MBoC Highlights
MBoC Highlights
Please enjoy our quarterly highlighted articles from Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC), which were noted by reviewers and editors to be of particular interest and significance.
Today’s highlights come from MBoC’s Special Issue on Evolutionary Cell Biology.
Reduced cell-substrate adhesion formation promotes cell migration in Dictyostelium
Authors: Julio C. Fierro Morales, Thu A. Nguyen, Sabin Nepal, Chandler Redfearn, Bruce K. Gale, Margaret A. Titus, and Minna Roh-Johnson
Optimized vectors for genetic engineering of Aureobasidium pullulans
Authors: Analeigha V. Colarusso, Audrey M. Williams, Amy S. Gladfelter, Alison C.E. Wirshing, and Daniel J. Lew
Interface integrity in septin protofilaments is maintained by an arginine residue conserved from yeast to man
Authors: Benjamin Grupp, Jano Benito Graser, Julia Seifermann, Stefan Gerhardt, Justin A. Lemkul, Jan Felix Gehrke, Nils Johnsson, and Thomas Gronemeyer
Novel structure and composition of the unusually large germline determinant of the wasp Nasonia vitripennis
Authors: Allie Kemph, Kabita Kharel, Samuel J. Tindell, Alexey L. Arkov, and Jeremy A. Lynch
Imaging-based screen identifies novel natural compounds that perturb cell and chloroplast division in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Authors: Manuella R. Clark-Cotton, Sheng-An Chen, Aracely Gomez, Aditya J. Mulabagal, Adriana Perry, Varenyam Malhotra, and Masayuki Onishi
The cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant cell that embeds symbiotic algae in a microtubule meshwork
Authors: Vincent Boudreau, Ashley R. Albright, Ben T. Larson, Therese M. Gerbich, Tanner Fadero, Victoria Yan, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, Jay Yung, Solène L.Y. Moulin, Carlos Patiño Descovich, Mark M Slabodnick, Adrien Burlacot, Jeremy R. Wang, Krishna K Niyogi, and Wallace F. Marshall
A single septin for a polyextremotolerant yeast recapitulates many canonical functions of septin hetero-oligomers
Authors: Grace E. Hamilton, Katherine N. Wadkovsky, and Amy S. Gladfelter
Tools for live-cell imaging of cytoskeletal and nuclear behavior in the unconventional yeast, Aureobasidium pullulans
Authors: Claudia A. Petrucco, Alex W. Crocker, Alec D’Alessandro, Edgar M. Medina, Olivia Gorman, Jessica McNeill, Amy S. Gladfelter, and Daniel J. Lew
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