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Simon Sch.

@simonrecyclable.bsky.social
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🔬PhD research in cell biology on the regulation of mitochondrial DNA copy number in yeast🔍Scientist in R&D💡aims for a peaceful world that is everyones's sanctuary for humanity and nature 🌈🌍 views are my own

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...
Apparent manipulation in the antibody verification data in Thermo Fisher's online catalog
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Mokranjac Lab @mokranjaclab.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Interested to know how #mtHsp70 looks inside #mitochondria and what that means for #mitochondrial #proteostasis and #stress #signalling? Take a look at our latest publication in @pnas.org 🥳🥳 @osman-lab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Simon Sch. @simonrecyclable.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Happy to share that the last first-author paper from my doctoral research was featured on the cover of @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/issue/54/2 It was exciting to paint the cover artwork, reflecting how our research combined wet-lab experiments with inputs from structural predictions.
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Osman Lab @osman-lab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Our new paper is out 🎉 in @narjournal.bsky.social A fascinating complex composed of Mrx6, Mam33, and Pim1 controls #mtDNA copy number by regulating Lon-dependent substrate turnover in #yeast. Congrats to @simonrecyclable.bsky.social, all co-authors and collaborators! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Mrx6 binds the Lon protease Pim1 N-terminal domain to confer selective substrate specificity and regulate mtDNA copy number
Abstract. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number regulation remains incompletely understood, despite its importance in cellular function. In Saccharomyces c
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Martin Ott lab @mitolab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our study on the molecular function of translational activators for mitochondrial protein synthesis is published: rdcu.be/eSWxT A great collaboration with @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social and @sshaolab.bsky.social with structural work from our @pelleeas.bsky.social Funded by @kawresearch.bsky.social
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Translational activators align mRNAs at the small mitoribosomal subunit for translation initiation
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology - Mitochondrial translational activators (TAs) facilitate transcript-specific translation. Using selective ribosome profiling and cryo-electron microscopy,...
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I found these immune cells just finished mitosis but their midbody is still yet to be resolved. How cool? If you zoom in to the midbody, you can see its classical shape just like in the textbooks. I love these little details.
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Trends in Biochemical Sciences @cp-trendsbiochem.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Online now - the Review "Interconnectivity of mitochondrial protein biogenesis and quality control" from @mitolab.bsky.social et al. #ProteinImport #Proteaes #Proteolysis #Proteostasis Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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FEBS Letters @febsletters.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🏅We congratulate 🌟Nils Bertram🌟 @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, on winning a FEBS Letters #PosterPrize at the #EMBOFEBSproteostasis meeting, held in Espoo, Finland! 🎉👏👏👏 📸 Photo: Nils with our Managing Editor, Dr. Duncan Wright
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Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I'm thrilled to share that our story is now out in Science Advances! 🎉 We use quantitative imaging to map the mito central dogma, define translation hubs in the mitochondrial matrix, and show that they're replaced by Mitochondrial Stress Bodies (MSB) when mtRNA processing is perturbed 1/4
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Sam Lewis, Ph.D. @samlewis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Spatial analysis of mitochondrial gene expression reveals dynamic translation hubs and remodeling in stress | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Spatial analysis of mitochondrial gene expression reveals dynamic translation hubs and remodeling in stress
Quantitative imaging of the mitochondrial central dogma identifies translation hubs that are suppressed during stress.
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Osman Lab @osman-lab.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
🚀 Excited to share our latest work on Mrx6 and mtDNA copy number regulation, now available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ! We uncover how Mrx6 and Mam33 interact with the Lon protease Pim1 to control substrate degradation. 🔬 Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #mitochondria #mtDNA
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Mrx6 binds the Lon protease Pim1 N-terminal domain to confer selective substrate specificity and regulate mtDNA copy number
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number regulation remains incompletely understood, despite its importance in cellular function. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Mrx6 belongs to the Pet20-domain-containing ...
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Simon Sch. @simonrecyclable.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Excited to share our new preprint on Mrx6, who binds the Lon protease Pim1 N-terminal domain through a bipartite motif to confer selective substrate specificity and regulate mtDNA copy number! Looking forward to all your feedback and follow-ups! A huge thank you to everyone who contributed!
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Mrx6 binds the Lon protease Pim1 N-terminal domain to confer selective substrate specificity and regulate mtDNA copy number
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number regulation remains incompletely understood, despite its importance in cellular function. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Mrx6 belongs to the Pet20-domain-containing ...
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Mrx6 binds the Lon protease Pim1 N-terminal domain to confer selective substrate specificity and regulate mtDNA copy number www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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EMBO Reports @emboreports.org · 01/02/2025
Akshaya Seshadri and Anjana Badrinarayanan @anjbadri.bsky.social @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @tifrscience.bsky.social show that exonuclease action of replicative #polymerase gamma drives damage-induced #mitochondria #DNA clearance. New mechanism of mtDNA clearance. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Mitochondria (top) and microtubules (bottom) in a cell videoed through a microscope. #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Something you don't see every day! Digitizing the human proteome in >53,000 individuals with 15-year follow-up and, with machine learning, unraveling nearly 500 disease-causing proteins www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... open-access
The cover image portrays a human composed of proteins who is examining their health status (represented by the ECG monitoring interface) with the assistance of artificial intelligence (represented by the chip and binary codes).
