@article{20935,
  abstract     = {In situ cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged as the method of choice to investigate the structures of biomolecules in their native context. However, challenges remain for the efficient production and sharing of large-scale cryo-ET datasets. Here, we combined cryogenic plasma-based focused ion beam (cryo-PFIB) milling with recent advances in cryo-ET acquisition and processing to generate a dataset of 1,829 annotated tomograms of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, which we provide as a community resource to drive method development and inspire biological discovery. To assay data quality, we performed subtomogram averaging of both soluble and membrane-bound complexes ranging in size from >3 MDa to ∼200 kDa, including 80S ribosomes, Rubisco, nucleosomes, microtubules, clathrin, photosystem II, and mitochondrial ATP synthase. The majority of these density maps reached sub-nanometer resolution, demonstrating the potential of this C. reinhardtii dataset as well as the promise of modern cryo-ET workflows and open data sharing to empower visual proteomics.},
  author       = {Kelley, Ron and Khavnekar, Sagar and Righetto, Ricardo D. and Heebner, Jessica and Obr, Martin and Zhang, Xianjun and Chakraborty, Saikat and Tagiltsev, Grigory and Michael, Alicia and Van Dorst, Sofie and Waltz, Florent and Mccafferty, Caitlyn L. and Lamm, Lorenz and Zufferey, Simon and Van Der Stappen, Philippe and Van Den Hoek, Hugo and Wietrzynski, Wojciech and Harar, Pavol and Wan, William and Briggs, John A.G. and Plitzko, Jürgen M. and Engel, Benjamin D. and Kotecha, Abhay},
  issn         = {1097-4164},
  journal      = {Molecular Cell},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{Toward community-driven visual proteomics with large-scale cryo-electron tomography of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.molcel.2025.11.029},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{18072,
  abstract     = {The individualization of chromosomes during early mitosis and their clustering upon exit from cell division are two key transitions that ensure efficient segregation of eukaryotic chromosomes. Both processes are regulated by the surfactant-like protein Ki-67, but how Ki-67 achieves these diametric functions has remained unknown. Here, we report that Ki-67 radically switches from a chromosome repellent to a chromosome attractant during anaphase in human cells. We show that Ki-67 dephosphorylation during mitotic exit and the simultaneous exposure of a conserved basic patch induce the RNA-dependent formation of a liquid-like condensed phase on the chromosome surface. Experiments and coarse-grained simulations support a model in which the coalescence of chromosome surfaces, driven by co-condensation of Ki-67 and RNA, promotes clustering of chromosomes. Our study reveals how the switch of Ki-67 from a surfactant to a liquid-like condensed phase can generate mechanical forces during genome segregation that are required for re-establishing nuclear-cytoplasmic compartmentalization after mitosis.},
  author       = {Hernandez-Armendariz, Alberto and Sorichetti, Valerio and Hayashi, Yuki and Koskova, Zuzana and Brunner, Andreas and Ellenberg, Jan and Šarić, Anđela and Cuylen-Haering, Sara},
  issn         = {1097-4164},
  journal      = {Molecular Cell},
  number       = {17},
  pages        = {P3254--3270.E9},
  publisher    = {Cell Press},
  title        = {{A liquid-like coat mediates chromosome clustering during mitotic exit}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.molcel.2024.07.022},
  volume       = {84},
  year         = {2024},
}

@article{9526,
  abstract     = {DNA methylation and histone H1 mediate transcriptional silencing of genes and transposable elements, but how they interact is unclear. In plants and animals with mosaic genomic methylation, functionally mysterious methylation is also common within constitutively active housekeeping genes. Here, we show that H1 is enriched in methylated sequences, including genes, of Arabidopsis thaliana, yet this enrichment is independent of DNA methylation. Loss of H1 disperses heterochromatin, globally alters nucleosome organization, and activates H1-bound genes, but only weakly de-represses transposable elements. However, H1 loss strongly activates transposable elements hypomethylated through mutation of DNA methyltransferase MET1. Hypomethylation of genes also activates antisense transcription, which is modestly enhanced by H1 loss. Our results demonstrate that H1 and DNA methylation jointly maintain transcriptional homeostasis by silencing transposable elements and aberrant intragenic transcripts. Such functionality plausibly explains why DNA methylation, a well-known mutagen, has been maintained within coding sequences of crucial plant and animal genes.},
  author       = {Choi, Jaemyung and Lyons, David B. and Kim, M. Yvonne and Moore, Jonathan D. and Zilberman, Daniel},
  issn         = {1097-4164},
  journal      = {Molecular Cell},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {310--323.e7},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{DNA methylation and histone H1 jointly repress transposable elements and aberrant intragenic transcripts}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.molcel.2019.10.011},
  volume       = {77},
  year         = {2020},
}

