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Oxidative stress is tightly regulated by cytochrome c phosphorylation and respirasome factors in mitochondria

03-09-2018

Respiratory cytochrome c has been found to be phosphorylated at tyrosine 97 in the postischemic brain upon neuroprotective insulin treatment, but how such posttranslational modification affects mitochondrial metabolism is unclear...

STAT3 labels a subpopulation of reactive astrocytes required for brain metastasis

01-08-2018

The brain microenvironment imposes a particularly intense selective pressure on metastasis-initiating cells, but successful metastases bypass this control through mechanisms that are poorly understood. Reactive astrocytes are key components of...

A broad atlas of somatic hypermutation allows prediction of activation-induced deaminase targets

02-07-2018

Activation-induced deaminase (AID) initiates antibody diversification in germinal center (GC) B cells through the deamination of cytosines on immunoglobulin genes. AID can also target other regions in the genome, triggering...

Deciphering the Dynamic Transcriptional and Post-transcriptional Networks of Macrophages in the Healthy Heart and after Myocardial Injury

01-06-2018

Our group is interested in the behavior and transcriptional regulation of macrophages in the context of complex disease environments. We have generated a whole transcriptome dataset (mRNA, miRNA, and lincRNA)...

Synaptic activity‐induced glycolysis facilitates membrane lipid provision and neurite outgrowth

01-05-2018

La formación de nuevas neuritas es un proceso clave para el correcto desarrollo del sistema nervioso. El crecimiento neurítico requiere la generación de nuevas membranas. No obstante, los cambios metabólicos...

Mechanisms of bacterial membrane permeabilization by crotalicidin (Ctn) and its fragment Ctn(15-34), antimicrobial peptides from rattlesnake venom.

04-04-2018

La crotalicidina, un péptido del veneno de una serpiente de cascabel, tiene entre otras propiedades una potente acción antimicrobiana. Un fragmento resultante de la disección racional del péptido nativo presenta...

Functional optimization of broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibody 10E8 by promoting membrane interactions

01-03-2018

El anticuerpo 10E8 representa uno de los anticuerpos anti-VIH con mayor cobertura de neutralización y potencia descrito a día de hoy. Su epítopo se localiza en una región próxima a...

Molecular mechanism for the subversion of the retromer coat by the Legionella effector RidL

01-02-2018

La legionelosis o enfermedad del legionario es una neumonía potencialmente fatal, causada por la bacteria Legionella pneumophila. Durante la infección, la bacteria trasloca un gran número de proteínas, llamadas efectores...

Late rDNA Condensation Ensures Timely Cdc14 Release and Coordination of Mitotic Exit Signaling with Nucleolar Segregation

01-01-2018

El nucléolo, además de su función esencial en la biogénesis de los ribosomas, juega también un papel importante en múltiples procesos celulares. Así, en este orgánulo se mantienen secuestradas proteínas clave para...

Inactivation of Capicua in adult mice causes T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma

01-12-2017

CIC (also known as Capicua) is a transcriptional repressor negatively regulated by RAS/MAPK signaling. Whereas the functions of Cic have been well characterized in Drosophila, little is known about its...

