CellPub Date : 2026-09-03Epub Date: 2026-08-11DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.047
Feng Wang, Damian C Ekiert, Insha Ahmad, Wenli Yu, Yong Zhang, Omar Bazirgan, Ali Torkamani, Terje Raudsepp, Waithaka Mwangi, Michael F Criscitiello, Ian A Wilson, Peter G Schultz, Vaughn V Smider
{"title":"Reshaping Antibody Diversity.","authors":"Feng Wang, Damian C Ekiert, Insha Ahmad, Wenli Yu, Yong Zhang, Omar Bazirgan, Ali Torkamani, Terje Raudsepp, Waithaka Mwangi, Michael F Criscitiello, Ian A Wilson, Peter G Schultz, Vaughn V Smider","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":" ","pages":"5822-5823"},"PeriodicalIF":45.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148711592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.050
Han Shi,E. Andrew Bennett,Guoke Chen,Hui Wang,Tianyi Wang,Peng Cao,Ruilin Mao,Fan Bai,Qingyan Dai,Feng Liu,Xiaotian Feng,Yongan Wang,Chong Yao,Jing Wu,Wenjun Wang,Ming Zhang,Tianxiang Liu,Jingkun Ran,Yue-Chen Liu,Yuan Liu,Dan Ju,Chuyan Li,Hongwei Hou,Xinyi Liu,Qiaomei Fu
{"title":"Genomics and social practices at Mogou and other Gansu sites during prehistoric trans-Eurasian exchange","authors":"Han Shi,E. Andrew Bennett,Guoke Chen,Hui Wang,Tianyi Wang,Peng Cao,Ruilin Mao,Fan Bai,Qingyan Dai,Feng Liu,Xiaotian Feng,Yongan Wang,Chong Yao,Jing Wu,Wenjun Wang,Ming Zhang,Tianxiang Liu,Jingkun Ran,Yue-Chen Liu,Yuan Liu,Dan Ju,Chuyan Li,Hongwei Hou,Xinyi Liu,Qiaomei Fu","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.050","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning approximately 4,000 years ago, southwest-Asian-originating domesticated crops and livestock began appearing in Gansu, a key crossroads in northwestern China, yet the population dynamics and social practices underlying these historically transformative events in the region have not been fully explored. Despite the adoption of western domesticates, genome sequences of 149 individuals from the large Mogou cemetery and ten other sites in Gansu, dating between 4,700 and 3,000 years ago, revealed migrations within East Asian regions but no detectable evidence of genetic influence from western or central Eurasia, suggesting that early agricultural dispersals may have followed a model distinct from that documented in Europe and Central Asia. The Mogou cemetery represents a continuous community that interacted with surrounding regions but does not exhibit clear matrilocal or patrilocal residential patterns. We found no strong evidence that co-buried individuals represented biological relatives. Non-local ancestry appears to be linked to lower-status burial practices.","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.001
Michael Alexanian,Deepak Srivastava
{"title":"The regulatory logic linking inflammation and fibrosis","authors":"Michael Alexanian,Deepak Srivastava","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"Whether tissue injury resolves or progresses to chronic scarring is determined by regulatory choices that remain only partially understood. In this review, we propose that immune cells and fibroblasts function as dynamic interpreters of intercellular cues, integrating these signals through chromatin-regulated gene circuits that govern cell state and fate. Drawing on insights from cardiac biology and from settings where tissues regenerate or resolve injury without scarring, we outline a molecular framework in which immune-stromal crosstalk and gene regulatory networks dictate the choice between recovery and chronic fibrosis across organs, including the heart, lung, liver, and kidney. Reframing fibrosis as a reversible state shaped by disrupted regulatory logic opens therapeutic avenues that move beyond suppressing fibrotic outputs toward rewiring the regulatory programs that sustain them.","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03Epub Date: 2026-06-30DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.012
Meseret T Haile, Daphne A Kaxiras, James Zhen, Carolyn L Lee, Britney Jiang, Jennifer L Small-Saunders, Chi-Min Ho
{"title":"Structural basis for host membrane binding and remodeling by invading malaria parasites.","authors":"Meseret T Haile, Daphne A Kaxiras, James Zhen, Carolyn L Lee, Britney Jiang, Jennifer L Small-Saunders, Chi-Min Ho","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Plasmodium moving junction is central to malarial host-cell invasion, and yet its function remains unclear. Here, we determine the endogenous structure of the basic repeating unit of the moving junction, purified directly from invasion-stalled Plasmodium falciparum parasites, revealing a sailboat-shaped 1:1:1:1 assembly of apical membrane antigen 1 (PfAMA1) and rhoptry neck proteins 2, 4, and 5 (PfRON2, PfRON4, and PfRON5). We observe two PfRON2 transmembrane helices that anchor the complex in the red blood cell (RBC) membrane and display an extracellular handle for PfAMA1 binding. PfAMA1 directly contacts the RBC membrane, strengthening the connection. PfRON2/4/5 form a large, basic platform inside the RBC that electrostatically engages the RBC membrane and wedges seven amphipathic helices deep into the bilayer, suggesting an active role in host-membrane remodeling. We then leverage the native membrane context revealed by our structure, along with recent advances in computational protein design, to enable the rational design of a small protein binder that inhibits invasion.</p>","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":" ","pages":"5625-5639.e6"},"PeriodicalIF":45.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13322224/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148359480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.016
