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    Fungal plant pathogens pose major threats to crop yield and sustainable food production if they are highly adapted to their host and the local environment. Variation in gene expression contributes to phenotypi...

    Authors: Parvathy Krishnan, Lukas Meile, Clémence Plissonneau, Xin Ma, Fanny E. Hartmann, Daniel Croll, Bruce A. McDonald and Andrea Sánchez-Vallet

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:78

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    Protein quality control mechanisms are essential for cell health and involve delivery of proteins to specific cellular compartments for recycling or degradation. In particular, stray hydrophobic proteins are c...

    Authors: Santiago Martínez-Lumbreras, Ewelina M. Krysztofinska, Arjun Thapaliya, Alessandro Spilotros, Dijana Matak-Vinkovic, Enrico Salvadori, Peristera Roboti, Yvonne Nyathi, Janina H. Muench, Maxie M. Roessler, Dmitri I. Svergun, Stephen High and Rivka L. Isaacson

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:76

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    RNA-guided CRISPR/Cas9 systems can be designed to mutate or excise the integrated HIV genome from latently infected cells and have therefore been proposed as a curative approach for HIV. However, most studies ...

    Authors: Pavitra Roychoudhury, Harshana De Silva Feelixge, Daniel Reeves, Bryan T. Mayer, Daniel Stone, Joshua T. Schiffer and Keith R. Jerome

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:75

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    In mammalian females, progressive activation of dormant primordial follicles in adulthood is crucial for the maintenance of the reproductive lifespan. Misregulated activation of primordial follicles leads to v...

    Authors: Hao Yan, Jiawei Zhang, Jia Wen, Yibo Wang, Wanbao Niu, Zhen Teng, Tongtong Zhao, Yanli Dai, Yan Zhang, Chao Wang, Yingying Qin, Guoliang Xia and Hua Zhang

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:73

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    The phenotypes of sperm are generally believed to be under the control of the diploid genotype of the male producing them rather than their own haploid genotypes, because developing spermatids share cytoplasm ...

    Authors: Richard Borowsky, Alissa Luk, Xinjian He and Rebecca S. Kim

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:72

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    Domesticated from gray wolves between 10 and 40 kya in Eurasia, dogs display a vast array of phenotypes that differ from their ancestors, yet mirror other domesticated animal species, a phenomenon known as the...

    Authors: Amanda L. Pendleton, Feichen Shen, Angela M. Taravella, Sarah Emery, Krishna R. Veeramah, Adam R. Boyko and Jeffrey M. Kidd

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:64

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  9. Content type: Methodology article

    Huntington disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG expansion in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, leading to selective and progressive neuronal death predominantly in the striatum. Mutant HTT ...

    Authors: Mandi E. Schmidt, Caodu Buren, James P. Mackay, Daphne Cheung, Louisa Dal Cengio, Lynn A. Raymond and Michael R. Hayden

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:58

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    The proteome of mitochondria comprises mostly proteins that originate as precursors in the cytosol. Before import into the organelle, such proteins are exposed to cytosolic quality control mechanisms. Multiple...

    Authors: Lukasz Kowalski, Piotr Bragoszewski, Anton Khmelinskii, Edyta Glow, Michael Knop and Agnieszka Chacinska

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:66

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    The Commentary to this article has been published in BMC Biology 2018 16:63

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    Tandem fluorescent protein timers are elegant tools to determine proteolytic stabilities of cytosolic proteins with high spatial and temporal resolution. In a new study published in BMC Biology, Kowalski et al. f...

    Authors: Eva Zöller, R. Todd Alexander and Johannes M. Herrmann

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:63

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    The original article was published in BMC Biology 2018 16:66

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    The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium is generating null allele mice for every protein-coding gene in the genome and characterizing these mice to identify gene–phenotype associations. While CRISPR/Cas...

    Authors: Denise G. Lanza, Angelina Gaspero, Isabel Lorenzo, Lan Liao, Ping Zheng, Ying Wang, Yu Deng, Chonghui Cheng, Chuansheng Zhang, John R. Seavitt, Francesco J. DeMayo, Jianming Xu, Mary E. Dickinson, Arthur L. Beaudet and Jason D. Heaney

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:69

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    Recent advances in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) genome editing have led to the use of long single-stranded DNA (lssDNA) molecules for ge...

    Authors: Gemma F. Codner, Joffrey Mianné, Adam Caulder, Jorik Loeffler, Rachel Fell, Ruairidh King, Alasdair J. Allan, Matthew Mackenzie, Fran J. Pike, Christopher V. McCabe, Skevoulla Christou, Sam Joynson, Marie Hutchison, Michelle E. Stewart, Saumya Kumar, Michelle M. Simon…

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:70

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    To prevent folate deficiencies, many countries supplement various foodstuffs with folic acid. This compound is a synthetic oxidised folate that differs from naturally occurring reduced folates in its metabolis...

