Mechanistic studies of glutamine synthetase reveals how the complex quaternary structure organizations of a supramolecular enzyme provides a platform necessary for intricate activity regulation machinery to take place.
Alba Pacheco-Moreno, Francesca L Stefanato ... Andrew W Truman
Genomics and genetics were used to identify specialized metabolites employed by Pseudomonas bacteria to suppress the growth of potato pathogens, which revealed a key role for cyclic lipopeptides.
Maria Maldonado, Abhilash Padavannil ... James A Letts
The first atomic resolution structure of a mitochondrial respiratory complex from plants provides insight into the assembly and evolution of respiration in autotrophic eukaryotes.
Xabier Agirrezabala, Eduardo Méndez-López ... Mikel Valle
The high-resolution structure of a filamentous flexible plant virus shows that there is structural homology between its coat protein and the nucleoproteins of an unrelated group of enveloped RNA animal viruses.
Jennette M Codjoe, Ryan A Richardson ... Elizabeth S Haswell
A mechanosensitive ion channel physically and genetically interacts with proteins that function at endoplasmic reticulum–plasma membrane contact sites.
Leaf-cutting ants use their fecal fluid to vector enzymes produced by their fungal symbiont to degrade plant biomass with a combination of degradation enzymes and Fenton chemistry.
A phosphorylation circuitry balancing among kinase, transcription factor, transcription repressor, and phosphatase in response against host immunity during M. oryzae–rice interaction.
Richard J Lindsay, Michael J Kershaw ... Ivana Gudelj
Cooperation theory and a novel synthetic infection system provides a mechanistic understanding of why a seemingly successful disease management strategy can have devastating consequences for infected hosts.
