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Imamoto lab Journal Club

This is the list of papers presented and discussed in the lab Journal Club during the weekly seminar.

You can also browse content from previous years in the links below.

2024

A single photoreceptor splits perception and entrainment by cotransmission
Xiao N, Xu S, Li ZK, Tang M, Mao R, Yang T, Ma SX, Wang PH, Li MT, Sunilkumar A, Rouyer F, Cao LH, Luo DG.
Nature. 2023 Nov;623(7987):562-570. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06681-6. Epub 2023 Oct 25.

Melanopsin activates divergent phototransduction pathways in intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell subtypes.
Contreras E, Bhoi JD, Sonoda T, Birnbaumer L, Schmidt TM.
Elife. 2023 Nov 8:12:e80749. doi: 10.7554/eLife.80749.

RNA-mediated symmetry breaking enables singular olfactory receptor choice.
Ariel D Pourmorady, Elizaveta V Bashkirova, Andrea M Chiariello, Houda Belagzhal, Albana Kodra, Rachel Duffié, Jerome Kahiapo, Kevin Monahan, Joan Pulupa, Ira Schieren, Alexa Osterhoudt, Job Dekker, Mario Nicodemi, Stavros Lomvardas
Nature. 2024 Jan;625(7993):181-188. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06845-4. Epub 2023 Dec 20.

Infralimbic activity during REM sleep facilitates fear extinction memory
Jiso Hong, Kyuhyun Choi, Marc V Fuccillo, Shinjae Chung, Franz Weber
Curr. Biol. 2024 Apr 27:S0960-9822(24)00458-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.018.

Compartmentalized ocular lymphatic system mediates eye-brain immunity.
Xiangyun Yin, Sophia Zhang, Ju Hyun Lee, Huiping Dong, George Mourgkos, Gordon Terwilliger, Aurora Kraus, Luiz Henrique Geraldo, Mathilde Poulet, Suzanne Fischer, Ting Zhou Farrah Shalima Mohammed, Jiangbing Zhou, Yongfu Wang, Seth Malloy, Nicolas Rohner, Lokesh Sharma, Irene Salinas, Anne Eichmann, Jean-Leon Thomas, W Mark Saltzman, Anita Huttner, Caroline Zeiss, Aaron Ring, Akiko Iwasaki, Eric Song
Nature. 2024 Apr;628(8006):204-211. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07130-8. Epub 2024 Feb 28.

Feedforward and feedback mechanisms cooperatively regulate rapid experience-dependent response adaptation in a single thermosensory neuron type
Tyler J Hill, Piali Sengupta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Apr 2;121(14):e2321430121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2321430121. Epub 2024 Mar 26.

Tracking the Electron Transfer Cascade in European Robin Cryptochrome 4 Mutants.
Timmer D, Frederiksen A, Lünemann DC, Thomas AR, Xu J, Bartölke R, Schmidt J, Kubař T, De Sio A, Solov'yov IA, Mouritsen H, Lienau C.
J Am Chem Soc. 2023 May 31;145(21):11566-11578. doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c00442. Epub 2023 May 17.

Carotenoid cleavage enzymes evolved convergently to generate the visual chromophore.
Solano YJ, Everett MP, Dang KS, Abueg J, Kiser PD.
Nat Chem Biol. 2024 Jun;20(6):779-788. doi: 10.1038/s41589-024-01554-z. Epub 2024 Feb 14.

AlphaFold2 structures guide prospective ligand discovery
Lyu J, Kapolka N, Gumpper R, Alon A, Wang L, Jain MK, Barros-Álvarez X, Sakamoto K, Kim Y, DiBerto J, Kim K, Glenn IS, Tummino TA, Huang S, Irwin JJ, Tarkhanova OO, Moroz Y, Skiniotis G, Kruse AC, Shoichet BK, Roth BL.
Science. 2024 Jun 21;384(6702):eadn6354. doi: 10.1126/science.adn6354. Epub 2024 Jun 21.

Channelrhodopsins with distinct chromophores and binding patterns
Shan Y, Zhao L, Chen M, Li X, Zhang M, Pei D.
Nat Commun. 2024 Aug 24;15(1):7292. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51811-x.2024 Jun 21;384(6702):eadn6354. doi: 10.1126/science.adn6354. Epub 2024 Jun 21.

Thermal infrared directs host-seeking behaviour in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
Chandel A, DeBeaubien NA, Ganguly A, Meyerhof GT, Krumholz AA, Liu J, Salgado VL, Montell C.
Nature 2024 Sep;633(8030):615-623. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07848-5. Epub 2024 Aug 21.

Computational design of soluble and functional membrane protein analogues
Casper A Goverde, Martin Pacesa, Nicolas Goldbach, Lars J Dornfeld, Petra E M Balbi, Sandrine Georgeon, Stéphane Rosset, Srajan Kapoor, Jagrity Choudhury, Justas Dauparas4, Christian Schellhaas, Simon Kozlov, David Baker, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Alex J Vecchio, Bruno E Correia
Nature. 2024 Jul;631(8020):449-458. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07601-y. Epub 2024 Jun 19.