Edited by Anne C. Hart, Brown University, Providence, RI; received August 29, 2024; accepted December 19, 2024 by Editorial Board Member Yishi Jin ...

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PDV1 was thought to work corporately with PDV2 to recruit ARC5 to the chloroplast division site in the cytosol. However, we found that the major role of PDV1 is to interact with and regulate the ...

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The authors note that the affiliation for Andréa G. Grottoli should instead appear as School of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210. The ...

This work was supported by the NSF (CBET-1932192, Expeditions-2123781), NIH (R61/R33 HL159948), Alzheimer’s Disease Association grant (2019-AARG-NTF-644507), and a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago ...