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  1. Oct 2021
    1. It was reported to the then existing Congress of the United States

      I'm assuming he means with this line, the congress as it existed under the Articles of Confederation. My question is why bring up this quick history recap? Is it to argue that the States, in ratifying the Constitution and the new Federal government, were granting that the Federal Government held a certain amount of power of them? Something else?

    2. The Government of the Union then ... is, emphatically and truly, a Government of the people....

      What's the deal with these ellipses? Is there actual text omitted? Or did Marshall literally include these marks in his writing?

    3. the instrument,

      Whats the term "instrument" referring to here? the constitution? or the creation of it?

    4. Among the enumerated powers, we do not find that of establishing a bank or creating a corporation

      While the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land, obviously the Constitution does not outline every possibility of things that happen within society (like the establishing of a bank or creating a corporation). Is the creation of something or a situation where things happen due to the lack of guidelines in the constitution common? Do you think it is fair that new rules and regulations be made in addition to there being none directly stated about these given situations?

    5. "this Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof," "shall be the supreme law of the land,"

      For clarification is Marshal saying that since the people told the states that they wanted a federal government, that the states have to abide by the federals governments laws and rules? He pointes out that the states may see them selves as sovereign states, but since the people agree to the federal government the states also have to follow it?

    6. Though any one State may be willing to control its operations, no State is willing to allow others to control them

      So here it sounds to me like it is certain that the states have sovereign power to create their laws, but wouldn't that directly conflict with the constitution being the supreme law of the land? Or is "no state is willing to allow others to control them" specifically speaking to something I'm missing?

    7. incidental or implied

      If Marshall is saying what I think he is saying here, could technically any "power-move" the national government makes be considered an implied power, if not prohibited by the Constitution? Would it just depend on how the justices perceive it, at the time of the conflict?

    8. and that the Constitution leaves them this right, in the confidence that they will not abuse it....

      "In the confidence that they will not abuse it" I feel like that is a big leap of faith to make. It seems as though states could drag an issue like this on and on, especially if they are in an opposing party than the president or something like that. Is there a sort of double jeopardy type thing to ensure this doesn't happen? or are there examples of this happening frequently?

    9. had experienced the embarrassments resulting from the insertion of this word in the Articles of Confederation

      Is the "embarrassment" Marshall is referring to here the events of Shay's Rebellion? We know that the invention of Federalism was specifically an attempt to remedy the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation, and that the Articles created a weak central government. I remember reading about Shay's Rebellion that the national government found themselves unable to fund troops to be sent to counter the Rebellion. Is that because the power to send national troops into states was not "expressly" delegated to the US government? Or are there other "embarrassments" that arose from this part of the Articles, especially seeing as Marshall made "embarrassments" plural?

    10. The Government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers,

      Does anyone else feel that it is a stretch to say that Constitution = the government? I understand completely where they are coming from, and agree that it makes sense to have an overarching government, but this statement here feels like a stretch.

    1. Levadura: forma de huevo, no puede crearse químicamente, resultado de la evolución de la naturaleza, Lowis Pasteur, los responsable de fermentación son las levaduras, la levadura es un ser vivo, la química es denominada impulsor, se realiza en modo de granja, obtiene energía de la cebada, manta, cuando lo fermenta, lo convierte en chela (cerveza).

      Cuando se sobre exige los músculos, se obtiene energía de madera ineficiente, donde el piruvato se hace ácido láctico el cual se cristaliza

      Levaduras (Saccharomyces spp) En la industria: Pan: CO2 hace crecer la masa Bebidas alcohólicas: las levaduras en la cáscara de uva inician la fermentación Creciente uso del alcohol como combustible de vehículos, Brasil es líder en esta industria .

      Fermentación: Muchos microorganismos que operan en condiciones anaeróbicas lo usan (como levaduras), de importancia ecológica, se pueden obtener antibióticos, considerado proceso ancestral para obtener energía, fue descubierto en 1857, implica la transformación de un sustrato complejo a uno simple, hongos, levaduras, etc son participantes, es poco eficiente, solo produce 2 ATP, convierte el piruvato hasta CO2, alcohol o ácido láctico

      TIPOS

      Láctica: produce lactato

      Alcohólica: se produce Etanol (alcohol) CO2, utiliza a las levadura para obtener ATP, convierte el piruvato (3C) en etanol (2C) perdiendo un carbono (C) el carbón que se pierde se convierte en (CO2), etanol y CO2 son productos de desecho de este.

      Acética

      FIN

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    1. Recent research suggests that globally, the wealthiest 10% have been responsible foras much as half of the cumulative emissions since 1990 and the richest 1% for more than twicethe emissions of the poorest 50% (2).

      this suggests that perhaps the failure of the COP meetings may be partially due to focusing at the wrong level and demographics. the top 1 and 10 % live in every country. A focus on the wealthy class is not a focus area of COP negotiations perse. Interventions targeting this demographic may be better suited at the scale of individuals or civil society.

      Many studies show there are no extra gains in happiness beyond a certain point of material wealth, and point to the harmful impacts of wealth accumulation, known as affluenza, and show many health effects: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950124/, https://theswaddle.com/how-money-affects-rich-people/, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-dark-reasons-so-many-rich-people-are-miserable-human-beings-2018-02-22, https://www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/why-wealthy-people-may-be-less-successful-love-ncna837306, https://www.apa.org/research/action/speaking-of-psychology/affluence,

      A Human Inner Transformation approach based on an open source praxis called Deep Humanity is one example of helping to transform affluenza and leveraging it accelerate transition.

    1. I also talked with people about where they would like to grow, things they like and dislike doing at work and in where see themselves on the longer term, beyond their current role or company.

      Topics to discuss on first 1:1

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    1. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it.

      Is this saying that the court must put the Constitution first, over an act of congress? Are the principles, which are being referred to, those in the Constitution? If not, what are they?

  3. Sep 2021
    1. if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

      Question: Is having a job a legal right? I understand that this case was also trying to figure out that same question.

    2. original jurisdiction

      So where does appellate jurisdiction come in? I only see this statement mention original jurisdiction but in the video Prof explained the Constitutional Article III held the Supreme Court has power to do both. So in what circumstances does appellate court because the jurisdiction for a case/trial?

    3. It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution is intended to be without effect

      This assertion is fascinating to me. In my interpretation, Marshall is basically saying that every single clause in the constitution has a deliberate effect. I wonder, are there any clauses that the framers explicitly wrote as transitional sentences between two more important thoughts that have been interpreted to have a huge effect? In other words, was Marshall right to say that every single clause was supposed to have an effect?

    4. and consequently if the officer is by law not removable at the will of the President

      In what circumstances is the officer not removable at the will of the President in this context? From my knowledge the house impeaches and the Senate holds the trial

    5. The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury

      Is this inciting that in order to be given civil liberty, you must obeyed by the laws set in place?

    6. To withhold his commission, therefore, is an act deemed by the court not warranted by law, but violative of a vested legal right.

      From what I understand about this case. it vaguely reminds me of the case of a baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple due to his religious beliefs. I think it made it to the state supreme court and they ruled he was within his constitutional right to refuse service. Since they ruled here that they could not force him to deliver the commissions (even though he did violate the law) did this case have any affect on the ruling of the more current case? I know that it said in a previous module that they have to follow precedent set by previous cases.

    7. If he has a right, and that right has been violated, do the laws of his country afford him a remedy?

      This is confusing to me because I don't understand how this is an opinion answered question. If something has gone wrong shouldn't there be a remedy owed?

    8. who considers himself injured, has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy.

      When this is referring to a man considering himself "injured", does that mean that a remedy can only be given to cases in which someone was injured? Or is this a form of metaphorical speech?

    9. The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

      Does this simply suggest our government is laws and doesn't have much to do with the men that are supposed to uphold them? What legal right are they referring to?

    10. To enable this court then to issue a mandamus, it must be shown to be an exercise of appellate jurisdiction, or to be necessary to enable them to exercise appellate jurisdiction.

      If the Court is only bound to issue a mandamus as an exercise or remedy provided the powers granted by its appellate jurisdiction, which it denied given the case was brought directly to the Court, then how did it take the case under original jurisdiction? Did Marshall have a different take on jurisdiction than Justice Chase a few decades later?

    11. 3dly. He is entitled to the remedy for which he applies

      Why would he not be if his position is upheld by the law as they mentioned previously? Why would he not be entitled to a remedy of the situation?

    1. 2015, c. 36, s. 172

      Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 172, amends IRPA s. 32(d.5) to say:

      (d.5) the requirement for an employer to provide a prescribed person with prescribed information in relation to a foreign national’s authorization to work in Canada for the employer;

      Previously it had said:

      (d.5) the requirement for an employer to provide a prescribed person with prescribed information in relation to a foreign national’s authorization to work in Canada for the employer, the electronic system by which that information must be provided, the circumstances in which that information may be provided by other means and those other means;

    2. 2015, c. 36, s. 171

      Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 171(1) repealed IRPA s. 14(3), which had said: "(3) For the purposes of subsection 11(1.01), the regulations may include provisions respecting the circumstances in which an application may be made by other means and respecting those other means."

      Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 171(2) repealed IRPA s. 14(4), which had said:

      (4) The regulations may provide for any matter relating to the application of section 11.1, including (a) the circumstances in which a foreign national is exempt from the requirement to follow the procedures prescribed under that section; (b) the circumstances in which a foreign national is not required to provide certain biometric information; and (c) the processing of the collected biometric information, including creating biometric templates or converting the information into digital biometric formats.

      Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 171(3) repealed IRPA s. 14(5), which had said:

      (5) The regulations may require foreign nationals who make an application for a visa or other document under subsection 11(1) and foreign nationals who were issued an invitation under Division 0.1 to apply for permanent residence to make those applications by means of an electronic system and may include provisions respecting that system, respecting the circumstances in which those applications may be made by other means and respecting those other means.

    3. 2015, c. 36, s. 170

      Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 170, repealed s. 11.1, which until that point read:

      11.1 A prescribed foreign national who makes an application for a temporary resident visa, study permit or work permit must follow the prescribed procedures for the collection of prescribed biometric information.

    4. 2015, c. 36, s. 169

      Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 169(1), adds a new s. 11(1.01):

      (1.01) Despite subsection (1), a foreign national must, before entering Canada, apply for an electronic travel authorization required by the regulations by means of an electronic system, unless the regulations provide that the application may be made by other means. The application may be examined by an officer and, if the officer determines that the foreign national is not inadmissible and meets the requirements of this Act, the authorization may be issued by the officer.

      The section previously read:

      (1.01) Despite subsection (1), a foreign national must, before entering Canada, apply for an electronic travel authorization required by the regulations by means of an electronic system, unless the regulations provide that the application may be made by other means. The application may be examined by the system or by an officer and, if the system or officer determines that the foreign national is not inadmissible and meets the requirements of this Act, the authorization may be issued by the system or officer.

      Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, SC 2015, c 36, https://canlii.ca/t/52m2b, s. 169(2), adds a new subsection: "(1.02) Subject to the regulations, a foreign national who has temporary resident status may apply for a visa or other document during their stay in Canada."

    1. L’esercizio fisico deve essere raccomandato per il controllo del diabete nelle persone con diabete di tipo 2?

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    1. Fundamentos pedagógicos. En el PEI de la institución pudimos identificar las tendencias pedagógicas del colegio universitario de socorro como lo son: el aprendizaje significativo- humanista y constructivista, al igual orientan contenidos al estudio del medio ambiente.

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    1. 45.8 percent of global household wealth is in the hands of just 1.1 percent of the world's population. Those 56 million individuals control a mind-boggling $191.6 trillion, as can be seen on the following pyramid.Below that, 583 million people own $163.9 trillion, 39.1 percent of global wealth, despite accounting for just 11.1 percent of the adult population. The base of the pyramid is the most poignant and it shows how 2.9 billion people (55 percent of the world's population) share a combined wealth of $5.5 trillion which is just 1.3 percent of total wealth.

      combine this with Oxfam's 2020 report on carbon emissions and we have the real driver's of carbon emissions, the wealthy. COP26 addresses nation states, not individuals. We need to focus on individuals as well.

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    1. And so there's a question about how religious you may be in order to receive the benefit or not.

      So how is this measured? How is the court able to tell how "religious" a school is and does how "religious; they are determine the funding amount they receive?

    2. Because I don't think this is one of the difficult cases.

      I think the simplicity of this statement demonstrates what side of the argument Cortman is on. Clearly, so far throughout the entire case he has been defending the funding of the playground. While other are challenging his idea, he flat out says this case is not that difficult.

    3. past

      Not sure if it's really a question necessarily, but I find it odd they are being so technical. I realize that they need to set a precedent and be able to justify their decisions and make sure it fits within the laws and everything, but they should be focusing on the merits of the case at hand, not coming up with every possible thing it could be compared to. Again it makes sense that they need to cross reference this type of information and those questions are worth answering but in this setting it somehow seems to me to be off topic.

    4. We seem to be confusing money with religious practice. I don't think the two are tied.

      I believe justice sotomayor is one of the dissenting judges based on these comments. I think she makes a very good point and I don't think Cortman does a good job defending his point here. He tries to argue that it creates a conflict with the establishment clause but it seems to me that following the establishment clause would suggest they not fund the school.

    5. hypothetical

      I'm curious, in their attempts to, as Professor Roberts characterized it, "probe the strength of their legal arguments, implications and hypothetical effects," how often do Justices describe hypothetical situations? If there was a statistic on how many times, on average per case, a hypothetical was posed, how high or low do we think it would be?

    6. Everson passé?

      For those who were unfamiliar with the phrase, as I was, Oxford defines "passé" as "no-longer fashionable; out of date." By asking Cortman whether he believes the precedent set by Everson holds, and subtly confirming that she believes it does, I think Justice Ginsberg is signaling her intention to Dissent, eventually becoming one of the two Justices in the minority of the final decision.

    7. Do you think that that is the proper way to analyze this question?

      In providing Cortman the opportunity to directly refute Justice Sotomayor's reasoning, I believe Justice Alito is revealing that he is part of the majority that will come to decide in favor of Trinity Lutheran.

    8. But -- see, but that's what makes the case a -- just a little bit -- in -- in -- in my last hypothetical about earthquake safety, any problem there with giving the money to a church and spending extra money for the cross in the window? It's all -- it's for public safety.

      I think this is one of the majority justices. It is still very early and his course may change but it seems like he is already convinced and suggesting that spending this money is not about advancing religion, as it would be similar for spending the earthquake proofing money on a church window.

    9. Friends of the Earth and the Knox

      I wish this had been elaborated on more. What do these two cases mean, and how does citing them help?

    10. Let's suppose that the public school sometimes uses its playground for things other than children playing, whatever they're going to have, a -- you know, an auction or anything else. Isn't it the consequence of your argument that the church can use the playground for more religious activities if the public school can use the playground for other non-playground activities?

