iScience: July 2022 (Volume 25, Issue 7)

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Jul 15, 2022 Vol. 25, Iss. 7 Open Access Website Table of Contents Online Now Archive

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Table of Contents Reviews Prevention and removal of membrane and separator biofouling in bioelectrochemical systems: a comprehensive review Grzegorz Pasternak, Aleksander de Rosset, Natalia Tyszkiewicz, Bartosz Widera, John Greenman, Ioannis Ieropoulos Surface chemistry; Biochemistry; Biochemical Engineering; Materials science engineering A quantitative analysis of microbial community structure-function relationships in plant litter decay Bonnie Waring, Anna Gee, Guopeng Liang, Savannah Adkins Microbiology; Plant biology; Soil ecology Thermal management and control of wearable devices Y. Sungtaek Ju Health technology; Thermal engineering; Biodevices Biotic responses to climate extremes in terrestrial ecosystems Madhav P. Thakur, Anita C. Risch, Wim H. van der Putten Animals, Plant Ecology, Ecology Mechanical pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass toward enzymatic/fermentative valorization Carlos Arce, Lukas Kratky Biomass; Biotechnology; Chemical Engineering; Engineering Recent progress in nanomaterial-functionalized membranes for removal of pollutants Amit Nain, Arumugam Sangili, Shun-Ruei Hu, Chun-Hsien Chen, Yen-Ling Chen, Huan-Tsung Chang Environmental science; Membranes; Nanomaterials Systems biology-guided understanding of white-rot fungi for biotechnological applications: A review Teeratas Kijpornyongpan, Alexa Schwartz, Allison Yaguchi, Davinia Salvachúa Mycology; Biotechnology Perspectives Electrochemical reduction of CO2 in the captured state using aqueous or nonaqueous amines Sung Eun Jerng, Betar M. Gallant Chemistry; Electrochemistry; Electrochemical energy conversion; Engineering Establishing a quality management framework for commercial inoculants containing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Matthias J. Salomon, Stephanie J. Watts-Williams, Michael J. McLaughlin, Heike Bücking, Brajesh K. Singh, Imke Hutter, Carolin Schneider, Francis M. Martin, Miroslav Vosatka, Liangdong Guo, Tatsuhiro Ezawa, Masanori Saito, Stéphane Declerck, Yong-Guan Zhu, Timothy Bowles, Lynette K. Abbott, F. Andrew Smith, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden Environmental science; Environmental health; Biological sciences; Biotechnology; Plant biology; Interaction of plants with organisms; Plant nutrition Blueprints for measuring natural behavior Alicja Puścian, Ewelina Knapska Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience Articles Identification of a neural development gene expression signature in colon cancer stem cells reveals a role for EGR2 in tumorigenesis Joseph L. Regan, Dirk Schumacher, Stephanie Staudte, Andreas Steffen, Ralf Lesche, Joern Toedling, Thibaud Jourdan, Johannes Haybaeck, Nicole Golob-Schwarzl, Dominik Mumberg, David Henderson, Balázs Győrffy, Christian R.A. Regenbrecht, Ulrich Keilholz, Reinhold Schäfer, Martin Lange Stem cells research; Cancer; Transcriptomics Immunomodulation and delivery of macrophages using nano-smooth drug-loaded magnetic microrobots for dual targeting cancer therapy Xiaoxia Song, Wei Fu, U Kei Cheang Drug delivery system; Biological sciences; Immunology; Biotechnology; Cancer Distinct actin–tropomyosin cofilament populations drive the functional diversification of cytoskeletal myosin motor