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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
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Jonathan Friedman @labfriedman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Looking for some holiday reading material? Our latest paper identifying a new player in mitochondrial fission is now out @jcellbiol.bsky.social! A wonderful early present to see this now online! rupress.org/jcb/article/...
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Functionally conserved inner mitochondrial membrane proteins CCDC51 and Mdm33 demarcate a subset of fission events | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press
Edington et al. determine that Mdm33 and CCDC51 are functionally conserved mitochondrial inner membrane proteins that are required for normal mitochondrial
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
One big advantage of laser induction is you can cause pearling whenever you want, in just the mitochondrial tube that you want, so it is very precise and controllable. Combined with STED imaging it has been possible to get some beautiful images of cristae and nucleoids during pearling
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The transient nature of pearling makes it hard to detect - in normal cells you might need to sit and watch one spot for a long time and then, if you blink, you'll miss it
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
He found that pearling was ubiquitous, occurring in every cell type that he has looked at, including: U2OS, Hek293, COS7, RPE1, Jurkat, primary human fibroblasts primary CD8 T-cells, iPSC derived neurons, and budding yeast (shown here).
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Mitochondria consist of networks of cylindrical tubes, right? Not necessarily! - in our new preprint, @gavsturm.bsky.social investigates how mitochondria transiently adopt a beads-on-a-string morphology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Juan C. Landoni @jclandoni.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Stoked to share TWO preprints on mitochondrial pearling! 🎉 We uncover how spontaneous #mitochondria pearling drives #mtDNA nucleoid distribution (doi.org/10.1101/2024...), and @gavsturm.bsky.social et al. dissect the biophysics behind it (doi.org/10.1101/2024...). Details below! 🔬🧵🧪
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Pearling Drives Mitochondrial DNA Nucleoid Distribution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Saccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! Latest SGD newsletter! www.yeastgenome.org/blog/sgd-new... - AlphaFold - YeastMine - Community wiki - SGD’s new GENETICS publication - New yeast microPublications - Alliance of Genome Resources 7.4 - Give a Gift/Support SGD - Upcoming conferences - Happy Holidays!
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Delighted to share our new preprint on the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a giant ciliate that maintains Chlorella endosymbionts in surface-associated microtubule baskets. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dylan Burnette @mag2art.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Membrane blebs forming from the plasma membrane of a cell videoed through a microscope. If the bleb gets big enough, mitochondria, enter and explore. The cell is at the bottom where many mitochondria (bright signal) surround the nucleus (lack of signal). #Science #Biology #CellBiology #microscopy
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
How to improve memory and cognitive function in aged mice Fix the mitochondrial EC (excitation-coupling) @science.org representing a new potential path for replenishing neuronal energy reserves to counter brain aging www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Think mitochondria are networks of cylindrical tubes? not always! Check out poster by @gavsturm.bsky.social "Mitochondrial Pearling: an emerging class of organelle dynamics explained by a biophysical pearling instability" tomorrow Sunday Dec 15 11:45-12:45 B145
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Peter Chien @chienlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Justyne Odgahl successfully defended! Her paper was also just accepted at JBC, check it out to learn about allostery and DNA binding in the Lon protease! #microsky www.jbc.org/article/S002...
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Christian Frezza @frezzalab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Misregulation of mitochondrial 6mA promotes the propagation of mutant mtDNA and causes aging in C. elegans 🧪 www.cell.com/cell-metabol...
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Misregulation of mitochondrial 6mA promotes the propagation of mutant mtDNA and causes aging in C. elegans
Hahn et al. report the presence of 6mA, a DNA modification, on the mitochondrial (mt)DNA of various animal and plant species. Modulating the activity of 6mA enzymatic modifiers implicates 6mA in regulating mtDNA replication and expression and the transmission of mtDNA mutations across generations, ultimately affecting mitochondrial health and organismal lifespan.
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Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
High-resolution template matching of the human ribosome in situ by Lippincott-Schwartz Lab @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @hhmi.bsky.social. >40 conformations within together reveal molecular dynamics of the elongation cycle with previously unknown bending and “spring-like” motion.
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Alexey Amunts @amunts.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Structural dynamics of human ribosomes in situ reconstructed by exhaustive high-resolution template matching
Rickgauer et al. dissect molecular motion of human ribosomes in situ using high-resolution template matching. Detecting individual ribosome subunits provides maps of native conformations, revealing ne...