      My first question is a bit more overarching of the argument that is happening so far. Is this argument, that the division of religious versus secular property on the church grounds, a violation of the first amendment? More specifically, if every individual has the freedom of religion, why does it matter that this church playground must be secular? Are they telling Cortman that they can judge what happens on the churches own private property? Why does this affect whether the church can join a fundraiser or not?

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    1. " We're going to have to control your tongue" I felt like that was an analogy. I took it as "you should watch what come's out of your mouth because words can hurt someone." Kind of like the saying when people say " watch your tongue"

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    1. But I believe there will be more of a regional focus moving forward and you will need to have a proper digital presentation. You need to have the connectivity for people who aren’t going to recover from this as quickly as others.

      Is it possible to say that COVID -19 sped up what was to come in the future? For example, we all knew that the world was moving into a more digital/ tech/ world. People are so connected to their electronic devices. Social media and the internet has changed the way humans communicated. Is it safe to safe that these organizations and leaders in these positions of power failed us by not thinking ahead.

  4. Aug 2021
    1. Task 1. What does the title tell you about the text? The author of this text is going to explain why and how philosophy is so valuable to people. What do the section titles tell you about the text? The section titles show how the author felt they needed to break up his statement to prove their point. What do the footnotes tell you about the text? The footnotes could possibly contain examples or references that has been cited.

    2. The Value of Philosophy

      Task 1 WHAT DOES THE TITLE TELL YOU ABOUT THE TEXT? The title tells me that the reading will be probably about what philosophy has to value and what it is.

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    1. I like the differentiation that Jared has made here on his homepage with categories for "fast" and "slow".

      It's reminiscent of the system 1 (fast) and system2 (slow) ideas behind Kahneman and Tversky's work in behavioral economics. (See Thinking, Fast and Slow)

      It's also interesting in light of this tweet which came up recently:

      I very much miss the back and forth with blog posts responding to blog posts, a slow moving argument where we had time to think.

      — Rachel Andrew (@rachelandrew) August 22, 2017
      <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

      Because the Tweet was shared out of context several years later, someone (accidentally?) replied to it as if it were contemporaneous. When called out for not watching the date of the post, their reply was "you do slow web your way…" #

      This gets one thinking. Perhaps it would help more people's contextual thinking if more sites specifically labeled their posts as fast and slow (or gave a 1-10 rating?). Sometimes the length of a response is an indicator of the thought put into it, thought not always as there's also the oft-quoted aphorism: "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter".

      The ease of use of the UI on Twitter seems to broadly make it a platform for "fast" posting which can often cause ruffled feathers, sour feelings, anger, and poor communication.

      What if there were posting UIs (or micropub clients) that would hold onto your responses for a few hours, days, or even a week and then remind you about them after that time had past to see if they were still worth posting? This is a feature based on Abraham Lincoln's idea of a "hot letter" or angry letter, which he advised people to write often, but never send.

      Where is the social media service for hot posts that save all your vituperation, but don't show them to anyone? Or which maybe posts them anonymously?

      The opposite of some of this are the partially baked or even fully thought out posts that one hears about anecdotally, but which the authors say they felt weren't finish and thus didn't publish them. Wouldn't it be better to hit publish on these than those nasty quick replies? How can we create UI for this?

      I saw a sitcom a few years ago where a girl admonished her friend (an oblivious boy) for liking really old Instagram posts of a girl he was interested in. She said that deep-liking old photos was an obvious and overt sign of flirting.

      If this is the case then there's obviously a social standard of sorts for this, so why not hold your tongue in the meanwhile, and come up with something more thought out to send your digital love to someone instead of providing a (knee-)jerk reaction?

      Of course now I can't help but think of the annotations I've been making in my copy of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things. Do you suppose that Lucretius knows I'm in love?

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    2. RRID:ZFIN_ZDB-ALT-131203-1

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  5. Jul 2021
    1. Well, no. I oppose capital punishment, just as (in my view) any ethical person should oppose capital punishment. Not because innocent people might be executed (though that is an entirely foreseeable consequence) but because, if we allow for capital punishment, then what makes murder wrong isn't the fact that you killed someone, it's that you killed someone without the proper paperwork. And I refuse to accept that it's morally acceptable to kill someone just because you've been given permission to do so.

      Most murders are system 1-based and spur-of-the-moment.

      System 2-based murders are even more deplorable because in most ethical systems it means the person actively spent time and planning to carry the murder out. The second category includes pre-meditated murder, murder-for-hire as well as all forms of capital punishment.

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    1. Zebrafish: Tg(mpeg1:EGFP)gl22

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    2. Zebrafish: Tg(sox10(4.9):Eos)w9

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    1. RRID:ZFIN_ZDB-GENO-100615-1

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    1. Zebrafish: Tg(nkx2.2a:megfp)vu17

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    2. Zebrafish: Tg(sox10(4.9):eos)w9

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    1. Tg(UAS-E1b:Kaede)s1999t

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    2. Tg(vsx1:GFP)nns5

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    1. Tg(5u00d7UAS:eGFP)zf82

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    2. Tg(UAS-E1b:Kaede)s1999t

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    1. RRID:WB-STRAIN

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    1. RRID:WB-STRAIN

      DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.03.044

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    1. RRID:ZDB-ALT-100402-1

      DOI: 10.7554/eLife.37001

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    2. RRID:ZDB-ALT-090324-1

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    1. , but most humanitiesprofessors remain unaware, uninterested or unconvinced that digitalhumanities has much to offer.

      Much like tparmar's comment, some of the professors I have had were not very willing to use technology. This was either because they did not know how or just did not like to use it. I think with the way things are going people are going to have to start using technology or at least know how to use it in order to do some things. Especially with this last year when everything was online many had no choice. A lot of professors I had learned new things by doing class online and also used different apps and modes of communication. Maybe it was not that they were uninterested in the digital humanities, it was more that they were unfamiliar with it and now that everyone has learned some of the basics it could continue into in-person things. I know that I had no idea what digital humanities could do and now that we have started talking about it I am excited to learn more.

    2. It’s easy to forget the digital media are means and not ends,” he added

      I like the way this was worded. I think that some people view digital media as an end and so there is not much you can do with it. What people are forgetting is that if digital media is a means, then that means there are so many things you could do with it and directions you could take. Digital media is the means to spark inspiration and generate new ideas on different subjects. It is also a different way to deliver things that could be more effective for some audiences.

    3. This latest frontier is about method,they say, using powerful technologies and vast stores of digitizedmaterials that previous humanities scholars did not have

      I agree that the latest frontier is about method. Methods change all the time with new ideas and developments taking place in every field. I think it is important to keep up with the changes and stay relevant because if you refuse to adapt a little bit you could lose some of your audience. Since scholars are using digitized materials that previous humanities scholars did not have they can take things to the next level and keep learning. Their work can be shown off in new and exciting ways.

    1. There were some developments in processing tools, mostly through the shift from tape to disk storage. Files no longer had to be searched sequentially.

      My mom and dad still have their old tapes but we never use them anymore. I also remember burning cd's but we never use them either. The phone has taken over and we just use aux or bluetooth to connect to speakers. I doubt I would ever use a CD again unless I find an old movie, but the computers barely even have a slot to load them anymore since people use netflix and other websites to watch shows and movies.

    2. The personal computer is now a necessity of scholarly life, but in its early days it was considerably more expensive in relation to now and early purchasers were enthusiasts and those in the know about computing.

      I did not think that computers were more expensive back then than they are now. If you look at iMac's and MacBook airs, they are well in the 2000 dollar range if you buy them brand new. Prices of phones, tablets and computers have gone up considerably so I wonder how much they were valued at in the 80s and 90s.

    3. If any single-word term can be used to describe this period, it would almost certainly be "consolidation." More people were using methodologies developed during the early period. More electronic texts were being created and more projects using the same applications were started. Knowledge of what is possible had gradually spread through normal scholarly channels of communication, and more and more people had come across computers in their everyday life and had begun to think about what computers might do for their research and teaching. The diffusion of knowledge was helped not only by Computers and the Humanities but also by a regular series of conferences. The 1970 symposium in Cambridge was the start of a biennial series of conferences in the UK, which became a major focal point for computing in the humanities. Meetings in Edinburgh (1972), Cardiff (1974), Oxford (1976), Birmingham (1978), and Cambridge (1980) all produced high-quality papers.

      I like the part that says "if any single-word term can be used to describe this period, it would almost certainly be "consolidation"". Computers have not been around for very long but their technology very quickly started advancing. Everything was then consolidated into one place: the computer. It seems like in the 70's and 80's people began to realize what a computer could do for them. I think it is interesting that the "diffusion of knowledge" was not just done through computers, it was still being done at conferences as well. People were using a combination of computers, technology, and conferences to share their knowledge. I think that is a piece of what digital humanities is.

    4. Published in 1962, this study did not use a computer to make the word counts, but did use machine calculations which helped Ellegard get an overall picture of the vocabulary from hand counts (Ellegard 1962). What is probably the most influential computer-based authorship investigation was also carried out in the early 1960s.

      I did not know that the most influential investigation was carried in the 60s because I would have thought that it would be later on when technology was more prevalent. I just google searched the image of the old mechanical calculators and it is interesting to see how that big box became so advanced. Imagine carrying that to a math exam! The dials on it look confusing since you have to turn them. It is fascinating to see how much technology advances and how it becomes faster and faster.

    1. First, writing for a public audience using a blogging platform changes the way you write, because you are engaging a reader who can do things in relation to what you write.  The ability to insert a hyperlink or embed a YouTube video means you have to think about how your reader will engage those things in your text. What if they don’t click and continue to read?

      I agree that it will change the way you write. Because you are using a blogging platform you already know someone is going to read it or at least that is the goal. One of the main things I have learned in digital humanities so far is that there are different ways to do things. Writing for a blog or website is one of those different ways. Because you can use hyperlinks, add audio, or add video you need to be very clear in what you want to say in case some readers don't click on these links. They are added tools you can use to enhance your writing that you would not be able to get with a written paper but you have to engage your reader enough to want to click on them.

    2. In an interview with Michael Gavin and Kathleen Marie Smith, Brett Bobley rattles off a list of activities that fall under the umbrella of digital humanities. Some, like data mining, are commonly associated with digital humanities, but others, like media studies, less so. What links them together is technology, which Bobley describes as a “game changer”: “Technology has radically changed the way we read, the way we write, and the way we learn. Reading, writing, learning–three things that are pretty central to the humanities” [2].

      I completely agree that technology has changed the way we read, write, and learn. You can do all three of those things using a computer nowadays. I am doing it right now to write this post. In any assignment I get in a class I immediately go to online articles for research or start typing up notes on my laptop. I was not always so dependent upon it, when I was younger we used books and notebooks. Kids today are growing up with it almost right away though. I think everything is going to continue to be done digitally because that seems to be where we are heading. Technology links the components of digital humanities together and in the article Brett Bobley describes it as a game changer. I think that it is as well because we are learning new things and are going to be able to use the humanities in different ways.

    3. Some the individuals who attended were not only interested in undergraduate research as a co-curricular activity, but also the unicorn that is digital humanities. I know many scholars in the humanities do not feel that they can participate in digital humanities. However, I think there is at least one thing that all humanities scholars can do to digital into their humanities.

      I love that this referenced digital humanities as a unicorn. Being a unicorn sometimes means that the thing, in this case digital humanities, is desired but difficult to obtain. I could see that being true because everyone uses a computer these days so more and more people are looking for someone who knows how to work one and what they can do with it. I don't think it is super difficult to obtain, more that not everyone really understands what digital humanities is. I had no idea what it was I signed up for the course because I wanted to learn more. I think that everyone can learn how to participate in digital humanities especially since it is becoming more and more prevalent.

    1. living in poverty

      This makes sense since there are less resources around for these women and typically more violence in the area.

    2. Ontogenic

      develops from the first three levels. focuses on the person individually

    3. Macrosystem—This refers to broader cultural factors, such as patriarchal attitudes and beliefs about gender relations in intimate relationships. • Exosystem—This concept refers to informal and formal social networks that connect intimate relationships to the broader culture. • Microsystem—This refers to the relationship in which violence takes place. • Ontogenic—This level refers to a person's individual development and what such development brings to the above three levels. (Brownridge, 2009; Dutton, 2006)

      These 4 levels makes up the ecological model

    4. Ecological models

      a model that helps explain the influences that usually leads to violence against women.

    5. common batterer intervention programs

      a psychoeducational group

    6. Why do men assault the women they love?

      Those without prior knowledge tend to ask this question often and even those with background. However, the possibility of mental illness and so much more can derive from this.

    7. In fact, many women who experience what the law defines as rape do not label their assaults as such or even as a form of victimizatio

      This is interesting to learn and this could lead to the decrease in victim reports.

  6. Jun 2021
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    2. ZFIN: ZDB-ALT-090716-1

      DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.042

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    3. ZFIN: ZDB-ALT-150324-1

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  7. May 2021
    1. One solution that fixed this issue with my ISP was that when I went through the first and second line and got in touch with the people that fixed my problem, I asked them if they could give me one of their personal numbers in case the same problem happened again. The problem did occur a couple more times, and I just directly called the same guy.
    2. I find most tech support is filled with inexperienced and frustrated staff who just run off a script. They're not paid well. They are Tier One support to filter out most of the incoming calls. Tech support is designed in tiers.
    1. re beautiful than silence for more than, say, 50% of the time. But here’s a nice surprise: You could exceed that

      cool

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      Sierra M. Barone developed an automated, quantitative toolkit for immune monitoring that would span a wide range of possible immune changes, identify and phenotype statistically significant cell subsets, and provide an overall vector of change indicating both the direction and magnitude of shifts, either in the immune system as a whole or in a key cell subpopulation. The machine learning workflow Tracking Responders Expanding (T-REX) was a modular data analysis workflow including UMAP, KNN, and MEM. T-REX is designed to capture both very rare and very common cell types and place them into a common context of immune change. T-REX was analyzed data types including a new spectral flow cytometry dataset and three existing mass cytometry datasets.

      The conclusions of this paper are mostly well supported by data, but one aspect need to be clarified and extend. Cytometry tools like SPADE, FlowSOM, Phenograph, Citrus, and RAPID generally work best to characterize cell subsets representing >1% of the sample and are less capable of capturing extremely rare cells or subsets distinguished by only a fraction of measured features. Tools like t-SNE, opt-SNE, and UMAP embed cells or learn a manifold and represent these transformations as algorithmically-generated axes. The advantages of T-REX tool were not very clear.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      In the early days of the pandemic there was unqualified enthusiasm for convalescent plasma therapy. This enthusiasm shifted dramatically as several trials showed no apparent benefit. Although this manuscript does not show a causal relationship between convalescent plasma therapy and prognosis it is provocative and suggests that further work is needed to assess its utility.