Physical proximity of chromatin to nuclear pores prevents harmful R loop accumulation contributing to maintain genome stability
During transcription, the mRNA may hybridize with DNA, forming an R loop, which can be physiological or pathological, constituting in this case a source of genomic instability. To understand the…
Whi7 is an unstable cell-cycle repressor of the Start transcriptional program
Start is the main decision point in eukaryotic cell cycle in which cells commit to a new round of cell division. It involves the irreversible activation of a transcriptional program…
CTCF orchestrates the germinal centre transcriptional program and prevents premature plasma cell differentiation
In germinal centres (GC) mature B cells undergo intense proliferation and immunoglobulin gene modification before they differentiate into memory B cells or long-lived plasma cells (PC). GC B-cell-to-PC transition involves…
Catalytic Cycle of the N-Acetylglucosaminidase NagZ from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
The N-acetylglucosaminidase NagZ of Pseudomonas aeruginosa catalyzes the first cytoplasmic step in recycling of muropeptides, cell-wall-derived natural products. This reaction regulates gene expression for the β-lactam resistance enzyme, β-lactamase. The…
Crebbp loss cooperates with Bcl2 overexpression to promote lymphoma in mice.
CREBBP is targeted by inactivating mutations in follicular lymphoma (FL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Here, we provide evidence from transgenic mouse models that Crebbp deletion results in deficits…
Local amplifiers of IL-4Rα-mediated macrophage activation promote repair in lung and liver
The type 2 immune response controls helminth infection and maintains tissue homeostasis but can lead to allergy and fibrosis if not adequately regulated. We have discovered local tissue-specific amplifiers of…
Programmed mitophagy is essential for the glycolytic switch during cell differentiation
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the sole projecting neurons of the retina and their axons form the optic nerve. Here, we show that embryogenesis-associated mouse RGC differentiation depends on mitophagy…
Bax transmembrane domain interacts with prosurvival Bcl-2 proteins in biological membranes
The Bcl-2 (B-cell lymphoma 2) protein Bax (Bcl-2 associated X, apoptosis regulator) can commit cells to apoptosis via outer mitochondrial membrane permeabilization. Bax activity is controlled in healthy cells by…
Histone chaperone activity of Arabidopsis thaliana NRP1 is blocked by cytochrome c
Higher-order plants and mammals use similar mechanisms to repair and tolerate oxidative DNA damage. Most studies on the DNA repair process have focused on yeast and mammals, in which histone…
The lipid sensor GPR120 promotes brown fat activation and FGF21 release from adipocytes
The thermogenic activity of brown adipose tissue (BAT) and browning of white adipose tissue are important components of energy expenditure. Here we show that GPR120, a receptor for polyunsaturated fatty…

Complex I assembly into supercomplexes determines differential mitochondrial ROS production in neurons and astrocytes
Neurons depend on oxidative phosphorylation for energy generation, whereas astrocytes do not, a distinctive feature that is essential for neurotransmission and neuronal survival. However, any link between these metabolic differences…
A genome-wide screening uncovers the role of CCAR2 as an antagonist of DNA end resection
There are two major and alternative pathways to repair DNA double-strand breaks: non-homologous end-joining and homologous recombination. Here we identify and characterize novel factors involved in choosing between these pathways;…
In vivo conditional deletion of HDAC7 reveals its requirement to establish proper B lymphocyte identity and development
Class IIa Histone Deacetylases (HDACs) subfamily members are tissue-specific gene repressors with crucial roles in development and differentiation processes. A prominent example is HDAC7, a class IIa HDAC that shows…
DNA demethylation of inflammasome-associated genes is enhanced in patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes
Inflammasomes are cytosolic multiprotein complexes in macrophages. They assemble after infection- or stress-associated stimuli, activating both caspase-1-mediated inflammatory cytokine secretion and pyroptosis. Increased inflammasome activity resulting from gene mutations is…
Cysteine Mutational Studies Provide Insight into a Thiol-Based Redox Switch Mechanism of Metal and DNA Binding in FurA from Anabaena…
Aims: The ferric uptake regulator (Fur) is the main transcriptional regulator of genes involved in iron homeostasis in most prokaryotes. FurA from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 contains five cysteine residues…
IL-4 orchestrates STAT6-mediated DNA demethylation leading to dendritic cell differentiation
The role of cytokines in establishing specific transcriptional programmes in innate immune cells has long been recognized. However, little is known about how these extracellular factors instruct innate immune cell…
Dissecting the role of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor catalytic activity during liver regeneration and hepatocarcinogenesis
Different data support a role for the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway during liver regeneration and hepatocarcinogenesis. However, important issues, such as the precise mechanisms mediating its actions and…
Phytochrome and retrograde signalling pathways converge to antagonistically regulate a light-induced transcriptional network
Plastid-to-nucleus retrograde signals emitted by dysfunctional chloroplasts impact photomorphogenic development, but the molecular link between retrograde- and photosensory-receptor signalling has remained unclear. Here, we show that the phytochrome and retrograde…
Early ERK1/2 activation promotes DRP1-dependent mitochondrial fission necessary for cell reprogramming.
During the process of reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, somatic cells switch from oxidative to glycolytic metabolism, a transition associated with profound mitochondrial reorganization. Neither the importance of…
p38γ and δ promote heart hypertrophy by targeting the mTOR-inhibitory protein DEPTOR for degradation
Disrupted organ growth leads to disease development. Hypertrophy underlies postnatal heart growth and is triggered after stress, but the molecular mechanisms involved in these processes are largely unknown. Here we…

