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Two recent reports by Cramer and Ben-Shem and colleagues present high-resolution structures of the yeast SAGA transcription coactivator complex. These are the first to resolve the stoichiometry and structure of the core. The core contains an octamer-like fold, flexibly links the enzymatic modules, and facilitates TBP loading onto TATA promoters.Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that has been associated with the loss of orexinergic neurons from the lateral hypothalamic area. This loss leads to dysregulated sleep and cataplexy attacks. Therapeutic options are currently limited to symptom management with pharmacotherapy and nonpharmacological approaches. Nonetheless, cell replacement therapy could offer relief, and research in the field has yielded positive results for other neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. Thus, we propose that orexin cell rich grafts could help improve narcoleptic symptoms in the orexin/ataxin-3 mouse model of narcolepsy. For this purpose, we isolated EGFP+ cells from either orexin/EGFP or CAG-EGFP mice with the use of a flow cytometer and grafted them into the pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmentum nuclei (PPT/LDDT) of orexin/ataxin-3 mice. Our results show that even small orexinergic grafts can reduce the severity of behavioral arrests, with a median reduction of 30.31% in episode duration, 51.35% for number of events and 69.73% in time spent in the behavioral arrest state and help with sleep fragmentation measured in number of bouts per behavioral state. Surprisingly, control grafts made from cerebellar tissue also reduced behavioral arrest severity, but to a lesser degree. Although still at a very early stage, these results show that there is potential in cell grafts for improving aspects of the narcoleptic phenotype and further research could help elucidate realistic expectations of an orexin cell replacement therapy for narcolepsy.Currently, there is no efficacious pharmacological treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI). Previous studies revealed that L-lactate preconditioning has shown rich neuroprotective effects against cerebral ischemia, and therefore has the potential to improve neurological outcomes after TBI. L-lactate played a neuroprotective role by activating GPR81 in diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) such as TBI and cerebral ischemia. In this study we investigated the effects of L-lactate preconditioning on TBI and explored the underlying mechanisms. In this study, the mNSS test revealed that L-lactate preconditioning alleviates the neurological deficit caused by TBI in rats. L-lactate preconditioning significantly increased the expression of GPR81, PSD95, GAP43, BDNF, and MCT2 24 h after TBI in the cortex and hippocampus compared with the sham group. Taken together, these data suggested that L-lactate preconditioning is an effective method with which to recover neurological function after TBI. This reveals the mechanism of L-lactate preconditioning on TBI and provides a potential therapeutic method for TBI in humans.Objective To determine if the "sacral sparing" definition for completeness of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a more stable definition than the previously used Frankel Classification. Design Retrospective analysis of persons enrolled in the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems (SCIMS) database from 2011-2018. Setting SCIMS centers. Participants Individuals (N=804) with traumatic SCI, age >16 years at time of injury, admission to rehabilitation within 30 days, ASIA Impairment Scale (AIS) grades A- D at admission, and complete neurological data at admission and 1-year. Cloperastine fendizoate Intervention None applicable. Main outcome measures Frankel and AIS scores were computed for a cohort of 804 eligible cases. Stability was compared between the two classification systems by calculating the proportions of cases where regression (conversion to a more severe impairment level) was observed. Results A larger proportion of persons classified with "incomplete" injuries (grades B-D) at admission using the Frankel system regressed to complete status at 1-year compared to the AIS criteria (9.4% vs 2.0%). Those with B grade injuries regressed to A more often using Frankel as compared to the AIS system (19.7% to 5.4%). A larger proportion of people diagnosed as Frankel C or D regressed to Frankel A, as compared to AIS C or D who regressed to AIS A (5.0% to 1.1%). Conclusion Greater number of persons diagnosed with neurologically incomplete SCI regressed to complete status at 1-year when using the Frankel compared to the AIS classification which is based upon sacral sparing. This reinforces the finding that the "sacral sparing" definition is a more stable classification in traumatic SCI.Cytochrome c Oxidase (CcO) is the terminal electron acceptor in aerobic respiratory chain, reducing O2 to water. The released free energy is stored by pumping protons through the protein, maintaining the transmembrane electrochemical gradient. Protons are held transiently in a proton loading site (PLS) that binds and releases protons driven by the electron transfer reaction cycle. Multi-Conformation Continuum Electrostatics (MCCE) was applied to crystal structures and Molecular Dynamics snapshots of the B-type Thermus thermophilus CcO. Six residues are identified as the PLS, binding and releasing protons as the charges on heme b and the binuclear center are changed the heme a3 propionic acids, Asp287, Asp372, His376 and Glu126B. The unloaded state has one proton and the loaded state two protons on these six residues. Different input structures, modifying the PLS conformation, show different proton distributions and result in different proton pumping behaviors. One loaded and one unloaded protonation states have the loaded/unloaded states close in energy so the PLS binds and releases a proton through the reaction cycle. The alternative proton distributions have state energies too far apart to be shifted by the electron transfers so are locked in loaded or unloaded states. Here the protein can use active states to load and unload protons, but has nearby trapped states, which stabilize PLS protonation state, providing new ideas about the CcO proton pumping mechanism. The distance between the PLS residues Asp287 and His376 correlates with the energy difference between loaded and unloaded states.