      Strengths of the manuscript include the comprehensive review of existing datasets and the use of state-of-the-art statistical methods for examining potential confounders such as patient age, seasonal variation in hospital admissions that might have impacted quality of care, and the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Weaknesses include lack of data that might have enabled identification of patients who are likely to benefit from convalescent plasma and characteristics of plasma (such as neutralization titers) that may be associated with efficacy. These weaknesses do not indicate a lack of effort on the part of the team; there is simply no way to obtain the data.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      In this paper, Alhussein and Smith set out to determine whether motor planning under uncertainty (when the exact goal is unknown before the start of the movement) results in motor averaging (average between the two possible motor plans) or in performance optimization (one movement that maximizes the probability of successfully reaching to one of the two targets). Extending previous work by Haith et al. with two new, cleanly designed experiments, they show that performance optimization provides a better explanation of motor behaviour under uncertainty than the motor averaging hypothesis.

      Main comments:

      1) The main caveat of experiment 1 is that it rules out one particular extreme version of the movement averaging idea- namely that the motor programs are averaged at the level of muscle commands or dynamics. It is still consistent with the idea that the participant first average the kinematic motor plans - and then retrieve the associated force field for this motor plan. This idea is ruled out in Experiment 2, but nonetheless I think this is worth adding to the discussion.

      2) The logic of the correction for variability between the one-target and two-target trials in Formula 2 is not clear to me. It is likely that some of the variability in the two-target trials arises from the uncertainty in the decision - i.e. based on recent history one target may internally be assigned a higher probability than the other. This is variability the optimal controller should know about and therefore discard in the planning of the safety margin. How big was this correction factor? What is the impact when the correction is dropped ?

      3) Equation 3 then becomes even more involved and I believe it constitutes somewhat of a distractions from the main story - namely that individual variations in the safety margin in the 1-target obstacle-obstructed movements should lead to opposite correlations under the PO and MA hypotheses with the safety margin observed in the uncertain 2-target movements (see Fig 5e). Given that the logic of the variance-correction factor (pt 2) remains shaky to me, these analyses seem to be quite removed from the main question and of minor interest to the main paper.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The authors first use light sheet microscopy to reconstruct embryonic brain development of O. vulgaris. From these images they note a region adjacent to the eye and the developing brain that initially increases in size and subsequently shrinks. They perform transcriptomics and use phylogenetic analyses to identify 4 classes of genes involved in neurogenesis: those that specify the neuroectoderm, neurogenic genes, and markers for differentiated neurons and mature neurons. They perform spatio-temporal analyses of these genes to demonstrate that the lateral lip is the neurogenic region that harbours neuronal progenitors. This region is distinct from the brain, suggesting that neurons migrate long distances from where they are specified to populate the brain. They perform lineage tracing to provide evidence for this migration and demonstrate that the lateral lip is spatially fated so that regions within it generate neurons specific to parts of the brain.

      In summary, this is an elegant study that provides deep insight into embryonic neurogenesis in O. vulgaris.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The manuscript has several merits. Most remarkably, Corbett and colleagues developed an alternative to describing biases in decision making by shifting the starting point of evidence accumulation. Instead, they included a linearly increasing urgency buildup rate that was biased by a value cue presented before task onset. Hence, the subsequent evidence accumulation process (labeled the "cumulative bias plus evidence function", p. 5) was affected by this bias in addition to gradually-accumulated stimulus evidence. To allow the estimation of these new model parameters, starting points and urgency buildup rates were constrained to equal the amplitude and temporal slope of the corresponding beta signal captured in simultaneous EEG recordings.

      They tested a set of alternative model implementations and found that the bias in stimulus-evidence accumulation was best represented by a concentrated burst of value-biased activity that mirrored voltage changes in the LRP. In comparison, a model with sustained value-biased activity provided an inferior account of the data. Moreover, the authors found that a model gradually increasing evidence and noise provided a better account of the data than a stationary evidence accumulation function. This systematic comparison of alternative model implementations is a great highlight of the paper, because it allows to narrow down on the neurocognitive processes underlying biased decision making.

      What limits the generalizability of the authors' results is the sample size and composition. With only 18 participants (one of which was a co-author of this manuscript), the robustness of the authors' modeling results remains an open question. Although 18 participants may provide sufficient power to test a simple main effect in a within-subject design, this does not speak to the issue of the reliability and generalizability of modeling results. Moreover, it is important to note that a sample of 18 participants gives only a power of about 50 % to detect a medium-sized effect with α = .05. Nevertheless, I believe that the generalizability of modeling results is a larger issue than the statistical power. It would have been interesting to assess if the best-fitting model identified in Table 2 provides the best account of the data for all participants or only for a certain percentage of the sample.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      Human and animal work over the last couple of years established that fluctuations in pupil size track the activity of a number of neuromodulatory nuclei, including the noradrenergic locus coeruleus, cholinergic basal forebrain, serotonergic dorsal raphe and perhaps the dopaminergic midbrain. In other words, pupil size fluctuations might track a "cocktail" of neuromodulators. The current paper leverages sophisticated data driven analysis techniques to show that pupil size changes can indeed be modulated by different combinations of subcortical nuclei. Doing so, the paper helps laying a solid and nuanced neurophysiological foundation for the interpretation of results from cognitive pupillometry, an area of neuroscience and psychology that is rapidly expanding over the past years. I do have a couple of concerns.

      Major issues:

      The BOLD hemodynamic response function is slower than the pupil impulse response function. It seems that the authors did not correct for the "lag" between the two (as in Yellin et al., 2015, for example). How much does this matter for the results?

      Baseline pupil size was different between the identified clusters. How was pupil size normalized across rats and scanning runs, so that we can meaningfully interpret such a difference?

      A substantial part of the literature focuses on the relationship between task-evoked pupil and neuromodulatory responses. I understand that this paper describes results from a resting state experiment, but even in these conditions one typically observes rapid dilations. Right now, it seems that the analysis is somewhat blind to these. See for example Fig. 2C in which frequencies are plotted only until 0.05Hz. Can we see this on log-log axes, to inspect the higher frequencies? Note that there is some work that indicates that the slower pupil fluctuations more reliably track ACh signaling, and faster fluctuations more reliably track NE signaling (Reimer & McGinley et al., 2016).

      The authors write "Cluster 2 had the strongest positive weights in [...], but also in brainstem arousal-regulating locus coeruleus, laterodorsal tegmental and parabrachial nuclei." However, the voxel size is very large with respect to the size subcortical nuclei. Because of this, here and in other places, I think the authors should use locus coeruleus region or area, to indicate that their voxel captures more tissue than just LC proper. A discussion paragraph on the spatial specificity of their effects would also help.

      The approach is very data driven and the Results section mostly descriptive. I'm personally not at all unsympathetic to this approach, but I do think the authors could aid the reader better by briefly interpreting their results already in the Results section. Related, the authors end each paragraph with "These results verified [...]" or "These results highlight [...]"; however they don't explicitly inform us how.

      Rainbow and jet colormaps are confusing because they are not perceptually uniform (https://colorcet.holoviz.org/). Please consider using something like "coolwarm"?

      Minor issues:

      "Trial" is not well defined. I take this is a 15 minute run?

      How many trials in each cluster (Fig. 2)? It would be nice to see a more zoomed in version of Fig. 5 so that we can actually see the subcortical regions in more detail.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      Previous reports have provided evidence identifying infection of cotton bollworm with a densovirus as resulting in increased fitness. In the current manuscript, the relevance of this infection towards field resistance to transgenic Bt corn is evaluated by comparing its incidence between regions in China growing non-Bt versus Bt cotton. A clear correlation emerges with infection rates being higher in Bt versus non-Bt cotton growing areas, although its effect on resistance to Cry1Ac and Bt cotton is not as clear.

      Strengths:

      The manuscript presents evidence for the spread of densovirus infection in field bollworm populations, and that this spread seems to occur at a faster rate in areas of China where Bt cotton is grown versus non-Bt cotton areas. Life table comparisons clearly show increased fitness in bollworms infected with the virus. The study capitalizes on availability of an impressive collection of samples with distinct geographic and historic origin to address relevant evolutionary questions.

      Weaknesses:

      The suggested role for densovirus infection in resistance to Cry1Ac and Bt cotton is supported by association and the data presented does not necessarily support causation. In fact, the confidence intervals in all the comparisons from bioassays overlap substantially and the resulting resistance ratio is not a good estimate of any significant differences the infection may have on ability to survive Cry1Ac. Infection by a virus is expected to activate the immune system, so the larvae used in bioassays should be considered as "primed" and the slight reduction in susceptibility should not be considered as an effect of the virus itself. The life table data clearly shows that fertility and fecundity are probably the most relevant aspects affecting fitness of infected insects. These differences in reproduction (even more than differences in larval growth) could explain why infection is rapidly spreading in the wild. However, most of the research and analyses are focused on the possibility that the viral infection may make the insects more able to survive Cry1Ac or Bt cotton. There are no conclusive data supporting this hypothesis in the current version, other than increased infection rates in Bt-cotton growing areas. This could be explained by effects on reproduction rather than enhanced survival. Related to this aspect, there should be a more clear distinction between the densovirus increasing fitness versus increasing resistance, the data supports the former but is not so clear in the later. It would be useful to provide a map detailing regions were moths were collected.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The field of genome dynamics is currently very hot and adaptive transposable elements insertions polymorphisms (TIPS) in wild populations are extensively looked for. Here Oggenfuss et al provide evidence that TE activity within a fungus species can vary drastically (1) in different regions of the world and (2) in the same region within a relatively short timeframe (25 years). The data are properly described and both the figures and text are clear. The authors provide examples of candidate TIPS that could adaptive.

      Important findings:

      • A repertoire of TIPS is provided for 284 genomes. A PCA analysis show that a small number of TIPS can better differentiate two samplings 25 years apart on the same area than the same number of SNPs.
      • Increase in TE content is associated with genome size, between areas and within a single area 25 years apart.
      • Interesting candidates for adaptative TIPS are provided and discussed.

      Limitations:

      • The TIPS (or a subset of them) are not validated using another technique.
      • The relative expression of the adaptive TIPS is not investigated in this manuscript.
      • For genomicists not familiar with fungal genomes the distinction between core chromosomes and accessories chromosomes might be difficult to appreciate.
    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      Gupta et al. provide a very detailed and in depth analysis of the dimerization / oligomerization behavior of the protein Survival Motor Neuron (SMN). The protein is able to use a modified glycine zipper motif to form tightly packed dimers and additional hydrophobic amino acids for higher oligomeric states. Mutations in SMN cause Spinal Muscular Atrophy and the authors show that mutations leading to this disease affect the oligomerization state of the protein. Overall, this is a very detailed study using several biophysical techniques and extensive mutagenesis. The data are of high importance for researchers working in the field of SMN proteins.

      A mechanistic link of how these differences in oligomeric states changes the cellular behavior leading to Spinal Muscular Atrophy is unfortunately missing. The authors stress several times that SMN is part of membraneless organelles. Multivalent interactions are characteristic of such organelles, although they are typically based on "fuzzy" interactions involving low complexity regions (and not all dimerization / oligomerization events can be classified as liquid-liquid phase separation). This limits the impact of this detailed analysis.

      While this very detailed analysis is an excellent source for researchers working in this field the interest beyond SMN proteins will be limited. The paper could also be written in a less dense manner, which would make its reading easier. The main weakness is a missing mechanistic model that can explain how differences in the oligomerization behavior relates to the function of the protein and causes Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The impact of oligomerization on the formation of membraneless organelles would be important.

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      Breska and Ivry tested the role of the cerebellum in temporal expectation, specifically in how temporal expectation affects perception. The question is interesting, as the neural mechanisms mediating the substantial effects of temporal expectation on perception are not well understood. The authors found that in a perceptual discrimination task, individuals with cerebellar degeneration (CD) showed reduced effects of temporal expectation on discriminability with interval timing cues, but intact effects with rhythmic cues. This shows that the role of the cerebellum in temporal expectation (which had been previously demonstrated by the authors) is not merely one of motor preparation. Rather, the cerebellum appears to play a causal role in bringing about the perceptual consequences of temporal expectation for predictable intervals. It also reveals differences between interval timing and rhythmic manipulations in terms of the mechanisms by which they affect perception.

      This is a straightforward study with a clean experimental approach and clear presentation of the data. However, I felt the manuscript would benefit from a more thorough analysis of the dataset, especially given the rarity of individuals with CD.

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      The manuscript aims to identify origins of stochasticity ('noise') in mammalian gene expression focused on the case when a single transcription factor controls the expression of a target gene. It also aims to devise strategies to control mean and variance of gene expression independently.

      The experimental approach uses a light-induced transcriptional activator in two stimulation modes, namely amplitude modulation (AM: time-constant light input) and pulse width modulation (PWM: periodic light inputs in the form of a pulse train). Perturbation experiments target histone-modifying enzymes to influence epigenetic states, with corresponding measurements of single-cell epigenetic states and mRNA dynamics to dissect mechanisms of noise control. Beyond this synthetic setting, the study is complemented by endogenous gene expression noise in human and mouse cells under the same perturbations.

      Major strengths of the study are:

      • The experimental demonstration that, and under which conditions PWM can reduce gene expression noise in mammalian cells; the corresponding data sets could be very valuable for further quantitative analysis.
      • Providing strong evidence via perturbation studies that the extent of gene expression noise is linked to chromatin-modifying activities, specifically opposing HDAC4/5 histone deacetylase activities and CBP/p300 histone acetyltransferase activities.
      • Proposing a positive-feedback model established by these two opposing activities that is consistent with the reported data from perturbation experiments and on chromatin accessibility / modification states.
      • Providing evidence that also in the natural (human and mouse cell) setting, the regulators HDAC4/5 and CBP/p300 contribute to the control of gene expression noise.

      Major weaknesses are:

      • Limited conceptual novelty because noise-reducing effects of PWM have been demonstrated and analyzed previously in synthetic systems in bacteria (with an engineered positive feedback loop; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01498-0) and in yeast (with an engineered single transcription factor as in the present study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05882-2#Sec25).
      • Insufficient evidence for the postulated bistability caused by positive feedback on chromatin states in the mammalian system analyzed, which has implications for the mechanistic explanations provided (e.g., if PWM allows rapid cell switching between 'high' and 'low' states as postulated).
      • Limited theoretical support for the proposed (not directly observable) mechanisms that uses a mathematical model illustrating the potential consistency, but the model is not directly linked to the experimental data and hence of limited use for their interpretation.