Loss of the proteostasis factor AIRAPL causes myeloid transformation by deregulating IGF-1 signaling
AIRAPL (arsenite-inducible RNA-associated protein-like) is an evolutionarily conserved regulator of cellular proteostasis linked to longevity in nematodes, but its biological function in mammals is unknown. We show herein that AIRAPL-deficient…
Infection exposure is a causal factor in B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia as a result of Pax5 inherited susceptibility
Earlier in the past century, infections were regarded as the most likely cause of childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (pB-ALL). However, there is a lack of relevant biologic evidence…
Structural and functional insights into Escherichia coli α2-macroglobulin endopeptidase snap-trap inhibition
The survival of commensal bacteria requires them to evade host peptidases. Gram-negative bacteria from the human gut microbiome encode a relative of the human endopeptidase inhibitor, α2-macroglobulin (α2M). Escherichia coli…
NF-κB activation impairs somatic cell reprogramming in ageing
Ageing constitutes a critical impediment to somatic cell reprogramming. We have explored the regulatory mechanisms that constitute age-associated barriers, through derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from individuals with…
miR-58 family and TGF-β pathways regulate each other in Caenorhabditis elegans
Despite the fact that microRNAs (miRNAs) modulate the expression of around 60% of protein-coding genes, it is often hard to elucidate their precise role and target genes. Studying miRNA families…
AMPK and PFKFB3 mediate glycolysis and survival in response to mitophagy during mitotic arrest
Blocking mitotic progression has been proposed as an attractive therapeutic strategy to impair proliferation of tumour cells. However, how cells survive during prolonged mitotic arrest is not well understood. We…
Monozygotic twins discordant for common variable immunodeficiency reveal impaired DNA demethylation during naïve-to-memory B-cell transition
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), the most frequent primary immunodeficiency characterized by loss of B-cell function, depends partly on genetic defects, and epigenetic changes are thought to contribute to its aetiology…
Role for RNA:DNA hibrids in origin-independent replication priming in a eukaryotic system
DNA replication initiates at defined replication origins along eukaryotic chromosomes, ensuring complete genome duplication within a single S-phase. A key feature of replication origins is their ability to control the…
Un gel durmiente, clave en la formación de la metástasis
Metastasis is responsible for most cancer-related deaths, and, among common tumor types, melanoma is one with great potential to metastasize. Here we study the contribution of epigenetic changes to the…
Head-to-head antisense transcription and R-loop formation promotes transcriptional activation
The mechanisms used by antisense transcripts to regulate their corresponding sense mRNAs are not fully understood. Herein, we have addressed this issue for the vimentin (VIM) gene, a member of…

p73 is required for endothelial cell differentiation, migration and the formation of vascular networks regulating VEGF and TGFβ signaling
Vasculogenesis, the establishment of the vascular plexus and angiogenesis, branching of new vessels from the preexisting vasculature, involves coordinated endothelial differentiation, proliferation and migration. Disturbances in these coordinated processes may…
NF-κB-direct activation of microRNAs with repressive effects on monocyte-specific genes is critical for osteoclast differentiation
Monocyte-to-osteoclast conversion is a unique terminal differentiation process that is exacerbated in rheumatoid arthritis and bone metastasis. The mechanisms implicated in upregulating osteoclast-specific genes involve transcription factors, epigenetic regulators and…
Photoperiodic control of carbon distribution during the floral transition in Arabidopsis
Ortiz-Marchena MI1, Albi T, Lucas-Reina E, Said FE, Romero- Campero FJ, Cano B, Ruiz MT, Romero JM, Valverde F.
COPII Coat Composition Is Actively Regulated by Luminal Cargo Maturation
Javier Manzano-Lopez, Ana M. Perez-Linero, Auxiliadora Aguilera-Romero, Maria E. Martin, Tatsuki Okano, Daniel Varon Silva, Peter H. Seeberger, Howard Riezman, Kouichi Funato, Veit Goder, Ralf E. Wellinger, Manuel Muñiz
Apicobasal polarity controls lymphocyte adhesion to hepatic epithelial cells
Natalia Reglero-Real, Adrián Álvarez-Varela, Eva Cernuda-Morollón, Jorge Feito, Beatriz Marcos-Ramiro, Laura Fernández-Martín, Maria José Gómez-Lechón, Jordi Muntané, Pilar Sandoval, Pedro L. Majano, Isabel Correas, Miguel A. Alonso, Jaime Millán
Increased Aurora B activity causes continuous disruption of kinetochore-microtubule attachments and spindle instability
Marta Muñoz-Barrera and Fernando Monje-Casas
XTACC3–XMAP215 association reveals an asymmetric interaction promoting microtubule elongation
Gulnahar B. Mortuza ,TommasoCavazza, Maria Flor Garcia-Mayoral, Dario Hermida, Isabel Peset, Juan G. Pedrero, Nekane Merino, Francisco J. Blanco, JeppeLyngsø, Marta Bruix, Jan Skov Pedersen, Isabelle Vernos& Guillermo Montoya
Mfn2 downregulation in excitotoxicity causes mitochondrial dysfunction and delayed neuronal death
Martorell-Riera A, Segarra-Mondejar M, Muñoz JP, Ginet V, Olloquequi J, Pérez-Clausell J, Palacín M, Reina M, Puyal J, Zorzano A, Soriano FX.
Phosphorylation at Ser-181 of oncogenic KRAS is required for tumor growth
Barceló C, Paco N, Morell M, Alvarez-Moya B, Bota-Rabassedas N, Jaumot M, Vilardell F, Capella G, Agell N.
Regulation of Plant Stem Cell Quiescence by a Brassinosteroid Signaling Module
Josep Vilarrasa-Blasi, Mary-Paz González-García, David Frigola, Norma Fàbregas, Konstantinos G. Alexiou, Nuria López-Bigas, Susana Rivas, Alain Jauneau, Jan U. Lohmann, Philip N. Benfey, Marta Ibañes and Ana I. Caño-Delgado.