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Ali Maximilian Erturk @erturklab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Our new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years after infection, especially in the skull-meninges-brain axis, potentially driving long COVID. mRNA vaccines help but cannot stop it🔬🧠🦠🧵Your weekend read👇 @cellpress.bsky.social cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Hansi Weissensteiner @whansi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
DNA sequence and lesion-dependent mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM)-DNA-binding modulates DNA repair activities and products academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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DNA sequence and lesion-dependent mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM)-DNA-binding modulates DNA repair activities and products
Abstract. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is indispensable for mitochondrial function and is maintained by DNA repair, turnover, mitochondrial dynamics and mitop
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RiemerLab @ UoCologne @riemerlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We just published a study on the first endogenous cysteine-free interactor of the mitochondrial disulfide relay - HAX1. HAX1 relies on MIA40 for folding and stability and does not require the redox fxn of MIA40. Nice collaboration w/ #ulrichlab. doi.org/10.1111/febs...
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RiemerLab @ UoCologne @riemerlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Again, glutathione comes to the rescue. In yeast, Tsa1 oxidizes glutathione at moderate H2O2 concentrations when the TRX system becomes inactivated by oxidation. A study together with the Morganlab and the Depontelab. doi.org/10.1016/j.fr...
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Hansi Weissensteiner @whansi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Mitochondria-localized MBD2c facilitates mtDNA transcription and drug resistance www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mitochondria-localized MBD2c facilitates mtDNA transcription and drug resistance - Nature Chemical Biology
The MBD2c splicing variant of MBD2 that is essential for nuclear transcription translocates to the mitochondria to regulate mitochondrial DNA transcription and respiration and is linked to drug resist...
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Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A community consensus paper about a contentious subject like the Last Eukaryotic Common Ancestor does feel very bluesky in late 2024 doesn't it? It was pretty fun to write. Hopefully you'll have fun reading it:) Kudos to @Tom Richards for his writing and cat herding abilities! plos.io/4g0alq4
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Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes
Understanding the origin of eukaryotic cells is one of the most difficult problems in all of biology. This Consensus View lays out guidelines to identify the gene repertoire of the Last Eukaryotic Com...
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The dark side of fluorescent protein tagging: the impact of protein tags on biomolecular condensation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Figure 4. Position and type of fluorescent tag affect protein expression and P-body numbers in vivo.
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 22/11/2024
A few more letters... and we can finally write amino acid sequence with protein structure encoded by amino acid sequence? 🧬🤔😀 @chrisfrank662.bsky.social , Dominik Schiwietz, Lara Fuss, Hendrik Dietz www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hansi Weissensteiner @whansi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Tissue-specific responses to TFAM and mtDNA copy number manipulation in prematurely ageing mice | preprint from the Nils Göran Larsson group www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tissue-specific responses to TFAM and mtDNA copy number manipulation in prematurely ageing mice
Somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations are heavily implicated as important drivers of ageing and age-related diseases. Their pathological effect can be partially counteracted by increasing the ab...
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Jalees Rehman @jalees.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Cytoplasmic mtDNA clearance suppresses inflammatory immune responses www.cell.com/trends/cell-...
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Cytoplasmic mtDNA clearance suppresses inflammatory immune responses
Upon various stresses, mtDNA leaks from mitochondria into the cytoplasm, leading to cellular dysfunction and inflammation, thereby exacerbating disease progression. The autophagy–lysosome pathway has ...
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Andrew G. York @andrewgyork.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
MagLOV! MagLOV is a fluorescent protein you can "turn off" with a handheld magnet, engineered by @mariaingaramo.bsky.social. We think/hope we can use it to turn arbitrary proteins (including drugs!) on and off in opaque creatures (including humans!). bsky.app/profile/addg...
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Alexandre Dumoulin @axonsalex.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! Let's celebrate with a colorful image of a developing ventral spinal cord of a 🐣 embryo. #neuroscience #microscopy
Happy #FluorescenceFriday !
Let's celebrate with a colorful snapshot of the developing ventral spinal cord of a 🐣 embryo.
#neuroscience #microscopy
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Zid Lab @zidlab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Interesting paper from the Lackner Lab on the connection between mitochondrial dynamics and mtDNA. doi.org/10.1091/mbc....
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Significantly reduced, but balanced, rates of mitochondrial fission and fusion are sufficient to maintain the integrity of yeast mitochondrial DNA | Molecular Biology of the Cell
Mitochondria exist as dynamic tubular networks and the morphology of these networks impacts organelle function and cell health. Mitochondrial morphology is maintained in part by the opposing activitie...
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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
AI-directed voxel extraction and volume EM identify intrusions as sites of mitochondrial contact www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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AI-directed voxel extraction and volume EM identify intrusions as sites of mitochondrial contact https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.20.624606v1
Membrane contact sites (MCS) establish organelle interactomes in cells to enable communication and e
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Dan Sloan @sloanevolab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Did you know that orchids have a big chunk of fungal mtDNA stuck in their own mitochondrial genomes?? In this new preprint, we found that fungal-derived tRNAs are functional in the orchid mitochondria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/4
The coral root orchid Corallorhiza maculata
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Wallace Marshall @wallaceucsf.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How do organelles fit together inside a crowded cell? Answering this question requires a way to image many organelles in a whole cell at high resolution with high throughput. Our new preprint shows how to do this in yeast using soft x-ray tomography www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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