Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

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    SAM transmethylation pathway and adenosine recycling to ATP are essential for systemic regulation and immune response

    Pavla Nedbalova, Nikola Kaislerova ... Tomas Dolezal
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    Enzymatic protein fusions with 100% product yield

    Adrian CD Fuchs
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    High resolution deep mutational scanning of the melanocortin-4 receptor enables target characterization for drug discovery

    Conor J Howard, Nathan S Abell ... Nathan B Lubock
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    Exploiting functional regions in the viral RNA genome as druggable entities

    Dehua Luo, Yingge Zheng ... Dengguo Wei
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    Intramolecular feedback regulation of the LRRK2 Roc G domain by a LRRK2 kinase-dependent mechanism

    Bernd K Gilsbach, Franz Y Ho ... Christian Johannes Gloeckner
    The Parkinson’s protein Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 contains a GTPase as well as kinase domain and modulates its intrinsic GTPase activity by autophosphorylation of the P-loop residue threonine 1343.
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    Harnessing AlphaFold to reveal hERG channel conformational state secrets

    Khoa Ngo, Pei-Chi Yang ... Igor Vorobyov
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    Establishing the foundations for a data-centric AI approach for virtual drug screening through a systematic assessment of the properties of chemical data

    Allen Chong, Ser-Xian Phua ... Wilson Wen Bin Goh
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Control of 3′ splice site selection by the yeast splicing factor Fyv6

    Katherine A Senn, Karli A Lipinski ... Aaron A Hoskins
    The Saccharomyces cerevisiae spliceosome component Fyv6 contributes to precursor messenger RNA splicing by promoting use of branch site distal 3' splice sites and interacting with key factors involved in exon ligation.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Effects of residue substitutions on the cellular abundance of proteins

    Thea K Schulze, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
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    2. Neuroscience

    Biochemical and neurophysiological effects of deficiency of the mitochondrial import protein TIMM50

    Eyal Paz, Sahil Jain ... Abdussalam Azem
    TIM23 core deficiency specifically impacts the oxidative phosphorylation and the mitochondrial ribosome complexes and, unexpectedly, leads to reduction of plasma membrane voltage-dependent potassium channels in neurons.
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