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Transmission electron microscopy reveals that budding yeast cells overexpressing Mdm1 form extensive contacts between their vacuoles and nuclear endoplasmic reticulum. Henne et al. report that mutations in Mdm1 disrupt nuclear ER–vacuole junctions and impair sphingolipid metabolism.
Image courtesy of Tony Carmello Gatts IV and © 2015 Henne et al.
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In Focus
The tension mounts at centromeric loops
Study reveals how pericentric chromatin generates tension between sister centromeres.
People & Ideas
Elias Spiliotis: Septins set it up
Spiliotis studies the contributions of septins to cellular spatial organization.
From the Archive
The spindle plays both ends
In 2003, Khodjakov et al. extended the search and capture model of mitotic spindle assembly.
Review
Report
Prion-like domains in RNA binding proteins are essential for building subnuclear paraspeckles
Paraspeckles are mammalian subnuclear bodies built on a long noncoding RNA and are enriched in RNA binding proteins with prion-like domains; two of these proteins, RBM14 and FUS, use these domains to hold paraspeckles together.
Mdm1/Snx13 is a novel ER–endolysosomal interorganelle tethering protein
Mdm1 is a novel interorganelle tethering protein that localizes to yeast ER–vacuole/lysosome junctions, and Mdm1 truncations analogous to disease-associated Snx14 alleles fail to tether the ER and vacuole and perturb sphingolipid metabolism.
Article
DNA loops generate intracentromere tension in mitosis
The geometry and arrangement of DNA loops in the pericentric region of the budding yeast centromere create a DNA-based molecular shock absorber that serves as the basis for how tension is generated between sister centromeres in mitosis.
TopBP1 is required at mitosis to reduce transmission of DNA damage to G1 daughter cells
TopBP1 maintains genome integrity in mitosis by controlling chromatin recruitment of SLX4 and by facilitating unscheduled DNA synthesis.
Non-muscle myosin IIB is critical for nuclear translocation during 3D invasion
Non-muscle myosin IIB plays a major role in applying force on the nucleus to facilitate nuclear translocation through tight spaces during 3D invasive migration, while non-muscle myosin IIA is critical for generating force during active protrusion.
Microtubule motors transport phagosomes in the RPE, and lack of KLC1 leads to AMD-like pathogenesis
Photoreceptor outer segment (POS) phagosomes associate with the kinesin light chain 1 (KLC1) and move bidirectionally along microtubules in retinal pigment epithelium cells; lack of KLC1 results in impaired POS phagosome motility and degradation and, in aged mice, pathogenesis resembling age-related macular degeneration.
MicroRNA-7/NF-κB signaling regulatory feedback circuit regulates gastric carcinogenesis
RELA and FOS are targets of miR-7 in gastric cancer cells and the miR-7/IKKε/RELA reciprocal feedback loop is important for gastric cancer induced by H. pylori infection.
Live-cell observation of cytosolic HIV-1 assembly onset reveals RNA-interacting Gag oligomers
Analysis of the cytosolic HIV-1 Gag fraction in live cells via advanced fluctuation imaging methods reveals potential nucleation steps before membrane-assisted Gag assembly.
α-Catenin–mediated cadherin clustering couples cadherin and actin dynamics
The actin-binding domain of α-catenin directly interacts with actin in adherens junctions and may control the junction’s strength and dynamics by forming transient cadherin clusters bound to the actin cortex.
Shootin1–cortactin interaction mediates signal–force transduction for axon outgrowth
The shootin1–cortactin interaction participates in netrin-1–induced F-actin–adhesion coupling and in the promotion of traction forces for axon outgrowth.
