Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Insights from aquaporin structures into drug-resistant sleeping sickness

    Modestas Matusevicius, Robin A Corey ... Simone N Weyand
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Characterization of binding kinetics and intracellular signaling of new psychoactive substances targeting cannabinoid receptor using transition-based reweighting method

    Soumajit Dutta, Diwakar Shukla
    New psychoactive substances activate cannabinoid receptors using distinct ligand-receptor interactions.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    Accessibility of the unstructured α-tubulin C-terminal tail is controlled by microtubule lattice conformation

    Takashi Hotta, Morgan L Pimm ... Kristen J Verhey
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Compelling
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    Functionally-Coupled Ion Channels Begin Co-assembling at the Start of Their Synthesis

    Roya Pournejati, Jessica M Huang ... Oscar Vivas
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Compound Mutations in the Abl1 Kinase Cause Inhibitor Resistance by Shifting DFG Flip Mechanisms and Relative State Populations

    Gabriel Monteiro da Silva, Kyle Lam ... Brenda M Rubenstein
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Conduction pathway for potassium through the E. coli pump KdpFABC

    Adel Hussein, Xihui Zhang ... David L Stokes
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    Unbend: Correction of local beam-induced sample motion in cryo-EM images using a 3D spline model

    Lingli Kong, Ximena Zottig ... Nikolaus Grigorieff
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cryo-electron tomography reveals the microtubule-bound form of inactive LRRK2

    Siyu Chen, Tamar Basiashvili ... Elizabeth Villa
    Full-length, autoinhibited LRRK2 assembles into distinct, shorter microtubule-bound filaments via a previously unobserved N-terminal repeat interface, revealing new structural states with potential therapeutic implications.
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    • Incomplete
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cryo-EM Reveals Regulatory Mechanisms Governing Substrate Selection and Activation of Human LONP1

    Jeffrey T Mindrebo, Lauren Alexandrescu ... Gabriel C Lander
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Pleomorphic effects of three small-molecule inhibitors on transcription elongation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase

    Omar Herrera-Asmat, Alexander B Tong ... Carlos Bustamante
    Optical tweezers are used to gain mechanistic insight in the mechanism of inhibition of three distinct compounds being developed as antibiotics against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology
    3. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Allosteric Regulation of Kinase Activity – call for papers

    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Modelling biomolecular condensates

    Furqan Dar, Rohit Pappu
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Same structure, different mechanisms?

    Francis TF Tsai, Christopher P Hill

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