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Huang et al. identify IGF2BPs as an additional class of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) reader proteins. They find that IGF2BPs selectively bind to m6A-containing mRNAs and promote their stability.
Hawk et al. show that RIPK1 activation during extracellular matrix detachment induces mitophagy through mitochondrial phosphatase PGAM5 to increase reactive oxygen species and non-apoptotic cell death, and that antagonizing RIPK1/PGAM5 enhances tumour formation.
Lyden and colleagues use asymmetric flow field-flow fractionation to classify nanoparticles derived from cell lines and human samples, including previously uncharacterized large, Exo-L and small, Exo-S, exosome subsets.
Hervera et al. show that extracellular vesicles containing NOX2 complexes are released from macrophages and incorporated into injured axons, leading to axonal regeneration through PI3K–p-Akt signalling.
Using nanopillars with increased spatial resolution, Shiu et al. identify high perinuclear forces that originate from contractile apical actin filaments that span across the nucleus and are dependent on lamin A and the LINC complex.
Zajac et al. show that in colorectal cancer, decreased TGF-β signalling promotes apical actomyosin contractility and collective apical budding of invading tumour spheres with inverted polarity that drive metastatic spread.
Mittasch et al. show that controlling cytoplasmic flow via focused-light-induced cytoplasmic streaming (FLUCS), a non-invasive technique, can be used to invert asymmetric cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes.
Xie and colleagues find that activated mTORC1 growth signalling impairs DNA repair through S6K-mediated phosphorylation and inhibition of the RNF168 ligase.
van Haren et al. develop a tool to rapidly dissociate proteins from the growing end of microtubules through photo-induced disassembly of end-binding protein 1 (EB1), and find that this reduces microtubule growth and alters cell migration.
Gavriilidis et al. show that MTM1, which is mutated in X-linked centronuclear myopathy, and UBQLN2 recognize misfolded desmin and vimentin and trigger their degradation to clear misfolded intermediated filaments prior to aggregate formation.
Ahier et al. describe a method to isolate intact mitochondria from specific cells in Caenorhabditis elegans and show that the germline is more prone to propagating deleterious mitochondrial genomes than somatic lineages.
Gawrzak et al. show that MSK1 regulates bone metastatic dormancy of ER+ breast cancer. MSK1 affects histone modifications at luminal transcription factor promoters to prevent cell differentiation and bone homing.
RIP3 regulates mitochondrial metabolism. Yang et al. show that RIP3 activates the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex to enhance aerobic respiration and increase mitochondrial ROS during necroptosis, and MLKL is required for RIP3 translocation to mitochondria.
Floros et al. show that mtDNA copy number is reduced and non-synonymous mtDNA mutations are eliminated to prevent mtDNA mutation accumulation in germ cells during human primordial germ cell development.
Wu et al. show that myosin-Va is needed for the initiation of primary cilia formation by transporting preciliary vesicles to the distal appendages of the mother centriole in a manner dependent on both microtubules and centrosomal actin.
By analysing the exonuclease EXD2, Silva et al. find that it localizes to mitochondria, and that its loss alters metabolism by affecting mitochondrial translation and causes developmental delay and lifespan extension in flies.
Chen et al. demonstrate that transient Scute activation induces asymmetric division in Drosophila intestinal stem cells, which generates enteroendocrine progenitor cells that divide once before differentiation to yield a pair of enteroendocrine cells.
Ibarra-Soria et al. study cellular diversity, transcriptional signatures, lineage specification and somitogenesis on a single-cell level in E8.25 mouse embryos, and reveal the regulation of blood progenitor formation by the leukotriene pathway.