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AAV9-mediated SMN gene therapy rescues cardiac desmin but not lamin A/C and elastin dysregulation in Smn(2B/-) spinal muscular atrophy mice

Structural, functional and molecular cardiac defects have been reported in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients and mouse models. Previous quantitative proteomics analyses demonstrated widespread molecular defects in the severe Taiwanese SMA mouse model. ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

High-efficiency non-ablative UV laser nano-scale processing of fused silica by stable filamentation

Yves Bellouard, Olivier Bernard, Benedikt Hermann, Luca Muscarella

Over the last decades, three-dimensional micro-manufacturing of fused silica via near-infrared ultrafast laser exposure combined with an etching step has become an established technique for producing complex three-dimensional components. Here, we explore t ...

2023

Tubulin engineering by semi-synthesis reveals that polyglutamylation directs detyrosination

Pierre Gönczy, Beat Fierz, Luc Reymond, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Cédric Pourroy, Po-Han Chang, Nora Guidotti, Ninad Dilip Agashe, Timothy Matthias Reichart, Eduard Hubert Theodoor Marius Ebberink, Fabian Zacharias Schneider

Microtubules, a critical component of the cytoskeleton, carry post-translational modifications (PTMs) that are important for the regulation of key cellular processes. Long-lived microtubules, in neurons particularly, exhibit both detyrosination of a-tubuli ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

CENP-A and CENP-B collaborate to create an open centromeric chromatin state

Beat Fierz, Wei Cai, Harsh Nagpal

Centromeres are epigenetically defined via the presence of the histone H3 variant CENP-A. Contacting CENP-A nucleosomes, the constitutive centromere associated network (CCAN) and the kinetochore assemble, connecting the centromere to spindle microtubules d ...

Berlin2023

Nitrogen Fixation and Hydrogen Evolution by Sterically Encumbered Mo-Nitrogenase

Wenyu Gu

The substrate-reducing proteins of all nitrogenases (MoFe, VFe, and FeFe) are organized as alpha 2ss2(gamma 2) multimers with two functional halves. While their dimeric organization could afford improved structural stability of nitrogenases in vivo, previo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Architecture of the centriole cartwheel‐containing region revealed by cryo‐electron tomography

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Paul Guichard, Virginie Hamel

Centrioles are evolutionarily conserved barrels of microtubule triplets that form the core of the centrosome and the base of the cilium. While the crucial role of the proximal region in centriole biogenesis has been well documented, its native architecture ...

2020

A helical inner scaffold provides a structural basis for centriole cohesion

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Davide Gambarotto, Paul Guichard, Virginie Hamel

The ninefold radial arrangement of microtubule triplets (MTTs) is the hallmark of the centriole, a conserved organelle crucial for the formation of centrosomes and cilia. Although strong cohesion between MTTs is critical to resist forces applied by ciliary ...

2020

Traction Forces Control Cell-Edge Dynamics and Mediate Distance Sensitivity during Cell Polarization

Franck Claude Raynaud, Alicia Carine Bornert, Zeno Messi

Traction forces are generated by cellular actin-myosin system and transmitted to the environment through adhesions. They are believed to drive cell motion, shape changes, and extracellular matrix remodeling [1 -3] . However, most of the traction force anal ...

2020

Centriole foci persist in starfish oocytes despite Polo-like kinase 1 inactivation or loss of microtubule nucleation activity

Pierre Gönczy, Nils Kalbfuss, Marie Juliette Ségolène Pierron

Centrioles must be eliminated or inactivated from the oocyte to ensure that only the two functional centrioles contributed by the sperm are present in the zygote. Such removal can occur during oogenesis, as in Drosophila, where departure of Polo kinase fro ...

2020

Flagellar microtubule doublet assembly in vitro reveals a regulatory role of tubulin C-terminal tails

Davide Demurtas, Paul Guichard, Virginie Hamel

Microtubule doublets (MTDs), consisting of an incomplete B-microtubule at the surface of a complete A-microtubule, provide a structural scaffold mediating intraflagellar transport and ciliary beating. Despite the fundamental role of MTDs, the molecular mec ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2019

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