Regulation of pri-mi RNA Processing by a Long Noncoding RNA Transcribed from an Ultraconserved Region
Liz J, Portela A, Soler M, Gómez A, Ling H, Michlewski G, Calin GA, Guil S, Esteller M.
The yeast and human FACT chromatin-reorganizing complexes solve R-loop-mediated transcription-replication conflicts
Emilia Herrera-Moyano, Xénia Mergui, María L. García-Rubio, Sonia Barroso y Andrés Aguilera.
Control of Cdc28 CDK1 by a stress-induced lncRNA
Mariona Nadal-Ribelles (1,3), Carme Solé (1,3), Zhenyu Xu (2), Lars M. Steinmetz (2), Eulàlia de Nadal (1,4) and Francesc Posas (1,4) (1) Cell Signaling Unit, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i…
ATM specifically mediates repair of double-strand breaks with blocked DNA ends
Alejandro Álvarez-Quilón, Almudena Serrano-Benítez, Jenna Ariel Lieberman, Cristina Quintero, Daniel Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Luis M. Escudero, Felipe Cortés-Ledesma
An o2-sensitive glomus cell-stem cell synapse induces carotid body growth in chronic hipoxia
Aida Platero-Luengo,1 Susana González-Granero,2,3 Rocío Duran,1 Blanca Díaz-Castro,1 José I. Piruat,1 José Manuel García-Verdugo,2,3 Ricardo Pardal,1,* and José López-Barneo1,3,* 1 Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica, Instituto de Biomedicina de…
R Loops Are Linked to Histone H3 S10 Phosphorylation and Chromatin Condensation
Maikel Castellano-Pozo, José María Santos-Pereira, Ana García-Rondón, Sonia Barroso, Eloísa Andújar, Mónica Pérez-Alegre, Tatiana García-Muse y Andrés Aguilera.
Inhibition of the Mitotic Exit Network in response to damaged telomeres
Mauricio Valerio-Santiago, Ana Isabel de los Santos-Velázquez, Fernando Monje-Casas
Arabidopsis J-Protein J20 Delivers the First Enzyme of the Plastidial Isoprenoid Pathway to Protein Quality Control.
Pablo Pulido, Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz, Michael A. Phillips, Louwrance P. Wright, y Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción.
PU.1 target genes undergo Tet2-coupled demethylation and DNMT3b-mediated methylation in monocyte-to-osteoclast differentiation
Lorenzo de la Rica, Javier Rodríguez-Ubreva, Mireia García, Abul Islam, José Miguel Urquiza, Henar Hernando, Jesper Christensen, Kristian Helin, Carmen Gómez-Vaquero y Esteban Ballestar
Prelamin A causes progeria through cell-extrinsic mechanisms and prevents cancer invasion
Jorge de la Rosa, José M.P. Freije, Rubén Cabanillas, Fernando G. Osorio, Mario F. Fraga, M. Soledad Fernández-García, Roland Rad, Víctor Fanjul, Alejandro P. Ugalde, Qi Liang, Haydn M. Prosser…

