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Self-Assembled PVP-Gd Composite Nanosheets via Ultrasound Synthesis for Targeted Acrylamide Sensing in Food Safety J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Sahar Pakbaten Toopkanloo, Hui-Fen Wu
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Nanoporous 3D Polyurethane for Toosendanin Adsorption, Encapsulation, and High-Efficient Utilization J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Wen-kui Li, Song Wang, Yong-hong Wang, Yu-zhen Wu, Jia Li, Tian-hua Chai, Kang Wang, GuangYou Chen, Zhiqing Ma
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Direct Influence of the Conserved Motif in PL7 Family Alginate Lyases on Enzyme Cold Adaptability J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Zhixiao He, Shanshan Meng, Yan Xu, Mingqi Zhong, Xuefeng Han, Qingyi Xie, Mo Ding, Jin Li, Zhong Hu
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Impact of Cu Fractions on the Light-Induced Spoilage Aromas of Chardonnay Wine at Variable Riboflavin Concentrations J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Isara Vongluanngam, John W. Blackman, Xinyi Zhang, Leigh M. Schmidtke, Kerry L. Wilkinson, Andrew C. Clark
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Ethyl-Dimer-Galactopyranoside, a New Glycoside with Attractive Activity from Cultures of Caenorhabditis elegans on NGM J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Tingting Shi, Xiangyu Yang, Keqin Zhang, Pei-Ji Zhao, Guohong Li
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Kinetic Analysis and Starch Digestion Product Composition Reveal the Subtle Relationship between the Anthocyanidin Structure and Inhibitory Activity on Pancreatic α-Amylase J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Zhengcao Xiao, Ivan Kurtovic, Weifeng Chen, Yunlong Liu, Guolong Chen, Shihuan Guo, Yahong Yuan, Jianbo Xiao, Tianli Yue
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Cyclobutrifluram Resistance in Alternaria alternata: Molecular Mechanisms and Detection Strategies J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Qin Peng, Lijun Tang, Shiqi Tang, Shuai Wang, Jianqiang Miao, Xili Liu
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Investigating the Olfactory Impact of Monoterpenic Compounds on Fruity Aroma Perception in Model Red Wine Solutions J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Justine Garbay, Sophie Tempere, Lisa Ballet, Jean-Christophe Barbe, Georgia Lytra
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Harnessing Functional Food Sources: Deriving Anti-Inflammatory and Antibacterial Naphthalene Derivatives from the Edible Bulbs of Eleutherine bulbosa J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Yuan Gao, Ying Li, Jun-Su Zhou, Peng Zhao, Pei-Qian Wu, Qing Mu, Jian-Min Yue, Bin Zhou
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Synergistic catalytic effect of various species in SnCl4(aq) for conversion of Enteromorpha prolifera derived rhamnose to 5-methylfurfural Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Yuan Xiao, Yuhong Ma, Kaizhuo Lv, Qiuli Yao, Jingtao Liu, Shuguang Xu
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Iron and nitrogen co-doping biochar for simultaneous and efficient adsorption of oxytetracycline and norfloxacin from wastewater Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Xiaoxue Cheng, Ding Jiang, Weiyi Zhu, Huan Xu, Qifan Ling, Jingwen Yang, Xinyu Wang, Kexin Zhang, Xiaolong Zheng, Sirong He, Bin Cao, Stuart Wagland, Shuang Wang
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Engineering the production of the wood stilbene compound pinosylvin from lignin-derived trans-cinnamic acid in Escherichia coli by modulating malonyl-CoA pathway Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Xiaoxia Li, Huanghong Tan, Zijie Wang, Zhaojuan Zheng, Jia Ouyang
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Chemical composition and antibacterial properties of microemulsion and microemulgel formulations containing Lavandula angustifolia Mill. essential oils Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Serpil Demirci Kayiran, Umay Merve Guven Bolgen, Tilbe Cevikelli, Suna K?z?ly?ld?r?m, Bedirhan Y?ld?r, Elif Ferahoglu, Saliha K?r?c?, Fatih Ozogul
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Enhancing drying efficiency and terpene retention of cannabis using cold plasma pretreatment Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Pabitra Chandra Das, Mohamad Mehdi Heydari, Oon-Doo Baik, Lifeng Zhang, Lope G. Tabil
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Advancing circular economy: Biorefinery of agri-waste via green multicomponent deep eutectic solvent pretreatment Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Han Gao, Jinliu Xiao, Yun Wang, Yunkai Yu, Junzhang Wu, Jian Zhang, Zhiwei Wang, Shuangfei Wang, Qingliu Luo
