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In This Issue Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 20, May 2024.
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I’m worried I’ve been contacted by a predatory publisher — how do I find out? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Researchers frequently receive invitations to publish in journals that they might not have heard of. Nature asked two scientists how they would check whether a publication is legitimate.
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Forestry social science is failing the needs of the people who need it most Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Rich nations’ fixation on forests as climate offsets has resulted in the needs of those who live in or make a living from these resources being ignored. A broader view and more collaboration between disciplines is required.
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Explaining novel scientific concepts to people whose technical acumen does not extend to turning it off, then turning it on again Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Guided by the light.
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Neglecting sex and gender in research is a public-health risk Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Sue Haupt, Cheryl Carcel, Robyn Norton
The data are clear: taking sex and gender into account in research and using that knowledge to change health care could benefit billions of people.
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How to kill the ‘zombie’ cells that make you age Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15
Researchers are using new molecules, engineered immune cells and gene therapy to kill senescent cells and treat age-related diseases.
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2023 summer warmth unparalleled over the past 2,000 years Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jan Esper, Max Torbenson, Ulf Büntgen
Including an exceptionally warm Northern Hemisphere (NH) summer1,2, 2023 has been reported as the hottest year on record3-5. Contextualizing recent anthropogenic warming against past natural variability is nontrivial, however, because the sparse 19th century meteorological records tend to be too warm6. Here, we combine observed and reconstructed June-August (JJA) surface air temperatures to show that
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Africa’s lush tropical forests face a surprising threat: fire Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Climate change and deforestation have increased the frequency of blazes in the humid forests of West and Central Africa.
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AI & robotics briefing: Why AI needs to see the ‘ugly’ side of science Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
The absence of negative results in the scientific literature is affecting AI tools trained on published data. Plus, why animals still outrun robots and AlphaFold gets major upgrade.
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Daily briefing: Amazing auroras are just a warm-up — more solar storms are coming Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
The upcoming solar maximum means more and bigger solar storms to come. Plus, how to decarbonise the workhorse of fossil fuel production: oil refineries.
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Rational rock-salt phase engineering of nickel-rich layered cathode interface for enhanced rate and cycling stability Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Wenjie Wang, Yanke Shi, Pengfei Li, Ruiqing Wang, Fei Ye, Xiaoyu Zhang, Wei Li, Zhuosen Wang, Chunyang Xu, Dongqing Xu, Qun Xu, Xinwei Cui
Ni-rich layered cathodes promise high energy density, yet suffer from dramatic rate and capacity decay on cycling, which is originated from chemo-mechanical failures with fast growth of electrical and ionic insulating rock-salt phase on the surface. Apart from general approaches of applying inert coating layers, here we regulate chemistry and structure of the inevitable rock-salt phase, and construct
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Electron-Deficient Sites on Boron-Doped Graphite Enable Air-Stable and Durable Red Phosphorus Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Chuang Ji, Qingfeng Zhou, Yingyi Yuan, Wei Chen, Tao Hou, Bote Zhao, Yexia Qin, Xunhui Xiong
Composing with various carbon matrixes has been proposed to overcome the poor electrochemical performances of red phosphorus (RP) anode caused by the low electronic conductivity and huge volume changes during the repeated lithiation/delithiation processes. Nevertheless, the insufficient chemical affinity between RP and carbon matrixes can rarely enable a superior cycling stability, and the strong air-sensitivity
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Optimization of a combined power plant CO2 capture and direct air capture concept for flexible power plant operation Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Edward J. Graham, Moataz Sheha, Dharik S. Mallapragada, Howard J. Herzog, Emre Gençer, Phillip Cross, James Custer, Adam Goff, Ian Cormier
Deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipped fossil fuel power plants on the supply-side and direct air capture (DAC) technologies on the demand side can address the dual challenge of lower carbon emissions while providing grid flexibility. Here, we evaluate a flexible natural gas power plant concept with the potential for negative emissions that integrates calcium looping, membrane and
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Microalloying induced stable welded interfaces for highly reversible zero-excess sodium metal batteries Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Chunlin Xie, Hao Wu, Kang Liang, Zhengping Ding, Jiawen Dai, Rui Zhang, Yurong Ren, Yixin Li, Dan Sun, Qi Zhang, Yougen Tang, Hai-Yan Wang
