacks on the
#PI3P
-dependent
#lysosomal
trafficking machinery to remove
#misfolded
ER proteins
Exposed phosphatidylserine on pre- and postsynaptic membranes functions as an ‘eat-me’ signal that mediates developmental synaptic pruning by microglia -
@Michela30586273
@stevens1lab
and coworkers
A CRISPR-Cas9-tagging approach to induce chromosome-specific segmental aneuploidies: assembling ectopic kinetochores at endogenous repeats recapitulates disease-linked missegregation in human cells
@mcclellandlab
@MicrodotLaura
Sara Johnson et al
@QMBCI
Heterochromatin formation and remodeling by IRTKS condensates counteract cellular senescence
IRTKS contributes to the formation and maintenance of HP1α-driven heterochromatin condensates by promoting HP1α SUMOylation