      Overall, the authors achieved their aim of elucidating mechanisms for noise control in mammalian gene expression by identifying specific, opposing regulators of chromatin states, with clear support in the synthetic setting, and evidence in endogenous expression control. Conceptual advances regarding strategies for the external control of gene expression noise appear limited because of prior work, which includes more in-depth theoretical analysis in simpler (bacterial, yeast) systems.

      Hence, the likely impact of the work will be primarily on the more detailed (in terms of histone regulators, etc.) study of noise control in mammalian cells, while the data sets presented in the study could prove valuable for follow-up quantitative (model-based) analyses because they are unique in combining different readouts such as single-cell protein and mRNA abundances as well as histone and chromatin states.

    1. “Finance is, like, done. Everybody’s bought everybody else with low-cost debt. Everybody’s maximised their margin. They’ve bought all their shares back . . . There’s nothing there. Every industry has about three players. Elizabeth Warren is right,” Ubben told the Financial Times.

      Pretty amazing statement! Elizabeth Warren is right!

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      This paper presents evidence that membrane potential excursions called plateau potentials are driven by subthreshold oscillation generated by calcium fluxes in mitochondria. Pharmacological and electrophysiological methods were used to deduce that calcium waves were generated in a bilateral pair of electrically-coupled neurons and spread to additional neurons that were coupled to that pair. The identified neurons in Aplysia allow for the detailed measurements needed to determine this mechanism.

    1. 3No one, when tempted, shouldsay, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot betempted by evil and he himself tempts noone. 14But one is tempted by one's own desire, beinglured and enticed by it; 15then, when thatdesire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and thatsin, when it is fully grown, gives birth todeath. 16Do not be deceived, my beloved.17Every generous act of giving, with every perfectgift, is from above, coming down from theFather of lights, with whom there is no variationor shadow due to change.18In fulfillment of hisown purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth,so that we would become a kind of first fruitsof his creatures.
      • James did not want anyone to think that God sends trials to break down or destroy our faith; therefore, he will come back to this point in James 1:13-18. -James knew that most people have an evil tendency to blame God when they find themselves in trials. Yet by His very nature, God is unable to either be tempted (in the sense we are tempted, as James will explain), nor does He Himself tempt anyone.
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      Acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) based quorum sensing systems are an important form of intercellular communication in bacteria. These systems, minimally comprised of a synthase and a receptor, often involve different types of AHLs. This paper uses covariation analyses to try and tease out the determinants of this AHL specificity. Using the GREMLIN pipeline, they identify a series of coevolving residues in LasR and LasI homologs. This is interesting in its own right, and a strength of the paper, as LasR and LasI don't physically interact, and instead interact and covary indirectly by virtue of sharing the same AHL. Through various reporter and biochemical assays, the authors then demonstrate that the residues identified are important for AHL recognition. In the last part of the manuscript, they attempt to use the covariation analysis to guide the 'rewiring' of LasR-LasI to behave like MupR-MupI. This is mostly successful, although LasR-LasI specificity hasn't been 'rewired' so much as simply broadened. The paper could also be improved by fleshing out the description of the results/data obtained - at times it is difficult to assess how the authors have arrived at certain rather sweeping conclusions.

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      This study shows that the Shu complex is critical for 3meC damage tolerance in yeast, supporting the existence of a new pathway for the removal of an important DNA lesion that seems essential in yeast but likely contributes in other organisms. At the same time, it contributes to clarify the distinctive role of homologous recombination in double strand break repair and post-replicative repair.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      Dravet syndrome is a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy resulting from mutations in a sodium channel subunit that is widely thought to cause disease by affecting synaptic inhibition. Here the authors use a well-established mouse model to show that circuit dysfunction results from excess synaptic excitation in the dentate gyrus, potentially providing new insight into the pathological mechanisms underlying seizure activity.

      Strengths of the study include the sophisticated approach of 2P Ca2+ imaging of population activity and whole-cell recording in slices that provide well-supported evidence that circuit dysfunction is independent of GABAergic inhibition. Weaknesses include some oversimplification of the results in the data interpretation such that not all the claims are fully supported and lack of in-depth analysis of the circuit dysfunction with a clear presentation of its developmental time course.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The dark structure of GtACR1 has been almost simultaneously published at the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019 by the Deisseroth and Spudich groups, respectively. Both groups did not manage to solve a structure with an ion bound and there is very limited information on the open conformation of the channel. Both groups identified a central constriction site as being central for the gating mechanism but the Spudich group proposes two additional constrictions (C1 and C3). In this work Li et al are able to solve the structure of a GtACR1 with a bromide bound near C3, which clearly represents a significant step towards understanding the mechanism of light gated anion channels. The structure reveals that Br binds to the intracellular constriction site (C3) resulting in a small opening of C3. The data support the notion that the partial electropositivity of Pro58 together with two tryptophans play a critical role in anion interaction at C3, which was also confirmed by mutagenesis studies. In addition, there was a noteworthy conformational change in the Bromide bound protein in the extracellular constriction (C1), a 180 degree flip of Arg 94 resulting in a salt bridge to Asp 234 and a slight opening of the C1 constriction.

      While the data and conclusions are sound, the lack of discussion of their data in the context of the work of others is a bit surprising.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      This paper investigates the structural conformation of BtuB, a membrane protein involved in the intracellular transport of vitamin B12 in bacteria, using DEER techniques through the labelling of targeted pairs of amino acids. Using these techniques on whole cells, they detect structural conformations of the transporter upon binding of its substrate vitB12 that were not detected when BtuB is not in a natural environment.

      BtuB belongs to a well-known family of transporters found in the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, called TBDTs (TonB Dependent Transporters). The structure of BtuB has been determined by X-ray crystallography in its apo and vitB12 bound states, as well as interacting with a C-terminal domain of the TonB protein, a periplasmic protein linked to the inner membrane that conveys the energy needed for the transport of vitB12 through BtuB. The TBDTs share a conserved architecture comprising a C-terminal 22 ß-barrel ring occluded by a globular N-terminal domain.

      Using EPR techniques, the Cafiso's lab has shown previously that the BtuB structural states are somewhat different or more dynamic than the X-ray structures would suggest. In the present paper they show that the Substrate Binding SB3 loop of BtuB, upon vitB12 binding, adopts some structural conformations in whole cells that are different than observed with BtuB reconstituted in liposomes, showing that a non-natural environment might alter its functionality. By using a set of mutants that supposedly mimics the BtuB-TonB state, they find dramatic conformational changes of the SB3 loop, which might represent an intermediate conformation of the open state of BtuB, in which vitB12 is allowed to move toward the periplasm, bypassing the need of an energized Ton complex. The data presented are convincing and show that the natural environment of BtuB, i.e., an intact outer membrane, but also probably some periplasmic components such as peptidoglycan and the Ton complex, influence the structural state of this protein. Most importantly these states are not detected when BtuB is reconstituted into liposomes, stressing the importance of studying these transporters in whole cells. However, some of the conclusions are premature, especially concerning the mechanism of action of the Ton complex in the catalyzed transport of vitB12. While the data show clear differences between the apo and vitB12 bound states of BtuB, the conclusions on the actual transport mechanism of vitB12 into the periplasm are more speculative.

      The main concern of this reviewer is the conclusions reached from the data obtained with the R14A and/or D316A mutants. There is a clear dramatic change of conformation for the SB3 loop for these mutants upon substrate binding, and as shown the natural environment of BtuB is important to detect these changes. However, the authors state that "breaking the ionic lock and eliminate the electrostatic interactions of R14, as we have done here, should mimic the TonB bound state" (lines 487-488). The data presented in the manuscript do not support this statement as they do not allow to monitor the structural state of the N-terminal TonB box.

      Later it is proposed that "the movement of SB3 may also drive the movement of substrate" (lines 466-467) and that "this structural change may be sufficient to move the substrate into the periplasm" (lines 501-502). This is highly speculative, as in the structural states observed with the broken ionic lock, it cannot be determined if vitB12 is still bound to BtuB, or released in the periplasm. As noted, the "conversion of the transporter to the apo state does not occur under the conditions of the experiment" (lines 398-399). It is possible that this structural state is locked with a vitB12 bound and unable to complete the transport cycle.

      Nevertheless, these mutants affecting the ionic lock seem to represent valuable tools to investigate the structural intermediates during transport. It remains to be seen if these mutants still promote transport in vivo.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The study is focused on the role of noncoding RNA (sfRNA) of DENV in mosquito transmission of the virus. The requirement of sfRNA for efficient transmission of flaviviruses by mosquitoes is well-documented, however the exact mechanisms of this effect are not clearly established. In this manuscript, authors demonstrated that DENV sfRNA is secreted into mosquito saliva within the extracellular vesicles (EV) and can facilitate infection of the acceptor human cells when delivered together with infectious virus in mosquito saliva. This is a novel and intriguing finding that has a potential to expand our understanding of flavivirus transmission and functions of sfRNA.

      The data provided are mostly compelling and provide answers to posed questions. However, additional evidence for EV-mediated delivery of sfRNA into acceptor human cells and the effect of this sfRNA on viral replication in acceptor cells are required to further our understanding of mechanistic aspects of how sfRNA is delivered by salivary extracellular vesicles and how it facilitates virus replication in acceptor cells. A number of additional experiments and clarifications has been requested to clarify this.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      After infection, new HIV-particles assemble at the host cell plasma membrane in a process that requires the viral protein Gag. Here, Inamdar et al. showed that a component of the host cell, the membrane curvature-inducing protein IRSp53, contributes to efficiently promote the formation of viral particles in synergy with the viral Gag protein.

      In cells depleted of IRSp53, the formation of HIV-1 Gag viral-like particles (VLPs) was compromised. The authors showed in compelling electron micrographs that the formation of VLPs was arrested at about half stage of particle budding. Biochemical data (co-IPs and analysis of VLPs and HIV particle content), super-resolution nanoscopy (single molecule localization microscopy) data, and in vitro biophysics measurements (in GUVs), all seem to indicate a functional connection between Gag and the iBAR-domain containing protein IRSp53. The combination of the different techniques and approaches is a clear strength of this manuscript. However, to my opinion, the interpretation of some of the experimental data is somehow limited by the lack of some appropriate controls (that are lacking for different reasons, as the authors state in some parts of the text). These are:

      1) Specificity of the IRSp53 siRNA. Although the authors showed that the siRNA used can deplete the expression of the protein (both endogenous and ectopic), they did not presented any rescue experiments of the phenotypes (or corroboration with different siRNA oligoes).

      2) In the co-IPs (IRSp53 IP + Gag co-IP) there is no assessment of the IRSp53 IP efficiency in the different conditions. The authors argued that IgG signal masking precluded them from doing that.

      3) The authors observed an increase in the membrane-bound pool of IRSp53 when Gag is present (Fig. 2c). It is not clear whether this is specific for IRSp53 or other IBAR proteins can also be more membrane-bound as a result of Gag expression.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      Gentile A et al show a novel role of Snai1b in growth regulation of zebrafish myocardial wall. Specifically, authors show that zebrafish lacking Snai1b exhibit cardiac looping defects (~50% penetrance), consistent with previously described morpholino mediated Snai1b knockdown phenotype. Extruding cardiomyocytes away from cardiac lumen, mostly in the atrioventricular canal region were observed in remaining 50% of Snai1b knockout zebrafish. Using RNA-seq, authors identified several dysregulated genes, including enrichment of intermediate filament genes in Snai1b knockout zebrafish. Among these dysregulated genes, authors suggest that increased Desmin expression and its aberrant localization promote cardiomyocyte extrusion in Snai1b knockout zebrafish hearts. Overall, present manuscript describes a novel phenomenon during cardiac development, hence, it is of interest to developmental biologists.

      Major concerns are:

      1) Snai1 is known to affect cushion formation in atrioventricular canal region. It would be helpful to establish cause and effect relationship for Snai1b in this region. Zebrafish lack global Snai1b expression - so it would be helpful to show if defective cushion promotes cardiomyocyte extrusion in atrioventricular canal region. Tnnt2 morpholino experiments provides some insights, however, it does not rule out role of defective atrioventricular cushion (defective EMT).

      2) For Figure 2 - additional histology / immunohistology to show extrusion, cohesion, and orientation of cardiomyocytes at a section level (2D) in Snai1b knockout hearts could help to characterize phenotype at a cellular level. It is assumed that all cardiomyocytes lack Snai1b protein (immunostaining would help), however, only few cardiomyocyte show extrusion. Minor point - Cartoon images in figure 2 are somewhat disconnected from immunostaining images.

      3) It is unclear whether Snai1b knockout hearts exhibit defective contractile phenotype and whether there is a cardiac phenotype in surviving adult zebrafish. It is also unclear whether RNA-seq and SEM from adult zebrafish heart represent embryonic extrusion and intermediate filament defects.

      4) It is unclear why only few cardiomyocytes show extrusion when most of cardiomyocytes, if not all, are overexpressing Desmin gene.

      5) Molecular link connecting Snai1b and cardiac filaments genes is not determined.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The authors found a mechanosensitive channel gene in T. cruzi, and aimed to characterize the functions. The strength of this manuscript is that the channel has been examined from various aspects: the modelled molecular structures; expression and localization during development; electrophysiological characteristics; cell motility; responses to osmotic stress; regulation of Ca2+ homeostasis; infectivity to host cells. The weakness of this study is the assessment of motility and the nature of the recombinant protein. To conclude, this study provides data sufficient for reporting the discovery and initial characterization of the novel mechanosensitive in T. cruzi. The most significant finding is the correlation with infection, but the involvement in the response to osmotic stress is also interesting in the field of cell biology.

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      Strengths & Overall Comments:

      This behavioral study aims to provide an account of the spontaneous behavior of mice as they learn to explore a novel maze in search of a water reward. The authors analyze the trajectories of mice as they adapt to the labyrinth with particular focus on decisions taken at nodes and T junctions. They describe extremely rapid route learning to home and discontinuous exploratory learning or 'light bulb' moments as evident by instantaneous improvements in navigation performance. The authors capture most of the variance in their overall data with a predictive Markov models that could account for the much subsequent actions of the mouse as it moves from one node to the next. The study should be important to anyone who spends their time thinking about decision-making in mice. It highlights the importance of considering ethologically relevant tasks for understanding decision making in rodent species.

      In this submission, the authors introduce a new experimental paradigm for the study decision making in naturalistic contexts, presenting an opportunity to observe these dynamics away from the standard two-alternative-forced-choice paradigm. The application of modern tracking and posture analysis to maze exploration by rodents generates rich and interesting data, and allows the authors to do their experiments with many animals, and with nearly no human interference or specific instructions. The design of the maze is clever, using an underlying tree-like structure (with the tree folded so it precisely and fully occupies a rectangular area), and relatively deep (6 branching points from main trunk to a leaf node). Mice explore this voluntarily, and water-restricted mice learn to find water rewards at a leaf of the maze. The authors thus study truly voluntary and highly interesting complex behavior, and in a high-throughput way. By studying the dynamics of a mouse in a maze, the authors perform a careful set of analyses, describing discontinuous learning dynamics and the effects of history on decision-making. These results should be of interest to a wide group of behavioral neuroscientists that are attempting to understand the neural basis of how animals make decisions in complicated natural environments.

