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Journal of Cell Science (JCS) publishes cutting-edge science encompassing all aspects of cell biology. JCS is a community journal published by The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social), a not-for-profit organisation. #cellbiology #cellbio
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We're still accepting submissions for our 'Cell Biology of the Nucleus' special issue, which is being guest edited by
@abbybuch.bsky.social and Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social).
Submission deadline: 5 January
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#nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish
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New JCS snapshot - Characterisation of a primary ciliary dyskinesia model generated from BMI1-transduced basal epithelial cells
Melis Dalbay presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with Stephen Hart and colleagues.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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We’re excited for the UK Cilia and Centrosome Network e-symposium this afternoon featuring the #JCSciliaSI!

To discover more about the research in this issue, check out these JCS snapshots, video highlights from authors about their research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/24/j...
JCS snapshots: the cilia and flagella edition - FocalPlane
JCS snapshots: the cilia and flagella edition - News
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November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Did you know that @jcellsci.bsky.social has a new editor for neuronal cell biology? It's that guy @roylab-ucsd.bsky.social, I've heard good things about him
Interview with Journal of Cell Science Editor Subhojit Roy
ABSTRACT. Subhojit Roy is Professor of Pathology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in the USA. Subhojit completed his MD in Kolkata, India and then moved to Temple University in Philade...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Catherine Chu, Nick Lang, Michael Seifu Bahiru, Andrew Stephens @andrewdstephens.bsky.social and colleagues find that Lamin B loss in nuclear blebs is rupture dependent whereas increased DNA damage is rupture independent.
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Figure showing that nuclear bleb versus body levels reveals consistent loss of DNA while nuclear rupture markers lamin B and emerin levels vary across cell types.
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#Cilia and #Centrosome friends- tomorrow is the big day!! 🎉 🎉

Organoids for #PCD, #CryoET of the base of motile cilia, TZ organization in #IRDs, macrophages & cystic niches in #PKD, how pro-inflammatory lipids & #adipogenesis AND cilia as signal-sending organelles shedding #EVs! 🤩 😍 Join us!!
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🎆 Join us for an unmissable finale to 2025! 🎆 We're thrilled to bring our #cilia & #centrosome community together 25/11/2025 15:00-17:45 GMT! Our 53rd @bscb-official.bsky.social @gensocuk.bsky.social @ukcilianetwork.bsky.social e-symposium schedule is live: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bscb-genso... /1
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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New JCS snapshot - ARL13B-Cerulean rescues Arl13b-null mouse from embryonic lethality and reveals a role for ARL13B in spermatogenesis

Alyssa Long presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with Tamara Caspary and colleagues.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Merlin Gnanapragasam @merlinnithyag.bsky.social, James Bieker and colleagues discover that KLF1 coordinates specialised transcriptional networks required to maintain the integrity of terminal erythropoiesis.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Wonderful to see our paper on regulation of the #Organelle #ContactSite #NVJ out in its final form in @jcellsci.bsky.social! Congratulations to first author Marie Hugenroth and the whole team! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Mole's Comedia III. Purgatorio. Canto I–XXIV.

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Drawing of an anthropomorphised Mole in a robe next to a figure with robes and a crown. ‘Beings’ in a ditch are holding out sheets of paper to Mole. The location looks creepy. The text below the image says, ‘We land, and I see hundreds of like souls. Holding manuscripts in clenched hands… “It is nearly ready” he say…’
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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In this Hypothesis, Panagiotis Giannios discusses how endocrine control might modulate mRNA fate through ribonucleoprotein granules that can send reciprocal feedback to hormonal circuits, adding flexibility to gene regulation.

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This simplified schematic illustrates how RNPGs could integrate hormonal cues to regulate mRNA fate. (A) Hormonal inputs activate intracellular pathways that modify RBPs through non-genomic mechanisms or alter RBP levels via transcriptional regulation. These changes modulate granule assembly, leading to context-specific outcomes. (B) Granules act as hubs where mRNAs are selectively sequestered, released for translation or targeted for decay, and can process multiple converging signals using logic-like behaviour. (C) Feedback from granule activity, including via the regulation of hormone receptor transcripts, further influences hormonal responsiveness. Collectively, this model positions RNPGs as signal-processing platforms that decode combinatorial hormonal inputs into precise post-transcriptional outcomes. Figure created in BioRender by Giannios, P., 2025. https://BioRender.com/u2uavov. This figure was sublicensed under CC-BY 4.0 terms.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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More and new about the connection between lipids and genome integrity pathways… for many more to come! 🥂
jcellsci.bsky.social Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 6d
Tomoya Hotani, Yuki Ohsaki, Wataru Sakai & team discover that FANCD2 responds to both DNA damage & oleic acid exposure, providing insights into the pathogenesis of lipid dysregulation in Fanconi anemia.
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Figure showing OA-induced nLD localization of FANCI.
November 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Issue 21 is complete

Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...

