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In a wild-type Drosophila germarium, the Dpp receptor Tkv (red) is strongly expressed in escort cells, part of the female germline stem cell niche. The germarium is also stained for Vasa (green), α-Spectrin (blue), and DNA (white). Luo et al. reveal that Tkv mops up excess Dpp released from neighboring niche cells, spatially restricting the morphogen’s ability to inhibit stem cell differentiation.
Image © 2015 Luo et al.
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People & Ideas
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In Memoriam
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Article
The Msd1–Wdr8–Pkl1 complex anchors microtubule minus ends to fission yeast spindle pole bodies
Msd1–Wdr8 are delivered by Pkl1 to mitotic spindle pole bodies, where the Msd1–Wdr8–Pkl1 complex anchors the minus ends of spindle microtubules and antagonizes the outward-pushing forces generated by Cut7/kinesin-5 in fission yeast.
BLOC-2 targets recycling endosomal tubules to melanosomes for cargo delivery
Quantitative analyses of melanosome cargo localization and trafficking and of endosomal membrane dynamics in immortalized melanocytes from mouse Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome models show that BLOC-2 functions to specify the delivery of recycling endosomal cargo transport intermediates to maturing melanosomes.
Receptor dimerization dynamics as a regulatory valve for plasticity of type I interferon signaling
Quantitative single-molecule receptor dimerization assays show dimerization of IFNAR1 and IFNAR2 upon IFN treatment, and reveal the limiting role of IFNAR1 binding affinity in complex assembly and the regulatory role of USP18.
Wnt ligands regulate Tkv expression to constrain Dpp activity in the Drosophila ovarian stem cell niche
Multiple Wnt ligands produced by cap cells regulate the expression of Tkv, which acts as a receptor sink to remove excess cap cell–expressed Dpp and to restrict niche-associated Dpp activity, in escort cells.
Tools
Nuclear accessibility of β-actin mRNA is measured by 3D single-molecule real-time tracking
Multifocus microscopy combined with precise registration between fluorescently labeled mRNA, nuclear pore complexes, and chromatin reveals that β-actin mRNAs freely access the entire nucleus and most are within 0.5 µm of a nuclear pore.
