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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Coevolution-based prediction of key allosteric residues for protein function regulation

    Juan Xie, Weilin Zhang ... Luhua Lai
    Key allosteric residues are predicted based on sequence coevolution analysis, which serves as guidelines for allosteric drug design and optimization.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reformulation of an extant ATPase active site to mimic ancestral GTPase activity reveals a nucleotide base requirement for function

    Taylor B Updegrove, Jailynn Harke ... Kumaran S Ramamurthi
    Reengineering the nucleotide-binding pocket of an extant ATPase to restore ancestral GTPase activity revealed an ATP-dependent intermediate required for function and suggested why the protein evolved to use ATP.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Co-aggregation and secondary nucleation in the life cycle of human prolactin/galanin functional amyloids

    Debdeep Chatterjee, Reeba S Jacob ... Samir K Maji
    Co-aggregation, amyloid formation, and unidirectional cross-seeding of prolactin and galanin for their efficient storage in secretory granules of pituitary and subsequent functional hormone release.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular basis of synaptic specificity by immunoglobulin superfamily receptors in Drosophila

    Shouqiang Cheng, James Ashley ... Engin Özkan
    Fly protein families Dprs and DIPs can create a multitude of complementary interfaces for homo- and heterophilic adhesion complexes, resulting in instructive roles for connectivity in the motor neuron circuitry.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Detection and manipulation of live antigen-expressing cells using conditionally stable nanobodies

    Jonathan CY Tang, Eugene Drokhlyansky ... Constance L Cepko
    A straightforward, rapid and generalizable strategy uses modified nanobodies to convert intracellular protein detection into desired biological activities in cells and animals.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Reprogramming the antigen specificity of B cells using genome-editing technologies

    James E Voss, Alicia Gonzalez-Martin ... Dennis R Burton
    Antibody paratopes can be added to the human repertoire by CRISPR-Cas9 editing of B lymphocytes using a strategy that allows for hypermutation and class switching of resulting B cell receptors.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Heterogeneity of the GFP fitness landscape and data-driven protein design

    Louisa Gonzalez Somermeyer, Aubin Fleiss ... Fyodor A Kondrashov
    Orthologous proteins display different mutational robustness that can be leveraged to improve prediction of functional sequences.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A general strategy to construct small molecule biosensors in eukaryotes

    Justin Feng, Benjamin W Jester ... David Baker
    A new method for developing biosensors from ligand binding domains that have concentration-dependent and selective responses to small molecules in yeast, mammalian cells and plants.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Selection of chromosomal DNA libraries using a multiplex CRISPR system

    Owen W Ryan, Jeffrey M Skerker ... Jamie HD Cate
    An optimized CRISPR-Cas9 system enables multiplexed genome engineering for evolving biomolecules and pathways from chromosomally integrated DNA libraries.
    1. Cell Biology

    Meisosomes, folded membrane microdomains between the apical extracellular matrix and epidermis

    Dina Aggad, Nicolas Brouilly ... Nathalie Pujol
    Combining live imaging and advanced electron microscopy gives insights into the structural integrity of the nematode epidermis and its intimate connection with the extracellular matrix.