28 November, 2008
Volume 135, Issue 5
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Volume 135, Issue 5
On the cover: An artistic rendition depicts new measurement devices to study cells undergoing endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, a condition that occurs whenever ER protein-folding functions are overwhelmed by increased protein-folding demand. Cells are recognized as experiencing ER stress when they have activated a set of homeostatic intraorganelle signaling pathways called the unfolded protein response (UPR), but how the ER is actually faring under these conditions is often less clear. In this issue, Merksamer et al. (pp. 933–947) simultaneously monitored dynamic changes in UPR activity by using transcriptionally activated red fluorescent protein and deficits in ER oxidation occurring during ER stress by using redox-responsive green fluorescent protein. In the drawing, entitled “Redlining the ER,” the measurement tools are likened to gauges on a speeding racecar, which depicts an ER-stressed cell compensating through UPR activation. These tools provide real-time information on these multiple parameters to the experimenters—much as the gauges would to a racecar driver. Conceptual design by Feroz R. Papa and Jennifer West. Artwork by Jennifer West.
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- Simulation of kinesin-5-mediated chromosome congression at the metaphase spindle
- Kinetochore microtubules (MTs) have their minus end attached to the spindle pole body and their dynamic plus end attached to a kinetochore (teal, attached to left pole; purple, attached to right pole). The chromatin between each teal and purple kinetochore pair is not shown. Kinesin-5 motors crosslink MTs and move toward the plus ends (magenta if crosslink is antiparallel, and green if crosslink is parallel). Over time, length-dependent MT assembly self-organizes the spindle, with teal kinetochores clustering on the left and purple kinetochores clustering on the right. The chromosomes are now "congressed" and ready for anaphase. See also the paper by Gardner et al.
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SnapShot: Cell-Cycle Regulators II David O. Morgan |
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In this Issue
- Food intake is inhibited by the phospholipid NAPE
- Gut-derived serotonin impacts bone formation
- A fly model of a lysosomal storage disorder
- In vivo RNAi screen identifies new tumor suppressors
- A polarity gene and an oncogene cooperate for tumor progression
- Changes in chromosome copy number facilitate adaptive evolution
- Kinesin-5 disassembles long kinetochore microtubules
- SIRT1 redistribution links DNA damage and aging
- RNase P makes two noncoding RNAs from a single transcript
- Monitoring unfolded proteins in the ER of living cells
- Control of adhesion by a microtubule-anchoring machinery
- Kinesins act as gatekeeper for memory storage
- Gut-derived serotonin impacts bone formation
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Hematopoietic Stem Cells Reversibly Switch from Dormancy to Self-Renewal during Homeostasis and Repair
Anne Wilson, Elisa Laurenti, Gabriela Oser, Richard C. van der Wath, William Blanco-Bose, Maike Jaworski, Sandra Offner, Cyrille F. Dunant, Leonid Eshkind, Ernesto Bockamp, Pietro Lió, H. Robson MacDonald, and Andreas Trumpp
Membrane Binding by tBid Initiates an Ordered Series of Events Culminating in Membrane Permeabilization by Bax
Jonathan F. Lovell, Lieven P. Billen, Scott Bindner, Aisha Shamas-Din, Cecile Fradin, Brian Leber, and David W. Andrews
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Regulation of T Cell Receptor Activation by Dynamic Membrane Binding of the CD3ε Cytoplasmic Tyrosine-Based Motif Dr. Fabiola Rivas speaks with Dr. Kai Wucherpfennig about activation of immune receptors and his recent findings showing that a key signaling motif in the CD3ε cytoplasmic domain of the T cell receptor is membrane bound prior to receptor activation.
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