The noteworthy benefits of zero-excess sodium metal batteries (ZSMBs) about energy density, sustainability, carbon footprint and cost, make them a promising supplement or even substitute for lithium-ion batteries. Nevertheless, the zero-excess sodium plating/stripping on the anode substrate encountered with sodium dendrites growth, inactive sodium generation and irreversible solid electrolyte interphase
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Developing Kilometers-long Gravity Heat Pipe for Geothermal Energy Exploitation Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Wenbo Huang, Juanwen Chen, Qingshan Ma, Linxiao Xing, Guiling Wang, Jiwen Cen, Zhibin Li, Ang Li, Fangming Jiang
At medium-deep and deep depths of Earth crust lays vast and so far mostly untapped reserves of geothermal energy. This energy source has the potential of meeting humanity’s needs for thousands of years. However, its large-scale deployment has been hindered by a lack of effective and dependable exploitation technologies. Gravity heat pipes have recently garnered significant attention due to their exceptional
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Investigation of the Link between Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Stress Biomarkers in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Baylin J. Bennett, Max T. Aung, Rudy Boonstra, Brendan Delehanty, Magali Houde, Derek C. G. Muir, Patricia A. Fair, Matthew O. Gribble
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Managing Forests for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Cindy G. Azuero-Pedraza, Pekka Lauri, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Valerie M. Thomas
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Associations of Ambient Particulate Matter with Maternal Thyroid Autoimmunity and Thyroid Function in Early Pregnancy Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Enjie Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Gongbo Chen, Yun-Ting Zhang, Shaofei Su, Shen Gao, Shuanghua Xie, Jianhui Liu, Yue Zhang, Wentao Yue, Qingqing Wu, Yi Chen, Bo-Yi Yang, Yuming Guo, Ruixia Liu, Guang-Hui Dong, Chenghong Yin
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Underestimation of Thermogenic Methane Emissions in New York City Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Joseph R. Pitt, Israel Lopez-Coto, Anna Karion, Kristian D. Hajny, Jay Tomlin, Robert Kaeser, Thilina Jayarathne, Brian H. Stirm, Cody R. Floerchinger, Christopher P. Loughner, Róisín Commane, Conor K. Gately, Lucy R. Hutyra, Kevin R. Gurney, Geoffrey S. Roest, Jianming Liang, Sharon Gourdji, Kimberly L. Mueller, James R. Whetstone, Paul B. Shepson
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Inferring the Molecular Basis for Dissolved Organic Matter Photochemical and Optical Properties Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Shelby Buckley, Garrett McKay, Frank Leresche, Fernando Rosario-Ortiz
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Iron Recycle-Driven Organic Capture and Sidestream Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor for Revolutionizing Bioenergy Generation in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Min Ye, Aijun Zhu, Jianyong Liu, Yu-You Li
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Morphological, Microstructural, and In Situ Chemical Characteristics of Siderite Produced by Iron-Reducing Bacteria Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Xiaohua Han, Fuxian Wang, Shiling Zheng, Hao Qiu, Yan Liu, Jian Wang, Nicolas Menguy, Eric Leroy, Julie Bourgon, Andreas Kappler, Fanghua Liu, Yongxin Pan, Jinhua Li
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Machine Learning for Polymer Design to Enhance Pervaporation-Based Organic Recovery Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Meiqi Yang, Jun-Jie Zhu, Allyson L. McGaughey, Rodney D. Priestley, Eric M. V. Hoek, David Jassby, Zhiyong Jason Ren
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Dissolved Organic Matter-Mediated Photosensitized Activation of Monochloramine for Micropollutant Abatement in Wastewater Effluent Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Senhao Lu, Jiadong Peng, Chii Shang, Ran Yin
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In Vitro and In Vivo Biotransformation Profiling of 6PPD-Quinone toward Their Detection in Human Urine Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Man Deng, Xiaotong Ji, Bo Peng, Mingliang Fang
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Maximizing the Impact of Research Featuring Nucleic-Acid Sequencing Methods in Environmental Science & Technology and Environmental Science & Technology Letters Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Alexandria B. Boehm, Lutgarde Raskin, Pedro Alvarez, Pei-Ying Hong
It was not long ago that nucleic-acid sequencing was prohibitively expensive and inaccessible to many researchers in environmental science and technology fields. Bioinformatics tools were limited. There were limited sequencing data in the literature, and highly descriptive studies that used amplicon sequencing, metagenomics, or meta-transcriptomics to characterize biological communities or organisms
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Real-world plastic-waste success stories can help to boost global treaty Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Interpersonal therapy can be an effective tool against the devastating effects of loneliness Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Inequality is bad — but that doesn’t mean the rich are Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Balls of lightning and flames from the sky: can science explain? Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Standardized metadata for biological samples could unlock the potential of collections Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Letter to the Editor
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Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Cheap data and the absence of coincidences make maths an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery — but only humans will be able to tell good conjectures from bad ones.