      The data set released with this submission will be of broad use to the community, and we would not be surprised to see dozens of papers using it moving forward.

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      9 grade language- poetry- 1 class

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      This work is aiming at the characterization of the molecular and kinetic mechanism of how three members of the SLC6 family of transporters, namely for dopamine (DAT), norepinephrine (NET), and serotonin (SERT), transport substrate across the membrane, and how the transport process is affected by cations. The authors use electrophysiology and sophisticated rapid solution exchange methods, in conjunction with fluorescence recordings from single cells, to correlate flux (from fluorescence) with electrical activity (from currents).

      The strength of the methods is based on the application of a kinetic method with high time resolution, allowing the isolation of fast processes in the transport mechanism, and their modeling using a kinetic multistep scheme. In particular useful is the combination with fluorescence recording from single cells, which allows the authors to measure flux and current in the same cell under voltage clamp conditions. This is an elegant approach to get information on the voltage dependence of substrate flux, which is difficult to obtain with other methods. As to the strength of the results, the data are generally of high quality, showing the kinetic and mechanistic similarities and differences between the three transporters under observation. Another strength is that the results are quantitatively represented by kinetic simulations, which appear to fit the experimental data well.

      The major weakness of the research is related to interpretation of the experimental results. While the authors propose a unified K+ interaction mechanism for the three transporters, DAT, NET and SERT, the proposed K+ association/dissociation mechanism is 1) highly unusual, and 2) not unique in the ability to explain the experimental data. As to point 1), the DAT mechanism (Fig. 7A) proposes a sequence of intracellular K+ association and dissociation steps. Since the intracellular [K+] remains constant, such a sequence requires a change of affinity for K+, which is initially high when K+ associates (33 microM according to the provided rate constants) and then has to be low for K+ dissociation (3.3 mM). Such an affinity change requires input of free energy, to promote K+ dissociation. From the provided rate constants and at room temperature this free energy change can be approximated as 11.4 kJ/mol. This is a large energy amount, in fact larger than what is stored in the physiological concentration gradient for one Na+ ion as a driving force for transport. It appears that the transporter would waste a lot of energy for no apparent benefit, with a futile K+ association/dissociation cycle, that would just generate heat.

      Therefore, while the authors have achieved their aim of quantitatively assessing transporter function and thorough description by a kinetic mechanism, their final proposed mechanism does not support all of the conclusions because it is by far from unique in being able to explain the data (point 2) above). While this may be true for other transport mechanisms proposed in the past, the mechanism proposed here is somewhat odd with respect to energy requirements. Thus, it would require extraordinary experimental proof to propose it in exclusion of other, maybe more plausible mechanisms.

      Despite these shortcomings, the potential impact of the work is high, because a unifying theory of cation interaction and stoichiometry of the monoamine transporter members of the SLC6 family has been missing in the literature. In addition, the elegant method of combining single cell electrophysiology and fluorescence flux measurements is impactful, especially in the whole cell recording method, allowing the control of intracellular ionic composition.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      In this manuscript, Mouat et al. investigated the contribution of viral infection to the severity of arthritis in mice. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). By assessing arthritis progression in type II collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) induced mice with or without latent 𝜸HV68 (murine gammaherpesvirus 68) infection, authors showed that latent 𝜸HV68 exacerbates progression of CIA. Additionally, profile of immune cells infiltrating the synovium was altered in 𝜸HV68-CIA subjects - these subjects presented with a Th1-skewed immune profile, which is also observed in human RA patients. Assessment of immune cells in the spleen and inguinal lymph nodes also showed that latent 𝜸HV68 infection alters T cell response towards pathogenic profile during CIA. Lastly, authors showed age-associated B cells (ABCs) are required for the effects of latent 𝜸HV68 infection on arthritis progression exacerbation. Findings presented in the manuscript provides important insights and resource to clinical RA research.

      There are some statistical analyses that need to be updated for completeness and appropriateness of use. In addition, the authors will need to highlight that all analyses were conducted in young mice, whereas RA occurs in aged individuals.

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      This work investigates the structure and maintenance of the blood brain barrier (BBB) in Drosophila. Previous work from this lab and others have shown that the BBB is composed of a specialized type of glia called the subperineurial glia (SPG), which enwrap the entire central nervous system (CNS). Furthermore, they previously identified the Moody G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) as being specifically expressed in SPG and required for BBB formation and maintenance.

      Here they show that Moody protein is localized to the apical membrane domain (facing the CNS) while Protein Kinase A (PKA) is localized to the complementary basal membrane domain (facing the hemolymph of the body cavity). Not only do Moody and PKA have non-overlapping subcellular localization, but genetic interactions show that Moody and PKA act antagonistically in BBB maintenance. They find that both too little and too much PKA activity disrupts the BBB.

      The authors also generate a serial section Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) volume to analyze wild type, PKA hyperactivity, and PKA loss of function animals. They find that loss of BBB function is sue to gaps in the BBB, rather than thinning of the BBB. This conclusion is somewhat weak, however, because they did not analyze a genotype that has thin BBB structure but normal BBB function.

      Their work raises the question of how does PKA promote BBB integrity. They analyze two potential PKA targets (myosin light chain kinase [MLCK], and Rho1), finding that reduced Moody levels lead to disrupted subcellular localization of both proteins in SPG; that reducing MLCK or Rho1 levels causes failure of BBB function; and that reducing Moody can rescue these phenotypes. They conclude that Moody acts antagonistically to PKA/MLCK/Rho1 to establish distinct apical and basal membrane domains in SPG which are required for BBB function.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The paper details a whole genome re-sequencing of 310 accessions of quinoa. This provides a good glimpse of diversity in this orphan crop, plus the GWAS studies are able to help provide the foundations for identifying key genes in quinoa variation. This will certainly advance our knowledge of this increasingly important orphan crop.

      1) One issue that permeates the entire paper is that the analysis is fairly basic and the authors do not make full use of the data. The analysis of population diversity is restricted to PCA, ADMIXTURE and phylogenetic analysis. It would probably broaden the impact of the paper if they can do deeper analysis of quinoa diversity, maybe looking at demographic history, looking at selection of highland vs. lowland, etc.

      2) There is a focus on the rapid LD decay, which the authors attribute to the short breeding history and low selection. That seems like a stretch to make this conclusion based solely on LD decay. As they point out, many other factors could account for this, and the authors should provide other lines of evidence to draw this conclusion.

      3) The GWAS analysis is good and does provide a good foundation for quinoa genetics. The authors discuss possible candidate genes is these GWAS regions. For the thousand seed weight, the relative small span of the GWAS peaks allows for localization of just a few genes in the GWAS region (CqPP2C5 and the CqRING). The GWAS associated with flowering time is larger - 1 Mb with 605 genes - but the authors focus on the GLX2-1 gene. This is again a stretch, as the large region precludes narrowing the candidate list unless there was a compelling mutation (for example a deletion or insertion of a major flowering time gene).

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      Overall the analysis is conducted well and is convincing. The characterisation of neural stem cells using 7 markers as well as their morphology and position, is particularly thorough.

      My main criticism is that the study purports to address the effect of aging but the ages analysed only range from 2 months to 12-months. As 12 month-old mice are still middle aged, it is difficult to conclude anything about the process of ageing, which is usually studied in much older mice (18-24 months). Indeed, some of the changes that the authors associate with an "ageing phenotype" appear in microniches already in 2 month-old mice and are predominant at 6 months. This suggest that the authors are documenting the transition from an immature/juvenile state, which is predominant in 2 month-old mice, to a mature/adult state, which already appears at 2 months but becomes predominant at 6 and 12 months. Importantly, this adult state, including the reduced number of neural stem cells, might not be dysfunctional but on the contrary, may perform very well its role of producing small numbers of new neurons as required during adult neurogenesis.

      Another, lesser concern is that, based on antibody staining performed in tissues from 2-month and 12-month-old mice, conclusions are made on the different expression levels of HOPX, MT3 and LaminB1 analysed at different ages. This assumes that the efficiency of antibody staining is the same in different samples analysed in parallel but this is not shown.

    1. Joint Pubic Review:

      Church et al. carry out a mechanistic study focused on regulation of PKA activity at a specific multiprotein complex nucleated by the scaffolding protein AKAP79. The manuscript presents a rigorous biochemical approach combined with computational modeling to address fundamental issues related to PKA signaling. This is a very important but complex system and the authors have nicely addressed it using in vitro approaches. The in vitro data provide evidence that suggests that the phosphatase calcineurin (CaN), by dephosphorylating the PKA regulatory subunit type II (RII), promotes rapid re-association of the PKA catalytic subunit (C) to RII, leading to PKA inactivation. The model proposed is that this modality of PKA inactivation takes place selectively at the multiprotein complex organized by AKAP79, where CaN, PKA and PKA phosphorylation targets are co-localized: the proximity of CaN to RII at the AKAP79 complex would enhances the efficiency of RII dephosphorylation by one order of magnitude, allowing fast re-association of C and RII subunits. This would reduce the proportion of free C subunits and therefore the level of local PKA substrate phosphorylation. Using purified the FRET reporter AKAR4 as a reporter for PKA activity, they further confirm that the level of phosphorylation of this PKA target at a given cAMP concentration depends on the ability of CaN to interact with AKAP79. Based on these findings the authors conclude that CaN anchored to AKAP79 dephosphorylates AKAP79 anchored RII, leading to fast recapturing on C and inhibition of PKA catalytic activity. They then create a kinetic model for this process where cAMP and calcium are working in opposing ways. Notably, the authors also provide an estimate for the concentration of RII subunits in the hippocampal CA1 neuropil layer and find that this falls within the range at which CaM efficiently dephosphorylated RII in vitro.

      In the context of compartmentalized cAMP/PKA signaling, this mechanism would provide yet another regulatory feature to ensure specific control of target phosphorylation at individual subcellular locations. For example, in dendritic spines PKA regulates long-term depression (LTD) of CA3-CA1 hyppocampal synapses via phosphorylation of AMPA-type glutamate receptors, which is facilitated by simultaneous interaction of receptor and kinase with AKAP79. In this context, at a given cAMP concentration, CaN-dependent inhibition of PKA activity would selectively attenuate AMPA phosphorylation and LTD, while PKA may still be able to phosphorylate targets at other sites.

      The paper presents very clear biochemical data but can be further strengthened by some additional attention to the following:

      While the in vitro data convincingly demonstrate the requirement for CaN to be anchored to AKAP79 for efficient dephosphorylation of RII and confirm that phosphorylation of RII at S98 results in more active PKA, the requirement for RII to be anchored to AKAP-79 for this regulation is not investigated, leaving open the possibility that the more efficient dephosphorylation of RII in vitro may be due increased catalytic activity of CaN when the phosphatase is associated to AKAP79c97.

      The authors show convincingly that the pRII subunits are better substrates when the AKAP scaffold is present. However, they need to address the relevance of having the enzyme (CN) and the substrate (pRIIb holoenzyme) scaffolded to the same complex so that diffusion is no longer a rate-limiting factor in the catalytic event. Are MM kinetics relevant for this process? This is a single molecule event that does not necessarily require that the product be released. Instead the product is returned to the active site of the cleft of the C-subunit in the holoenzyme:CN complex where in the cell it is rapidly re-phosphorylated. Also the authors could show what happens when you have a 1:1 concentration of CN and pRIIb. Following this single transfer event does not require dissociation of the holoenzyme and is likely to be more physiologically relevant.

      Do the authors know if calcium vs. Mg influences this process? Calcium stabilizes the product whereas Mg stabilizes the substrate in the case of the kinase. If calcium levels are high following release of the phosphate, would this tend to keep the phosphorylated holoenzyme in a more inhibited state until calcium went down and cAMP went up?

      This process will take place at membranes which may play a significant role in determining whether the A-subunit is released into solution or not.

      Another important question to consider is whether it is even necessary to dissociate the holoenzyme complex at all. Is it sufficient, for example, to simply unleash the linker region of the RII subunit and thereby open up the active site cleft of the C-subunit? Since the tail of the channel is also tethered nearby, it is perfectly reasonable to catalyze this event without dissociating the complex especially given earlier data by Wang, et al showing that the holoenzyme is very stable even when the key arginines in the inhibitor site are mutated. The same motif has access either to the active site of the C-subunit or to the active site of calcineurin in a cAMP/Ca++ dependent cycle. This leaves the phosphorylated tail of the channel free to be dephosphorylated by other phosphatases that are also tethered to AKAP79 and leaves CN committed to recycling of the RII holoenzyme. In principle this does not require dissociation of the RII holoenzyme if CN is tethered nearby. This is a very fundamental question.

      One point that is not addressed in the study and is important for the interpretation of the results is whether interaction of CaN with AKAP79c97 increases CaN activity per se, such that the more effective dephosphorylation of RII is not due to the physical proximity of CaN to RII on the AKAP but to a more active CaN. This could be addressed by testing the dephosphorylation rate of a phospho-substrate other than 32P-RII, in the absence and in the presence of AKAP79c97 or by repeating the experiments shown in Fig 1 in the presence of the AKAP79c97 variant where the PKA (391-400) anchoring site has been removed.

      AKAR4 is a reversible reporter of PKA activity, so it is surprising that the authors find that its phosphorylation is not affected by CaN. One possibility is that AKAR4 is not a good substrate for CaN. However, multiple studies have shown that AKAP4 can effectively be dephosphorylated. The ability of CaN to dephosphorylate AKAR4 should be investigated further to demonstrate more robustly that, in the in vitro experimental conditions used, the observed reduced phosphorylation of AKAR4 is due to less active PKA rather than more active CaN. This could be done, for example, by repeating the experiments summarized in Figure 3-figure supplement 1C & D using a different phosphatase, to ascertain that the experimental conditions allow for detection of AKAR4 dephosphorylation.

      One limitation of the in vitro work is that only AKAR4 is used to measure the level of PKA dependent phosphorylation. AKAR4 is not a natural substrate for either PKA or CaN and the accessibility of the phosphorylation site to these enzymes may be different than for physiological targets. In addition, AKAR4 is not anchored to AKAP79 and may not be the ideal reporter to investigate the effects of CaN-dependent regulation of PKA targets associated to AKAP79.

