SPECIAL ARTICLE
- Model systems of protein-misfolding diseases reveal chaperone modifiers of proteotoxicity
Summary: Brehme and Voisine perform a comprehensive literature survey that highlights the power of model systems to unveil key chaperone modifiers of proteotoxicity with potential therapeutic implications.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
- A chemical with proven clinical safety rescues Down-syndrome-related phenotypes in through DYRK1A inhibition
Editors' choice: In vivo validation of a potent DYRK1A inhibitor, with proven clinical safety, using Down-syndrome- and Alzheimer's-disease-like models.
- Conditional deletion of AP-2β in mouse cranial neural crest results in anterior segment dysgenesis and early-onset glaucoma
Summary: Tissue-specific deletion of transcription factor AP-2β in the neural-crest-derived periocular mesenchyme generates a novel model of anterior segment dysgenesis and early onset glaucoma in mice.
- YBR/EiJ mice: a new model of glaucoma caused by genes on chromosomes 4 and 17
Summary: We identify the YBR/EiJ mouse strain as a new model of high intraocular pressure and glaucoma, and also identify genetic loci that contribute to this glaucoma.
- Loss of vhl in the zebrafish pronephros recapitulates early stages of human clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Summary: Zebrafish with an inactivating mutation in the vhl gene can be used as a model of early stage clear cell renal cell carcinoma, with applications for genetic studies and drug screens.
- Alterations in nuclear structure promote lupus autoimmunity in a mouse model
Summary: Combining a disruption in nuclear structure with a lupus-prone genetic background induces autoimmunity, suggesting that nuclear alterations trigger the disease in genetically susceptible individuals.
- MicroRNA screening identifies a link between NOVA1 expression and a low level of IKAP in familial dysautonomia
Summary: A miRNA screening conducted in olfactory stem cells from patients links the neuron-specific splicing factor NOVA1 to neurodegeneration in familial dysautonomia.
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Editor’s Choice – Mild maternal hyperglycemia in INSC93S transgenic pigs causes impaired glucose tolerance and metabolic alterations in neonatal offspring
Simone Renner and colleagues used a transgenic pig model to show that mild hyperglycemia in insulin-mutant mothers results in poorer glucose tolerance and metabolic disturbances in the offspring, even wild-type ones.
In their article and accompanying poster, Martina Konantz and colleagues summarize the last 20 years of research in zebrafish models for hematopoietic disorders, highlighting how these models were created and are being applied for translational research.
A new Resource article from Susanne Sattler’s group describes a refined MRI technique to quantify acute hemorrhagic myocarditis in mice.
Have you seen our interviews with the early-career first authors of our papers? Recently, we caught up with Karishma Chhabria, Eleftheria Pervolaraki, Tamio Furuse, Hiroshi Mizuma, Katja Graf, Antonia Last and Monika Tomecka.
DMM joins the Review Commons initiative
Disease Models & Mechanisms is pleased to be a part of the new and exciting Review Commons initiative, launched by EMBO and ASAPbio. Streamlining the publishing process, Review Commons enables high-quality peer review to take place before journal submission. Papers submitted to Review Commons will be assessed independently of any journal, focusing solely on the paper’s scientific rigor and merit.
preLights – preLights reaches 500 posts!
The success of preLights is down to the hard work of our preLighters. Head over to the preLights website to find out more about our most active early-career-researchers.