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How does ChatGPT ‘think’? Psychology and neuroscience crack open AI large language models Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the ‘brains’ of LLMs to see what they are doing, how and why.
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The phenomenon of genomic imprinting was discovered 40 years ago Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Anne C. Ferguson-Smith, Marisa S. Bartolomei
Landmark 1984 experiments gave rise to a new epigenetics concept.
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How men evolved to care for babies — before society got in the way Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
An exploration of the evolution of male nurturing shows why, unlike fathers among other great apes, human dads are biologically wired to be hands-on parents.
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A DARPA-like agency could boost EU innovation — but cannot come at the expense of existing schemes Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
If Europe wants to create a high-risk, high-reward research body, it needs grass-roots backing.
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Mega study charts how genetic variants affect metabolism Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-14
The discovery of hundreds of genomic regions linked with metabolism promises to improve our understanding of metabolic diseases.
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Plasmid targeting and destruction by the DdmDE bacterial defence system Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Jack P. K. Bravo, Delisa A. Ramos, Rodrigo Fregoso Ocampo, Caiden Ingram, David W. Taylor
While eukaryotic Argonautes play a pivotal role in post-transcriptional gene regulation through nucleic acid cleavage, some short prokaryotic Argonaute variants (pAgos) rely on auxiliary nuclease factors for efficient foreign DNA degradation (1). Here, we elucidate the activation pathway of the DNA Defense Module DdmDE system, which rapidly eliminates small, multicopy plasmids from Vibrio cholerae
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Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up as more solar storms are likely, scientists say Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Nature talks to physicists about what to expect in the next months and beyond as the Sun hits its 'maximum'.
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Brain-reading device is best yet at decoding ‘internal speech’ Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts.
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Human embryos embrace asymmetry to form the body Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13
The cells generated by the very first division of the fertilized egg make a lopsided contribution to the body’s organs and tissues.
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Daily briefing: Internet use seems to boost well-being Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
A survey of people in 168 countries finds that Internet use might boost life satisfaction and sense of purpose. Plus, what a Neanderthal’s Mona-Lisa smile tells us about ourselves and how the cauliflower got its whorls.
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Daily briefing: A millimetre of brain in spectacular detail Nature (IF 64.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-10
Google scientists have modelled a tiny fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution. Plus, a bold proposal to limit extreme wealth.
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Green and sustainable recycling of lithium-ion battery via ionic liquid-driven cathode reduction method Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Yin Hu, Mingchen Yang, Qingyu Dong, Xiuyang Zou, Jiangtao Yu, Siyu Guo, Feng Yan
The recycling of spent lithium-ion battery cathodes (LIBs) is crucial to ensuring the sustainable development of natural resources and environmental protection. The current pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical recycling strategies involve high energy processing and expensive reagent consumption, raising both environmental and economic concerns. Here we demonstrate a green and recyclable process
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19% Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells via Introducing Pincer-Shaped Non-covalent Bond Interactions Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Jianxiao Wang, Yonghai Li, Chenyu Han, Liangliang Chen, Fuzhen Bi, Zunyuan Hu, Chunming Yang, Xichang Bao, Junhao Chu
Polymer blends are generally troubled by chaotic molecular entanglement, which limits the performance of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). Here, two small molecules (C5Ph, C6Ph) with phenylalkyl sidechains are developed as additive to tune all-polymer blends. Assisted by the characteristic sidechains, the small molecules afford multiple non-covalent interactions with polymer acceptor, which can effectively