Rad51 replication fork recruitment is required for DNA damage tolerance.
Román González-Prieto, Ana M Muñoz-Cabello, María J Cabello-Lobato and Félix Prado
In vivo JNK activation in pancreatic β-cells leads to glucose intolerance caused by insulin resistance in pancreas
Lanuza-Masdeu Jordi, Arévalo María Isabel, Vila Cristina, Barberà Albert, Gomis Ramon, Caelles Carme.
Germinal centre protein HGAL promotes lymphoid hyperplasia and amyloidosis via BCR-mediated Syk activation
Isabel Romero Camarero, Xiaoyu Jiang, Yasodha Natkunam, Xiaoqing Lu, Carolina Vicente Dueñas, Ines González Herrero, Teresa Flores, Juan Luis García, George McNamara, Christian Kunder, Shuchun Zhao, Víctor Segura, Lorena Fontán…
Exploring new biological functions of amyloids: bacteria cell agglutination mediated by host protein aggregation.
Marc Torrent, David Pulido, Maria VictòriaNogués, Ester Boix.
Prochlorococcus can use the Pro1404 transporter to take up glucose at nanomolar concentrations in the Atlantic Ocean
Muñoz-Marin MC, Luque I, Zubkov MV, Hill PG, Diez J & García-Fernandez JM
Cytoneme-Mediated Delivery of Hedgehog Regulates the Expression of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins to Maintain Germline Stem Cells in Drosophila
Patricia Rojas Ríos, Isabel Guerrero Vega y Acaimo González Reyes.
PRESYNAPTIC SELF-DEPRESSION AT DEVELOPING NEOCORTICAL SYNAPSES
Antonio Rodríguez-Moreno, Ana González-Rueda, Abhishek Banerjee, A. Louise Upton, Michael T. Craig MT and Ole Paulsen
Glucose-Induced β-Catenin Acetylation Enhances Wnt Signaling in Cancer
Ana Chocarro-Calvo, Jose Manuel García-Martínez, Soraya Ardila-González, Antonio De la Vieja and Custodia García-Jiménez
Nek9 phosphorylation of NEDD1/GCP-WD contributes to Plk1 control of gamma-tubulin recruitment to the mitotic centrosome
Sdelci S*, Schütz M*, Pinyol R, Bertran MT, Regué L, Caelles C, Vernos I, Roig J. (*These authors contributed equally to this work)
CDK2-dependent activation of PARP-1 is required for hormonal gene regulation in breast cancer cells
Roni H. G. Wright, Giancarlo Castellano, Jaume Bonet, Francois Le Dily, Jofre Font-Mateu, Cecilia Ballaré, A. Silvina Nacht, Daniel Soronellas1, Baldo Oliva and Miguel Beato(CRG, Barcelona)

Expression of MALT1 oncogene in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells recapitulates the pathogenesis of human lymphoma in mice.
Vicente-Duenas, C., L. Fontan, I. Gonzalez-Herrero, I. Romero-Camarero, V. Segura, M.A. Aznar, E. Alonso-Escudero, E. Campos-Sanchez, L. Ruiz-Roca, M. Barajas-Diego, A. Sagardoy, J.I. Martinez-Ferrandis, F. Abollo-Jimenez, C. Bertolo, I. Penuelas…
Un RNA viroidal redirige a la DNA ligasa 1 del huésped a actuar como RNA ligasa
María-Ángeles Nohales, Ricardo Flores y José-Antonio Daròs
β-catenin confers resistance to PI3K and AKT inhibitors and subverts FOXO3a to promote metastasis in colon cancer
Stephan P Tenbaum, Paloma Ordóñez-Morán, Isabel Puig, Irene Chicote, Oriol Arqués, Stefania Landolfi, Yolanda Fernández, José Raúl Herance, Juan D Gispert, Leire Mendizabal, Susana Aguilar, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Simó…
A role for tRNA modifications in genome structure and codon usage
Eva Maria Novoa, Mariana Pavon-Eternod, Tao Pan, Lluis Ribas de Pouplana
γ-Glutamylcysteine detoxifes reactive oxygen species by acting as glutathione peroxidase-1 cofactor
Quintana-Cabrera, R.; Fernández-Fernández, S.; Bobo-Jiménez, V.; Escobar, J.; Sastre, J; Almeida, A.; Bolaños, J.P.
Mitofusin 2 (Mfn2) links mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum function with insulin signaling and is essential for normal glucose homeostasis.
Sebastián D*, Hernández-Alvarez MI*, Segalés J*, Sorianello E, Muñoz JP, Sala D, Waget A, Liesa M, Paz JC, Gopalacharyulu P, Oresic M, Pich S, Burcelin R, Palacín M, Zorzano A…
Molecular therapy for obesity and diabetes based on a long-term increase in hepatic fatty-acid oxidation
Josep M. Orellana-Gavaldà, Laura Herrero, Maria Ida Malandrino, Astrid Pañeda, María Sol Rodríguez-Peña, Harald Petry, Guillermina Asins, Sander Van Deventer, Fausto G. Hegardt, Dolors Serra.
A novel GRK2/HDAC6 interaction modulates cell spreading and motility
Vanesa Lafarga, Ivette Aymerich, Olga Tapia, Federico Mayor Jr, Petronila Penela
Regulation of Ribonucleotide Reductase in Response to Iron Deficiency
Nerea Sanvisens, Mari Carmen Bañó, Mingxia Huang y Sergi Puig
Methionine adenosyltransferase 1A gene deletion disrupts hepatic very low-density lipoprotein assembly in mice
Ainara Cano, Xabier Buqué, Maite Martínez-Uña, Igor Aurrekoetxea, Ariane Menor, Juan Luis García-Rodríguez2, Shelly Lu, José María Mato, Begoña Ochoa y Patricia Aspichueta

