F. Ferrante

Unravelling the microplastic menace: different polymers work in synergy to increase bee vulnerability

This study shows that mixtures of microplastics PS and PMMA synergistically harm bee survival and immune response, alter cuticle profiles, and reduce colony detection of contaminated foragers.

Effective in vivo binding energy landscape illustrates kinetic stability of RBPJ-DNA binding

The paper investigates RBPJ-DNA binding kinetics and cofactor interactions, finding that kinetic stability, not thermodynamic, governs target site specificity and that mutations affect both association and dissociation rates.

Microplastics reach the brain and interfere with honey bee cognition

This study investigates the effects of microplastics on honey bee cognition and shows that they can reach the brain and impair learning and memory.

Separate attentional processes in the two visual systems of jumping spiders

The paper investigates attentional processes in jumping spiders' visual systems, finding that attention is segregated across eyes rather than shared.

The structure, binding, and function of a Notch transcription complex involving RBPJ and the epigenetic reader protein L3MBTL3

This paper defines the RBPJ-interacting domain of L3MBTL3 and reports the crystal structure of the RBPJ-L3MBTL3-DNA complex, revealing molecular interactions and functional consequences of mutations.