Precise hydrogen-bond stabilization of the neck linker docking onto the catalytic motor domain, is crucial for motor activity and intracellular functions of the bi-directional mitotic kinesin-5 Cin8.
David Trombley McSwiggen, Helen Liu ... Hilary P Beck
Single-molecule tracking at scale, analyzing millions of cells and thousands of compounds per day, demonstrates that measuring protein motion provides mechanistic insights relevant to drug discovery.
Zachary B Katz, Brian P English ... Robert H Singer
A method that involves simultaneous tracking of individual mRNAs and their associated ribosomes can be used to determine when and where individual molecules get translated in living cells.
Highly conserved C-terminal domains of the tumor suppressor BRCA2 are not essential for accumulation at damaged DNA but affect conformation and cell survival, implying roles beyond delivering strand-exchange protein RAD51.
Live-cell single-molecule imaging of DNA repair factors can be used to analyze their localization to DNA lesions and dissect the hierarchy of their recruitment.
Andrea Toledo, Mathieu Letellier ... Olivier Thoumine
MDGAs are highly diffusive molecules that alter both neuroligin-1 and AMPA receptor dynamics and function, thereby significantly delaying the differentiation of excitatory post-synapses.
Thomas J Etheridge, Desiree Villahermosa ... Johanne M Murray
In vivo single-molecule imaging demonstrates that Smc5/6 chromatin association depends on ATP hydrolysis and dsDNA binding, requires Nse6 and is modulated by Brc1 after DNA damage.
David S White, Marcel P Goldschen-Ohm ... Baron Chanda
A new analysis algorithm (DISC) enables accurate analysis of data from high-throughput single-molecule paradigms and reveals a non-cooperative binding mechanism of cyclic nucleotide-binding domains from HCN ion channels.