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Obtaining carvacrol from Origanum onites L. essential oil and developing carvacrol-loaded nanoformulation for use in cosmetics Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Tugba Aydin, Bahar Gok, Yasemin Budama-Kilinc, Murat Kartal
Carvacrol (Car) is a major component of Origanum species with many biological activities. This study aims to obtain the Car extract from Origanum onites L. essential oil and its formulation into polycaprolactone (PCL) nanoparticles (NPs) for potential use as an anti-aging formulation in the cosmetic industry. Car extract was obtained from essential oil and its purity was determined by GC-MS. Car-PCL-NPs
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Genome-wide identification and expression pattern analysis of the YTH domain in Rosa chinensis 'Old Blush' and validation of the m6A binding capability of RcDF1A Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Xiang Cheng, Shaojun Xu, Sheng Yao, Qihao Zhong, Dengbao Wang, Bao Li, Kongshu Ji, Qiong Yu
N6-methyladenosine (m6A), a vital emerging epigenetic modification in eukaryotic RNA, exerts critical roles in diverse biological processes including hormone signaling, stress response regulation, RNA stability maintenance, translation control and cell differentiation through recognition by its readers, notably the YTH domain-containing proteins in plants. Rosa chinensis ‘Old Blush’, an ancient Chinese
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A lightweight SIF-based crop yield estimation model: A case study of Australian wheat Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Jinru Xue, Alfredo Huete, Zhunqiao Liu, Sicong Gao, Xiaoliang Lu
As Australia's primary staple and export crop, wheat necessitates reliable yield mapping to ensure timely alerts about food insecurity. Conventional crop yields are estimated using either process-based or statistical models, but both face challenges in large-scale application due to the extensive data required. Recent studies have shown that the gross primary production (GPP) of plants can be mechanistically
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Drying-rewetting cycles decrease temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition Agric. For. Meteorol. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Junjie Lin, Wenling Zhang, Amit Kumar, Dafeng Hui, Changai Zhang, Shengdao Shan, Zhiguo Yu, Biao Zhu, Yakov Kuzyakov
Soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition is crucial in the global carbon cycle. Its sensitivity to warming significantly impacts climate change. However, the effect of soil drying-rewetting, a consequence of climate change-induced water cycling shifts, on SOC decomposition sensitivity remains poorly understood. This study investigated how drying-rewetting cycles affect the temperature sensitivity (Q10)
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Outdated rules on expenses prevent academics from travelling more sustainably Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Amazing Australopithecus — excitement from 1925 about a ‘man ape’ fossil find Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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Close the biodiversity funding gap by teaching conservation to financial professionals Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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‘Aqua tweezers’ manipulate particles with water waves Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Researchers create precise 3D patterns with water-waves.
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Nature markets are nothing new — they are widespread, regulated and instructive Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Letter to the Editor
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza obituary: former UNESCO chief who championed neonatal screening Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
The biochemist introduced the first heel-prick tests for newborn babies in Spain, protecting infants from life-changing metabolic conditions.
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Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
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‘Male-dominated campuses belong to the past’: the University of Tokyo tackles the gender gap Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
A range of initiatives, from financial-support schemes to awareness campaigns, is already changing the university’s environment.
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Japan can be a science heavyweight once more — if it rethinks funding Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Keisuke Goda, Tatsushi Igaki, Bernd Kuhn, Noboru Mizushima, Takeharu Nagai, Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Noriko Osumi, Amy Q. Shen, Masahiro Sonoshita, Masashi Yanagisawa
The nation must lose its tight focus on individual disciplines if it is to keep pace with the evolving requirements of scientific enquiry.
