Joel Haywood, Jason W Schmidberger ... Joshua S Mylne
The first crystal structure of an active plant asparaginyl endopeptidase reveals a tetrahedral intermediate state in its active site, which may help to explain why these enzymes have been independently recruited to perform peptide macrocyclization.
Galina Popova, Hanna Retallack ... Tomasz Nowakowski
Combination of primary brain culture and single-cell RNA sequencing in brain organoids identifies microglia as the main target of rubella virus infection.
Condensation of cytosolic protein YBX1 into processing bodies reveals mechanisms for efficient and selective sorting of proteins and their cognate microRNAs into exosomes.
Will Putzbach, Ashley Haluck-Kangas ... Marcus E Peter
The mRNA of the apoptosis inducing death ligand CD95L/FasL kills cancer cells through RNAi after conversion into small RNAs that are loaded into the RNA-induced Silencing Complex.
Matthew J Shurtleff, Morayma M Temoche-Diaz ... Randy Schekman
A cell-free reaction that reconstitutes the selective sorting of a miRNA into exosomes reveals an RNA-binding protein, YBX1, as a critical sorting factor.
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.
The utility of split GFP for tissue-specific visualization of ribosomes in live Caenorhabditis elegans demonstrates the link between ribosomes and microtubules.