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.

The identification of Drp1 patient mutations that limit interactions with Mff
Authors: Yuli Buckley, Anelise N. Hutson, Brianna L. Bauer, Isaiah M. Waiters, Jasmine C. Liu, Dayanlee De León Cordero, Maria S. K. Stoll, and Jason A. Mears

Unlocking the bacterial condensome: from “dark matter” to design
Authors: Daniel S. Trettel, Claudia A. Mak, and Y Hoang

Setting up for embryogenesis: subcellular changes at the meiosis to mitosis transition
Authors: Helena Cantwell

Quantitative comparison of PI(3,5)P2 biosensors reveals SnxA is the most sensitive and unbiased
Authors: Tiernan Swayhoover, Claire C. Weckerly, and Gerald R. V. Hammond

Apical actin filament turnover mediated by cyclase-associated protein coordinates non-centrosomal microtubules in epithelium
Authors: Arathi Preeth Babu, Sachin Muralidharan, Konstantin Kogan, Tommi Kotila, Ville Hietakangas, Jaakko Mattila, and Minna Poukkula

Cdk1 and PP2A constitute a molecular switch controlling orderly degradation of atypical E2Fs
Authors: Sapir Nachum-Raines, Noy Gamliel, Danit Wasserman, Nasrin Qassem, Inbal Sher, Julia Guez-Haddad, Michael J Emanuele, Jordan H Chill, and Amit Tzur

Clearance and secretion of α-synuclein by RTN3L-mediated endoplasmic reticulum autophagy
Authors: Yihong Ye, Kamal Kumar, Yue Xu, Fenfen Xu, and Susan Ferro-Novick

A screen for adherens junction proteins regulating collective cell migration and testis morphogenesis reveals important roles for the Rab GAP RN-tre and the kinase Par-1
Authors: Sarah E. Clark, Siobhan C. Morris, Joseph B. Dordor, Lawrencia S. Amo, Renick Wiltshire, Taino Encarnacion, Maik C. Bischoff, and Mark Peifer

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