Human mitochondrial transcription factor A induces a U-turn structure in the light strand promoter
Rubio-Cosials A, Sidow JF, Jiménez-Menéndez N, Fernández-Millán P, Montoya J, Jacobs HT, Coll M, Bernadó P, Solà M.
Intramolecular signal transmission in a tetrameric repressor of the IclR family
Fillet S, Krell T, Morel B, Lu D, Zhang X, Ramos JL.
Neurodegeneration and functional impairments associated with glycogen synthase accumulation in a mouse model of Lafora disease
Valles-Ortega J*, Duran J*, Garcia-Rocha M, Bosch C, Saez I, Pujadas L, Serafin A, Cañas X, Soriano E, Delgado-García JM, Gruart A, Guinovart JJ. * Coautores
Control of Ubp3 ubiquitin protease activity by the Hog1 SAPK modulates transcription upon osmostress
Carme Solé1,3, Mariona Nadal-Ribelles1,3, Claudine Kraft2, Matthias Peter2, Francesc Posas1 and Eulàlia de Nadal1 1. Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Cell Signalling Unit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)…
Autophagy promotes survival of retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve axotomy in mice
Natalia Rodríguez-Muela, Francisco Germain, Guillermo Mariño, Patrick S Fitze and Patricia Boya.
Drosophila lipophorin recpetors mediate the uptake of neutral lipids in oocytes and imaginal disc cells by an endocytosis-independent mechanism
Esmeralda Parra-Peralbo y Joaquim Culí
Light-dependent gene regulation by a coenzyme B12-based photoreceptor
Juan Manuel Ortiz-Guerrero, María Carmen Polanco, Francisco J. Murillo, S. Padmanabhan, y Montserrat Elías-Arnanz
Small molecule enoxacin is a cancer-specific growth inhibitor that acts by enhancing TAR RNA-binding protein 2-mediated microRNA processing
Melo S, Villanueva A, Moutinho C, Davalos V, Spizzo R, Ivan C, Rossi S, Setien F, Casanovas O, Simo-Riudalbas L, Carmona J, Carrere J, Vidal A, Aytes A, Puertas S…
Structure of a Preternary Complex Involving a Prokaryotic NHEJ DNA Polymerase
Nigel C. Brissett*, Maria Jose Martin*, Robert S. Pitcher, Julie Bianchi, Raquel Juarez, Andrew J. Green, Gavin C. Fox, Luis Blanco', and Aidan J. Doherty'. (* coauthors) ('co-corresponding authors)
Crystal structure of the open conformation of the mammalian chaperonin CCT in complex with tubulin
Muñoz IG, Yébenes H, Zhou M, Mesa P, Serna M, Park AY, Bragado-Nilsson E, Beloso A, de Cárcer G, Malumbres M, Robinson CV, Valpuesta JM, Montoya G.

