NMR and clustering results show that N-terminal acetylation of α-syn enhances its binding to the neutral phospholipid lysophosphatidylcholine, thereby promoting its function of clustering synaptic vesicles.
Benedikt M Mortzfeld, Shakti K Bhattarai, Vanni Bucci
12 new class IIb microcins have been structurally identified, phylogenetically assessed, and functionally tested for their antimicrobial activity, increasing the total number of these bacteriocins to 17.
Senem Ntourmas, Martin Sachs ... Dominic B Bernkopf
Biochemical detection of endogenous, paralog-specific DVL2 complexes, molecular characterization of underlying protein domains and functional evidence for their importance extend the knowledge of Wnt pathway regulation through DVL2 biomolecular condensates.
A combination of genetic and biochemical approaches suggest that yeast Rev7 promotes DNA double-strand break repair via NHEJ and inhibits homologous recombination by blocking Mre11 nuclease and Rad50’s ATPase activities.
Aging reduces the potassium M current in sympathetic motor neurons, resulting in a hyperactive phenotype that can be reversed by pharmacological activation of these channels.
During zebrafish embryogenesis, dact1 and dact2 are necessary for axis lengthening and craniofacial morphogenesis, and the protease capn8 is misexpressed in dact1/2 mutants.