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The origins of critical deformations in cylindrical silicon based Li-ion batteries Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Erik Lübke, Lukas Helfen, Phil Cook, Marta Mirolo, Valentin Vinci, Ove Korjus, Bernd Fuchsbichler, Stefan Koller, Roland Brunner, Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard
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Hole-transporting alternating copolymers for perovskite solar cells: thia[5]helicene comonomer outperforms planar perylothiophene analog Energy Environ. Sci. (IF 32.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Lifei He, Yuyan Zhang, Bing Zhang, Tianyu Li, Yaohang Cai, Ming Ren, Jing Zhang, Peng Wang, Yi Yuan
Semiconducting polymers with high glass transition temperatures play a pivotal role in advancing thermally tolerant organic optoelectronic devices. This investigation underscores the remarkable potential of helicene as a comonomer in the construction of semiconducting polymers. Non-planar thia[5]helicene or planar perylo[1,12-bcd]thiophene is co-polymerized in an alternating fashion with 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene
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SRSF1 interactome determined by proximity labeling reveals direct interaction with spliceosomal RNA helicase DDX23 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Danilo Segovia, Dexter W. Adams, Nickolas Hoffman, Polona Safaric Tepes, Tse-Luen Wee, Paolo Cifani, Leemor Joshua-Tor, Adrian R. Krainer
SRSF1 is the founding member of the SR protein family. It is required—interchangeably with other SR proteins—for pre-mRNA splicing in vitro, and it regulates various alternative splicing events. Dysregulation of SRSF1 expression contributes to cancer and other pathologies. Here, we characterized SRSF1’s interactome using proximity labeling and mass spectrometry. This approach yielded 190 proteins enriched
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Lipid-derived electrophiles inhibit the function of membrane channels during ferroptosis Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Antonius T. M. Van Kessel, Gonzalo Cosa
The therapeutic targeting of ferroptosis requires full understanding of the molecular mechanism of this regulated cell death pathway. While lipid-derived electrophiles (LDEs), including 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (4-HNE), are important biomarkers of ferroptosis, a functional role for these highly reactive species in ferroptotic cell death execution has not been established. Here, through mechanistic characterization
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Requirements for the biogenesis of [2Fe-2S] proteins in the human and yeast cytosol Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Joseph J. Braymer, Oliver Stehling, Martin Stümpfig, Ralf Rösser, Farah Spantgar, Catharina M. Blinn, Ulrich Mühlenhoff, Antonio J. Pierik, Roland Lill
The biogenesis of iron–sulfur (Fe/S) proteins entails the synthesis and trafficking of Fe/S clusters, followed by their insertion into target apoproteins. In eukaryotes, the multiple steps of biogenesis are accomplished by complex protein machineries in both mitochondria and cytosol. The underlying biochemical pathways have been elucidated over the past decades, yet the mechanisms of cytosolic [2Fe-2S]
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Dichotomous dynamics of magnetic monopole fluids Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Chun-Chih Hsu, Hiroto Takahashi, Fabian Jerzembeck, Jahnatta Dasini, Chaia Carroll, Ritika Dusad, Jonathan Ward, Catherine Dawson, Sudarshan Sharma, Graeme M. Luke, Stephen J. Blundell, Claudio Castelnovo, Jonathan N. Hallén, Roderich Moessner, J. C. Séamus Davis
A recent advance in the study of emergent magnetic monopoles was the discovery that monopole motion is restricted to dynamical fractal trajectories [J. N. Hallén et al. , Science 378 , 1218 (2022)], thus explaining the characteristics of magnetic monopole noise spectra [R. Dusad et al., Nature 571 , 234 (2019); A. M. Samarakoon et al. , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 , e2117453119 (2022)]. Here
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Genome-wide CRISPR screens in spheroid culture reveal that the tumor suppressor LKB1 inhibits growth via the PIKFYVE lipid kinase Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 John R. Ferrarone, Jerin Thomas, Arun M. Unni, Yuxiang Zheng, Michal J. Nagiec, Eric E. Gardner, Oksana Mashadova, Kate Li, Nikos Koundouros, Antonino Montalbano, Meer Mustafa, Lewis C. Cantley, John Blenis, Neville E. Sanjana, Harold Varmus
The tumor suppressor LKB1 is a serine/threonine protein kinase that is frequently mutated in human lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). LKB1 regulates a complex signaling network that is known to control cell polarity and metabolism; however, the pathways that mediate the tumor-suppressive activity of LKB1 are incompletely defined. To identify mechanisms of LKB1-mediated growth suppression, we developed a spheroid-based
