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Volume 29 Issue 4, Apr 2019

The cover image illustrates how RNAi (terracotta warrior from Qin dynasty of China), as an "ancient" antiviral immunity mechanism, protects human neural progenitors (the wall) and brain organoids (beacon towers) from the invasion of Zika viruses. In antiviral RNAi, Dicer (the crossbow) produces viral siRNAs (the arrows) from viral dsRNA to specifically target and cleave viral genomic RNAs. Cover art is contributed by Dr. Yefei Li. See page 265-273 by Yan-Peng Xu et al. for details.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

STIM1 is a precise thermo-sensor in skin

Robert M. Nwokonko, Yandong Zhou and Donald L. Gill
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0154-7
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Anti-Zika virus RNAi in neural progenitor cells

Xuping Xieand Pei-Yong Shi
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0158-3
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Broken hearts: Iron overload, ferroptosis and cardiomyopathy

Marcus Conrad and Bettina Proneth
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0150-y
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Zika virus infection induces RNAi-mediated antiviral immunity in human neural progenitors and brain organoids

Yan-Peng Xu , Yang Qiu , Boya Zhang , Guilai Chen, Qi Chen, Miao Wang , Fan Mo , Jiuyue Xu, Jin Wu , Rong-Rong Zhang, Meng-Li Cheng, Na-Na Zhang, Bao Lyu , Wen-Liang Zhu, Meng-Hua Wu, Qing Ye, Da Zhang, Jiang-Hong Man, Xiao-Feng Li , Jie Cui, Zhiheng Xu , Baoyang Hu , Xi Zhou and Cheng-Feng Qin
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0152-9
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Structures of the human spliceosomes before and after release of the ligated exon

Xiaofeng Zhang , Xiechao Zhan, Chuangye Yan , Wenyu Zhang, Dongliang Liu , Jianlin Lei and Yigong Shi
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0143-x
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LncRNAs-directed PTEN enzymatic switch governs epithelial–mesenchymal transition

Qingsong Hu , Chunlai Li, Shouyu Wang, Yajuan Li , Bo Wen 3,4, Yanyan Zhang 1,10, Ke Liang , Jun Yao, Youqiong Ye , Heidi Hsiao, Tina K. Nguyen , Peter K. Park, Sergey D. Egranov , David H. Hawke , Jeffrey R. Marks, Leng Han , Mien-Chie Hung, Bing Zhang, Chunru Lin and Liuqing Yang

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Coupling of ssRNA cleavage with DNase activity in type III-A CRISPR-Csm revealed by cryo-EM and biochemistry

Minghui Guo, Kaiming Zhang, Yuwei Zhu, Grigore D. Pintilie , Xiaoyu Guan , Shanshan Li , Michael F. Schmid , Zhuo Ma, Wah Chiu and Zhiwei Huang
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0151-x
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Vitamin B12 modulates Parkinson’s disease LRRK2 kinase activity through allosteric regulation and confers neuroprotection

Adam Schaffner , Xianting Li , Yacob Gomez-Llorente, Emmanouela Leandrou , Anna Memou, Nicolina Clemente, Chen Yao ,Farinaz Afsari , Lianteng Zhi , Nina Pan , Keita Morohashi , Xiaoluan Hua , Ming-Ming Zhou, Chunyu Wang, Hui Zhang,Shu G. Chen, Christopher J. Elliott, Hardy Rideout, Iban Ubarretxena-Belandia and Zhenyu Yue
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0153-8
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Structural basis of the crosstalk between histone H2B monoubiquitination and H3 lysine 79 methylation on nucleosome

Tonghui Yao, Wei Jing, Zhiguo Hu , Ming Tan, Mi Cao ,Qianmin Wang, Yan Li , Guiyong Yuan , Ming Lei and Jing Huang
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0146-7
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated PINK1 deletion leads to neurodegeneration in rhesus monkeys

Weili Yang, Yunbo Liu, Zhuchi Tu , Chong Xiao , Sen Yan,Xishan Ma, Xiangyu Guo, Xiusheng Chen , Peng Yin , Zhengyi Yang, Su Yang, Tianzi Jiang , Shihua Li sup>3and Xiao-Jiang Li
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0142-y
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CORRIGENDA

Author Correction: Gene and mutation independent therapy via CRISPR-Cas9 mediated cellular reprogramming in rod photoreceptors

Jie Zhu , Chang Ming , Xin Fu , Yaou Duan, Duc Anh Hoang , Jeffrey Rutgard , Runze Zhang , Wenqiu Wang, Rui Hou ,Daniel Zhang, Edward Zhang , Charlotte ZhangEye Gene Therapy Consortium, Xiaoke Hao, Wenjun Xiong and Kang Zhang
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0140-0
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Author Correction: Hormones induce the formation of luminal-derived basal cells in the mammary gland

Wenqian Song, Ran Wang , Weimin Jiang, Qi Yin, Guangdun Peng, Ruikai Yang , Qing Cissy Yu, Jianfeng Chen, Jingsong Li,Tom H. Cheung, Naihe Jing and Yi Arial Zeng
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-019-0147-6
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