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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Novel Rapid Host Cell Entry Pathway Determines Intracellular Fate of Staphylococcus aureus

    Marcel Rühling, Fabio Schmelz ... Martin J Fraunholz
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Post-translational flavinylation is associated with diverse extracytosolic redox functionalities throughout bacterial life

    Raphaël Méheust, Shuo Huang ... Samuel H Light
    Bioinformatic and biochemical studies provide evidence that covalently bound flavins are common and participate in wide-ranging extracytosolic redox activities throughout bacterial life.
    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. Cell Biology

    A concerted mechanism involving ACAT and SREBPs by which oxysterols deplete accessible cholesterol to restrict microbial infection

    David B Heisler, Kristen A Johnson ... Arun Radhakrishnan
    An essential role for ACAT in conferring 25HC-mediated protection against bacterial and viral infection has been uncovered.
    1. Neuroscience

    Odor-identity dependent motor programs underlie behavioral responses to odors

    Seung-Hye Jung, Catherine Hueston, Vikas Bhandawat
    Flies respond to odors by modulating multiple independently modulated motor programs.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Pathologic polyglutamine aggregation begins with a self-poisoning polymer crystal

    Tej Kandola, Shriram Venkatesan ... Randal Halfmann
    The disease-associated aggregation of polyglutamine begins in a single molecule with a specific structure.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Differences in interactions between transmembrane domains tune the activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors

    Jordana K Thibado, Jean-Yves Tano ... Joshua Levitz
    Homo- and heterodimeric group II metabotropic glutamate receptors show diverse modes of interaction between transmembrane domains that control their distinct assembly and activation properties.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The essential role of Dnmt1 in gametogenesis in the large milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

    Joshua T Washington, Katelyn R Cavender ... Patricia J Moore
    The maintenance DNA methyltransferase DNMT1 is required for the transition of spermatogonia to spermatocytes both during larval testis development and adult sperm replenishment in the insect Oncopeltus fasciatus.
    1. Physics of Living Systems

    Body size-dependent energy storage causes Kleiber’s law scaling of the metabolic rate in planarians

    Albert Thommen, Steffen Werner ... Jochen C Rink
    A combination of experimental and theoretical analysis identifies body size-dependent energy storage as the physiological cause of 3/4-power law scaling of the metabolic rate in planarians.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Comparative genomics explains the evolutionary success of reef-forming corals

    Debashish Bhattacharya, Shobhit Agrawal ... Paul G Falkowski
    The analysis of 20 coral genomic datasets provides unprecedented insights into what makes reef-building corals unique, including the evolution of novel gene families involved in biomineralization, signaling and stress responses that have led to their evolutionary success throughout the Phanerozoic Eon.