    Authors: Claire Maynard, Ian Cummins, Jacalyn Green and David Weinkove

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:67

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    S2 cells are one of the most widely used Drosophila melanogaster cell lines. A series of studies has shown that they are particularly suitable for RNAi-based screens aimed at the dissection of cellular pathways, ...

    Authors: Anton Strunov, Lidiya V. Boldyreva, Evgeniya N. Andreyeva, Gera A. Pavlova, Julia V. Popova, Alena V. Razuvaeva, Alina F. Anders, Fioranna Renda, Alexey V. Pindyurin, Maurizio Gatti and Elena Kiseleva

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:68

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    Skeletal muscle atrophy is a common feature of numerous chronic pathologies and is correlated with patient mortality. The REDD1 protein is currently recognized as a negative regulator of muscle mass through in...

    Authors: Florian A. Britto, Fabienne Cortade, Yassine Belloum, Marine Blaquière, Yann S. Gallot, Aurélie Docquier, Allan F. Pagano, Elodie Jublanc, Nadia Bendridi, Christelle Koechlin-Ramonatxo, Béatrice Chabi, Marc Francaux, François Casas, Damien Freyssenet, Jennifer Rieusset, Sophie Giorgetti-Peraldi…

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:65

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    Single-cell genomic methods now provide unprecedented resolution for characterizing the component cell types and states of tissues such as the epithelial subsets of the gastrointestinal tract. Nevertheless, fu...

    Authors: Benjamin E. Mead, Jose Ordovas-Montanes, Alexandra P. Braun, Lauren E. Levy, Prerna Bhargava, Matthew J. Szucs, Dustin A. Ammendolia, Melanie A. MacMullan, Xiaolei Yin, Travis K. Hughes, Marc H. Wadsworth II, Rushdy Ahmad, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, Steven A. Carr, Robert Langer, James J. Collins…

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:62

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    Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is generated as a by-product of metabolic reactions during oxygen use by aerobic organisms, and can be toxic or participate in signaling processes. Cells, therefore, need to be able to se...

    Authors: Alba Domènech, José Ayté, Fernando Antunes and Elena Hidalgo

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:61

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    Ever since the first atomic structure of an enzyme was solved, the discovery of the mechanism and dynamics of reactions catalyzed by biomolecules has been the key goal for the understanding of the molecular pr...

    Authors: Jose L. Olmos Jr, Suraj Pandey, Jose M. Martin-Garcia, George Calvey, Andrea Katz, Juraj Knoska, Christopher Kupitz, Mark S. Hunter, Mengning Liang, Dominik Oberthuer, Oleksandr Yefanov, Max Wiedorn, Michael Heyman, Mark Holl, Kanupriya Pande, Anton Barty…

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:59

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    Drosophila is a powerful model for the study of factors modulating innate immunity. This study examines the effect of water-loss dehydration on innate immune responsiveness in the Drosophila renal system (Malpigh...

    Authors: Wenjing Zheng, Florentina Rus, Ana Hernandez, Ping Kang, William Goldman, Neal Silverman and Marc Tatar

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:60

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  22. Content type: Commentary

    A recent paper in BMC Biology presents a general method for mix-and-inject serial crystallography, to facilitate the visualization of enzyme intermediates via time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (tr-...

    Authors: Allen M. Orville

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:55

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  24. Content type: Methodology article

    Advances in tissue clearing and molecular labeling methods are enabling unprecedented optical access to large intact biological systems. These developments fuel the need for high-speed microscopy approaches to...

    Authors: Bianca Migliori, Malika S. Datta, Christophe Dupre, Mehmet C. Apak, Shoh Asano, Ruixuan Gao, Edward S. Boyden, Ola Hermanson, Rafael Yuste and Raju Tomer

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:57

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    Trichogrammatids are minute parasitoid wasps that develop within other insect eggs. They are less than half a millimeter long, smaller than some protozoans. The Trichogrammatidae are one of the earliest branch...

    Authors: Amelia R. I. Lindsey, Yogeshwar D. Kelkar, Xin Wu, Dan Sun, Ellen O. Martinson, Zhichao Yan, Paul F. Rugman-Jones, Daniel S. T. Hughes, Shwetha C. Murali, Jiaxin Qu, Shannon Dugan, Sandra L. Lee, Hsu Chao, Huyen Dinh, Yi Han, Harsha Vardhan Doddapaneni…

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:54

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