Targeting mitotic exit leads to tumor regression in vivo: Modulation by Cdk1, Mastl, and the PP2A/B55α,δ phosphatase
Manchado E, Guillamot M, de Cárcer G, Eguren M, Trickey M, García-Higuera I, Moreno S, Yamano H, Cañamero M, Malumbres M.
Distributed Biological Computation with Multicellular Engineered Networks
Sergi Regot*, Javier Macia*, Núria Conde, Kentaro Furukawa, Jimmy Kjellén, Tom Peeters, Stefan Hohmann, Eulàlia de Nadal, Francesc Posas* y Ricard Solé*
A Genetic Defect in Exportin-5 Traps Precursor MicroRNAs in the Nucleus of Cancer Cells
Melo SA, Moutinho C, Ropero S, Calin GA, Rossi S, Spizzo R, Fernandez AF, Davalos V, Villanueva A, Montoya G, Yamamoto H, Schwartz Jr, Esteller M.
Endocannabinoids potentiate synaptic transmission through stimulation of astrocytes
Marta Navarrete and Alfonso Araque
Structure and inhibition of herpesvirus DNA packaging terminase nuclease domain
Marta Nadal, Philippe Mas, Alexandre G. Blanco, Carme Arnan, Maria Solà, Darren J. Hart y Miquel Coll
Structural basis for the wobbler mouse neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutation in the Vps54 subunit of the GARP complex
F. Javier Pérez-Victoria(1)*, Guillermo Abascal-Palacios(2)*, Igor Tascón(2), Andrey Kajava(3), Javier G. Magadán(1), Erik P. Pioro(4), Juan S. Bonifacino(1), Aitor Hierro(2) *Equal contribution. (1) Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National…
Human mitochondrial mTERF wraps around DNA through a left-handed superhelical tandem repeat
Nereida Jiménez-Menéndez1,2, Pablo Fernández-Millán1, Anna Rubio-Cosials1, Carme Arnan1,2, Julio Montoya3, Howard T Jacobs4, Pau Bernadó2, Miquel Coll1,2, Isabel Usón1,5 & Maria Solà1
Retinoid X receptor α controls innate inflammatory responses through the up-regulation of chemokine expression
Vanessa Núñeza,1, Daniel Alamedaa,1, Daniel Ricoa,2, Rubén Motab, Pilar Gonzalob, Marta Cedenillaa, Thierry Fischerc, Lisardo Boscád, Christopher K. Glasse, Alicia G. Arroyob, and Mercedes Ricotea,3 Departments of aRegenerative Cardiology and bVascular…
Cysteine string protein-α prevents activity-dependent degeneration in GABAergic synapses
Pablo García-Junco-Clemente , Gloria Cantero ,Leonardo Gómez-Sánchez , Pedro Linares-Clemente, Jose A. Martínez-López , Rafael Luján, Rafael Fernández-Chacón.
A Postincision-Deficient TFIIH Causes Replication Fork Breakage and Uncovers Alternative Rad51- or Pol32-Mediated Restart Mechanisms
María Moriel-Carretero* y Andrés Aguilera* *Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular y Medicina Regenerativa CABIMER, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain

Moonlighting proteins Hal3 and Vhs3 form a heteromeric PPCDC with Ykl088w in yeast CoA biosynthesis
Amparo Ruiz1,4,7, Asier González1,2,7, Ivan Muñoz1,5, Raquel Serrano1,6, J Albert Abrie3, Erick Strauss3 and Joaquín Ariño1,2 1. Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 2. Institut de Biotecnologia i…
The insect nephrocyte is a podocyte-like cell with a filtration slit diaphragm
Weavers*, H., Prieto-Sánchez*, S., Grawe, F., García-López, A.,Artero,R.,F. Wilsch-Braeuninger, M., Ruiz-Gómez, M., Skaer, H. y Delholm, B.
The asymmetric / symmetric activation of GPCR dimers as a possible mechanistic rationale for multiple signalling pathways
Xavier Rovira (1), Jean-Philippe Pin (2) and Jesús Giraldo (1) 1- Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology and Bioinformatics, Institut de Neurociencies and Unitat de Bioestadıstica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. 2-…
The bioenergetic and antioxidant status of neurons is controlled by continuous degradation of a key glycolytic enzyme by APC/C–Cdh1
Herrero-Méndez, A.; Almeida, A.; Fernández, E.; Maestre, C.; Moncada, S.; y Bolaños, J.P.
The mechanism of vault opening from the high resolution structure of the N-terminal repeats of MVP.
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