Journal Club

A special kind of journal club with a focus on peer-reviewed papers to develop skills that include critical thinking and evaluation of published work. We update the interesting reads every week.

2020-09-18

Riglet L, Rozier F, Kodera C, et al. KATANIN-dependent mechanical properties of the stigmatic cell wall mediate the pollen tube path in Arabidopsis. Elife. 2020;9:e57282. Published 2020 Sep 1. doi:10.7554/eLife.57282

2020-09-18

Ewen-Campen B, Comyn T, Vogt E, Perrimon N. No Evidence that Wnt Ligands Are Required for Planar Cell Polarity in Drosophila. Cell Rep. 2020;32(10):108121. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108121

2020-09-18

Wang W, Hu CK, Zeng A, et al. Changes in regeneration-responsive enhancers shape regenerative capacities in vertebrates. Science. 2020;369(6508):eaaz3090. doi:10.1126/science.aaz3090

2020-09-11

Tweedy L, Thomason PA, Paschke PI, et al. Seeing around corners: Cells solve mazes and respond at a distance using attractant breakdown. Science. 2020;369(6507):eaay9792. doi:10.1126/science.aay9792

2020-08-08

Pan X, Fang L, Liu J, et al. Auxin-induced signaling protein nanoclustering contributes to cell polarity formation. Nat Commun. 2020;11(1):3914. Published 2020 Aug 6. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17602-w

2020-08-08

Zhang J, Mazur E, Balla J, et al. Strigolactones inhibit auxin feedback on PIN-dependent auxin transport canalization. Nat Commun. 2020;11(1):3508. Published 2020 Jul 14. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17252-y

2020-08-08

Notaguchi M, Kurotani KI, Sato Y, et al. Cell-cell adhesion in plant grafting is facilitated by β-1,4-glucanases. Science. 2020;369(6504):698-702. doi:10.1126/science.abc3710

2020-07-17

Telomere lengths in plants are correlated with flowering time variation

Jae Young Choi, Michael D. Purugganan

bioRxiv 2020.07.04.188102; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.04.188102

2020-07-17

Guignard L, Fiúza UM, Leggio B, et al. Contact area-dependent cell communication and the morphological invariance of ascidian embryogenesis. Science. 2020;369(6500):eaar5663. doi:10.1126/science.aar5663

2020-07-17

Optogenetic control of gene expression in plants in the presence of ambient white light

Ochoa-Fernandez, R., Abel, N.B., Wieland, F. et al. Optogenetic control of gene expression in plants in the presence of ambient white light. Nat Methods 17, 717–725 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-0868-y

2020-07-17

Light-powered CO₂ fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts

Miller, T. E., Beneyton, T., Schwander, T., Diehl, C., Girault, M., McLean, R., ... & Erb, T. J. (2020). Light-powered CO2 fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts. Science, 368(6491), 649-654.

DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz6802

2020-07-10

Qin B, Fei C, Bridges AA, et al. Cell position fates and collective fountain flow in bacterial biofilms revealed by light-sheet microscopy. Science. 2020;369(6499):71-77. doi:10.1126/science.abb8501

2020-07-10

Two microRNAs are sufficient for embryogenesis in C. elegans

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.28.176024v1.full

2020-07-10

Leaf trichome distribution pattern in Arabidopsis reveals gene expression variation associated with environmental adaptation

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.01.180794v2.full

2020-07-10

Zhang F, Rossignol P, Huang T, et al. Reprogramming of Stem Cell Activity to Convert Thorns into Branches [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 9]. Curr Biol. 2020;S0960-9822(20)30755-7. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.068

2020-07-10

Fellner MC, Waldhauser GT, Axmacher N. Tracking Selective Rehearsal and Active Inhibition of Memory Traces in Directed Forgetting. Curr Biol. 2020;30(13):2638-2644.e4. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.091

2020-06-26

Ellwanger DC, Scheibinger M, Dumont RA, Barr-Gillespie PG, Heller S. Transcriptional Dynamics of Hair-Bundle Morphogenesis Revealed with CellTrails. Cell Rep. 2018;23(10):2901-2914.e13. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2018.05.002
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718307204

