Short Reports

A Short Report allows authors to publish the results of a small number of experiments, provided the conclusion is clear and justified, and the findings are novel and judged to be of high importance.

Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Drift of neural ensembles driven by slow fluctuations of intrinsic excitability

    Geoffroy Delamare, Yosif Zaki ... Claudia Clopath
    Internal neural variability can induce drift of memory ensembles through synaptic plasticity, allowing for encoding of temporal information.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Synapsin E-domain is essential for α-synuclein function

    Alexandra Stavsky, Leonardo A Parra-Rivas ... Daniel Gitler
    Alpha-synuclein binding to the synapsin E-domain is essential and sufficient for their cooperation in attenuating synaptic-vesicle trafficking and neurotransmission.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Early recovery of proteasome activity in cells pulse-treated with proteasome inhibitors is independent of DDI2

    Ibtisam Ibtisam, Alexei F Kisselev
    Genetic and biochemical approaches reveal that mammalian cells possess a novel DDI2 and transcription-independent pathway for the rapid recovery of proteasome activity after clinically relevant pulse treatment with proteasome inhibitors.
    1. Neuroscience

    Stimulation of VTA dopamine inputs to LH upregulates orexin neuronal activity in a DRD2-dependent manner

    Masaya Harada, Laia Serratosa Capdevila ... Tommaso Patriarchi
    Optogenetic manipulation and photometry recordings in the lateral hypothalamus show how interactions between dopamine and orexin systems underlie reward expectation revealing dopaminergic modulation of orexinergic activity via D2 receptors.
    1. Neuroscience

    The pelvic organs receive no parasympathetic innervation

    Margaux Sivori, Bowen Dempsey ... Jean-François Brunet
    Of the two divisions proposed long ago to describe the autonomic nervous system, thoraco-lumbar sympathetic and cranio-sacral parasympathetic, the latter finds no support from transcriptionally defined neuron types.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Sensitive remote homology search by local alignment of small positional embeddings from protein language models

    Sean R Johnson, Meghana Peshwa, Zhiyi Sun
    Protein language deep learning models can quickly and accurately translate amino acid sequences into profile hidden Markov models or a structure alphabet, dramatically improving remote homology search sensitivity without compromising space or time efficiency.
    1. Neuroscience

    Combinatorial expression of γ-protocadherins regulates synaptic connectivity in the mouse neocortex

    Yi-jun Zhu, Cai-yun Deng ... Hua-tai Xu
    For neurons to prevent undesirable synaptic connections in the brain, the combinatorial expression of γ-PCDH is essential.
    1. Neuroscience

    Hyperactivity of mTORC1- and mTORC2-dependent signaling mediates epilepsy downstream of somatic PTEN loss

    Erin R Cullen, Mona Safari ... Matthew C Weston
    Epilepsy caused by focal Pten deletion is only prevented when both mTOR complexes are simultaneously inhibited, but not alone, suggesting they play independent roles in the development of epilepsy.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The intricate relationship of G-Quadruplexes and bacterial pathogenicity islands

    Bo Lyu, Qisheng Song
    Unveiling the intricate web of interactions between G4 structures and pathogenicity islands in 89 bacterial genomes significantly advances our understanding of bacterial virulence mechanisms.