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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural dynamics determine voltage and pH gating in human voltage-gated proton channel

    Shuo Han, Sophia Peng ... Shizhen Wang
    Visualization of the real-time conformational transitions of the human voltage-gated proton channel hHv1 provided novel insights into how voltage and pH gradients modify the dynamic behaviors of channel structures to control proton flow across membrane.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural and functional characterization of an otopetrin family proton channel

    Qingfeng Chen, Weizhong Zeng ... Youxing Jiang
    Structural and functional analysis of the OTOP3 channel from Xenopus tropicalis offers insights into the mechanism of ion transport and regulation in the otopetrin proton channel family.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Patched1 and Patched2 inhibit Smoothened non-cell autonomously

    Brock Roberts, Catalina Casillas ... Henk Roelink
    Ptch1/2 can lower the sensitivity of Smo to activation by Shh via the secretion of a sterol precursor.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Discovery and characterization of Hv1-type proton channels in reef-building corals

    Gisela Rangel-Yescas, Cecilia Cervantes ... Leon D Islas
    Proton channels are present in reef-building corals and constitute important molecular players that should help understand calcification and the response of these organisms to ocean acidification.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Diminishing neuronal acidification by channelrhodopsins with low proton conduction

    Rebecca Frank Hayward, F Phil Brooks III ... Adam E Cohen
    Many channelrhodopsins acidify cells, but two new ones do not.
    1. Cell Biology

    Mitochondrial flashes regulate ATP homeostasis in the heart

    Xianhua Wang, Xing Zhang ... Heping Cheng
    Mitochondrial flashes counteract the imbalance of ATP supply-and-demand and constitute an auto-regulator of ATP homeostasis in the heart.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    TIR1/AFB-Aux/IAA auxin perception mediates rapid cell wall acidification and growth of Arabidopsis hypocotyls

    Matyáš Fendrych, Jeffrey Leung, Jiří Friml
    The nuclear pathway for auxin perception is responsible for the rapid auxin-induced cell wall acidification and growth of aerial organs of plants.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural analysis of autoinhibition in the Ras-specific exchange factor RasGRP1

    Jeffrey S Iwig, Yvonne Vercoulen ... John Kuriyan
    A key activator of Ras signaling adopts an autoinhibited, dimeric conformation that is activated by membrane and calcium binding.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Conformational decoupling in acid-sensing ion channels uncovers mechanism and stoichiometry of PcTx1-mediated inhibition

    Stephanie A Heusser, Christian B Borg ... Stephan A Pless
    A peptide toxin with therapeutic potential in stroke and pain induces multiple long-lasting conformational changes in acid-sensing ion channels and affects how the channels respond to endogenous ligands.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Tissue acidosis induces neuronal necroptosis via ASIC1a channel independent of its ionic conduction

    Yi-Zhi Wang, Jing-Jing Wang ... Tian-Le Xu
    An interaction between the ion channel ASIC1a and the protein RIP1 is responsible for neuronal death caused by tissue acidosis.