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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Gene editing and scalable functional genomic screening in Leishmania species using the CRISPR/Cas9 cytosine base editor toolbox LeishBASEedit

    Markus Engstler, Tom Beneke
    LeishBASEedit enables gene editing in Leishmania without requiring DNA double-strand breaks, homologous recombination, or donor DNA, thereby facilitating loss-of-function screens via delivery of plasmid libraries and regardless of limitations due to gene copy number variations and/or lack of RNAi components.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Stimulation of the catalytic activity of the tyrosine kinase Btk by the adaptor protein Grb2

    Laura M Nocka, Timothy J Eisen ... John Kuriyan
    The adaptor protein Grb2 is able to enhance the activity of the cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase Btk through a novel mechanism, revealing a new role for Grb2 in B-cell signaling.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    High-throughput profiling of sequence recognition by tyrosine kinases and SH2 domains using bacterial peptide display

    Allyson Li, Rashmi Voleti ... Neel H Shah
    A high-throughput method to profile tyrosine kinases and phosphotyrosine recognition domains reveals new rules for sequence specificity and maps the effects of mutations on the recognition of tyrosine phosphorylation sites.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Activation-pathway transitions in human voltage-gated proton channels revealed by a non-canonical fluorescent amino acid

    Esteban Suárez-Delgado, Maru Orozco-Contreras ... Leon D Islas
    Combined patch-clamp fluorometry with ANAP, a fluorescent non-canonical amino acid, uncovers transitions in the activation pathway of human HV1 that are modulated by voltage and the pH gradient.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Improved ANAP incorporation and VCF analysis reveal details of P2X7 current facilitation and a limited conformational interplay between ATP binding and the intracellular ballast domain

    Anna Durner, Ellis Durner, Annette Nicke
    Comparision of current and fluorescent kinetics from P2X7 receptor mutants labeled with the fluorescent amino acid ANAP suggests that the characteristic P2X7 current facilitation involves changes in channel gating rather than interactions or conformational changes of its intracellular ballast domain.
    1. Cell Biology

    Development of a versatile high-throughput mutagenesis assay with multiplexed short-read NGS using DNA-barcoded supF shuttle vector library amplified in E. coli

    Hidehiko Kawai, Ren Iwata ... Hiroyuki Kamiya
    A sophisticated classical mutagenesis assay with next-generation sequencing technology presents a benefit to future research on mutagenesis, DNA repair, and cancer.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    An entropic safety catch controls hepatitis C virus entry and antibody resistance

    Lenka Stejskal, Mphatso D Kalemera ... Joe Grove
    The entry glycoproteins of hepatitis C virus, E1E2, possess a novel regulatory mechanism in which protein disorder is harnessed to control their activity and their ability to evade antibodies.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    On demand expression control of endogenous genes with DExCon, DExogron and LUXon reveals differential dynamics of Rab11 family members

    Jakub Gemperle, Thomas S Harrison ... Patrick T Caswell
    DExCon, LUXon, and DExogron approaches simultaneously block endogenous gene expression and permit tuning of re-expression levels in time and space; proof-of-principle reveals unforeseen differences in protein kinetics, cargo handling, and cell migration regulation between closely related Rab11 family members.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Colicin E1 opens its hinge to plug TolC

    S Jimmy Budiardjo, Jacqueline J Stevens ... Joanna SG Slusky
    Bacterial warfare protein colicin E1 opens its hinge to plug antibiotic efflux pump TolC and potentiate antibiotics.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Comprehensive interrogation of the ADAR2 deaminase domain for engineering enhanced RNA editing activity and specificity

    Dhruva Katrekar, Yichen Xiang ... Prashant Mali
    A deep mutational scan of the ADAR2 deaminase domain creates a map for designing tailored ADAR2 variants, and splitting the deaminase between residues 468 and 469 enables highly transcript-specific RNA editing.