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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    An auto-inhibited state of protein kinase G and implications for selective activation

    Rajesh Sharma, Jeong Joo Kim ... Choel Kim
    The crystal structure of a mammalian protein kinase G reveals contacts between the regulatory and catalytic domains, indicates how cGMP binding alters domain conformations and thus domain:domain interactions, and informs a model for enzyme auto-inhibition and cooperative activation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Purine nucleosides replace cAMP in allosteric regulation of PKA in trypanosomatid pathogens

    Veronica Teresa Ober, George Boniface Githure ... Michael Boshart
    A minimal subset of two to three residues in cyclic nucleotide binding (CNB) domains controls nucleoside vs. cyclic nucleotide specificity, repurposing PKA of certain pathogens for novel nucleoside signaling pathways or sensing.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Alstrom syndrome gene is a stem-cell-specific regulator of centriole duplication in the Drosophila testis

    Cuie Chen, Yukiko M Yamashita
    Alms1a is a centrosomal protein that exhibits asymmetric localization between mother and daughter centrosomes in asymmetrically dividing stem cells in Drosophila testis, controlling centriole duplication.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    CAMKII and Calcineurin regulate the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans through the FOXO transcription factor DAF-16

    Li Tao, Qi Xie ... Meng-Qiu Dong
    Longevity in C. elegans is influenced not only by insulin/IGF-1 signalling, but also by CAMKII and calcineurin, acting on the same target, the transcription factor DAF-16.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Conserved mechanisms of microtubule-stimulated ADP release, ATP binding, and force generation in transport kinesins

    Joseph Atherton, Irene Farabella ... Carolyn A Moores
    Cryo-electron microscopy reconstructions of two microtubule-bound transport kinesins at 7 Å resolution reveal how microtubule track binding stimulates ADP release, primes the active site for ATP binding and enables force generation.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Neck linker docking is critical for Kinesin-1 force generation in cells but at a cost to motor speed and processivity

    Breane G Budaitis, Shashank Jariwala ... Kristen J Verhey
    Force generation by kinesin motor proteins requires formation of both a 2-stranded cover-neck bundle and an asparagine-based latch for transport of membrane-bound cargoes in cells.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The divergent mitotic kinesin MKLP2 exhibits atypical structure and mechanochemistry

    Joseph Atherton, I-Mei Yu ... Carolyn A Moores
    MKLP2 is a divergent molecular motor that has structurally evolved to bind its microtubule track and use the energy of ATP in distinct ways, tuned according to its function in cell division.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Temporal and thermal profiling of the Toxoplasma proteome implicates parasite Protein Phosphatase 1 in the regulation of Ca2+-responsive pathways

    Alice L Herneisen, Zhu-Hong Li ... Sebastian Lourido
    Time-resolved phosphoproteomics and thermal proteome profiling reveal the Ca2+-responsive proteome of the model apicomplexan Taxoplasma gondii, identifying PP1 as a Ca2+-responsive enzyme that regulates Ca2+ uptake to promote parasite motility.
    1. Neuroscience

    The DEG/ENaC cation channel protein UNC-8 drives activity-dependent synapse removal in remodeling GABAergic neurons

    Tyne W Miller-Fleming, Sarah C Petersen ... David M Miller III
    The protein UNC-8 is a neuronal activity sensor that triggers the elimination of synapses during development of the nervous system.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Kinesin motility is driven by subdomain dynamics

    Wonmuk Hwang, Matthew J Lang, Martin Karplus
    The motor protein kinesin utilizes its fuel molecule by active and concerted motions of its subdomains, while it rapidly interacts with the microtubule track by forming a wet and dynamic interface.

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