Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Vol. 122, Issue 51 Issue 51 2025
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Derepression of transposable elements in the mouse prefrontal cortex disrupts social behavior

R. Kijoon Kim, Corinne Smith, Natalie L. Truby et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2510663122

The neurobiological origins of social behaviors are poorly understood. Previous studies have linked the function of a single Krüppel-associated box zinc finger protein (KZFP), ZFP189, in the mouse pre...

Crucial roles of mesenchymal <i>Gata2</i> in murine epididymal development

Allyssa Fogarty, Shuai Jia, Jillian Wilbourne et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2507090122

Androgens drive the morphogenesis and differentiation of the Wolffian duct (WD) into the epididymis, an essential organ for male reproduction, by binding to the androgen receptor (AR). However, it rem...

Correction for Goteti et al., Collective neural network behavior in a dynamically driven disordered system of superconducting loops

Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2533693122

Correction for Wang et al., Engineering bacteria for cancer immunotherapy by inhibiting IDO activity and reprogramming CD8+ T cell response

Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2533734122

Correction to Supporting Information for Han et al., CASKIN2 mediates PTPσ-orchestrated transsynaptic mechanisms at excitatory synapses

Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2533910122

The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves

Deanna M. Kaplan, Roman Palitsky, Charles L. Raison Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2518999122

David John “Davo” Mangelsdorf (1958–2025): A life of science, friendship, and joy

Ronald M. Evans Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2534320122

David John “Davo” Mangelsdorf passed away on August 3, 2025, in Dallas, Texas at age 67 from an unexpected postsurgical complication. Davo made transformative contributions to nuclear receptor and met...

Structural insights into human signal peptide peptidase

Gaoxingyu Huang, Xuefei Guo, Jiaoni Wang et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2528340122

The signal peptide peptidase (SPP) remains the only intramembrane protease family that is yet to be structurally characterized. Here, we report the cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of huma...

Lab on an end: Micromanipulation using the acoustohydrodynamic pillar array as an end effector

Zhuo Chen, Chenhao Bai, Fengyu Liu et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2505479122

The concept of microfluidics has shown considerable promise for advancing chemistry, diagnostics, and biology. However, there have been no guaranteed routes of microfluidics that can achieve widesprea...

Turncoat antibodies unmasked in a model of autoimmune demyelination: From biology to therapy

Reza Taghipour-Mirakmahaleh, Françoise Morin, Yu Zhang et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2424988122

Autoantibodies contribute to many autoimmune diseases, yet there is no approved therapy to neutralize them selectively. A popular mouse model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), could se...

Correction for Agrawal and Dehaene, From retinotopic to ordinal coding: Dissecting the cortical stages of visual word recognition

Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2534270122

Flat-band tuning and emergent itinerant magnetism in Sr(Co <sub> 1− <i>x</i> </sub> Pd <sub> <i>x</i> </sub> ) <sub>2</sub> As <sub>2</sub>

Santanu Pakhira, Yongbin Lee, Asish K. Kundu et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2519523122

The interplay between magnetism and flat-band (FB) instability is a central theme in quantum materials research. A striking example is the emergence of magnetic order in a nominally nonmagnetic compou...

Learning to learn ecosystems from limited data

Zheng-Meng Zhai, Bryan Glaz, Mulugeta Haile et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2525347122

A fundamental challenge in developing data-driven approaches to ecological systems for tasks such as state estimation and prediction is the paucity of the observational or measurement data. For exampl...

A further modification of the elastic field of an edge dislocation

John P. Hirth, Jian Wang Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2527724122

A previous modification removed a nonphysical divergence of the elastic displacement field of an edge dislocation. The traditional elastic equations are correct to linear elastic order. However, there...

Evolution of repressive sequences within an enhancer contributed to morphological diversity in crucifer plants

Alessandro Popoli, Remco A. Mentink, Lisa Brombach et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2515732122

Cis -regulatory sequences, such as enhancers, play a crucial role in morphological evolution, but how their diversification leads to evolution of novel expression patterns that und...

An abundant membrane protein in the NCAM superfamily is required for epithelial organization in sea anemone embryos

Anna Postnikova, Julissa G. Tello, Maristhela Alvarez et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2521737122

Assembly of cells into epithelial layers marks the early steps of tissue organization and embryonic development in most animals. Although several conserved proteins are known to be essential for epith...

Cryo-EM structure of the Rift Valley fever virus envelope protein in complex with a potent neutralization antibody

Linjing Zhang, Kaiwen Meng, Ye Xiang Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2514862122

Entry of Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) into host cells is mediated by the viral glycoproteins Gn and Gc. Structural details and assembly mechanism of Gn and Gc on the surface of RVFV remain unclear....

Four-hour thunderstorm nowcasting using a deep diffusion model for satellite data

Kuai Dai, Xutao Li, Junying Fang et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2517520122

Convection (thunderstorm) develops rapidly within hours and is highly destructive, posing a significant challenge for nowcasting and resulting in substantial losses to infrastructure and society. Afte...

Asymmetrical recognition and processing of double-strand breaks formed during DNA replication

Matthew J. Johnson, Michael T. Kimble, Seoyeon Jeong et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2517830122

DNA end resection to generate 3′ single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) overhangs is the first step in homology-directed mechanisms of double-strand break (DSB) repair. While end resection has been extensively s...

MLKL/retromer axis controls PD-L1 recycling to compromise antitumor immunity during VCP inhibition–induced necroptosis

Yang Wang, Zi-Jia Huang, Nan-Nan Yu et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2518675122

The activation of the vesicular trafficking system, including endosomal recycling and extracellular vesicle (EV) release, represents an adaptive mechanism in cancer cells to counteract cellular stress...

Beyond static pores: A dynamic mechanism of antimicrobial action

Behzad Mehrafrooz Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2529116122

The kinesin-4 protein KIF27 forms a cytoskeletal scaffold at the transition zone to promote motile cilia structural integrity

Hyunji Park, Minjun Choi, Yu Zhang et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2515392122

Motile cilia are eukaryotic organelles with essential chemo- and mechanosensing functions across evolution, from single cell organisms to humans. Motile cilia of the mammalian nervous, respiratory, an...

DIS3L2-mediated RNA surveillance and extracellular vesicle packaging prevent innate immune activation by aberrant cellular RNAs

Sandra G. Williams, Soyeong Sim, Wilfried M. Guiblet et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2526318122

Although most studies of the RNAs within extracellular vesicles (EVs) have focused on messenger RNA (mRNA) and microRNAs (miRNAs), recent analyses have revealed that transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and other no...

Mysterium vitreum: Revealing the hidden polyhedral order of glass

John Russo Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2530034122

Cognition varies across the calendar year in multiple large-scale datasets

Arielle S. Keller, Alisha Shetty, Ran Barzilay et al. Dec 23, 2025 10.1073/pnas.2506054122

Children’s cognitive abilities vary across short and long timescales, from circadian fluctuations to year-by-year developmental changes. “Summer slide” refers to seasonal variation in academic perform...

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Publisher National Academy of Sciences
ISSN 0027-8424
E-ISSN 1091-6490
Subject Life Sciences
Language English
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