      Stoichiometry of free RII subunits. The authors have shown convincingly that the RII subunits in particular are present in excess of the C-subunits, and this has led to some new concepts for PKA signaling. There are two questions that need to be addressed here. Perhaps in the discussion is adequate but they do need to be addressed. First is whether there are separate pools of free RII subunits and holoenzymes within single cells. This is essential for the model of PKA signaling taking place in the presence of a 10-fold excess free RII-subunits. Are the dissociated R-subunits in the same subcellular location? Second is whether the free RII subunits are bound to cAMP. The cAMP-free subunits are noticeably less stable and degraded more rapidly that the holoenzymes so are these free R-subunits bound to cAMP? If not, are they bound to something else that keeps them stable? RII subunits do not form membrane-less puncta as was recently reported in Cell by Zhang but is there some other mechanism that allows for the sequestration of large amounts of free RII subunits?

      Do you need to saturate all four sites to have an active C-subunit that can phosphorylate the tail of a channel? This relates to the question above. Perhaps this would not be measured by the AKAR4 reporter but could it be sensed if AKAR4 were fused to the tail of AKAP79 so that it would be tethered close by similar to the tail of the channel.

      Stoichiometry of two calcineurins vs. one RII holoenzyme or one? The authors need to address this stoichiometry question more rigorously. It is quite fundamental for their assays. Does the computational model provide any ability to ascertain stoichiometry of the productive complex?

      While it is true that neither S/A or S/E will be substrates for CN, they will in fact have a different effect on the RII holoenzyme. Ser/Ala and Ser/Glu mutants are, in principle, quite different in terms of their accessibility to the active site of the C-subunit vs. the active site of CN. The Ser/Ala mutant, for example, should be locked into the active site of the C-subunit, and this would be presumably strengthened by ATP since this is a pseudosubstrate. Does the affinity for C-subunit change in an ATP-dependent manner? The Ser/Ala mutant should be a good inhibitor that cannot be regulated by phosphorylation. It could be activated by high concentrations of cAMP but not by the cAMP signaling that is being described here. The Ser/Glu mutation would favor docking into the active site of CN but would be trapped in this state as it also could not be dephosphorylated. Is this consistent with the models proposed by the authors?

      The in vivo work to assess the physiological relevance on this proposed new modality of PKA regulation is very preliminary. By overexpressing S97A and S97E mutants of RII in hippocampal neurons the authors confirm that modulation of PKA sensitivity to cAMP via RII phosphorylation affects spine density. However, no experimental data directly assess the role of CaN-dependent dephosphorylation of RII at the AKAP79 complex and there is no evidence that this mechanism regulates AMPA phosphorylation or phosphorylation of other physiologically relevant targets. Thus, the caveats that are associated with the system and in particular the physiological relevance of the analyses needs to be addressed. Conclusions based on the preliminary 'in cell' data on physiological relevance should be appropriately tempered.

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      The authors try to shed light on how plant stem cells located in a ring-like structure in the (the procambial cells or cambium) can generate two distinct differentiated tissues, one filling the interior of the ring (the xylem) and the other one surrounding the ring (the phloem). To achieve this goal, the authors propose different models increasing in complexity, and perform a series of comparisons between the model outcomes and experimental data in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl.

      This work seems to provide for the first time a computational framework to model the radial formation of the cambium, xylem and phloem in the hypocotyl. Some of the features of the wild type and mutants could be qualitatively recapitulated, such as the radial organization of the xylem, cambium and phloem in wild type, and a striking phenotype upon the overexpression of CLE41 transgene.

      Although this work is very well written and understandable at the introduction, when paying careful attention to the presented results, there are different aspects that would require further work and investigation, on both experimental and modelling sides:

      The authors chose to study different models increasing in complexity, reaching a more complete model (Model 3, Figure 5A-D) that the authors claim it is recapitulating the experimental data and the explored experimental perturbations (Figure 5E-F). This model is substantially more complex than Model 1 and Model 2, and it is difficult to understand all the claims by the authors, and the radial pattern formation capabilities of it. Yet, a feature that is clear to the eye, both in the pictures and in the movies, is that this model seems more likely to present a front instability of the cambium front progression, disrupting the radial organization of the different tissues (see Figure 5B), which does not seem to happen in the wild type hypocotyl from Arabidopsis. This effect is even more extreme when looking at the pxy mutant (Figure 5F) and when the xylem cell wall thickness is explored through the simulations (Figure 6). The authors claim this model is able to recapitulate a basic feature of the pxy mutant, which is the fact that the distal cambium appears in patches. Although these patches appear in the simulations, this effect in the model might be produced by the instability of the cambium front progression itself, which might be fundamentally different from what happens in the experimental data. In the experimental data, the PXYpro:CFP cambium does not seem to present such front instability, but rather is the xylem that gets fragmented. To make a link between the Model 3 and the pxy mutant, a careful study of the different stages of this phenotype could be useful to do, both on the modelling and experimental side.

      The authors have a parameter search strategy based on matching the proportion of cell types in Model 3. I am wondering how effective is this strategy in a system where these features are evolving in time, especially in Model 3, which seems to present a front instability. Moreover, this strategy does not tell anything about the model robustness for recapitulating the different features of the pattern.

      In the last model, the authors try to link the cell wall thickness with the radiality of the divisions. Although the idea of looking at the division trajectories seems interesting, more clarity is needed to see how helpful is the radiality measure, and perhaps a better measure is needed - note that the proliferation trajectory in Figure 6C might have the same amount of ramifications than in Figure 6B, and therefore, effectively speaking, the amount of periclinal divisions might be the same in both cases. The authors claim that the increase of xylem thickness contributes in having a more radial growth, but this could be related to the cambium front instability, which seems to be more pronounced as well for higher xylem thickness.

      On the experimental side, the claims about the proximal and distal cambium, together with the cell proliferation data are not very well supported with the presented data in Figures 2, 3A and S1. Moreover, these different figures seem to show different behaviors - are these sections at different stages of the hypocotyl? Also, seeing more of the H4 marker in a region of the tissue not necessarily indicates a higher proliferation rate (it could also simply be that cells are more synchronized in the S phase in that region of the cambium, and/or the cell cycle lasts for longer in that part of the tissue). A quantification and the proper repeats to support these claims is lacking. A quantitative and more extensive study of the pxy mutant would enable a better comparison with the simulated model. Is there PXYpro:CFP expression between the fragmented xylem?

      This work might help progress in the field of understanding radial patterning in plants. The introduction and the first models could attract a more general plant audience, but once the models increase in complexity, the narrative and presented results are more relevant to those scientists more specialized in xylem and phloem formation.

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      Mitochondria hyperfission during ishchemia or hypoxia is generally thought as an index of the severity of cytotoxicity, but this group originally identified Cx43 truncated peptide, GJA1-20K, which induces cardioprotection against ischemia/reperfusion injury in mice through promoting mitochondrial fission. Their proposal that GJA1-20K induces mitochodnrial fission independently of Drp1 activation is interesting, but their indirect results are weak to support it.

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      Dengue is the most common arboviral infections in humans. Better tools to effectively triage patients at risk for severe dengue are urgently needed to optimize use of healthcare resources. This well written manuscript by Nguyen Lam Vuong and colleagues assessed the associations of a panel of blood biomarkers on day 1-3 from symptom onset with the development of severe or moderate (S/MD) dengue in a large cohort of children and adults. Ten candidate biomarkers were selected, each representing important pathogenic processes in dengue. Overall, higher concentrations of the biomarkers increased the risk for S/MD dengue. Important differences between adults and children were found for the performance of several biomarkers. The performance of the individual biomarkers, as well as the best combination was assessed for children and adults.

      Strengths: Particular strengths of this study are the uniqueness of the prospective cohort with a large number of participants from different countries and the availability of blood samples early in the course of infection.

      Other strengths include the enrolment of both children and adults, which is important given the observed differences in dengue pathology, the consistent data collection and the use of standardized outcome definitions.

      The authors selected the candidate biomarkers based on earlier pathogenesis studies, reflecting different pathogenic pathways in dengue (e.g. activation mononuclear cells, vascular pathology).

      State-of-the-art statistical modelling was used to assess the performance of the biomarkers.

      Weaknesses: The main aim of the study is to identify biomarkers that predict S/MD dengue early in the course of dengue. This requires biomarkers of which the levels change early after symptom onset. However, levels of several of the biomarkers did not change markedly between the two time points (early vs late), suggesting that the levels of these biomarkers had not yet changed on day 1-3, thereby questioning their use as 'early biomarkers'. The authors selected the biomarkers based on earlier pathophysiology studies. An alternative approach might have been to first measure a larger set of candidate biomarkers in a selection of patients and select only those biomarkers showing a clear change in the early phase.

      The predictive values of many of the biomarkers was only modest or absent. In addition, some of the findings appear a bit counterintuitive. Examples include the trend of the association of IP-10 with S/MD dengue that changed from positive to negative in the global model, and the opposite trends of some of the biomarkers (e.g. IL-8, ferritin) in adults and children. The authors acknowledge the existence of differences in dengue pathology between children and adults, but could discuss the possible biological reasons in more detail. For example, why would specifically IL-8 or ferritin have an oppositie effect in children and adults.

      The study does not include a validation cohort. The authors conclude that their findings 'assist the development of biomarker panels for clinical use.' Can the authors put into perspective the performance of their current combined biomarker panel to rule out S/MD dengue.

      Overall, the authors show convincingly in a unique cohort that biomarkers can be helpful to triage dengue patients already in the first days from symptom onset. Identification of the best biomarkers for this goal, validation in other cohorts, and a better understanding of differences between children and adults are required before such panels can be introduced in daily clinical practice.

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      This report investigates spontaneous neural activity in the spinal cord of healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley rats under anesthesia. Urethane or isoflurane were used, and the effects were compared.

      This manuscript is presented as a research advance that builds upon a 2014 eLife publication. It aims to address unresolved questions regarding the nature of spontaneous neural activity in the cord that give rise to observed resting state spinal cord networks in humans (and other species).

      The similarity of results across anesthetic agents is important and I agree with the authors' conclusion that this provides strong evidence for persistent synchronous discharges between spinal cord regions during unconsciousness.

      Finally, the authors do an appropriate job of describing the weaknesses of the study and how future experiments may continue this line of investigation.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      There are very few studies on the spatial integration of color signals of V1 receptive fields, which is a striking gap in knowledge given the importance of color to primate vision and the powerfulness that spatial analysis of luminance contrast integration has proven for understanding how V1 works. This paper helps fill this major gap in knowledge. The main take home is that double opponent cells and simple cells are more likely to be linear in how they integrate signals across their receptive fields than a sample of non-double-opponent/non-simple cells. This conclusion is consistent with the limited data presently in the literature, and I wonder if further analysis of the rich dataset could uncover some deeper insights.

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      The phase of a signal (similar to its amplitude) is a significant and informative feature that helps for a better representation of time-series data. In Neuroscience, and in the context of neural oscillations, the phase of neural signals (for example EEG and LFP) plays an important role in understanding mechanisms underlying brain rhythms. The author of this paper proposed a novel approach to track the phase of neural signals in real-time. This approach is inspired by [Matsuda and Komaki, 2017] and employs the well-known state-space modeling framework. Using several synthetic data, it was shown that the proposed approach outperforms other methods in the literature which are based on band-pass filtering (not appropriate for broadband rhythms). The simulation studies were designed to demonstrate the strength of the state-space phase estimation approach vs. two recent methods in the context of common confounds such as broadband rhythms, phase resets, and co-occurring rhythms. As well, the state-space phase estimator was applied to in-vivo data including two datasets: (1) rodent LFP and (2) human EEG. Furthermore, the authors made their proposed method available online in the form of MATLAB code as well as a ready-to-use plug-in for the OpenEphys acquisition system. This effort is very much appreciated as it provides the code available for further theoretical and experimental studies.

      While the proposed method is very novel and timely, it would be helpful for the authors to: (i) consider the impact of noise in the phase estimation, (ii) describe specifications of the Kalman filter and its robustness, and (iii) consider the performance of the estimated phase relative to other methods.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The work by Fujimori et al. addresses the role of downstream WNT signaling in thymus epithelial cell (TEC) differentiation and function. A TEC-specific beta5t-cre driver allowed for the generation of gain of function (GoF) or loss of function (LoF) mouse models. The specificity of the beta5t-cre driver system was key in allowing the authors to focus on TEC effects. Of note, the LoF of beta-catenin showed a smaller thymus with fewer cortical TEC, but generally no changes in the thymus morphology or in the ability to support normal percentages of thymocyte subsets. These results clearly establish that WNT signaling plays a minor role in TEC differentiation and function. Nevertheless, the GoF approach led to thymus dysplasia with a loss of TEC identity, due to a loss of FOXN1 expression, as well as a failure to support T cell development. These results point to a role for WNT signaling in inducing the TEC differentiation into other non-T-cell-development-supporting epithelial subsets.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      This is an excellent manuscript in which Bartel and colleagues use an abundance of approaches to provide compelling evidence relevant to the coupling between poly(A)-tail length and translational efficiency. Without reiterating the results, the data are convincing and the paper is clearly written. Any concerns are too trivial to articulate.

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      Strengths:

      1) The model structure is appropriate for the scientific question.

      2) The paper addresses a critical feature of SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology which is its much higher prevalence in Hispanic or Latino and Black populations. In this sense, the paper has the potential to serve as a tool to enhance social justice.

      3) Generally speaking, the analysis supports the conclusions.

      Other considerations:

      1) The clean distinction between susceptibility and exposure models described in the paper is conceptually useful but is unlikely to capture reality. Rather, susceptibility to infection is likely to vary more by age whereas exposure is more likely to vary by ethnic group / race. While age cohort are not explicitly distinguished in the model, the authors would do well to at least vary susceptibility across ethnic groups according to different age cohort structure within these groups. This would allow a more precise estimate of the true effect of variability in exposures. Alternatively, this could be mentioned as a limitation of the the current model.

      2) I appreciated that the authors maintained an agnostic stance on the actual value of HIT (across the population & within ethnic groups) based on the results of their model. If there was available data, then it might be possible to arrive at a slightly more precise estimate by fitting the model to serial incidence data (particularly sorted by ethnic group) over time in NYC & Long Island. First, this would give some sense of R_effective. Second, if successive waves were modeled, then the shift in relative incidence & CI among these groups that is predicted in Figure 3 & Sup fig 8 may be observed in the actual data (this fits anecdotally with what I have seen in several states). Third, it may (or may not) be possible to estimate values of critical model parameters such as epsilon. It would be helpful to mention this as possible future work with the model.

      Caveats about the impossibility of truly measuring HIT would still apply (due to new variants, shifting use & effective of NPIs, etc....). However, as is, the estimates of possible values for HIT are so wide as to make the underlying data used to train the model almost irrelevant. This makes the potential to leverage the model for policy decisions more limited.

