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Volume 35 Issue 4, Apr 2025

To help the soldiers (T cells) better identify spies (non-self antigens, marked in blue) and protect the city, while avoiding harm to normal citizens (self-antigens, marked in orange), we need to improve the functionalities of two weapons: a blue glove or a blue goggle (T cell receptor, TCR) and a sword or a bow (CD8). Optimization of both weapons and their cooperation will significantly strengthen the soldiers’ power. See page 265–283 by Rui Qin et al. for details.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Raptin, a novel brain hormone links sleep health to body weight gain

Leonie Cabot, Henning Fenselau
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01083-x
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Stressing out the intestinal microbiota via a brain-neuroglandular circuit

Wen Zhang, David Artis
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01047-7
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A GSDMD agonist boosts specific antitumor immunity

Yingying Zhang, Jiahuai Han
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01051-x
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Triaptosis: an endosome-dependent cell death modality

Daolin Tang, Rui Kang, Guido Kroemer
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01053-9
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Tug of war between phosphatase and kinase during sleep

Niels Niethard, Jan Born
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01065-5
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Astrocytes: emerging stars of engrams

Sofiya Zbaranska, Sheena A. Josselyn
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01066-4
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

A force-sensitive adhesion GPCR is required for equilibrioception

Zhao Yang, Shu-Hua Zhou, Qi-Yue Zhang, Zhi-Chen Song, Wen-Wen Liu, Yu Sun, Ming-Wei Wang, Xiao-Long Fu, Kong-Kai Zhu, Ying Guan, Jie-Yu Qi, Xiao-Hui Wang, Yu-Nan Sun, Yan Lu, Yu-Qi Ping, Yue-Tong Xi, Zhen-Xiao Teng, Lei Xu, Peng Xiao, Zhi-Gang Xu, Wei Xiong, Wei Qin, Wei Yang, Fan Yi, Ren-Jie Chai, Xiao Yu, Jin-Peng Sun
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01075-x
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TCR catch bonds nonlinearly control CD8 cooperation to shape T cell specificity

Rui Qin, Yong Zhang, Jiawei Shi, Peng Wu, Chenyi An, Zhenhai Li, Nuo Liu, Ziyan Wan, Ting Hua, Xiaolong Li, Jizhong Lou, Weiwei Yin, Wei Chen
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01077-9
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Molecular mechanism of the arrestin-biased agonism of neurotensin receptor 1 by an intracellular allosteric modulator

Demeng Sun, Xiang Li, Qingning Yua, Yuanxia Wang, Pan Shi, Huanhuan Zhang, Tao Wang, Wenjing Sun, Shenglong Ling, Yuanchun Liu, Jinglin Lai, Wenqin Xie, Wanchao Yin, Lei Liu, H. Eric Xu, Changlin Tian
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01095-7
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Structural insights into spliceosome fidelity: DHX35–GPATCH1- mediated rejection of aberrant splicing substrates

Yi Li, Paulina Fischer, Mengjiao Wang, Qianxing Zhou, Aixia Song, Rui Yuan, Wanyu Meng, Fei Xavier Chen, Reinhard Lührmann, Benjamin Lau, Ed Hurt, Jingdong Cheng
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01084-w
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The conjugation-associated linear-BAC iterative assembling (CALBIA) method for cloning 2.1-Mb human chromosomal DNAs in bacteria

Li Zhong, Qi Zhang, Ning Lu, Tao Wang, Xiaoli Xue, Zhongjun Qin
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01063-7
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Structural basis of phosphate export by human XPR1

Yifei Wang, Yuechan Wang, Hui Yang, Ao Li, Dan Ma, Huaizong Shen
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01081-z
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CORRIGENDA

Author Correction: The rapid proximity labeling system PhastID identifies ATP6AP1 as an unconventional GEF for Rheb

Ran Feng, Feng Liu, Ruofei Li, Zhifen Zhou, Zhuoheng Lin, Song Lin, Shengcheng Deng, Yingying Li, Baoting Nong, Ying Xia, Zhiyi Li, Xiaoqin Zhong, Shuhan Yang, Gang Wan, Wenbin Ma, Su Wu, Zhou Songyang
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-025-01088-6
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