Ibrahim Tastekin,Inês de Haan Vicente,Rory J. Beresford,Billy J. Morris,Isabella Beckett,Philipp Schlegel,Marina Gkantia,FlyEM Project Team,Cambridge Connectomics Group,Elizabeth C. Marin,Marta Costa,Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis,Carlos Ribeiro
{"title":"The complete gustatory connectome of adult Drosophila reveals how taste guides feeding, foraging, and social behavior","authors":"Ibrahim Tastekin,Inês de Haan Vicente,Rory J. Beresford,Billy J. Morris,Isabella Beckett,Philipp Schlegel,Marina Gkantia,FlyEM Project Team,Cambridge Connectomics Group,Elizabeth C. Marin,Marta Costa,Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis,Carlos Ribeiro","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.016","url":null,"abstract":"Gustatory systems drive critical survival behaviors such as feeding, foraging, and social interactions. However, gustation remains one of the least mapped sensory modalities at the connectome level. Here, we present the first complete wiring diagram of the male Drosophila adult gustatory system, comprehensively reconstructing gustatory receptor neurons (GRNs) from peripheral organs in a contiguous electron microscopy volume spanning brain, cervical connective, and ventral nerve cord. Integrating this with existing datasets, we generated a pan-central nervous system (CNS), cross-sex connectome that reveals GRN diversity through connectivity-based clustering, molecular identity mapping, and sexual dimorphism analysis. We mapped all feeding motor neurons and traced complete sensory-to-motor pathways to feeding, foraging, endocrine, and social behavior circuits. The emerging circuit architectures reveal distinct circuits for nutrient assessment, motor control, neuroendocrine regulation, and courtship. This work defines the gustatory system’s organization at synaptic resolution and provides a framework for understanding how internal states modulate sensory-driven decisions across behavioral contexts.","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.008
Liu Yang,Michael A. Wheeler
{"title":"Enteric glial serotonin signaling drives anti-tumor immunity in colorectal cancer","authors":"Liu Yang,Michael A. Wheeler","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"Peripheral serotonergic signaling has been implicated in diverse physiological processes, yet its role in coordinating glial-immune interactions remains poorly understood. In this issue of Cell, Wen and colleagues identify enteric glial cells as critical effectors of peripheral 5-HT2AR agonism, uncovering a serotonergic neuroimmune circuit that drives cytotoxic T cell-mediated immunity against colorectal cancer.","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03Epub Date: 2026-07-20DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.037
Meredith N Nix, Sai Gourisankar, Kevin J Bowman, Sabin A Nettles, Haopeng Yang, Brendan G Dwyer, Roman C Sarott, Hind Abuzaid, Michael M Martinez, Nick Phillips, Vincent Cabaud, Artur Hakobyan, Vahram Arakelov, Garik Petrosyan, Aram Davtyan, Yanlan Wang, Juste M Simanauskaite, Bryan A Romero, Hannah M Jones, Andrey Krokhotin, Tara N Lowensohn, Lei Chen, Cara Low, Hannes Vogel, Mark M Davis, Daniel Fernandez, Tinghu Zhang, Michael R Green, Stephen M Hinshaw, Nathanael S Gray, Gerald R Crabtree
{"title":"A bivalent molecular glue linking lysine acetyltransferases to oncogene-induced cell death.","authors":"Meredith N Nix, Sai Gourisankar, Kevin J Bowman, Sabin A Nettles, Haopeng Yang, Brendan G Dwyer, Roman C Sarott, Hind Abuzaid, Michael M Martinez, Nick Phillips, Vincent Cabaud, Artur Hakobyan, Vahram Arakelov, Garik Petrosyan, Aram Davtyan, Yanlan Wang, Juste M Simanauskaite, Bryan A Romero, Hannah M Jones, Andrey Krokhotin, Tara N Lowensohn, Lei Chen, Cara Low, Hannes Vogel, Mark M Davis, Daniel Fernandez, Tinghu Zhang, Michael R Green, Stephen M Hinshaw, Nathanael S Gray, Gerald R Crabtree","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.037","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developing cancer therapies that induce specific death of malignant cells is critical for preventing relapse. Highly effective strategies, such as immunotherapy, exemplify this principle. Here, we provide the mechanistic basis for a small-molecule approach that leverages chemically induced proximity (CIP) to kill diffuse large B cell lymphoma, the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma. We developed lysine acetyltransferase (KAT)-based TCIPs (transcriptional/epigenetic chemical inducers of proximity), or KAT-TCIPs, which redirect p300/CREB-binding protein (CBP) to activate cell-death networks repressed by the oncogenic driver BCL6. Our lead KAT-TCIP reprograms the epigenome to initiate apoptosis. The crystal structure of the chemically induced p300-BCL6 complex reveals how chance protein-protein interactions may be exploited to confer the potency and selectivity of KAT-TCIPs. Thus, oncogenic drivers can be co-opted to activate robust cell death. Consistent with their gain-of-function mechanism, TCIPs recruiting different transcriptional activators-p300, BRD4, or CDK9-produce distinct genomic responses, suggesting specialized therapeutic uses.</p>","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":" ","pages":"5590-5610.e18"},"PeriodicalIF":45.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148535335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.037
