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CDDIS Editors’ Picks

The Editors of Cell Death & Differentiation and Cell Death & Disease are delighted to share with you a selection of key papers that highlight some of the best work published in the journals over recent years and which also showcase the breadth of scope and coverage that these journals consistently deliver to their readers. We hope you enjoy reading these papers as much as we have!

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IMMUNITY

Minocycline selectively inhibits M1 polarization of microglia  Open

K Kobayashi, S Imagama, T Ohgomori, K Hirano, K Uchimura, K Sakamoto, A Hirakawa, H Takeuchi, A Suzumura, N Ishiguro and K Kadomatsu

Cell Death and Disease 4: e525; Published online, 07 March 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.54

Blockade of BFA-mediated apoptosis in macrophages by the HIV-1 Nef protein  Open

W Abbas, K A Khan, A Kumar, M K Tripathy, I Dichamp, M Keita, U Mahlknecht, O Rohr and G Herbein

Cell Death and Disease 5: e1080; Published online, 20 February 2014; doi:10.1038/cddis.2014.16

Survivin-2B promotes autophagy by accumulating IKK alpha in the nucleus of selenite-treated NB4 cells  Open

K Shi, J An, L Shan, Q Jiang, F Li, Y Ci, P Wu, J Duan, K Hui, Y Yang and C Xu

Cell Death and Disease 5: e1071; Published online, 20 February 2014; doi:10.1038/cddis.2014.34

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CANCER

Targeting cellular metabolism to improve cancer therapeutics  Open

Y Zhao, E B Butler and M Tan

Cell Death and Disease 4: e532; Published online, 07 March 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.60

MiR-210 promotes a hypoxic phenotype and increases radioresistance in human lung cancer cell lines  Open

S Grosso, J Doyen, S K Parks, T Bertero, A Paye, B Cardinaud, P Gounon, S Lacas-Gervais, A Noël, J Pouysségur, P Barbry, N M Mazure and B Mari

Cell Death and Disease 4: e544; Published online, 14 March 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.71

PTEN-regulated AKT/FoxO3a/Bim signaling contributes to reactive oxygen species-mediated apoptosis in selenite-treated colorectal cancer cells  Open

H Luo, Y Yang, J Duan, P Wu, Q Jiang and C Xu

Cell Death and Disease 4: e481; Published online, 07 February 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.3

miR-129 promotes apoptosis and enhances chemosensitivity to 5-fluorouracil in colorectal cancer  Open

M Karaayvaz, H Zhai and J Ju

Cell Death and Disease 4: e659; Published online, 06 June 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.193

Wnt activation promotes neuronal differentiation of Glioblastoma  Open

E Rampazzo, L Persano, F Pistollato, E Moro, C Frasson, P Porazzi, A Della Puppa, S Bresolin, G Battilana, S Indraccolo, G Te Kronnie, F Argenton, N Tiso and G Basso

Cell Death and Disease 4: e500; Published online, 21 February 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.32

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MEDICINE

Molecular mechanisms of hepatic apoptosis  Open

K Wang

Cell Death and Disease 5: e996; Published online, 16 January 2014; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.499

Histone modifications are responsible for decreased Fas expression and apoptosis resistance in fibrotic lung fibroblasts  Open

S K Huang, A M Scruggs, J Donaghy, J C Horowitz, Z Zaslona, S Przybranowski, E S White and M Peters-Golden

Cell Death and Disease 4: e621; Published online, 02 May 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.146

Redundant miR-3077-5p and miR-705 mediate the shift of mesenchymal stem cell lineage commitment to adipocyte in osteoporosis bone marrow  Open

L Liao, X Yang, X Su, C Hu, X Zhu, N Yang, X Chen, S Shi, S Shi, Y Jin

Cell Death and Disease 4: e600; Published online, 18 April 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.130

TNF can activate RIPK3 and cause programmed necrosis in the absence of RIPK1  Open

D M Moujalled, W D Cook, T Okamoto, J Murphy, K E Lawlor, J E Vince and D L Vaux

Cell Death and Disease 4: e465; Published online, 17 January 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2012.201

TGF-β1 exposure induces epithelial to mesenchymal transition both in CSCs and non-CSCs of the A549 cell line, leading to an increase of migration ability in the CD133+ A549 cell fraction  Open

V Tirino, R Camerlingo, K Bifulco, E Irollo, R Montella, F Paino, G Sessa, M V Carriero, N Normanno, G Rocco and G Pirozzi

Cell Death and Disease 4: e620; Published online, 02 May 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.144

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NEUROSCIENCE

The evolutionary young miR-1290 favors mitotic exit and differentiation of human neural progenitors through altering the cell cycle proteins  Open

S V Yelamanchili, B Morsey, E B Harrison, D A Rennard, K Emanuel, I Thapa, D R Bastola and H S Fox

Cell Death and Disease 5: e982; Published online, 09 January 2014; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.498

Drosophila Trap1 protects against mitochondrial dysfunction in a PINK1/parkin model of Parkinson’s disease  Open

A C Costa, S H Y Loh and L Miguel Martins

Cell Death and Disease 4: e467; Published online, 17 January 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2012.205

Calcium-activated and apoptotic phospholipid scrambling induced by Ano6 can occur independently of Ano6 ion currents  Open

A Kmit, R van Kruchten, J Ousingsawat, N J A Mattheij, B Senden-Gijsbers, J W M Heemskerk, R Schreiber, E M Bevers and K Kunzelmann

Cell Death and Disease 4: e611; Published online, 25 April 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.135

NMDA receptor subunit composition determines beta-amyloid-induced neurodegeneration and synaptic loss  Open

C Tackenberg, S Grinschgl, A Trutzel, A C Santuccione, M C Frey, U Konietzko, J Grimm, R Brandt and R M Nitsch

Cell Death and Disease 4: e608; Published online, 25 April 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2013.129

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METABOLISM

Transcriptional and metabolic adaptation of human neurons to the mitochondrial toxicant MPP+  Open

A K Krug, S Gutbier, L Zhao, D Pöltl, C Kullmann, V Ivanova, S Förster, S Jagtap, J Meiser, G Leparc, S Schildknecht, M Adam, K Hiller, H Farhan, T Brunner, T Hartung, A Sachinidis and M Leist

Cell Death and Disease 5: e1222; Published online, 08 May 2014; doi:10.1038/cddis.2014.166

Resveratrol potentiates rapamycin to prevent hyperinsulinemia and obesity in male mice on high fat diet  Open

O V Leontieva, G Paszkiewicz, Z N Demidenko and M V Blagosklonny

Cell Death and Disease 4: e472; Published online, 24 January 2013; doi:10.1038/cddis.2012.202

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