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Earth’s mysterious inner core really is changing shape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Earthquakes ringing through the planet illuminate how its heart is transforming.
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Holly Smith
Cracks in Greenland's glaciers deepened by climate change.
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A man was destined for early Alzheimer’s — these genes might explain his escape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Scientists identify nine genetic variants that could have helped a man to avoid dementia for at least two decades longer than expected.
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Daily briefing: How did childhood evolve? Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
An AI system is crushing it at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Plus, what an iconic fossil teaches us about the evolution of childhood.
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‘Devastating’ cuts to NIH grants by Trump’s team put on hold by US judge Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
The ruling temporarily halts a policy slashing research overhead costs in 22 states, which filed a lawsuit against the biomedical agency.
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Author Correction: A map of the rubisco biochemical landscape Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Noam Prywes, Naiya R. Phillips, Luke M. Oltrogge, Sebastian Lindner, Leah J. Taylor-Kearney, Yi-Chin Candace Tsai, Benoit de Pins, Aidan E. Cowan, Hana A. Chang, Renée Z. Wang, Laina N. Hall, Daniel Bellieny-Rabelo, Hunter M. Nisonoff, Rachel F. Weissman, Avi I. Flamholz, David Ding, Abhishek Y. Bhatt, Oliver Mueller-Cajar, Patrick M. Shih, Ron Milo, David F. Savage
Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08455-0 Published online 22 January 2025
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An efficient mRNA delivery system for genome editing in plants Plant Biotech. J. (IF 10.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Fengti Qiu, Chenxiao Xue, Jinxing Liu, Boshu Li, Qiang Gao, Ronghong Liang, Kunling Chen, Caixia Gao
Transgene-free genome editing is important for crop improvement as it reduces unanticipated genomic changes. While mRNA delivery systems offer a powerful method for achieving transgene-free genome editing, they remain inefficient and challenging in plants. Here we describe an efficient mRNA delivery system for plants with substantially improved editing efficiency. By optimizing the 5′ untranslated
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Preparation of high-efficient phosphoric acid modified biochar toward ciprofloxacin removal from wastewater Ind. Crops Prod. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Ke-Qing Du, Jun-Feng Li, Muhammad Arsalan Farid, Wen-Huai Wang, Guang Yang
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Integration of Fatty Acid-Targeted Metabolome and Transcriptomics Reveals the Mechanism of Chronic Environmental Microcystin-LR-Induced Hepatic Steatosis J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Sisi Yan, Ying Liu, Yin Zhang, Yaqi Wang, Shuilin Zheng, Xueqiong Yao, Yue Yang, Yan Tang, Xizi Long, Feijun Luo, Fei Yang
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New Method of Direct Sampling Gas Chromatography–Ion Mobility Spectrometry to Identify the Dynamic Retronasal Volatile Compounds in the Alcoholic Beverage and Their Release Behaviors: A Case Study on Huangjiu J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Yiwen Wang, Zhilei Zhou, Rui Chang, Zhimin Zhang, Xibiao Xu, Yuezheng Xu, Jian Mao
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Dietary Oligosaccharides Isolated from Coix Seed Mitigate Hyperuricemia through Modulation of Lipid Metabolites and Intestinal Homeostasis J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Guozhen Wu, Hongjing Dong, Tao Li, Chuangchuang Wang, Yingjian Guo, Lanping Guo, Xiao Wang
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A Comprehensive Review of Beneficial Effects of Phytosterols on Glycolipid Metabolism and Related Mechanisms J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Xiao Chen, Lwara Sophie Memory Kunda, Xinyang Li, Nan Wang, Yangjia Huang, Yuting Hao, Qi He, Wenzhen Liao, Jinyuan Chen
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Screening Human IgE Epitopes on α-Lactalbumin and Developing Specific Detection Tools for Enhanced Allergen Detection in Food Matrices J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Yu Qiu, Mao Ye, Hongkai Tan, Xing Zhang, Huming Shao, Siyi Chen, Yi Zhang, Yong Wu, Jinyan Gao, Xuanyi Meng, Xin Li, Hongbing Chen
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The Most Up-to-Date Advancements in the Design and Development of Urease Inhibitors (January 2020–March 2024) J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-09 Danial Babaei, Ebrahim Saeedian Moghadam, Latifeh Navidpour, Mohsen Amini
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In Vitro Determination of the Sensitivity of Fusarium graminearum to Fungicide Fluopyram and Investigation of the Resistance Mechanism J. Agric. Food Chem. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-09 Jia Jiang, Bingyang Hu, Xuheng Gao, Yongyuan Cui, Le Qian, Jianqiang Xu, Shengming Liu
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I grow medicinal mushrooms in my renewable-energy laboratory Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
When Ho Thi Thanh Van isn’t creating materials for fuel cells, she is cultivating traditional medicines.