Amalia H. Megarioti,James A. Olzmann
{"title":"Metabolite buffering of labile iron governs ferroptosis","authors":"Amalia H. Megarioti,James A. Olzmann","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.037","url":null,"abstract":"Iron abundance alone does not determine ferroptosis sensitivity. In this issue of Cell, Sharma and colleagues identify polyamines as endogenous metabolic buffers that reduce the chemical accessibility of labile iron, revealing an unexpected function for one of the cell’s most abundant metabolite classes while raising new questions about the organization of intracellular iron metabolism.","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":"134 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03Epub Date: 2026-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.013
Zinan Zhou, Lovelace J Luquette, Guanlan Dong, Junho Kim, Jayoung Ku, Kisong Kim, Nandini Ramesh, Mingyun Bae, Ann Caplin, Diane D Shao, Bezawit Sahile, Kow Essuman, Eitan Goodman, Michael B Miller, August Yue Huang, William J Nathan, Andre Nussenzweig, Peter J Park, Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, Eunjung Alice Lee, Christopher A Walsh
{"title":"Recurrent patterns of TOP1-mediated neuronal genomic damage shared by major neurodegenerative disorders.","authors":"Zinan Zhou, Lovelace J Luquette, Guanlan Dong, Junho Kim, Jayoung Ku, Kisong Kim, Nandini Ramesh, Mingyun Bae, Ann Caplin, Diane D Shao, Bezawit Sahile, Kow Essuman, Eitan Goodman, Michael B Miller, August Yue Huang, William J Nathan, Andre Nussenzweig, Peter J Park, Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, Eunjung Alice Lee, Christopher A Walsh","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.06.013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) represent two major categories of neurodegenerative disorders-TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) and tau proteinopathies-for which the mechanisms driving neuronal death remain unclear. Single-cell whole-genome sequencing of 469 neurons from C9ORF72 ALS, C9ORF72 FTD, AD, and control brains revealed increased somatic single-nucleotide variants (sSNVs) and insertions/deletions (sIndels) in all three diseases. Mutational signature analysis identified a disease-associated sSNV signature consistent with oxidative damage and an sIndel process affecting 22% of ALS, 76% of FTD, and 61% of AD neurons-but only 2% of control neurons-resembling signature ID4, previously linked to topoisomerase 1 (TOP1)-mediated mutagenesis. Rapid approach to DNA adduct recovery (RADAR) assays confirmed increased TOP1-DNA covalent complexes, and duplex sequencing confirmed the increased sIndels and identified single-strand events as likely precursor lesions. TOP1-associated sIndel mutagenesis and genome instability thus represent a mechanism shared by both TDP-43 and tau neurodegeneration.</p>","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":" ","pages":"5766-5782.e10"},"PeriodicalIF":45.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13340254/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148367058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CellPub Date : 2026-09-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.014
Judith Hoeller,Arthur Zhao,Aljoscha Nern,Edward M. Rogers,Sandro Romani,Michael B. Reiser
{"title":"The organization of visual pathways in the Drosophila brain","authors":"Judith Hoeller,Arthur Zhao,Aljoscha Nern,Edward M. Rogers,Sandro Romani,Michael B. Reiser","doi":"10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.014","url":null,"abstract":"Visual systems transform photoreceptor inputs into rich perceptual representations through hierarchical networks that extract features along parallel pathways. Although this architecture is conserved across species, how visual information is routed throughout an entire brain remains elusive in any animal. Using the male Drosophila connectome, we trace signals from photoreceptors through the optic lobes—layered, retinotopic regions containing two-thirds of the brain’s neurons—and onward into the central brain. Network-based analyses reveal a multilayered architecture of pathway classes with distinct input mixtures. Signals from visual-input channels spread broadly yet converge in focal regions apparently specialized for particular features and fine spatial sampling. Predictions of receptive-field structure and feature-related input biases are consistent with physiological data and extend to thousands of uncharacterized neuron types. These analyses provide a neuron-by-neuron account of how a visual system organizes and integrates information across an entire brain.","PeriodicalId":9656,"journal":{"name":"Cell","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":64.5,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}