      3) I think the range of R0 in the figures should be extended to go as as low as 1. Much of the pandemic in the US has been defined by local Re that varies between 0.8 & 1.2 (likely based on shifts in the degree of social distancing). I therefore think lower HIT thresholds should be considered and it would be nice to know how the extent of assortative mixing effects estimates at these lower R_e values.

      4) line 274: I feel like this point needs to be considered in much more detail, either with a thoughtful discussion or with even with some simple additions to the model. How should these results make policy makers consider race and ethnicity when thinking about the key issues in the field right now such as vaccine allocation, masking, and new variants. I think to achieve the maximal impact, the authors should be very specific about how model results could impact policy making, and how we might lower the tragic discrepancies associated with COVID. If the model / data is insufficient for this purpose at this stage, then what type of data could be gathered that would allow more precise and targeted policy interventions?

      Minor issues:

      -This is subjective but I found the words "active" and "high activity" to describe increases in contacts per day to be confusing. I would just say more contacts per day. It might help to change "contacts" to "exposure contacts" to emphasize that not all contacts are high risk.

      -The abstract has too much jargon for a generalist journal. I would avoid words like "proportionate mixing" & "assortative" which are very unique to modeling of infectious diseases unless they are first defined in very basic language.

      -I would cite some of the STD models which have used similar matrices to capture assortative mixing.

      -Lines 164-5: very good point but I would add that members of ethnic / racial groups are more likely to be essential workers and also to live in multigenerational houses

      -Line 193: "Higher than expected" -> expected by who?

      -A limitation that needs further mention is that fact that race & ethnic group, while important, could be sub classified into strata that inform risk even more (such as SES, job type etc....)

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The gist of this work is that the simple concept of a solubility product determines a threshold for phase separation, thereby enabling buffering even in systems where phase separation is driven by heterotypic interactions. The solubility product or SP is determined by the number of complementary interaction sites and the coordination number i.e., the number of bonds one can make per site.

      The work appears to be motivated by two questions: Are concentrations buffered in systems where heterotypic interactions drive phase separation thereby negating the presence of a rigorously definable saturation concentration? This question was motivated by work from Klosin et al., showing how phase separation can enable buffering of noise in transcription. They relied on the concept of a saturation concentration. In a paper that followed a few months after, Riback et al., showed that the concept of a saturation concentration ceases to exist, as defined for systems where phase separation is driven purely by homotypic interactions. This was taken to imply that the formation of multicomponent condensates via a blend of homotypic and heterotypic interactions causes a loss of buffering capacity afforded by phase separation. The second question motivating the current work is the apparent absence of a theoretical framework for "varying threshold concentrations" in systems governed by heterotypic interactions.

      Using two flavors of simulations, the authors propose that the SP sets an upper limit on the convolution of concentrations that determine phase separation. They show this via simulations where they follow the formation of clusters formed by linear multivalent macromolecules and monitor the emergence of a bimodal distribution of clusters. In 1:1 mixtures of multivalent macromolecules they find that SP sets a threshold beyond which a bimodal distribution of clusters emerges. The authors further find that SP sets an upper limit even in systems that deviate from the 1:1 stoichiometry.

      The authors proceed to show that the SP is influenced by the valence of multivalent macromolecules. They also demonstrate that short rigid linkers can cause an arrest of phase separation through a so-called "dimer trap" reminiscent of the "magic number" postulate put forth by Wingreen and colleagues.

      Is the work significant, novel, and timely? Effectively the authors propose that the driving forces for phase separation can be distilled down to the concept of a solubility product. Given prior knowledge of the valence, coordination number, and affinities can one predict concentration thresholds for phase separation? The authors suggest that this can be gleaned from either network based simulations, which are very inexpensive, or through more elaborate simulations. They further propose that it is the solubility product that sets the threshold.

      It is worth noting that the authors are quantifying what is known in the physical literature as a percolation threshold. The seminal work of Flory and Stockmayer dating back to the 1940s showed how one can calculate a percolation threshold by taking in prior knowledge of valence, coordination numbers, and affinities whilst ignoring cooperativity. These ideas have been refined and advanced in several theoretical contributions by various labs. While none of the papers in the physical literature use the concept of a solubility product, they rely on the concept of a percolation threshold because the transition to large, system-spanning clusters is a continuous one and it is debatable if this is a bona fide phase transition. Rather it is a topological transition.

      As for novelty, unfortunately the authors disregard prior work that showed how linker length impacts local vs. global cooperativity in phase transitions that combine phase separation and percolation. Ref. 23 is the work in question and it is mentioned in passing, even though the contributions here are entirely a redux.

      The concept of a solubility product, introduced here to model / understand phase behavior of multivalent macromolecules, is an interesting and potentially appealing simple description. It might make the understanding of phase transitions more accessible, but it has problems: (a) it does not define phase separation; rather it defines percolation transitions; (b) without prior knowledge of the relevant quantities, the solubility product cannot be readily inferred, even from simulations, although one can scan parameter space to arrive at predictions regarding the apparent valence and coordination numbers. (c) the solubility product does not tell us much about properties of condensates, interfaces, or the driving forces for phase transitions that are influenced by the collective effects of interaction domains / motifs and spacers.

      Finally, as for the absence of a theoretical explanation for the apparent loss of buffering in systems with heterotypic interactions, the authors would do well to see the work of Choi et al., published in PLoS Comput. Biol. in 2019. Figure 12 in that work clearly establishes that the concentrations of A and B species in the coexisting dilute phase are set by the slopes of tie lines - the lines of constant chemical potential. These slopes are set by the relative strengths of homotypic vs. heterotypic interactions, and to zeroth order, that is the physical explanation.

      Overall, the two interesting observations are that the percolation threshold can be cast as a solubility product and that this product sets an upper limit on joint concentration thresholds for phase separation, even in systems with heterotypic interactions, thereby rescuing the concept of buffering.

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      The authors aimed to develop cell-permeable small molecule probes that can monitor the activity of SARM1, an enzyme that hydrolyzes NAD+ and is thought to be important for axon degeneration. They successfully achieved this goal using the base exchange activity of SARM1 to make a donor-π-acceptor type of fluorophore. The best probe described in the manuscript is PC6. A number of experiments were carried to rigorously test that the probe works as expected. PC6 has a number of nice features. It is cell permeable, gives much stronger signal than any other probes known for SARM1, is specific for SARM1 and does not detect the activity of CD38 (another enzyme that has similar activity), and allows detection of endogenous SARM1 activation in neurons.

      Using this probe PC6, the authors was able to monitor SARM1 activity in neurons treated with vincristine and demonstrated that SARM1 activation precedes axon degeneration and is important but not sufficient for axon degeneration. Most importantly, using this probe to monitor SARM activity, they screened a library of about 2000 drug molecules and discovered that a hypertension drug, nisoldipine, could inhibits SARM1. Surprisingly, further studies showed that a derivative of nisoldipine, dehydronitrosonisoldipine (dHNN, present in the nisoldipine compound used ), is actually the inhibitor of SARM1. They then carried nice mechanistic studies (including mass spectrometry and cryo-EM structures) showing that dHNN inhibits SARM1 by covalently modify Cys311 residue in the ARM domain. The dHNN binding site is similar to the previously established NAD+ inhibitory site.

      Overall, the probe is novel with many useful features, the study is rigorous and rather complete, and the conclusion is well supported. I believe the study will be important for the field and will be well received by the field.

      The only minor thing is that the writing can be further improved, especially in the introduction section.

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      This is a very well written and comprehensive paper that is a valuable contribution to the literature of childhood cancers. It shows that some childhood cancers have an inherited component and the risk could be to the mother or to the siblings. Although the relative risks are significant, childhood cancer is fortunately rare and the actual risk to the siblings is small.

      Can we assume this is less than one percent? i think it would be helpful to provide some absolute risk numbers for the siblings so that parents could be reassured that the risk to other children is small.

      Do the authors have a suggestion on what genetic tests should be done on children with cancer? Do you have recommendations to make? i assume that the authors do not recommend screening of siblings for cancer except in rare cases. It would be useful to see what the authors recommend.

      Are there some sites where the risk to siblings is there but not to parents which might suggest recessive inheritance?

      If the childhood cancer is rare and fatal one might not see it in the parents because of loss or reproductive fitness. Please comment.

      Should we assume that the higher risks for Latino children are purely due to genetic influences? Could there be environmental factors at play as well?

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      This Research Advance builds on the findings of this group's 2019 eLife paper which showed that conserved acidic and basic helices associate to enable heteropolymer formation by Snf7 and Vps24. This work provides some general structure/sequence relationships among the homologous ESCRT-III proteins that will be of interest to those in the ESCRT field. While there are no new mechanistic principles obtained from this study, the data allow the authors to propose a model of the minimal or core units needed for ESCRT-III membrane remodeling.

      The focus is largely on similarities and differences between the closely related Vps24 and Vps2, where they show that a few key point mutations or chimeric swaps (for Vps4 binding by the C-terminal region of Vps2) can exchange their functions. The last portion of the paper further tests similarities within the subgroups of ESCRT-III proteins to experimentally test functional groupings defined by sequence relationships.

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      This study investigates roles of DA modulation in projection neuron ensembles in DA-intact mice and Parkinson's disease mouse model using two-photon calcium imaging of direct and indirect SPNs (dSPNs and iSPNs) simultaneously in head-fixed mice locomoting on a freely rotating or motorized circular treadmill. The study begins with careful validation efforts related to their particular imaging conditions and reporter usage. Major findings are: 1) In DA-intact mice, they found that reducing DA receptor signaling by administration of D1/2R antagonists increased iSPN ensemble size (fraction of imaged iSPN active during locomotion) and decreased dSPNs ensemble size, resulting in an imbalance of striatal outputs in favor of indirect pathway. Consistently, elevating DA receptor signaling by D1/2R agonists yielded a dose-dependent imbalance in favor of direct pathway. Interestingly, at one intermediate dose of D1/2R gonists, iSPN ensemble size remained unchanged while dSPN ensemble size increased, whereas at higher doses, both iSPN and dSPN ensemble sizes shrunk. They also showed that reward-induced and nomifensine-induced DA increase recapitulated the low and high dose effects of DA on SPNs, respectively. 2) In dopamine-depleted Parkinson's disease mouse model, the authors found that 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) treatment reduced dSPNs ensemble size acutely (within 24h) and chronically (after 30 days) and increased iSPNs ensemble size acutely. However, the active iSPN ensembles returned to pre-lesion levels within one week. Overall, ablation of SNc DA neurons biased the striatum output toward indirect pathway. Lastly, they evaluated the influence of L-DOPA on SPN ensembles in DA-depleted mice and found that l-DOPA increased the dSPNs ensembles by 10 fold and reduced the iSPN ensembles to below pre-ablation levels, resulting in strong bias toward direct pathway, a finding they suggest may relate to levodopa-induced dyskinesias. Together, this study introduces data to support the concept that SPN "ensemble size" may be relevant for long-standing pathway balance ideas concerning striatal circuitry in the control of normal movement and its demise in PD.

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      The authors sought to assess the relationship between developmental lineage and connectivity.

      This is a tour de force. It relies on detailed EM reconstructions, knowledge of complete neuroblast lineages thus correlating wiring with lineage, and through genetic manipulations of N gene function correlates developmental programs with wiring. The conclusion is important and provides a well described cellular and genetic system for linking the developmental program of a cell to its connection specificity. It provides a framework for considering how to study these questions in other regions of Drosophila and can be extended to the study of more complex mammalian systems where a similar neuroblast-lineage strategy generates different neuron types.

      There are no major weakness.

      This is an excellent study and, in my opinion, is ready to publish in its current form.

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      In this manuscript the authors show that a designer exon containing a Fluorescent Protein insert can be used to edit vertebrate genes using an NHEJ based repair mechanism. The approach utilizes CRISPR to generate DSBs in intronic sequences of a target gene along with excision of a donor fragment from a co-transfected plasmid to initiate insertion of the exon cassette by ligation into the chromosome DSB.

      I like the idea here of inserting FP sequences (and other tags) into introns in this way. Focusing on the N- and C-termini for insertions has always seemed arbitrary to me. In practice these internal sites may even tolerate tag insertions better than the termini. However, this remains to be seen.

      My major reservation with this study is that the concepts here are not particularly novel. The approach is very similar to a concept already well established in gene-therapy circles of using introns as targets for inserting a super-exon preceded by a splice acceptor to correct inborn genetic lesions. The methodology employed is essentially HITI (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature20565).

      What is new is the finding that FP insertions are frequently expressed and at least partly functional as evidenced by their ability to localize to the expected intracellular structures. However, no actual functional data is provided in this study so it remains to be seen how frequently the insertion of FP exons is tolerated. It would help the study substantilly to have functional information for a few insertions.

      The value and utility of this study hinges on whether insertions of this type frequently retain function. The authors speculate that "labeling at an internal site of a gene is feasible as long as the insertion does not disrupt the function of the encoded protein. Many introns reside at the junctions of functional domains because introns have evolved in part to facilitate functional domain exchanges (Kaessmann et al., 2002; Patthy, 1999)." Thus an analysis of how often intron tags are tolerated as homozygotes would be helpful for users who will worry that a potentially "quick and dirty" CRISPIE insertion might not accurately report on the function and localization of their protein of interest.

      Other comments:

      1) Were homozygotes identified and were they viable in each instance?

      2) You say: "The CRISPIE method should be broadly applicable for use with different FPs or with other functional domains, different protein targets, and different animal species." I don't know if you optimized your FP to avoid potential reverse strand splice acceptors, but some discussion of this important point should be made so that those trying to apply the approach will make sure that strong acceptors are not included accidentally in reverse oriented inserts.

      3) Would your mRNA sequencing methodologies detect defective transcripts where the splice acceptor and a portion of the upstream FP exon was inserted causing a frame shifted and mispliced mRNA? Such mRNAs would be unstable due to NMD and thus not detected readily in a PCR based approach. Thus disruption of the mRNA by partial insertion of your donor (or fragments of the other co-injected DNA) might be much more widespread than is measured here. This could be tested by recovering clones that partially inserted the donor in the forward orientation and carefully monitoring for defects in mRNA splicing of the inserted allele. Were such clones detected and how frequently?

      4) You note that in the case of vinculin the coding sequence of the last exon of hVCL was included in the insertion donor sequence, and a stop codon was introduced at the end of the mEGFP coding sequence. This is essentially the strategy for super-exon insertion into targets for gene therapy, instead of a splice donor on the C-terminus you include a stop codon. You should site these previous studies. Inclusion of a stop codon in frame would be expected to cause NMD, did you also include transcription termination signals?