2020-06-26

Hsiao AS, Wang K, Ho TD. An Intrinsically Disordered Protein Interacts with the Cytoskeleton for Adaptive Root Growth under Stress. Plant Physiol. 2020;183(2):570-587. doi:10.1104/pp.19.01372

2020-06-26

Nolet FE, Vandervelde A, Vanderbeke A, Piñeros L, Chang JB, Gelens L. Nuclei determine the spatial origin of mitotic waves. Elife. 2020;9:e52868. Published 2020 May 26. doi:10.7554/eLife.52868

https://elifesciences.org/articles/52868

2020-06-26

Gonzalez Solis A, Han G, Gan L, et al. Unregulated Sphingolipid Biosynthesis in Gene-Edited Arabidopsis ORM Mutants Results in Nonviable Seeds with Strongly Reduced Oil Content [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 11]. Plant Cell. 2020;tpc.00015.2020. doi:10.1105/tpc.20.00015

2020-06-26

Michael AK, Grand RS, Isbel L, et al. Mechanisms of OCT4-SOX2 motif readout on nucleosomes. Science. 2020;368(6498):1460-1465. doi:10.1126/science.abb0074

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1460

2020-06-26

Le, N.T., Harukawa, Y., Miura, S. et al. Epigenetic regulation of spurious transcription initiation in Arabidopsis. Nat Commun 11, 3224 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16951-w

2020-06-26

Yahalomi D, Atkinson SD, Neuhof M, et al. A cnidarian parasite of salmon (Myxozoa: Henneguya) lacks a mitochondrial genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(10):5358-5363. doi:10.1073/pnas.1909907117 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/10/5358

2020-06-25

Grones P, Majda M, Doyle SM, Van Damme D, Robert S. Fluctuating auxin response gradients determine pavement cell-shape acquisition [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 22]. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;202007400. doi:10.1073/pnas.2007400117

2020-06-22

Lin Z, Xie F, Trivino M, et al. Ectopic expression of a self-incompatibility module triggers growth arrest and cell death in vegetative cells [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 19]. Plant Physiol. 2020;pp.00292.2020. doi:10.1104/pp.20.00292

2020-06-20

Wang Z, Qi L, Yang Y, et al. High-throughput intracellular biopsy of microRNAs for dissecting the temporal dynamics of cellular heterogeneity. Sci Adv. 2020;6(24):eaba4971. Published 2020 Jun 10. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aba4971

2020-06-20

Li, Y., Song, Y., Xu, W., Li, Q., Wang, X., Li, K., Wang, J., Liu, Z., Velychko, S., Ye, R. and Xia, Q., 2020. R-loops coordinate with SOX2 in regulating reprogramming to pluripotency. Science Advances, 6(24), p.eaba0777.

2020-06-20

Harris, R.E., Stinchfield, M.J., Nystrom, S.L., McKay, D.J. and Hariharan, I.K., 2020. Damage-responsive, maturity-silenced enhancers regulate multiple genes that direct regeneration in Drosophila. Elife, 9, p.e58305.

2020-06-18

Hong JH, Savina M, Du J, et al. A Sacrifice-for-Survival Mechanism Protects Root Stem Cell Niche from Chilling Stress. Cell. 2017;170(1):102-113.e14. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.002
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867417306438
Split-HaloTag^® Imaging Assay for in vivo 3D-Microscopy and Subdiffractional Analyses of Protein-Protein Interactions
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.08.139378v1.full
Gaffo E, Bortolomeazzi M, Bisognin A, et al. MiR&moRe2: A Bioinformatics Tool to Characterize microRNAs and microRNA-Offset RNAs from Small RNA-Seq Data. Int J Mol Sci. 2020;21(5):1754. Published 2020 Mar 4. doi:10.3390/ijms21051754
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/5/1754/htm
Coronatine is More Potent than Jasmonates in Regulating Arabidopsis Circadian Clock
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.15.152439v1.full

2020-06-11

Li Y, Shan Y, Kilaru GK, et al. Epigenetic inheritance of circadian period in clonal cells. Elife. 2020;9:e54186. Published 2020 May 27. doi:10.7554/eLife.54186