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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Indirect sexual selection drives rapid sperm protein evolution in abalone

    Damien Beau Wilburn, Lisa M Tuttle ... Willie J Swanson
    An NMR-based structural study of sperm proteins reveals a novel protein packaging/dispersion system embedded in a coevolutionary arms race.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular basis of ligand-dependent Nurr1-RXRα activation

    Xiaoyu Yu, Jinsai Shang, Douglas J Kojetin
    Transcriptional activation of the orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1 by ligands targeting its heterodimer partner retinoid X receptor alpha (RXRα) occurs through a nonclassical pharmacological mechanism involving ligand-binding domain protein-protein interaction inhibition.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Allosteric coupling asymmetry mediates paradoxical activation of BRAF by type II inhibitors

    Damien M Rasmussen, Manny M Semonis ... Nicholas M Levinson
    A comprehensive allosteric model describes how inhibitors can activate rather than inhibit a target kinase by selectively driving formation of kinase dimers with one inhibited and one activated subunit.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Coil-to-α-helix transition at the Nup358-BicD2 interface activates BicD2 for dynein recruitment

    James M Gibson, Heying Cui ... Chunyu Wang
    A cargo recognition α-helix was identified in Nup358, which is required for activation of a dynein-dependent transport pathway that is essential for brain development.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The conformation of the histone H3 tail inhibits association of the BPTF PHD finger with the nucleosome

    Emma A Morrison, Samuel Bowerman ... Catherine A Musselman
    The BPTF PHD finger is inhibited from binding the methylated H3 tails in the context of the nucleosome due to their robust interaction with the nucleosomal DNA, which can be modulated by additional histone PTMs.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of a low-population intermediate state in the release of an enzyme product

    Alfonso De Simone, Francesco A Aprile ... Michele Vendruscolo
    Product release from human lysozyme is mediated by an intermediate state with transient weak interactions between the product and enzyme.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Constitutive activation and oncogenicity are mediated by loss of helical structure at the cytosolic boundary of thrombopoietin receptor mutant dimers

    Jean-Philippe Defour, Emilie Leroy ... Stefan N Constantinescu
    Structural and functional analyses reveal the general mechanism of activation of the thrombopoietin receptor and unravel the critical role of W515.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology

    The molecular mechanism of nuclear transport revealed by atomic-scale measurements

    Loren E Hough, Kaushik Dutta ... David Cowburn
    NMR spectroscopy has been used to explain a central unresolved issue of nuclear transport, namely how it can be both fast and specific.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Targeting RNA:protein interactions with an integrative approach leads to the identification of potent YBX1 inhibitors

    Krystel El Hage, Nicolas Babault ... David Pastré
    The development of an integrative computational-experimental approach for identifying small molecules that can disrupt RNA:protein interactions in vitro and in cells led to the identification of several inhibitors of YBX1 in the micromolar range, including a previously approved drug.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Urinary metabolic biomarkers of diet quality in European children are associated with metabolic health

    Nikos Stratakis, Alexandros P Siskos ... Leda Chatzi
    Urinary metabolic signatures relate to adherence to the Mediterranean diet and ultra-processed food intake in childhood and reflect associations of these diet quality indicators with metabolic health.