Tat Cheung Cheng, Chuan Hong ... Christopher W Akey
A cryo-electron microscopy model of the active human apoptosome illuminates how this "wheel of death" binds the protease procaspase-9 to initiate programmed cell death.
Membrane recruitment of BBSome is coupled to a conformational change, and interaction of the BBSome with GPCR cargoes depends on the GPCRs releasing their amphipathic helix 8 from the membrane.
Dmitry Shvarev, Jannis Schoppe ... Christian Ungermann
The structure of the yeast HOPS tethering complex suggests how this large complex may catalyze fusion by tethering Rab-decorated membranes and promoting the assembly of SNAREs.
Sulochanadevi Baskaran, Lars-Anders Carlson ... James H Hurley
The first three-dimensional structure of the PI3KC3 complex I, which is involved in autophagy, provides a framework for understanding the allosteric regulation of lipid kinase activity.
Michael Taschner, Anna Lorentzen ... Esben Lorentzen
CRISPR/Cas knockout of intraflagellar transport protein 80 shows that this subunit is absolutely required for ciliogenesis, and biophysical studies reveal that this protein may dimerize the intraflagellar transport complex.
Structural, biochemical, and proteomic analyses of a four-subunit core module of the cleavage and polyadenylation specificity factor complex reveal its molecular architecture and specific determinants of polyadenylation signal recognition in human mRNAs.
Giacomo Frangipane, Dario Dell'Arciprete ... Roberto Di Leonardo
The concentration of motile bacteria, expressing a light-driven proton pump, can be precisely controlled in space and time by spatially modulating their swimming speeds with a structured light pattern.