complexes Theresia Reindl, Sven Giese, Johannes N. Greve, Patrick Y. Reinke, Igor Chizhov, Sharissa L. Latham, Daniel P. Mulvihill, Manuel H. Taft, Dietmar J. Manstein Biological sciences; Biochemistry; Biomolecules; Protein; Biophysics Helicobacter pylori genomes reveal Paleolithic human migration to the east end of Asia Rumiko Suzuki, Naruya Saitou, Osamu Matsuari, Seiji Shiota, Takashi Matsumoto, Junko Akada, Nagisa Kinjo, Fukunori Kinjo, Kuniko Teruya, Makiko Shimoji, Akino Shiroma, Mototsugu Kato, Kazuhito Satou, Takashi Hirano, Masahiro Asaka, Kirill Kryukov, Yoshan Moodley, Yoshio Yamaoka Gastroenterology; Bacteriology; Medical Microbiology; Microbial genetics; Phylogeny; Evolutionary history Genomic status of yellow-breasted bunting following recent rapid population decline Pengcheng Wang, Rong Hou, Yang Wu, Zhengwang Zhang, Pinjia Que, Peng Chen Wildlife genetics; Biological sciences; Omics; Genomics Lactiplantibacillus plantarum P9 improved gut microbial metabolites and alleviated inflammatory response in pesticide exposure cohorts Wenjun Liu, Changkun Li, Bohai Li, Qingxiang Shang, Zhe Han, Yuan Zhang, Xiufang Liu, Hui Fan, Jiachao Zhang, Yongfu Chen, Heping Zhang Biological sciences; Microbiology; Omics Terahertz wave emission from the trigonal layered PtBi2 Yu Gao, Yunhe Pei, Tian Xiang, Liang Cheng, Jingbo Qi Transport property of condensed matter; Radiation physics; Nanomaterials Molecular and functional basis of high-salt avoidance in a blood-sucking insect Gina Pontes, José Manuel Latorre-Estivalis, María Laura Gutiérrez, Agustina Cano, Martin Berón de Astrada, Marcelo G. Lorenzo, Romina B. Barrozo Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience Modeling mutational effects on biochemical phenotypes using convolutional neural networks: application to SARS-CoV-2 Bo Wang, Eric R. Gamazon Computational intelligence; Computational molecular modelling; Health sciences Single-cell atlas unveils cellular heterogeneity and novel markers in human neonatal and adult intervertebral discs Wensen Jiang, Juliane D. Glaeser, Khosrowdad Salehi, Giselle Kaneda, Pranav Mathkar, Anton Wagner, Ritchie Ho, Dmitriy Sheyn Complex system biology; Developmental biology; Transcriptomics AlphaFold2 and CryoEM: Revisiting CryoEM modeling in near-atomic resolution density maps Corey F. Hryc, Matthew L. Baker Computational molecular modelling; Biochemistry; Structural biology GCN5 participates in KLF4-VEGFA feedback to promote endometrial angiogenesis Can Cao, Yuling Zhou, Yu Zhang, Yucong Ma, Shujin Du, Lijie Fan, Ruobing Niu, Yingmei Zhang, Ming He Biological sciences; Molecular biology; Cell biology; The type V myosin-containing complex HUM is a RAB11 effector powering movement of secretory vesicles Mario Pinar, Ana Alonso, Vivian de los Ríos, Ignacio Bravo-Plaza, Álvaro de la Gandara, Antonio Galindo, Ernesto Arias-Palomo, Miguel Á. Peñalva Biological sciences; Biochemistry; Molecular biology High-throughput single-cell antibody secretion quantification and enrichment using droplet microfluidics-based FRET assay Justina Rutkauskaite, Simon Berger, Stavros Stavrakis, Oliver Dressler, John Heyman, Xavier Casadevall i Solvas, Andrew deMello, Linas Mazutis Immunology; Biological sciences; Immunological methods; Biotechnology Temporal responses of bumblebee gustatory neurons to sugars Rachel H. Parkinson, Sébastien C. Kessler, Jennifer Scott, Alexander Simpson, Jennifer Bu, Mushtaq Al-Esawy, Adam Mahdi, Ashwin Miriyala, Geraldine