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Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’ Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.
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How to end outrage and detoxify politics: share stories, not statistics Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
A book on human morality claims that although liberals and conservatives prioritize different victims, mutual understanding is still possible.
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How and why my company pivoted from energy to agritechnology Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Lambda Agri chief executive Monica Saavedra describes funding strategies and the circumstances leading to the company changing strategic direction.
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Daily briefing: People in dense crowds move in swirls Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
People begin to move in vortices in densely packed crowds. Plus, the scientists who kept research alive in Gaza during the Israel–Hamas conflict.
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Daily briefing: How mantis shrimps survive landing the world’s fastest punch Nature (IF 50.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-07
What’s behind the mantis shrimp’s powerful punch? Plus, six ways to cultivate allyship for a diverse, equitable and inclusive academia.
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Giant RNA genomes: Roles of host, translation elongation, genome architecture, and proteome in nidoviruses Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Benjamin W. Neuman, Alexandria Smart, Orian Gilmer, Redmond P. Smyth, Josef Vaas, Nicolai B?ker, Dmitry V. Samborskiy, Ralf Bartenschlager, Stefan Seitz, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, Neva Caliskan, Chris Lauber
Positive-strand RNA viruses of the order Nidovirales have the largest known RNA genomes of vertebrate and invertebrate viruses with 36.7 and 41.1 kb, respectively. The acquisition of a proofreading exoribonuclease (ExoN) by an ancestral nidovirus enabled crossing of the 20 kb barrier. Other factors constraining genome size variations in nidoviruses remain poorly defined. We assemble 76 genome sequences
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Ancient origin and high diversity of zymocin-like killer toxins in the budding yeast subphylum Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Padraic G. Heneghan, Letal I. Salzberg, Eoin ? Cinnéide, Jan A. Dewald, Christina E. Weinberg, Kenneth H. Wolfe
Zymocin is a well-characterized killer toxin secreted by some strains of the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis . It acts by cleaving a specific tRNA in sensitive recipient cells. Zymocin is encoded by a killer plasmid or virus-like element (VLE), which is a linear DNA molecule located in the cytosol. We hypothesized that a tRNA-cleaving toxin similar to zymocin may have caused the three parallel changes to
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Clinical evaluation of patterned dried plasma spot cards to support quantification of HIV viral load and reflexive genotyping Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Giorgio Gianini Morbioli, Keith R. Baillargeon, Monalisa N. Kalimashe, Vibha Kana, Hloniphile Zwane, Cheri van der Walt, Allison J. Tierney, Andrea C. Mora, Mark Goosen, Rivashni Jagaroo, Jessica C. Brooks, Ewaldé Cutler, Gillian Hunt, Michael R. Jordan, Alice Tang, Charles R. Mace
Quantifying viral load, a key indicator required to achieve control and elimination of the HIV epidemic, requires cell-free plasma or serum to ensure measurements are not biased by proviral DNA contained in infected CD4 T lymphocytes. Plasma separation cards (PSC) collect and preserve a dried specimen, which makes them practical solutions for decentralized sample collection and transport in limited-resource
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Reenacting a mouse genetic evolutionary arms race in yeast reveals that SLXL1/SLX compete with SLY1/2 for binding to Spindlins Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Martin F. Arlt, Alyssa N. Kruger, Callie M. Swanepoel, Jacob L. Mueller
