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  1. Content type: Research article

    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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  12. 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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  14. 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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    The evolutionary roots of human moral behavior are a key precondition to understanding human nature. Investigations usually start with a social dilemma and end up with a norm that can provide some insight into...

    Authors: J. Garay, S. Számadó, Z. Varga and E. Szathmáry

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:53

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    Sequencing-based analyses of low-biomass samples are known to be prone to misinterpretation due to the potential presence of contaminating molecules derived from laboratory reagents and environments. DNA conta...

    Authors: Anna Heintz-Buschart, Dilmurat Yusuf, Anne Kaysen, Alton Etheridge, Joëlle V. Fritz, Patrick May, Carine de Beaufort, Bimal B. Upadhyaya, Anubrata Ghosal, David J. Galas and Paul Wilmes

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:52

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  18. Content type: Research article

    Regulatory T cells (Tregs) expressing the transcription factor FOXP3 are crucial mediators of self-tolerance, preventing autoimmune diseases but possibly hampering tumor rejection. Clinical manipulation of Tre...

    Authors: Angelika Schmidt, Francesco Marabita, Narsis A. Kiani, Catharina C. Gross, Henrik J. Johansson, Szabolcs Éliás, Sini Rautio, Matilda Eriksson, Sunjay Jude Fernandes, Gilad Silberberg, Ubaid Ullah, Urvashi Bhatia, Harri Lähdesmäki, Janne Lehtiö, David Gomez-Cabrero, Heinz Wiendl…

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:47

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    Environmental influences fluctuate throughout the life course of an organism. It is therefore important to understand how the timing of exposure impacts molecular responses. Herein, we examine the responses of...

    Authors: Amy F. Danson, Sarah J. Marzi, Robert Lowe, Michelle L. Holland and Vardhman K. Rakyan

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:51

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    Photosensitizing fluorescent proteins, which generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon light irradiation, are useful for spatiotemporal protein inactivation and cell ablation. They give us clues about protei...

    Authors: Yemima Dani Riani, Tomoki Matsuda, Kiwamu Takemoto and Takeharu Nagai

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:50

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  21. Content type: Research article

    Intron retention (IR), the most prevalent alternative splicing form in plants, plays a critical role in gene expression during plant development and stress response. However, the molecular mechanisms underlyin...

    Authors: Gang Wei, Kunpeng Liu, Ting Shen, Jinlei Shi, Bing Liu, Miao Han, Maolin Peng, Haihui Fu, Yifan Song, Jun Zhu, Aiwu Dong and Ting Ni

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:44

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  22. Content type: Research article

    Reliable recognition of individuals requires phenotypic identity signatures that are both individually distinctive and appropriately stable over time. Individual-specific vocalisations or visual patterning are...

    Authors: Sarah A. Roberts, Mark C. Prescott, Amanda J. Davidson, Lynn McLean, Robert J. Beynon and Jane L. Hurst

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:48

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  23. Content type: Research article

    Candida albicans (C. albicans) invasion triggers antifungal innate immunity, and the elevation of cytoplasmic Ca2+ levels via the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (InsP3R) plays a critical role in this proce...

    Authors: Long Yang, Wenwen Gu, King-Ho Cheung, Lan Yan, Benjamin Chun-Kit Tong, Yuanying Jiang and Jun Yang

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:46

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  25. Content type: Research article

    Fear conditioning is a form of learning essential for animal survival and used as a behavioral paradigm to study the mechanisms of learning and memory. In mammals, the amygdala plays a crucial role in fear con...

    Authors: Pradeep Lal, Hideyuki Tanabe, Maximiliano L. Suster, Deepak Ailani, Yuri Kotani, Akira Muto, Mari Itoh, Miki Iwasaki, Hironori Wada, Emre Yaksi and Koichi Kawakami

    Citation: BMC Biology 2018 16:45

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