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      In this manuscript Lituma et al. provides compelling evidence demonstrating the physiological role of presynaptic NMDA receptors at mossy fiber synapses. The existence of these receptors on the presynaptic site at this synapse was suggested more than 20 years ago based on morphological data, but their functional role was only shown in a single abstract since then (Alle, H., and Geiger, J. R. (2005)). The current manuscript uses a wide variety of complementary technical approaches to show how presynaptic NMDA receptors contribute to shaping neurotransmitter release at this synapse. They show that presynaptic NMDA receptors enhance short-term plasticity and contribute to presynaptic calcium rise in the terminal. The authors use immunocytochemistry, electrophysiology, two-photon calcium imaging, and uncaging to build a very solid case to show that these receptors play a role at synaptic communication at mossy fiber synapses. The authors conclusions are supported by the experimental data provided.

      The study is built on a solid and logical experimental plan, the data is high quality. However, the authors would need to provide stronger evidence to demonstrate the physiological function of these receptors. It is hard to reconcile these experimental conditions with the authors' claim in the abstract: 'Here, we report that presynaptic NMDA receptors (preNMDARs) at hippocampal mossy fiber boutons can be activated by physiologically relevant patterns of activity'. We know that extracellular calcium can have a very significant impact of neurotransmitter release and how short-term plasticity is shaped. For this reason, it would be important to explore how the activity of these receptors at more physiological calcium concentrations contribute to calcium entry and short-term plasticity at these synapses.

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    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The work by Wang et al. examined how task-irrelevant, high-order rhythmic context could rescue the attentional blink effect via reorganizing items into different temporal chunks, as well as the neural correlates. In a series of behavioral experiments with several controls, they demonstrated that the detection performance of T2 was higher when occurring in different chunks from T1, compared to when T1 and T2 were in the same chunk. In EEG recordings, they further revealed that the chunk-related entrainment was significantly correlated with the behavioral effect, and the alpha-band power for T2 and its coupling to the low-frequency oscillation were also related to behavioral effect. They propose that the rhythmic context implements a second-order temporal structure to the first-order regularities posited in dynamic attention theory.

      Overall, I find the results interesting and convincing, particularly the behavioral part. The manuscript is clearly written and the methods are sound. My major concerns are about the neural part, i.e., whether the work provides new scientific insights to our understanding of dynamic attention and its neural underpinnings.

      1) A general concern is whether the observed behavioral related neural index, e.g., alpha-band power, cross-frequency coupling, could be simply explained in terms of ERP response for T2. For example, when the ERP response for T2 is larger for between-chunk condition compared to within-chunk condition, the alpha-power for T2 would be also larger for between-chunk condition. Likewise, this might also explain the cross-frequency coupling results. The authors should do more control analyses to address the possibility, e.g., plotting the ERP response for the two conditions and regressing them out from the oscillatory index.

      2) The alpha-band increase for T2 is indeed contradictory to the well known inhibitory function of alpha-band in attention. How could a target that is better discriminated elicit stronger inhibitory response? Related to the above point, the observed enhancement in alpha-band power and its coupling to low-frequency oscillation might derive from an enhanced ERP response for T2 target.

      3) To support that it is the context-induced entrainment that leads to the modulation in AB effect, the authors could examine pre-T2 response, e.g., alpha-power, and cross-frequency coupling, as well as its relationship to behavioral performance. I think the pre-stimulus response might be more convincing to support the authors' claim.

      4) About the entrainment to rhythmic context and its relation to behavioral modulation index. Previous studies (e.g., Ding et al) have demonstrated the hierarchical temporal structure in speech signals, e.g., emergence of word-level entrainment introduced by language experience. Therefore, it is well expected that imposing a second-order structure on a visual stream would elicit the corresponding steady-state response. I understand that the new part and main focus here are the AB effects. The authors should add more texts explaining how their findings contribute new understandings to the neural mechanism for the intriguing phenomena.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      The evolutionary conserved Notch receptor cell-cell communication pathway is required in cell fate decisions in many vertebrate and invertebrate cells. In Drosophila, Notch controls (among others) the cell fate decision of the sensory organ precursor cell, SOP. SOPs divides asymmetrically to give rise to an anterior and a posterior cell, pIIb and pIIa, respectively, which ultimately result in the formation of a bristle. In a recent paper form the Schweisguth lab (Trylinsky et al., 2017) is was shown that Notch is found both apical and basal of the midbody at the pIIa/pIIb interface during cytokinesis, and that it is mainly the basal pool of Notch that contributes to signaling.

      Houssin et al. now asked how polarity and signaling proteins involved are distributed during cytokinesis and how this distribution could impact on Notch signaling and hence fate decision. The authors show that during cytokinesis of the SOP several polarity determinants are re-distributed. Bazooka /Par3 becomes enriched at the pIIa/pIIb interface, where it occurs in nano-clusters, both apical and basal to the midbody, while aPKC remains in the apical compartment. Bazooka co-localizes with Notch, Sanpodo, Delta and Neuralised (Neur) in these clusters. In the absence of baz, both the apical and the lateral Notch-positive clusters are decreased in intensity and the number of lateral clusters is reduced at the pIIa/pIIb interface. Strikingly, this only slightly reduces the signaling activity of Notch. Formation of the Baz-Notch clusters depend on the Notch-cofactor Sanpodo: in its absence, the lateral Baz-Notch clusters do not assemble, suggesting that Sanpodo supports Notch signaling by promoting lateral clusters. From the data the authors conclude that the Notch/Baz/Spdo/Neur clusters represent the signaling units at the pIIa/pIIb interface.

      Major strengths and weaknesses

      The authors performed a very detailed analysis to further dissect how Notch signaling at the pIIa/pIIb interface is controlled. They used state-of-the-art live-cell imaging of tagged proteins in wild-type and mutant animals and applied careful statistical analyses of their data. Thereby, they provide a novel link between the role of the polarity protein Bazooka in clustering Notch, and how the particular redistribution of Bazooka/Notch in clusters on the lateral membrane during cytokinesis of the SOP organize putative signaling hubs.

      However, in the discussion the authors fall somewhat short to substantiate their main conclusion that these clusters "represent signaling units at the pIIa/pIIb interface." (line 560). First, although in the absence of Baz the number and size of Notch clusters are decreased, Notch signaling is only slightly affected. Second, no suggestion for any molecular mechanism is provided as to how Baz may organize these clusters, e.g. about the molecular interaction between Baz and Spdo, both of which are required to cluster Notch. And finally, the fact that the clusters are similar in composition apical and basal to the midbody does not help to support (or disprove) the conclusions put forward in Trylinsky et al., 2017, showing that Notch signaling mainly occurs by the lateral clusters.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      In the manuscript by Kymre, Liu and colleagues, the authors investigate how pheromone signals are interpreted by the projection neurons of the male moth brain. While the olfactory neurons and glomerular targets of pheromone signaling is known, the signaling of the projection neurons (output neurons) that carry pheromone signaling to higher regions of the brain remained unknown. The authors utilized a series of technically challenging experiments to identify the anatomy and functional responses of projection neurons responding to pheromone mixtures, primary pheromone, secondary pheromone, and behavioral antagonist odors. By calcium imaging of MGC mALT neurons, the authors identify that odor responses in PNs are broader than the olfactory neuron counterparts (ie, the behavioral antagonist activates OSNs innervating the dma glomerulus, whereas the antagonist actives dma and dmp glomeruli). The authors then perform a series of elegant experiments by which the odor responses of different mALT PNs are recorded by electrophysiology, and the anatomy of the recorded neurons identified by dye fill and computer reconstruction. This allowed analysis of the temporal response properties of the neurons to be correlated with their axonal processes in different brain regions. The data suggest that attractive pheromone signals activate the SIP and SLP regions, while aversive signals primarily active regions in the LH. Finally, the authors present a model of pheromone signaling based on these findings.

      The work presents the first glimpse at the signaling from mALT PNs. The technical challenges in performing these experiments did limit the number of neurons that could be recorded and imaged. As such, the comprehensiveness of the study was not clear, or if additional experiments might alter the findings. The connection of protocerebrum anatomy with functional signaling (as summarized in Figure 6) could have been more clearly articulated.

      The manuscript could benefit by revisions to the text and figure presentations that would make it more accessible to a broader audience.

    1. Reviewer 1 (Public Review):

      In the manuscript by Liu et al., the authors investigate the role of Adgr6 in spine development in mice and dissect tissue specific contributions leading to late onset scoliosis in knockouts. Furthermore, they implicate Adgr6 in regulating gene expression and the mechanical properties of dense connective tissues via cAMP signaling that are linked to de development of scoliosis.

      Overall, this is an interesting and thorough study of the developmental roles of Adgr6 in spine development that contributes both to the understanding of spine morphogenesis and the etiology of common types of scoliosis that are of unknown origin (i.e., idiopathic). Through the use of various tissue specific drivers, the authors generate conditional mouse knockouts that allowed them to dissect the respective contribution of Adgr6's function in each spine associated tissue. In addition to the use of state-of-the-art genetic tools, the authors show beautiful histological and micro-CT data illustrating developmental processes and phenotypes with great detail. Their results also implicate cAMP signaling and CREB activity in the regulation of mechanical properties of dense spine tissues.

    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      ER retrieval mediated by the KDEL receptor occurs for cargo present from great to minimal abundance and for cargo with different variations of the "KDEL" carboxy terminal sorting signal. Using a detailed structure/function approach, this study provides insight into the mechanism of cargo recognition by the receptor. A significant advance is the new structural data derived from co-crystals of the receptor with TAEHDEL and TAERDEL peptides that is now compared with the previous KDEL co-crystal structure. From there, the investigators use mutation of both receptor and cargo sequences as well as molecular simulation of the binding interaction. Altogether the findings identify charged receptor residues playing a role in specificity based on the -4 position of the signal, a receptor tryptophan that accounts for higher affinity binding to HDEL, and binding pocket arginines that may be sequentially engaged by the carboxy terminus for capture of the three carboxyl groups in the DEL portion of the signal. The work is meticulously carried out and the findings will likely be of significant interest to the field.

    1. Joint Public Review:

      Bohm et al. investigated the operating conditions of the soleus and the vastus lateralis muscle during running. They report different roles for the two muscles. The soleus acts as an energy generator characterized by a high force-length potential and enthalpy efficiency whereas the vastus lateralis acts as an energy conservator, characterized by a high force-length and force-velocity potential. The authors show how the decoupling of the muscle-tendon-unit length and the fascicle length, mainly attributable to tendon compliance, allows both muscles to work at a high, almost optimal , force-length potential. Beside this similarity the soleus shortens throughout stance phase (concentric mode) whereas the vastus lateralis shows almost no length changes (isometric mode) and is activated primarily in the first part of the stance phase. These observations in combination with the calculated enthalpy efficiency for soleus and the estimated force-velocity potential for vastus lateralis clarify the role of the two muscles in the optimization of muscle energy production and force generation during the experimental condition. The authors use a complex methodology and calculate the variables of interest in the most sophisticated way. The results of the present study contribute in a comprehensive way to the ongoing discussion on muscle and tendon interaction during human locomotion. The conclusions of this paper are mostly well supported by measured and modeled data, but some aspects of the experimental setup and data modeling need clarification and a more thorough discussion.

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    1. Reviewer 1 (Public Review):

      The manuscript by Pantaleao et. al., describes the effects of maternal diet-induced obesity on lipid composition in maternal and fetal serum and the fetal heart, and in the fetal heart transcriptome. Lipid composition in fetal serum and heart was analyzed in males and females. This study revealed sex-specific effects of obesity during pregnancy. The authors found changes in the lipidome of both mother and fetus in response to obesity. Many of the lipid profiles exhibit sex specific changes in the fetal sera. Similarly, the authors identified sex-specific changes to the lipidome of the fetal heart. Through the use of transcriptomic analysis on the fetal heart, the authors identified changes in the expression of genes regulating lipid metabolism. The results presented provide insight into the still poorly understood processes influencing the long-term health of the fetus.

      The work characterizes an important aspect of the effects of maternal obesity and the results are visually well presented. A limitation is that this is a largely descriptive study. Nonetheless, the authors provide a detailed description of the lipid composition changes in response to maternal obesity and associated with sex.

      The introduction provides key information about the effects of obesity during pregnancy in the offspring, and the relevance of lipids in heart homeostasis. However, cardiac transcriptional regulation and sex-specific responses, which are the other key components of this study, could be more cohesively integrated.

      Some of the results presented can be analyzed in deeper detail to establish correlation between sex and diet with lipid composition and cardiac gene expression.

  8. Apr 2021
    1. Reviewer #1 (Public Review):

      This study reports that deletion of Tsc1 restricted to cerebellar Purkinje cells leads to decreased levels of mRNAs associated with FMRP targets although their ribosomal bindings are increased likely through compensatory mechanisms. However, protein levels of Shank2, one of the core FMRP targets, are decreased, suggesting that the compensatory increases in the ribosomal binding of FMRP target mRNAs do not rescue Shank2 protein expression. The analyses for transcriptional and translational processes were performed carefully and in a balanced manner, and the results are largely convincing and support the key conclusions. Considering the growing importance of mTOR signaling and cerebellar functions in ASD pathophysiology, the present work suggests that FMRP target transcripts are key mediators of Tsc1-related cerebellar dysfunctions, which is an important and timely contribution to the field.

    1. Joint Public Review:

      This well-written manuscript describes a spontaneous autoinflammatory phenotype of STAT1-deficient mice, characterized by myeloid hyperplasia, expansion of Th17 cells, microbiota dysbiosis, and inflammatory bowel disease. A similar autoinflammatory condition is seen in humans deficient in STAT1, and in independent colonies of STAT1-deficient mice, but its mechanistic basis is not understood. STAT1 is a critical transcription factor downstream of type I, II (gamma), and III interferon (IFN) signaling. The authors are able to recapitulate the disease phenotype in mice with combined deficiency in both STAT2 (essential for type I and III IFN signaling) and the receptor for IFN gamma, but not in mice deficient in both the type I and II IFN receptors, implying that the phenotype arises from deficiency of all three classes of interferons. Thus the authors conclude that suppression of spontaneous autoinflammatory disease is a redundant function of type I/II/III IFNs. Disease is ameliorated by IL-17 deficiency, indicating a critical role for type 17 responses in pathogenesis. Disease is also ameliorated by treating STAT1 deficient mice with antibiotics, implying a role for the microbiota in the disease progression. The authors' model is that interferons regulate the composition of the microbiota and that dysbiosis of the microbiota then produces the inflammatory disease. The main limitation of the manuscript is that it is not explained how interferons regulate microbiota composition, or how the altered microbiota then produces inflammation. These issues are likely beyond the scope of what could be expected to be fully addressed for this initial paper. However, analysis of disease-free STAT1/IL17-deficient mice could provide insight into whether dysbiosis and inflammation is upstream or downstream of IL-17 signaling.