TY - JOUR AB - In plants, clathrin mediated endocytosis (CME) represents the major route for cargo internalisation from the cell surface. It has been assumed to operate in an evolutionary conserved manner as in yeast and animals. Here we report characterisation of ultrastructure, dynamics and mechanisms of plant CME as allowed by our advancement in electron microscopy and quantitative live imaging techniques. Arabidopsis CME appears to follow the constant curvature model and the bona fide CME population generates vesicles of a predominantly hexagonal-basket type; larger and with faster kinetics than in other models. Contrary to the existing paradigm, actin is dispensable for CME events at the plasma membrane but plays a unique role in collecting endocytic vesicles, sorting of internalised cargos and directional endosome movement that itself actively promote CME events. Internalized vesicles display a strongly delayed and sequential uncoating. These unique features highlight the independent evolution of the plant CME mechanism during the autonomous rise of multicellularity in eukaryotes. AU - Narasimhan, Madhumitha AU - Johnson, Alexander J AU - Prizak, Roshan AU - Kaufmann, Walter AU - Tan, Shutang AU - Casillas Perez, Barbara E AU - Friml, Jiří ID - 7490 JF - eLife TI - Evolutionarily unique mechanistic framework of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in plants VL - 9 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Characteristic or classic phenotype of Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is associated with a recognisable facial pattern. However, the heterogeneity in causal genes and the presence of overlapping syndromes have made it increasingly difficult to diagnose only by clinical features. DeepGestalt technology, and its app Face2Gene, is having a growing impact on the diagnosis and management of genetic diseases by analysing the features of affected individuals. Here, we performed a phenotypic study on a cohort of 49 individuals harbouring causative variants in known CdLS genes in order to evaluate Face2Gene utility and sensitivity in the clinical diagnosis of CdLS. Based on the profile images of patients, a diagnosis of CdLS was within the top five predicted syndromes for 97.9% of our cases and even listed as first prediction for 83.7%. The age of patients did not seem to affect the prediction accuracy, whereas our results indicate a correlation between the clinical score and affected genes. Furthermore, each gene presents a different pattern recognition that may be used to develop new neural networks with the goal of separating different genetic subtypes in CdLS. Overall, we conclude that computer-assisted image analysis based on deep learning could support the clinical diagnosis of CdLS. AU - Latorre-Pellicer, Ana AU - Ascaso, Ángela AU - Trujillano, Laura AU - Gil-Salvador, Marta AU - Arnedo, Maria AU - Lucia-Campos, Cristina AU - Antoñanzas-Pérez, Rebeca AU - Marcos-Alcalde, Iñigo AU - Parenti, Ilaria AU - Bueno-Lozano, Gloria AU - Musio, Antonio AU - Puisac, Beatriz AU - Kaiser, Frank J. AU - Ramos, Feliciano J. AU - Gómez-Puertas, Paulino AU - Pié, Juan ID - 7488 IS - 3 JF - International Journal of Molecular Sciences SN - 16616596 TI - Evaluating Face2Gene as a tool to identify Cornelia de Lange syndrome by facial phenotypes VL - 21 ER - TY - CONF AB - Neural networks have demonstrated unmatched performance in a range of classification tasks. Despite numerous efforts of the research community, novelty detection remains one of the significant limitations of neural networks. The ability to identify previously unseen inputs as novel is crucial for our understanding of the decisions made by neural networks. At runtime, inputs not falling into any of the categories learned during training cannot be classified correctly by the neural network. Existing approaches treat the neural network as a black box and try to detect novel inputs based on the confidence of the output predictions. However, neural networks are not trained to reduce their confidence for novel inputs, which limits the effectiveness of these approaches. We propose a framework to monitor a neural network by observing the hidden layers. We employ a common abstraction from program analysis - boxes - to identify novel behaviors in the monitored layers, i.e., inputs that cause behaviors outside the box. For each neuron, the boxes range over the values seen in training. The framework is efficient and flexible to achieve a desired trade-off between raising false warnings and detecting novel inputs. We illustrate the performance and the robustness to variability in the unknown classes on popular image-classification benchmarks. AU - Henzinger, Thomas A AU - Lukina, Anna AU - Schilling, Christian ID - 7505 T2 - 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence TI - Outside the box: Abstraction-based monitoring of neural networks VL - 325 ER - TY - JOUR AB - In this paper, we introduce a novel method for deriving higher order corrections to the mean-field description of the dynamics of interacting bosons. More precisely, we consider the dynamics of N d-dimensional bosons for large N. The bosons initially form a Bose–Einstein condensate and interact with each other via a pair potential of the form (N−1)−1Ndβv(Nβ·)forβ∈[0,14d). We derive a sequence of N-body functions which approximate the true many-body dynamics in L2(RdN)-norm to arbitrary precision in powers of N−1. The approximating functions are constructed as Duhamel expansions of finite order in terms of the first quantised analogue of a Bogoliubov time evolution. AU - Bossmann, Lea AU - Pavlović, Nataša AU - Pickl, Peter AU - Soffer, Avy ID - 7508 JF - Journal of Statistical Physics SN - 0022-4715 TI - Higher order corrections to the mean-field description of the dynamics of interacting bosons VL - 178 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Cryo electron tomography with subsequent subtomogram averaging is a powerful technique to structurally analyze macromolecular complexes in their native context. Although close to atomic resolution in principle can be obtained, it is not clear how individual experimental parameters contribute to the attainable resolution. Here, we have used immature HIV-1 lattice as a benchmarking