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Cover: Cell stained to visualize the microtubule cytoskeleton and imaged using a structured illumination microscope. The same image was duplicated and misaligned to illustrate the type of image correction that can be performed using Fast4DReg. Credit: Guillaume Jacquemet. See article by J. W. Pylvänäinen et al. (jcs260728).
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
CELL SCIENTISTS TO WATCH
ESSAY
REVIEW
Ubiquitin and its relatives as wizards of the endolysosomal system
Summary: A Review of ubiquitylation and its biochemical relatives as regulators of the endolysosomal system and its hijacking by intracellular bacteria in order for them to prosper inside cells.
SHORT REPORT
Field model for multistate lateral diffusion of various transmembrane proteins observed in living Dictyostelium cells
Summary: The complex diffusion behaviors of various transmembrane proteins in Dictyostelium cells can be explained quantitatively by free diffusion on three membrane regions of different viscosities.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Single-chromosome dynamics reveals locus-dependent dynamics and chromosome territory orientation
Summary: Chromosome compaction depends on the cell cycle and the chromosome arm. In vivo, chromatin dynamics, which are modulated by transcription and interactions between chromatin and nuclear landmarks, are genomic-locus specific.
Lamin A/C phosphorylation at serine 22 is a conserved heat shock response to regulate nuclear adaptation during stress
Highlighted Article: Phosphorylation of nuclear lamin A/C at Ser22 is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that regulates lamin dynamics to serve nuclear adaptation and cell survival in heat-shocked cells.
Re-organization of nucleolar architecture in myogenic differentiation
Highlighted Article: Nucleolar architecture is altered during myogenic differentiation, indicating that the phase separation properties and function of the nucleolus might change during myogenesis.
Toxoplasma gondii scavenges mammalian host organelles through the usurpation of host ESCRT-III and Vps4A
Summary: The parasitophorous vacuole of Toxoplasma gondii sequesters host organelles by utilizing TgGRA14 and TgGRA64, which interact with host ESCRT proteins for vacuolar membrane remodeling and fission.
Cleavage of the Jaw1 C-terminal region enhances its augmentative effect on the Ca2+ release via IP3 receptors
Highlighted Article: The C-terminal region of Jaw1, a tail-anchored protein, is cleaved by the signal peptidase complex and this cleavage event enhances the augmentative effect of Jaw1 on the Ca2+ release activity of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors.
TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Fast4DReg – fast registration of 4D microscopy datasets
Summary: Fast4DReg is an open-source Fiji plugin that can quickly correct axial and lateral drift in multidimensional microscopy datasets.
FIRST PERSON
CORRECTION
Interviews with Biologists @ 100 conference speakers

Explore our interviews with keynote speakers from the Biologists @ 100 conference, hosted to celebrate our publisher’s 100th anniversary, where we discuss climate change and biodiversity with Hans-Otto Pörtner and Jane Francis, health and disease with Charles Swanton and emerging technologies with Manu Prakash and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz.
Introducing our new Associate Editors

In this Editorial, JCS Editor-in-Chief Michael Way welcomes five new Associate Editors to the JCS team. These Associate Editors will expand our support for the wider cell biology community and handle articles in immune cell biology, proteostasis, imaging and image analysis, plant cell biology, and stem cell biology and modelling.
The spatial choreography of mRNA biosynthesis

In their Review, André Ventura-Gomes and Maria Carmo-Fonseca detail the latest research progress and technological advancements that are helping to unlock how nuclear organisation underpins control of gene transcription and pre-mRNA splicing.
JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants

Early-career researchers - working in an area covered by JCS - who would like to attend a microscopy training course, please apply. Deadline dates for 2025 applications: 6 June 2025 (decision by week commencing 28 July 2025) and 5 September 2025 (decision by week commencing 20 October 2025).
The emerging roles of the endoplasmic reticulum in mechanosensing and mechanotransduction

In their Review, Jonathan Townson and Cinzia Progida highlight recently emerging evidence for a role of the endoplasmic reticulum in enabling a cell to sense and respond to changes in the extracellular mechanical environment.