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  • Analysis of the effects of more than 26,000 KRAS mutations on abundance and interactions with six other proteins is used to construct an energy landscape of KRAS and identify allosteric drug target sites.

    • Chenchun Weng
    • Andre J. Faure
    • Ben Lehner
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Country-level changes in economic production and the value of non-market ecosystem benefits show unequal impacts on the global values of natural capital resulting from climate-change-induced shifts in terrestrial vegetation cover.

    • B. A. Bastien-Olvera
    • M. N. Conte
    • F. C. Moore
    ArticleOpen Access
  • We analysed 149,842 environmental genomes from multiple habitats and compiled a curated catalogue of 404,085 functionally and evolutionarily significant novel gene families exclusive to uncultivated prokaryotic taxa spanning multiple species.

    • Álvaro Rodríguez del Río
    • Joaquín Giner-Lamia
    • Jaime Huerta-Cepas
    ArticleOpen Access
  • X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, structural modelling, biochemistry, cell biology, and evolutionary analysis enable characterization of ORF2p, the reverse transcriptase of the ancient ‘parasitic’ LINE-1 retrotransposon that has written around one-third of the human genome.

    • Eric T. Baldwin
    • Trevor van Eeuwen
    • Martin S. Taylor
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Human LINE-1 ORF2p relies on upstream single-stranded target DNA to position the adjacent duplex in the endonuclease active site for nicking of the longer DNA strand, with a single nick generating a staggered DNA break.

    • Akanksha Thawani
    • Alfredo Jose Florez Ariza
    • Kathleen Collins
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Initial dopamine self-stimulations reinforced not only the stimulation-producing target action, but also actions similar to the target action and actions that occurred a few seconds before stimulation, and repeated pairings led to a gradual refinement of the behavioural repertoire to home in on the target actions.

    • Jonathan C. Y. Tang
    • Vitor Paixao
    • Rui M. Costa
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Population-scale whole-genome sequencing across four remote Indigenous Australian communities reveals a large fraction of structural variants that are unique to these populations, emphasizing the genetic distinctiveness of and diversity among Indigenous Australians.

    • Andre L. M. Reis
    • Melissa Rapadas
    • Ira W. Deveson
    ArticleOpen Access
  • A single-cell multiomics analysis of over 200,000 cells of the primary motor cortex of human, macaque, marmoset and mouse shows that divergence of transcription factor expression corresponds to species-specific epigenome landscapes, and conserved and divergent gene regulatory features are reflected in the evolution of the three-dimensional genome.

    • Nathan R. Zemke
    • Ethan J. Armand
    • Bing Ren
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Two Prevotella copri metagenome-assembled genomes that are positively associated with ponderal growth are the principal contributors to MDCF-2-induced expression of metabolic pathways involved in utilizing the component glycans of MDCF-2—a microbiome-directed complementary food.

    • Matthew C. Hibberd
    • Daniel M. Webber
    • Jeffrey I. Gordon
    ArticleOpen Access
  • A study describes the molecular basis of sexual development of Toxoplasma gondii entirely in vitro, demonstrating the role and interaction of AP2XII-1 and AP2XI-2 in the developmental program of this protozoan parasite.

    • Ana Vera Antunes
    • Martina Shahinas
    • Mohamed-Ali Hakimi
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Methylome-based clustering and cross-modality integration with companion datasets from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network enabled the construction of a 3D multi-omic genome atlas of the adult mouse brain featuring thousands of cell-type-specific profiles.

    • Hanqing Liu
    • Qiurui Zeng
    • Joseph R. Ecker
    ArticleOpen Access
  • We establish a spin nematic phase in the square-lattice iridate Sr2IrO4 and find a complete breakdown of coherent magnon excitations at short-wavelength scales, suggesting a many-body quantum entanglement in the antiferromagnetic state.

    • Hoon Kim
    • Jin-Kwang Kim
    • B. J. Kim
    Article
  •  A transcriptomic cell-type atlas of the whole adult mouse brain with ~5,300 clusters built from single-cell and spatial transcriptomic datasets with more than eight million cells reveals remarkable cell type diversity across the brain and unique cell type characteristics of different brain regions. 

    • Zizhen Yao
    • Cindy T. J. van Velthoven
    • Hongkui Zeng
    ArticleOpen Access
  • Analysis of the genomes of 159 individuals from four Indigenous communities in Australia shows a high level of genetic variation and demonstrates the need for greater representation of Indigenous Australians in reference panels and clinical databases.

    • Matthew Silcocks
    • Ashley Farlow
    • Stephen Leslie
    ArticleOpen Access