The house mouse X and Y chromosomes have recently acquired multicopy, rapidly evolving gene families representing an evolutionary arms race. This arms race between proteins encoded by X-linked Slxl1 / Slx and Y-linked Sly gene families can distort offspring sex ratio, but how these proteins compete remains unknown. Here, we report how Slxl1 / Slx and Sly encoded proteins compete in a protein family–specific
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Debiasing job ads by replacing masculine language increases gender diversity of applicant pools Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Joyce C. He, Sonia K. Kang
Job advertisements for jobs in male-dominated fields tend to contain more masculine language, and a commonly proposed intervention to increase gender diversity in applicant pools is to remove this language. In our research, we offer predictions about the broader impact of such interventions on individuals who may not “fit” with traditional masculine identity. Across four multimethod studies ( N = 37
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Inhibition of GABARAP or GABARAPL1 prevents aminoglycoside- induced hearing loss Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Jinan Li, Seung-Il Oh, Chang Liu, Bo Zhao
Aminoglycosides (AGs) are highly potent, broad-spectrum antibiotics frequently used as first-line treatments for multiple life-threatening infections. Despite their severe ototoxicity, causing irreversible hearing loss in millions of people annually, no preventive therapy has been approved. We previously reported that GABARAP and several other central autophagy proteins are essential for AG-induced
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Dynamic changes in histone lysine lactylation during meiosis prophase I in mouse spermatogenesis Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Xiaoyu Zhang, Yan Liu, Ning Wang
Male germ cells, which are responsible for producing millions of genetically diverse sperm through meiosis in the testis, rely on lactate as their central energy metabolite. Recent study has revealed that lactate induces epigenetic modification in cells through histone lysine lactylation. Here, we report dynamic histone lactylation at histone H4-lysine 5 (K5), -K8, and -K12 during meiosis prophase
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Seesaw protein: Design of a protein that adopts interconvertible alternative functional conformations and its dynamics Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Toma Ikeda, Tatsuya Nojima, Souma Yamamoto, Ryusei Yamada, Tatsuya Niwa, Hiroki Konno, Hideki Taguchi
According to classical Anfinsen’s dogma, a protein folds into a single unique conformation with minimal Gibbs energy under physiological conditions. However, certain proteins may fold into two or more conformations from single amino acid sequences. Here, we designed a protein that adopts interconvertible alternative functional conformations, termed “seesaw” protein (SSP). An SSP was engineered by fusing
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Resolving the dynamic correlated disorder in KTa 1? x Nb x O 3 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Xing He, Mayanak K. Gupta, Douglas L. Abernathy, Garrett E. Granroth, Feng Ye, Barry L. Winn, Lynn Boatner, Olivier Delaire
Understanding the complex temporal and spatial correlations of ions in disordered perovskite oxides is critical to rationalize their functional properties. Here, we provide insights into the longstanding controversy regarding the off-centering of transition metal (TM) ions in the archetypal ferroelectric alloy KTa 1 ? x Nb x O 3 (KTN). By mapping the full energy ( E ) and wavevector ( Q ) dependence
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Ethylene response factor SlERF.D6 promotes ripening in part through transcription factors SlDEAR2 and SlTCP12 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (IF 9.4) Pub Date : 2025-02-10 Yao Chen, Xin Wang, Vincent Colantonio, Zhuo Gao, Yangang Pei, Tara Fish, Jie Ye, Lance Courtney, Theodore W. Thannhauser, Zhibiao Ye, Yongsheng Liu, Zhangjun Fei, Mingchun Liu, James J. Giovannoni
Ripening is crucial for the development of fleshy fruits that release their seeds following consumption by frugivores and are important contributors to human health and nutritional security. Many genetic ripening regulators have been identified, especially in the model system tomato, yet more remain to be discovered and integrated into comprehensive regulatory models. Most tomato ripening genes have