UFGI Publication Round-up: Week of 8/23/21

UFGI Publication Round-up: Week of 8/23/21

Arp2/3 and Mena/VASP Require Profilin 1 for Actin Network Assembly at the Leading Edge.

Skruber K, Warp PV, Shklyarov R, Thomas JD, Swanson MS, Henty-Ridilla JL, Read TA, Vitriol EA.
Curr Biol. 2020 Jul 20;30(14):2651-2664.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.085. Epub 2020 May 28.

PMID: 32470361

Mammalian body size is determined by interactions between climate, urbanization, and ecological traits.

Hantak MM, McLean BS, Li D, Guralnick RP.
Commun Biol. 2021 Aug 16;4(1):972. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02505-3.

PMID: 34400755

Cox-sMBPLS: An Algorithm for Disease Survival Prediction and Multi-Omics Module Discovery Incorporating Cis-Regulatory Quantitative Effects.

Vahabi N, McDonough CW, Desai AA, Cavallari LH, Duarte JD, Michailidis G.
Front Genet. 2021 Aug 2;12:701405. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2021.701405. eCollection 2021.

PMID: 34408773

When good mitochondria go bad: Cyto-nuclear discordance in landfowl (Aves: Galliformes).

Kimball RT, Guido M, Hosner PA, Braun EL.
Gene. 2021 Oct 30;801:145841. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2021.145841. Epub 2021 Jul 16.

PMID: 34274481

Organochlorine Pesticide Dieldrin Suppresses Cellular Interferon-Related Antiviral Gene Expression.

Russo M, Humes ST, Figueroa AM, Tagmount A, Zhang P, Loguinov A, Lednicky JA, Sabo-Attwood T, Vulpe CD, Liu B.
Toxicol Sci. 2021 Aug 3;182(2):260-274. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfab064.

PMID: 34051100

Emerging concepts and opportunities for endocrine disruptor screening of the non-EATS modalities.

Martyniuk CJ, Martínez R, Navarro-Martín L, Kamstra JH, Schwendt A, Reynaud S, Chalifour L.
Environ Res. 2021 Aug 18:111904. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2021.111904. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 34418449

What is a β cell? – Chapter I in the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) Review Series.

Kaestner KH, Campbell-Thompson M, Dor Y, Gill RG, Glaser B, Kim SK, Sander M, Stabler C, Stewart AF, Powers AC.
Mol Metab. 2021 Aug 17:101323. doi: 10.1016/j.molmet.2021.101323. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 34416394

Balancing selection maintains ancient polymorphisms at conserved enhancers for the olfactory receptor genes of a Chinese marine fish.

Liu Q, Mishra M, Saxena AS, Wu H, Qiu Y, Zhang X, You X, Ding S, Miyamoto MM.
Mol Ecol. 2021 Aug;30(16):4023-4038. doi: 10.1111/mec.16016. Epub 2021 Jun 27.

PMID: 34107131

Mutability of mononucleotide repeats, not oxidative stress, explains the discrepancy between laboratory-accumulated mutations and the natural allele-frequency spectrum in C. elegans.

Rajaei M, Saxena AS, Johnson LM, Snyder MC, Crombie TA, Tanny RE, Andersen EC, Joyner-Matos J, Baer CF.
Genome Res. 2021 Aug 17. doi: 10.1101/gr.275372.121. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 34404692

Experimental colitis promotes sustained, sex-dependent, T-cell-associated neuroinflammation and parkinsonian neuropathology.

Houser MC, Caudle WM, Chang J, Kannarkat GT, Yang Y, Kelly SD, Oliver D, Joers V, Shannon KM, Keshavarzian A, Tansey MG.
Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2021 Aug 19;9(1):139. doi: 10.1186/s40478-021-01240-4.

PMID: 34412704

Therapeutic strategies for C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia.

Hautbergue GM, Cleary JD, Guo S, Ranum LPW.
Curr Opin Neurol. 2021 Aug 13. doi: 10.1097/WCO.0000000000000984. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 34392299

Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies.

Leigh DM, van Rees CB, Millette KL, Breed MF, Schmidt C, Bertola LD, Hand BK, Hunter ME, Jensen EL, Kershaw F, Liggins L, Luikart G, Manel S, Mergeay J, Miller JM, Segelbacher G, Hoban S, Paz-Vinas I.
Nat Rev Genet. 2021 Aug 18. doi: 10.1038/s41576-021-00394-0. Online ahead of print.

PMID: 34408318

The HIV protease inhibitor, ritonavir, corrects diverse brain phenotypes across development in mouse model of DYT-TOR1A dystonia.

Caffall ZF, Wilkes BJ, Hernández-Martinez R, Rittiner JE, Fox JT, Wan KK, Shipman MK, Titus SA, Zhang YQ, Patnaik S, Hall MD, Boxer MB, Shen M, Li Z, Vaillancourt DE, Calakos N.
Sci Transl Med. 2021 Aug 18;13(607):eabd3904. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abd3904.

PMID: 34408078

Cisplatin-mediated activation of glucocorticoid receptor induces platinum resistance via MAST1.

Pan C, Kang J, Hwang JS, Li J, Boese AC, Wang X, Yang L, Boggon TJ, Chen GZ, Saba NF, Shin DM, Magliocca KR, Jin L, Kang S.
Nat Commun. 2021 Aug 16;12(1):4960. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24845-8.

PMID: 34400618

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