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A fungal protein organizes both glycogen and cell wall glucans Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Liza Loza, Tamara L. Doering
Glycogen is a glucose storage molecule composed of branched α-1,4-glucan chains, best known as an energy reserve that can be broken down to fuel central metabolism. Because fungal cells have a specialized need for glucose in building cell wall glucans, we investigated whether glycogen is used for this process. For these studies, we focused on the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans , which causes
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Dark continuous noise from mutant G90D-rhodopsin predominantly underlies congenital stationary night blindness Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Zuying Chai, Yaqing Ye, Daniel Silverman, Kasey Rose, Alana Madura, Randall R. Reed, Jeannie Chen, King-Wai Yau
Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) is an inherited retinal disease that causes a profound loss of rod sensitivity without severe retinal degeneration. One well-studied rhodopsin point mutant, G90D-Rho, is thought to cause CSNB because of its constitutive activity in darkness causing rod desensitization. However, the nature of this constitutive activity and its precise molecular source have
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Bacterial lifestyle shapes pangenomes Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Anna E. Dewar, Chunhui Hao, Laurence J. Belcher, Melanie Ghoul, Stuart A. West
Pangenomes vary across bacteria. Some species have fluid pangenomes, with a high proportion of genes varying between individual genomes. Other species have less fluid pangenomes, with different genomes tending to contain the same genes. Two main hypotheses have been suggested to explain this variation: differences in species’ bacterial lifestyle and effective population size. However, previous studies
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Identification and characterization of a nonbiological small-molecular mimic of a Zika virus conformational neutralizing epitope Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Priscila M. S. Castanha, Patrick J. McEnaney, Yongseok Park, Anthea Bouwer, Elton J. F. Chaves, Roberto D. Lins, Nicholas G. Paciaroni, Paige Dickson, Graham Carlson, Marli T. Cordeiro, Tereza Magalhaes, Jodi Craigo, Ernesto T. A. Marques, Thomas Kodadek, Donald S. Burke
Antigenic similarities between Zika virus (ZIKV) and other flaviviruses pose challenges to the development of virus-specific diagnostic tools and effective vaccines. Starting with a DNA-encoded one-bead-one-compound combinatorial library of 508,032 synthetic, non-natural oligomers, we selected and characterized small molecules that mimic ZIKV epitopes. High-throughput fluorescence-activated cell sorter-based
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Microbes vary strategically in their metalation of mononuclear enzymes Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Sanjay Kumar Rohaun, Ramakrishnan Sethu, James A. Imlay
Studies have determined that nonredox enzymes that are cofactored with Fe(II) are the most oxidant-sensitive targets inside Escherichia coli . These enzymes use Fe(II) cofactors to bind and activate substrates. Because of their solvent exposure, the metal can be accessed and oxidized by reactive oxygen species, thereby inactivating the enzyme. Because these enzymes participate in key physiological
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ZEPPI: Proteome-scale sequence-based evaluation of protein–protein interaction models Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 11.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Haiqing Zhao, Donald Petrey, Diana Murray, Barry Honig
We introduce ZEPPI (Z-score Evaluation of Protein–Protein Interfaces), a framework to evaluate structural models of a complex based on sequence coevolution and conservation involving residues in protein–protein interfaces. The ZEPPI score is calculated by comparing metrics for an interface to those obtained from randomly chosen residues. Since contacting residues are defined by the structural model
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Forensic Geochemistry Reveals International Ship Dumping as a Source of New Oil Spill in Brazil’s Coastline (Bahia) in Late 2023 Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Laercio L. Martins, Vinícius B. Pereira, Adriana P. Nascimento, Rufino Neto A. Azevedo, André H. B. Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo P. Teixeira, Débora A. Azevedo, Georgiana F. da Cruz, Rivelino M. Cavalcante, Tommaso Giarrizzo
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Global Atlas of Methane Metabolism Marker Genes in Soil Environ. Sci. Technol. (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Yafei Ou, Zhongda Ren, Xi Chen, Zhenran Jiang, Qiancai Liu, Xiaofei Li, Yanling Zheng, Xia Liang, Min Liu, Lijun Hou, Hongpo Dong