sample to optimize the attainable resolution for subtomogram averaging. We systematically tested various experimental parameters such as the order of projections, different angular increments and the use of the Volta phase plate. We find that although any of the prominently used acquisition schemes is sufficient to obtain subnanometer resolution, dose-symmetric acquisition provides considerably better outcome. We discuss our findings in order to provide guidance for data acquisition. Our data is publicly available and might be used to further develop processing routines. AU - Turoňová, Beata AU - Hagen, Wim J.H. AU - Obr, Martin AU - Mosalaganti, Shyamal AU - Beugelink, J. Wouter AU - Zimmerli, Christian E. AU - Kräusslich, Hans Georg AU - Beck, Martin ID - 7511 JF - Nature Communications TI - Benchmarking tomographic acquisition schemes for high-resolution structural biology VL - 11 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Endophytic fungi can be beneficial to plant growth. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying colonization of Acremonium spp. remain unclear. In this study, a novel endophytic Acremonium strain was isolated from the buds of Panax notoginseng and named Acremonium sp. D212. The Acremonium sp. D212 could colonize the roots of P. notoginseng, enhance the resistance of P. notoginseng to root rot disease, and promote root growth and saponin biosynthesis in P. notoginseng. Acremonium sp. D212 could secrete indole‐3‐acetic acid (IAA) and jasmonic acid (JA), and inoculation with the fungus increased the endogenous levels of IAA and JA in P. notoginseng. Colonization of the Acremonium sp. D212 in the roots of the rice line Nipponbare was dependent on the concentration of methyl jasmonate (MeJA) (2 to 15 μM) and 1‐naphthalenacetic acid (NAA) (10 to 20 μM). Moreover, the roots of the JA signalling‐defective coi1‐18 mutant were colonized by Acremonium sp. D212 to a lesser degree than those of the wild‐type Nipponbare and miR393b‐overexpressing lines, and the colonization was rescued by MeJA but not by NAA. It suggests that the cross‐talk between JA signalling and the auxin biosynthetic pathway plays a crucial role in the colonization of Acremonium sp. D212 in host plants. AU - Han, L AU - Zhou, X AU - Zhao, Y AU - Zhu, S AU - Wu, L AU - He, Y AU - Ping, X AU - Lu, X AU - Huang, W AU - Qian, J AU - Zhang, L AU - Jiang, X AU - Zhu, D AU - Luo, C AU - Li, S AU - Dong, Q AU - Fu, Q AU - Deng, K AU - Wang, X AU - Wang, L AU - Peng, S AU - Wu, J AU - Li, W AU - Friml, Jiří AU - Zhu, Y AU - He, X AU - Du, Y ID - 7497 IS - 9 JF - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology SN - 1672-9072 TI - Colonization of endophyte Acremonium sp. D212 in Panax notoginseng and rice mediated by auxin and jasmonic acid VL - 62 ER - TY - JOUR AB - In the past two decades, our understanding of the transition to turbulence in shear flows with linearly stable laminar solutions has greatly improved. Regarding the susceptibility of the laminar flow, two concepts have been particularly useful: the edge states and the minimal seeds. In this nonlinear picture of the transition, the basin boundary of turbulence is set by the edge state's stable manifold and this manifold comes closest in energy to the laminar equilibrium at the minimal seed. We begin this paper by presenting numerical experiments in which three-dimensional perturbations are too energetic to trigger turbulence in pipe flow but they do lead to turbulence when their amplitude is reduced. We show that this seemingly counterintuitive observation is in fact consistent with the fully nonlinear description of the transition mediated by the edge state. In order to understand the physical mechanisms behind this process, we measure the turbulent kinetic energy production and dissipation rates as a function of the radial coordinate. Our main observation is that the transition to turbulence relies on the energy amplification away from the wall, as opposed to the turbulence itself, whose energy is predominantly produced near the wall. This observation is further supported by the similar analyses on the minimal seeds and the edge states. Furthermore, we show that the time evolution of production-over-dissipation curves provides a clear distinction between the different initial amplification stages of the transition to turbulence from the minimal seed. AU - Budanur, Nazmi B AU - Marensi, Elena AU - Willis, Ashley P. AU - Hof, Björn ID - 7534 IS - 2 JF - Physical Review Fluids SN - 2469-990X TI - Upper edge of chaos and the energetics of transition in pipe flow VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR AB - We consider general self-adjoint polynomials in several independent random matrices whose entries are centered and have the same variance. We show that under certain conditions the local law holds up to the optimal scale, i.e., the eigenvalue density on scales just above the eigenvalue spacing follows the global density of states which is determined by free probability theory. We prove that these conditions hold for general homogeneous polynomials of degree two and for symmetrized products of independent matrices with i.i.d. entries, thus establishing the optimal bulk local law for these classes of ensembles. In particular, we generalize a similar result of Anderson for anticommutator. For more general polynomials our conditions are effectively checkable numerically. AU - Erdös, László AU - Krüger, Torben H AU - Nemish, Yuriy ID - 7512 IS - 12 JF - Journal of Functional Analysis SN - 00221236 TI - Local laws for polynomials of Wigner matrices VL - 278 ER - TY - JOUR AB - In this paper we study the joint convexity/concavity of the trace functions Ψp,q,s(A,B)=Tr(Bq2K∗ApKBq2)s, p,q,s∈R, where A and B are positive definite matrices and K is any fixed invertible matrix. We will give full range of (p,q,s)∈R3 for Ψp,q,s to be jointly convex/concave for all K. As a consequence, we confirm a conjecture of Carlen, Frank and Lieb. In particular, we confirm a weaker conjecture of Audenaert and Datta and obtain the full range of (α,z) for α-z Rényi relative entropies to be monotone under completely positive trace preserving maps. We also give simpler proofs of many known results, including the concavity of Ψp,0,1/p for 0