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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Self-organization of kinetochore-fibers in human mitotic spindles

    William Conway, Robert Kiewisz ... Daniel J Needleman
    A biophysical model in which kinetochore microtubules nucleate at kinetochores and growth polward along nematic streamlines quantitatively explains kinetochore microtubule lengths, orientations, and spatially varying dynamics in metaphase human spindles.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    The biological function of an insect antifreeze protein simulated by molecular dynamics

    Michael J Kuiper, Craig J Morton ... Angus Gray-Weale
    Simulations of the biological function of an antifreeze protein reveal its molecular interactions with the ice/water interface.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Room-temperature crystallography reveals altered binding of small-molecule fragments to PTP1B

    Tamar Skaist Mehlman, Justin T Biel ... Daniel A Keedy
    Many small-molecule fragments bind differently to the allosteric protein PTP1B in room-temperature instead of cryogenic crystal structures, which may be relevant for structure-based drug design.
    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. Immunology and Inflammation

    Ym1 protein crystals promote type 2 immunity

    Ines Heyndrickx, Kim Deswarte ... Bart N Lambrecht
    Protein crystallization is a rare event yet Ym1 crystals made from a chitinase-like protein are abundantly found in eosinophilic airway inflammation, where they promote type 2 immunity.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural basis for the phase separation of the chromosome passenger complex

    Nikaela W Bryan, Aamir Ali ... Ben E Black
    The utilization of hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry reveals dynamic insights and interactions driving liquid-liquid demixing of the chromosome passenger complex.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Crystal structure of human U1 snRNP, a small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle, reveals the mechanism of 5′ splice site recognition

    Yasushi Kondo, Chris Oubridge ... Kiyoshi Nagai
    The complete architecture of human spliceosomal U1 snRNP and its interaction with the 5′ splice site of pre-mRNA are described in atomic detail.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Nanofluidic chips for cryo-EM structure determination from picoliter sample volumes

    Stefan T Huber, Edin Sarajlic ... Arjen J Jakobi
    A novel strategy for reproducible cryo-EM sample preparation with minimal sample volumes.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    pH- and sodium-induced changes in a sodium/proton antiporter

    Cristina Paulino, Werner Kühlbrandt
    Sodium ions but not protons induce defined helix movements in a sodium/proton antiporter and suggest a mechanism for Na + binding and transport.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Biocalcification in porcelaneous foraminifera

    Zofia Dubicka, Jarosław Tyszka ... Ulf Bickmeyer
    Porcelaneous foraminifera, marine calcifiers, reveal their biomineralization secrets.