L'équipe Wassmann a publié un nouveau preprint : Elimination of separase inhibition reveals absence of cohesin protection in oocyte metaphase II   Résumé : The meiotic segregation pattern to generate haploid gametes is mediated by step-wise cohesion removal by separase, first from chromosome arms in meiosis I, and then from the centromere region in meiosis II. In mammalian…

L'équipe Romet-Lemonne/Jégou a publié une nouvelle revue dans Annual review of Biophysics : Mechanics of Single Cytoskeletal Filaments   Résumé : The cytoskeleton comprises networks of different biopolymers, which serve various cellular functions. To accomplish these tasks, their mechanical properties are of particular importance. Understanding them requires detailed knowledge of the mechanical properties of the individual filaments that…

L'équipe Borghi a publié une revue dans Front. Cell Dev: Trafficking in cancer: from gene deregulation to altered organelles and emerging biophysical properties   Résumé : Intracellular trafficking supports all cell functions maintaining the exchange of material between membrane-bound organelles and the plasma membrane during endocytosis, cargo sorting, and exocytosis/secretion. Several proteins of the intracellular trafficking machinery are…

L'équipe Borghi a publié un article dans Biophysical Journal : Tension makes the cell throw up   Lachuer H. Tension makes the cell throw up. Biophys J. 2025 Jan 3:S0006-3495(24)04128-6. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.12.033. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39889700.

L'équipe Jackson/Verbavatz a publié un nouvel article dans Nature Microbiology : The Asgard archaeal origins of Arf family GTPases involved in eukaryotic organelle dynamics   Résumé : The evolution of eukaryotes is a fundamental event in the history of life. The closest prokaryotic lineage to eukaryotes, the Asgardarchaeota, encode proteins previously found only in eukaryotes, providing insight into…

L'équipe Prioleau a publié un nouvel article dans Nucleic Acid Research : Dual DNA replication modes: varying fork speeds and initiation rates within the spatial replication program in Xenopus   Résumé : Les génomes des vertébrés se dupliquent en activant des dizaines de milliers d'origines de réplication de l'ADN, réparties de manière irrégulière le long du génome. Cependant, en…