[HTML][HTML] De novo protein design—From new structures to programmable functions

T Kortemme - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Methods from artificial intelligence (AI) trained on large datasets of sequences and
structures can now" write" proteins with new shapes and molecular functions de novo …

Functionalized Protein Binders in Developmental Biology

ST Schnider, MA Vigano, M Affolter… - Annual Review of Cell …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Developmental biology has greatly profited from genetic and reverse genetic approaches to
indirectly studying protein function. More recently, nanobodies and other protein binders …

Neutrophil diversity and function in health and disease

F Zhang, Y Xia, J Su, F Quan, H Zhou, Q Li… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Neutrophils, the most abundant type of granulocyte, are widely recognized as one of the
pivotal contributors to the acute inflammatory response. Initially, neutrophils were …

Toward systemic lipofuscin removal

M Renteln - Rejuvenation Research, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Lipofuscin is indigestible garbage that accumulates in the autophagic vesicles and cytosol of
postmitotic cells with age. Drs. Brunk and Terman postulated that lipofuscin accumulation is …

Microtubule polarity determines the lineage of embryonic neural precursor in zebrafish spinal cord

CA Richard, C Seum, M Gonzalez-Gaitan - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
The phenomenal diversity of neuronal types in the central nervous system is achieved in
part by the asymmetric division of neural precursors. In zebrafish neural precursors …

Inverted apicobasal polarity in health and disease

N Pasquier, F Jaulin, F Peglion - Journal of Cell Science, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Apicobasal epithelial polarity controls the functional properties of most organs. Thus, there
has been extensive research on the molecular intricacies governing the establishment and …

mInsc coordinates Par3 and NuMA condensates for assembly of the spindle orientation machinery in asymmetric cell division

S Huang, M Fu, A Gu, R Zhao, Z Liu, W Hua… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
As a fundamental process governing the self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells,
asymmetric cell division is controlled by several conserved regulators, including the polarity …

The first lineage determination in mammals

PL Pfeffer - Developmental Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
This review describes in detail the morphological, cytoskeletal and gene expression events
leading to the gene regulatory network bifurcation point of trophoblast and inner cell mass …

Synthetically programming natural cell-cell communication pathways for tissue engineering

LA Wallach, CD Thomas, P Li - Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Tissue patterning, the process of localizing different cell types to the right place, is critical for
tissue function and thus a central goal for tissue engineering. Developing embryos employ …

Loss of the polarity protein Par3 promotes dendritic spine neoteny and enhances learning and memory

MM Voglewede, EN Ozsen, N Ivak, M Bernabucci… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
The Par3 polarity protein is critical for subcellular compartmentalization in different
developmental processes. Variants of PARD3, encoding PAR3, are associated with …