Bence Hajdusits, Marcin J Suskiewicz ... Tim Clausen
The McsB kinase is critical for protein quality control in Gram-positive bacteria, assembling a gated phosphorylation chamber during heat-shock conditions to selectively mark misfolded proteins for degradation.
Phosphorylation of a core trafficking component, the COPII coat subunit Sec24, regulates cross-talk between the secretory and autophagy machinery during starvation.
Overcoming image-processing problems in the analysis of the ClpB chaperone provides a new structural model and regulatory mechanism, based on clear density for the coiled-coil domain and supported by various biochemical data.
The intrinsic disorder of the circadian clock protein Frequency organizes binding partners, facilitates liquid–liquid phase separation, modulates Frequency phosphorylation, and derives from sequence properties conserved with homologous clock components.
Brian C Del Rosario, Andrea J Kriz ... Jeannie T Lee
The chromosome architectural protein, CTCF, is phosphorylated at Ser224 in a cell-cycle-dependent manner and abrogation of phosphorylation leads to a cell growth defect.
A pseudokinase in the secretory pathway, Fam20A, activates the real Golgi casein kinase, Fam20C, via a unique mechanism that is lost in human diseases.
Viktor J Olah, Annie M Goettemoeller ... Matthew JM Rowan
Electrophysiological and genetic analyses reveal a biophysical mechanism in parvalbumin interneurons, uncoupled from changes in gene expression, resulting in reduced cortical inhibition in early-stage Alzheimer's disease.