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  • Chromatin looping allows for enhancer–promoter interactions that regulate transcription. Here the authors show that activation of embryonic myogenesis is associated with establishment of long-range chromatin interactions centred on Pax3-bound loci and find that Ldb1 functions as the mediator of looping interactions at a subset of Pax3 binding sites.

    • Alessandro Magli
    • June Baik
    • Rita C. R. Perlingeiro
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-17

  • This overview of the ENCODE project outlines the data accumulated so far, revealing that 80% of the human genome now has at least one biochemical function assigned to it; the newly identified functional elements should aid the interpretation of results of genome-wide association studies, as many correspond to sites of association with human disease.

    • Ian Dunham
    • Anshul Kundaje
    • Ewan Birney
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 489, P: 57-74

  • If the activity of genetically specified neurons is silenced in a temporally precise fashion, the roles of different cell classes in neural processes can be studied. Members of the class of light-driven outward proton pumps are now shown to mediate powerful, safe, multiple-colour silencing of neural activity. The gene archaerhodopsin-3 (Arch) enables near 100% silencing of neurons in the awake brain when virally expressed in the mouse cortex and illuminated with yellow light.

    • Brian Y. Chow
    • Xue Han
    • Edward S. Boyden
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 463, P: 98-102

  • The Omicron variant evades vaccine-induced neutralization but also fails to form syncytia, shows reduced replication in human lung cells and preferentially uses a TMPRSS2-independent cell entry pathway, which may contribute to enhanced replication in cells of the upper airway. Altered fusion and cell entry characteristics are linked to distinct regions of the Omicron spike protein.

    • Brian J. Willett
    • Joe Grove
    • Emma C. Thomson
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Microbiology
    Volume: 7, P: 1161-1179

  • Solid organ transplant recipients are at increased risk of infectious disease and have unique molecular pathophysiology. Here the authors use host-microbe profiling to assess SARS-CoV-2 infection and immunity in solid organ transplant recipients, showing enhanced viral abundance, impaired clearance, and increased expression of innate immunity genes.

    • Harry Pickering
    • Joanna Schaenman
    • Charles R. Langelier
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-16

  • Silver nanoparticles are susceptible to oxidation and have accordingly received less attention than gold nanoparticles; ultrastable silver nanoparticles are now reported, which can be produced in very large quantities as a single-sized molecular product, and the origins of their enhanced stability are elucidated using a single-crystal X-ray structure and first-principles calculations.

    • Anil Desireddy
    • Brian E. Conn
    • Terry P. Bigioni
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 501, P: 399-402

  • A description is given of the ENCODE consortium’s efforts to examine the principles of human transcriptional regulatory networks; the results are integrated with other genomic information to form a hierarchical meta-network where different levels have distinct properties.

    • Mark B. Gerstein
    • Anshul Kundaje
    • Michael Snyder
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 489, P: 91-100

  • There is limited understanding of SARS-CoV-2 intra-host evolution and subsequent transmission and adaptations in the context of persistent infection. Here, the authors describe sequential persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections that led to the emergence, transmission and further evolution of a novel Omicron BA.1.23 lineage.

    • Ana S. Gonzalez-Reiche
    • Hala Alshammary
    • Harm van Bakel
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 14, P: 1-13

  • In our nose, some neuron subpopulations express a family of trace amine associated receptors (TAARs, smelling e.g., rotten fish). Fei et al. identify two conserved enhancers across placental mammals named TAAR enhancer 1 and 2 that coordinately regulate expression of the entire Taar gene repertoire.

    • Aimei Fei
    • Wanqing Wu
    • Qian Li
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-19