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The bacterial anti-phage toxin–antitoxin–chaperone defence system CmdTAC senses capsid proteins via CmdC, enabling dissociation from the CmdTAC complex of the RNA ADP-ribosyltransferase CmdT, which targets single-stranded RNAs, inhibiting viral replication.
Pairing of very-high-resolution surface modelling with semiautomated feature detection produces a detailed plan of monumental fortifications and architecture spanning 120 ha at Tugunbulak, Uzbekistan, demonstrating one of the largest highland urban constellations in premodern Central Asia.
Around 1.8–2.7 deaths per 1,000 births (4.4–6.6% of the average child mortality) could be prevented in Pakistan and India if bureaucrats control crop burning across all areas of their jurisdiction as they do in places where fires would pollute their own district.
The chances of detecting fast radio bursts from a galaxy may be affected by its inclination angle, showing a potential selection bias in determining the sources of the bursts.
Through their effects on soil hydraulic properties, soil texture and sand content are shown to have broad implications for the terrestrial water cycle and carbon sink, and specific implications for vital ecosystems that are vulnerable to drought, especially with changing climate.
A scheme for watermarking the text generated by large language models shows high text quality preservation and detection accuracy and low latency, and is feasible in large-scale-production settings.
A generalizable framework to prospectively engineer cis-regulatory elements from massively parallel reporter assay models can be used to write fit-for-purpose regulatory code.
Similar to other eukaryotes, brown algae exhibit transcriptome conservation that is consistent with the molecular hourglass model during differentiation in embryonic development.
Nitrogen isotope evidence of Mid-Devonian photosymbiotic associations in certain types of corals suggests that autotrophic and heterotrophic corals co-existed on extinct reefs, as today, but in warmer oceans, indicating the current warming rate, not temperature, is causing coral bleaching.
Conditional deletion of the transcriptional co-activator Brd4 in infiltrating Cx3cr1+ mouse macrophages ameliorates heart failure and substantially reduces fibroblast activation.
Analysis of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary V404 Cygni shows that it is part of a wide hierarchical triple whose configuration provides evidence that some black holes form with nearly no natal kick.
Transcriptome-wide profiling studies in mammalian cells show that the stringency of start-codon selection is increased during mitosis, and that this is regulated by nuclear eIF1 to preserve mitotic arrest physiology.
Together with the fatty-acid-binding protein FABP5, the cytoskeletal organizer TAGLN2 is an essential factor for fatty acid uptake, mitochondrial respiration and anticancer function in CD8+ T cells.
A population of tumour-specific PD1+TCF1+ CD4 T cells in tumour-draining lymph nodes is capable of self-renewal and differentiation into CD4 effector cells, thereby controlling CD8 T cell activity.
In the tunicate Ciona, we show that pigment cell lineage also produces neural progenitor cells that form regions of the juvenile nervous system after metamorphosis, suggesting that neural crest cell multipotency precedes the emergence of vertebrates.