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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    CryoEM structures of membrane pore and prepore complex reveal cytolytic mechanism of Pneumolysin

    Katharina van Pee, Alexander Neuhaus ... Özkan Yildiz
    The near-atomic cryoEM pore complex structure of pneumolysin, the main virulence factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae, shows how the individual domains rearrange during the pore formation.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    CryoEM structures of open dimers of gyrase A in complex with DNA illuminate mechanism of strand passage

    Katarzyna M Soczek, Tim Grant ... Alfonso Mondragón
    CryoEM structures of open gyrase A dimers and DNA in two states representing steps either prior to or after passage through the DNA-gate, show where a putative T-segment is found.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The CryoEM structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosome maturation factor Rea1

    Piotr Sosnowski, Linas Urnavicius ... Helgo Schmidt
    The high-resolution structure of Rea1, an essential ribosome maturation factor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, explains how the ATPase domain is regulated and reveals the linker domain, the mechanical element carrying out ribosome remodeling.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    The dynamic nature of the human origin recognition complex revealed through five cryoEM structures

    Matt J Jaremko, Kin Fan On ... Leemor Joshua-Tor
    The origin recognition complex is a dynamic complex that assumes various conformational states that likely correspond to different steps in replication initiation.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A new topology of the HK97-like fold revealed in Bordetella bacteriophage by cryoEM at 3.5 Å resolution

    Xing Zhang, Huatao Guo ... Z Hong Zhou
    Cryo electron microscopy and structure-based mutagenesis reveal that the bacteriophage BPP-1 contains two of the three major recognized viral folds, one of which exhibits a new topology.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    FBN-1, a fibrillin-related protein, is required for resistance of the epidermis to mechanical deformation during C. elegans embryogenesis

    Melissa Kelley, John Yochem ... David S Fay
    A fibrillin-related protein, FBN-1, is a key component of the apical extracellular matrix and prevents epidermal cell deformation by biomechanical forces during morphogenesis of the C. elegans embryo.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Ensemble cryoEM elucidates the mechanism of insulin capture and degradation by human insulin degrading enzyme

    Zhening Zhang, Wenguang G Liang ... Wei-Jen Tang
    Integrative structural analyses of human insulin degradingenzyme (IDE) reveal how IDE selectively degrades peptides that form toxicaggregates, which guides IDE-based therapeutic innovations to treat diabetesand Alzheimer's disease.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The near-atomic cryoEM structure of a flexible filamentous plant virus shows homology of its coat protein with nucleoproteins of animal viruses

    Xabier Agirrezabala, Eduardo Méndez-López ... Mikel Valle
    The high-resolution structure of a filamentous flexible plant virus shows that there is structural homology between its coat protein and the nucleoproteins of an unrelated group of enveloped RNA animal viruses.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    CryoEM structures of the human CLC-2 voltage-gated chloride channel reveal a ball-and-chain gating mechanism

    Mengyuan Xu, Torben Neelands ... Merritt Maduke
    A combination of high-resolution structure determination, electrophysiology, and MD simulations reveal fundamental insight into the molecular function of voltage-gated chloride channels.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of the two-component S-layer of the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

    Lavinia Gambelli, Mathew McLaren ... Bertram Daum
    CryoEM reveals the structure of a two-component archaeal S-layer, which sheds new light on archaeal cell biology.

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