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    Insights from aquaporin structures into drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone Weyand
    Cryo-EM structures of human aquaporin AQP2 bound to the anti-trypanosomal drugs pentamidine and melarsoprol identify the molecular mechanism for drug-resistant sleeping sickness.
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    Conformational Variability of HIV-1 Env Trimer and Viral Vulnerability

    Yiwei Cao, Wonpil Im
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    Enhanced Processivity and Collective Force Production of Kinesin-1 at Low Radial Forces

    Andrew M Hensley, Ahmet Yildiz
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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
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    Short activation domains control chromatin association of transcription factors

    Vinson B Fan, Abrar A Abidi ... Max V Staller
    Single-molecule tracking of transcription factors in living cells revealed how mutations that make short activation domains stronger increased the fraction of transcription factor molecules bound to chromatin and led to longer residence times on chromatin.
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    Direct MRI of Collagen

    Jason Daniel van Schoor, Markus Weiger ... Klaas Paul Pruessmann
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    SMC complex unidirectionally translocates DNA by coupling segment capture with an asymmetric kleisin path

    Masataka Yamauchi, Giovanni B Brandani ... Shoji Takada
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Evolution of a fuzzy ribonucleoprotein complex in viral assembly

    Huaying Zhao, Tiansheng Li ... Peter Schuck
    The stability of ribonucleoprotein complexes of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid proteins differs among variants of concern and the viral evolution of nucleocapsid protein can be understood in the framework of fuzzy complexes.
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    Nucleosome wrapping energy in CpG islands and the role of epigenetic base modifications

    Rasa Giniūnaitė, Rahul Sharma ... Daiva Petkevičiūtė-Gerlach
    CpG density and epigenetic modification state modulate DNA mechanics, altering its intrinsic compatibility with nucleosome formation.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Structural basis for collagen recognition by the Streptococcus pyogenes M3 protein and its involvement in biofilm

    Marta Wojnowska, Takeaki Wajima ... Ulrich Schwarz-Linek
    The T-shaped fold of an abundant surface protein ties streptococci to collagens, an interaction that enhances biofilm such as often found in invasive infections.
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    Structural mechanisms of pump assembly and drug transport in the AcrAB-TolC efflux system

    Xiaofei Ge, Zhiwei Gu, Jiawei Wang
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