Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

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    Elucidating the kinetic and thermodynamic insight into regulation of glycolysis by lactate dehydrogenase and its impact on tricarboxylic acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation in cancer cells

    Siying Zeng, Yuqi Wang ... Xun Hu
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Rescuing the Function of Missense-Mutated Tumor Suppressor VHL using Stabilizing Small Molecules

    Mariam Ahmed Fouad, Christopher S Parry ... John Karanicolas
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    Distinct mechanisms of inhibition of Kv2 potassium channels by tetraethylammonium and RY785

    Shan Zhang, Robyn Stix ... José D Faraldo-Gómez
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Multiple modes of cholesterol translocation in the human Smoothened receptor

    Prateek D Bansal, Maia Kinnebrew ... Diwakar Shukla
    Multiple competing hypotheses concerning the cholesterol accessibility of oncoprotein Smoothened are quantitatively assessed and experimentally validated, showing that cholesterol takes two pathways from either membrane leaflet to the binding sites.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural elucidation of the hexameric MmpS4-MmpL4 complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Jennifer C Earp, Nicolas P Lichti ... Markus A Seeger
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    Concatenated modular BK channel constructs reveal divergent stoichiometry in gating control by LRRC26 (γ1), pore, and selectivity filter

    Guanxing Chen, Qin Li ... Jiusheng Yan
    Regulatory stoichiometry in large-conductance potassium (BK) channels diverges by mechanism, separating single-subunit activation, graded pore contributions, and collective selectivity-filter control.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Intracellular expression of a fluorogenic DNA aptamer using retron Eco2

    Mahesh A Vibhute, Corbin Machatzke ... Hannes Mutschler
    Structure-guided engineering of a bacterial retron enables intracellular production of a light-up DNA aptamer whose purified DNA retains dye-activated fluorescence, establishing retrons as a scalable route to cellular aptamer synthesis.
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
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    Investigating the native functions of [NiFe]-CODH through genomic context analysis

    Maximilian Böhm, Henrik Land
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Screening the MMV Pathogen Box reveals the mitochondrial bc1-complex as a drug target in mature Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites

    Deborah Maus, Elyzana Putrianti ... Martin Blume
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    Structural basis for the folding of PINK1 by the HSP90–CDC37 chaperone complex

    Kei Okatsu, Hayato Yamamoto ... Shuya Fukai
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