A. Wright Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience Homologation of aryl ketones to long-chain ketones and aldehydes via C–C bond cleavage Xing Wang, Ling-Jun Li, Zhen-Yu Wang, Hui Xu, Hui-Xiong Dai Chemistry; Organic chemistry; Organic synthesis The chromosome-level genome for Toxicodendron vernicifluum provides crucial insights into Anacardiaceae evolution and urushiol biosynthesis Guoqing Bai, Chen Chen, Chenxi Zhao, Tao Zhou, Dan Li, Tianhua Zhou, Weimin Li, Yuan Lu, Xiaofeng Cong, Yun Jia, Sifeng Li Genetics; Evolutionary biology; Plant biology; Omics APOBEC mutagenesis is low in most types of non-B DNA structures Gennady V. Ponomarev, Bulat Fatykhov, Vladimir A. Nazarov, Ruslan Abasov, Evgeny Shvarov, Nina-Vicky Landik, Alexandra A. Denisova, Almira A. Chervova, Mikhail S. Gelfand, Marat D. Kazanov Cancer; Cancer mutagenesis. Histone H2A ubiquitination resulting from Brap loss of function connects multiple aging hallmarks and accelerates neurodegeneration Yan Guo, Alison.A. Chomiak, Ye Hong, Clara C. Lowe, Caroline A. Kopsidas, Wen-Ching Chan, Jorge Andrade, Hongna Pan, Xiaoming Zhou, Edwin S. Monuki, Yuanyi Feng Biological sciences; Neuroscience; Cellular neuroscience; Cell biology; Functional aspects of cell biology Genome-scale metabolic modelling of the human gut microbiome reveals changes in the glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism in metabolic disorders Ceri Proffitt, Gholamreza Bidkhori, Sunjae Lee, Abdellah Tebani, Adil Mardinoglu, Mathias Uhlen, David L. Moyes, Saeed Shoaie Microbiome; Systems biology; Metabolomics; Omics; Metabolomics Interspecies complementation identifies a pathway to assemble SNAREs Leonardo A. Parra-Rivas, Mark T. Palfreyman, Thien N. Vu, Erik M. Jorgensen Biological sciences; Molecular biology; Neuroscience; Molecular neuroscience; Cell biology; Functional aspects of cell biology Structural basis of the IL-1 receptor TIR domain-mediated IL-1 signaling Jianjie Zhou, Yu Xiao, Yifei Ren, Jiwan Ge, Xinquan Wang Immunology; Cell biology; Structural biology Comparisons of chemosensory gene repertoires in human and non-human feeding Anopheles mosquitoes link olfactory genes to anthropophily Luke Ambrose, Iva Popovic, James Hereward, Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos, Nigel W. Beebe Zoology; Entomology; Evolutionary biology; Phylogenetics Tetraspanin CD82 restrains phagocyte migration but supports macrophage activation Erin N.S. McGowan, Osanna Wong, Eleanor Jones, Julie Nguyen, Janet Wee, Maria C. Demaria, Devy Deliyanti, Chad J. Johnson, Michael J. Hickey, Malcolm J. McConville, Jennifer L. Wilkinson-Berka, Mark D. Wright, Katrina J. Binger Biological sciences; Immunology; Immune system Lattice-patterned collagen fibers and their dynamics in axolotl skin regeneration Rena Kashimoto, Saya Furukawa, Sakiya Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Kamei, Joe Sakamoto, Shigenori Nonaka, Tomonobu M. Watanabe, Tatsuya Sakamoto, Hirotaka Sakamoto, Akira Satoh Physiology; Animal physiology; Bioengineering A function for ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) kinase in cytokinetic abscission Janna Luessing, Chituru C. Okowa, Emer Brennan, Muriel Voisin, Noel F. Lowndes Luessing et al report a role for Ataxia Telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) kinase in abscission independent of its RPA-ssDNA-dependent functions. They demonstrate that ATR negatively regulates abscission via the CDC7 kinase and CHMP4C.