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Happy Chinese New Year 2017 – The Year of the Rooster. To celebrate, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles by Chinese authors covering a wide range of topics in this month’s blog post as well as usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.

F1000Prime is a literature recommendation service. The service has a peer-nominated global Faculty of more than 8,000 of the world’s leading biomedical scientists and clinicians who select those articles they think are particularly interesting and important, and write recommendations explaining their selection. From the numerical ratings awarded, we have created a unique system for quantifying the importance of individual articles.

 

Top 3 articles from China

“This manuscript provides evidence that the human hepatocellular bile salt uptake transporter NTCP is a receptor for hepatitis B and hepatitis D virus.” – Bruno Stieger, University Hospital Zurich

Sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide is a functional receptor for human hepatitis B and D virus.

Yan H, Zhong G, Xu G, He W, Jing Z, Gao Z, Huang Y, Qi Y, Peng B, Wang H, Fu L, Song M, Chen P, Gao W, Ren B, Sun Y, Cai T, Feng X, Sui J, Li W. elife. 2012 Nov 13; 1:e00049

 

“This work provides novel mechanistic insights into the role of inducible co-stimulator (ICOS) signaling for follicular T-helper (Tfh) cell function in humoral antibody responses.” – Ronald Germain, NIH

Follicular T-helper cell recruitment governed by bystander B cells and ICOS-driven motility.

Xu H, Li X, Liu D, Li J, Zhang X, Chen X, Hou S, Peng L, Xu C, Liu W, Zhang L, Qi H. Nature. 2013 Apr 25; 496(7446):523-7

 

“This is an interesting paper that provides the hitherto missing link between a G protein and the perception of the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) in Arabidopsis.” – Martin Robert McAinsh, Lancaster University

A G protein-coupled receptor is a plasma membrane receptor for the plant hormone abscisic acid.

Liu X, Yue Y, Li B, Nie Y, Li W, Wu WH, Ma L. Science. 2007 Mar 23; 315(5819):1712-6

 

 

Current Top 3 recommendations

Rankings are generated using the articles recommended in F1000Prime during the preceding 30 days.

 

“This article illustrates in clear terms why statistics is really like rocket science.” – Leo van de Watering, Leiden University Medical Centre

Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations.

Greenland S, Senn SJ, Rothman KJ, Carlin JB, Poole C, Goodman SN, Altman DG. Eur J Epidemiol. 2016 Apr; 31(4):337-50

 

“This report comprehensively demonstrates how genetic alteration of a biochemical process results in a significant increase in crop yield.” – James P Allen, Arizona State University

Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection.

Kromdijk J, Głowacka K, Leonelli L, Gabilly ST, Iwai M, Niyogi KK, Long SP. Science. 2016 Nov 18;354(6314):857-861

 

“This manuscript takes the pharmacology of G protein-coupled receptor crystallization to the next step.” – Gavril Pasternak, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Structure-based discovery of opioid analgesics with reduced side effects.

Manglik A, Lin H, Aryal DK, McCorvy JD … Kobilka BK, Gmeiner P, Roth BL, Shoichet BK.  Nature. 2016 Sep 08; 537(7619):185-190

 

 

Hidden Jewels

Hidden Jewels rankings only include articles published in specialist journals, recommended in F1000Prime during the preceding 30 days.

 

“Women with endometriosis are at increased risk of pre-eclampsia, preterm birth and caesarean section irrespective of the use of assisted reproductive technology.” – Jim Tsaltas, Monash University

Endometriosis and pregnancy complications: a Danish cohort study.

Glavind MT, Forman A, Arendt LH, Nielsen K, Henriksen TB. Fertil Steril. 2017 Jan; 107(1):160-166

 

“The authors provide a fresh perspective on the functional significance of the long-described ‘epithelioid’ morphology in granuloma-associated macrophages” – Dean Sheppard, UCSF

Macrophage Epithelial Reprogramming Underlies Mycobacterial Granuloma Formation and Promotes Infection.

Cronan MR, Beerman RW, Rosenberg AF, Saelens JW … Turner J, Stout JE, Lee S, Tobin DM.  Immunity. 2016 Oct 18; 45(4):861-876

 

“The paper provides evidence that nucleic acids have powerful chaperone-like activity towards proteins.” – Dan Bolon, UMass Medical School

Do nucleic acids moonlight as molecular chaperones?

Docter BE, Horowitz S, Gray MJ, Jakob U, Bardwell JC. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Jun 2;44(10):4835-45