On the cover: a lattice-like network of actomyosin filaments in a cell under fluid shear stress with NM-MyoIIA in yellow & actin in blue. See article by Mallick et al.
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JCS cover with a super-resolution image of an MDA-MB-231 cell under fluid shear stress, showing a lattice-like network of orthogonally aligned stacks of non-muscle myosin IIA minifilaments (yellow) with parallel actin bundles (blue), counterstained with DAPI to label the nucleus (magenta).
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Yubo Zou, Deborah Leckband and colleagues find that EGFR is an essential component in E-cadherin force transduction complexes.
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Figure showing that uncoupling E-cadherin–EGFR complexes disrupts tension-dependent proliferation in dense epithelial cultures.
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Looking to publish your paper #OpenAccess? Check if your institution is signed up to our Read & Publish initiative and you can publish #OA for free: www.biologists.com/library-hub/...
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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JCS snapshot - Phosphorylation of VAMP3 couples IL-6 exocytosis to dendritic cell activation
Harry Warner presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with Tongxiang Chen, Anthi Psoma, Geert van den Bogaart & team @rug.nl @novo-nordisk.bsky.social.
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JCS snapshot - Phosphorylation of VAMP3 couples IL-6 exocytosis to dendritic cell activation
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November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Tomoya Hotani, Yuki Ohsaki, Wataru Sakai & team discover that FANCD2 responds to both DNA damage & oleic acid exposure, providing insights into the pathogenesis of lipid dysregulation in Fanconi anemia.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Figure showing OA-induced nLD localization of FANCI.
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Dushyant Gautam, Indira Paddibhatla and colleagues find that methotrexate alleviates chronic inflammation in a Drosophila model.
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Figure showing the effect of methotrexate on Toll pathway induced by Lb-17 parasitoid wasp infestation.
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New JCS snapshot - Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease

Rudolfo Karl presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with Elvira Mass, Dagmar Wachten @wachtenlab.bsky.social & team.
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JCS snapshot - Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in polycystic kidney disease
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November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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In their Perspective article, Muyang Ren, Siham Jaleel, Stephen King & Girish Mali @dyneinassembly.bsky.social highlight the structural diversity of the axonemal dynein assembly factors & their emerging roles in the biology of motile cilia.
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Schematic of the dynein assembly pathway and putative roles of DNAAFs that work within it. Axonemal dynein arm motor subunits (heavy chains, intermediate chains and light chains) are assembled in a multi-step dynein assembly pathway involving steps of folding, assembly and transport. DNAAFs are thought to operate at distinct steps. HSP70 proteins likely engage nascent dynein heavy chain, intermediate chain and light chain subunits as they emerge from the ribosome exit tunnel. Specific DNAAFs then likely hand over semi-folded subunits to the HSP90 chaperone and its co-chaperone R2TP complex for further folding and assembly. Many DNAAFs are proposed to function at this step with RUVBL1/2. Pre-assembled ODA motors are finally packaged into an inhibited closed conformation by DNAAF9 (Shulin) for stable attachment to IFT trains for ciliary import. IDAs might undergo similar packaging for IFT transport via currently unknown factors. Genetic variants that block any step of assembly can cause severe motile ciliopathies such as PCD. PTM, post-translational modification.
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Timothy Ogden, Bendert de Graaf and Tonia Hymers discuss how effective collaboration between researchers & patient-led rare disease organizations is necessary, possible & powerful, building on the authors' experiences leading patient groups for Bardet–Biedl syndrome.
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Engaging patient-led rare disease organizations to advance research – through the lens of Bardet–Biedl syndrome
Summary: This Perspective discusses how effective collaboration between researchers and patient-led rare disease organizations is necessary, possible and powerful, building on the authors' experiences...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Rudolfo Karl, Elvira Mass, Dagmar Wachten @wachtenlab.bsky.social and colleagues discover that renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease.
#JCSciliaSI
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Figure showing that tissue-resident macrophages promote cytogenesis in an in vitro 3D model system.
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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We're still accepting submissions for our 'Cell Biology of the Nucleus' special issue, which is being guest edited by
@abbybuch.bsky.social and Megan King (@luskinglab.bsky.social).
Submission deadline: 5 January
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/nu...
#nucleus #notforprofit #freetopublish
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Tiago Dantas @dantas-lab.bsky.social @icvs-uminho.bsky.social, Carla Abreu @carlamcabreu.bsky.social and colleagues @i3suporto.bsky.social find that dynein-2 requires HSP90 chaperone activity to ensure robust retrograde IFT and ciliogenesis.
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Figure showing that HSP90 inhibition results in IFT particle accumulation in the ciliary shaft due to reduced frequency of retrograde IFT.
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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To help you plan your conference travel for 2026, we’ve been busy updating our #CellBiology events calendar on FocalPlane.

If we are missing your event, feel free to add it to the calendar or reach out to our Community Manager @helenzsci.bsky.social.
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Screenshot of the FocalPlane Cell Biology events calendar
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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In their Perspective article, Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu, and John Sayer explore how ciliary specialisation might explain the high variability of ciliopathies and propose priority research directions.
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Cartoon showing organ and cell-type-specific functions and pathways of primary cilia. Here, we show examples of renal, retinal and CNS ciliated cells, indicating some of the known resident ciliary proteins required for their specific sensory function.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM