A 3D model captures the growth and expansion dynamics of bacterial colonies, revealing distinct effects of surface tension, mechanical forces, and nutrients on the speed of radial and vertical expansion.
Direct observation of RNA Polymerase II transcription through a single nucleosome at near basepair resolution suggests a mechanism for selective control of gene expression.
Raul Araya-Secchi, Katrine Bugge ... Birthe B Kragelund
The prolactin receptor, Janus kinase 2, and PI(4,5)P2 form a co-structure with the membrane resulting in orientations with different accessibility fixing the disordered juxtamembrane domain of the receptor in an extended structure.
A multidimensional chemical mapping strategy enables confident determination of the structures of non-coding RNAs at 1-nm resolution, including previously intractable riboswitch and human regulon states.
Elena Farah Lehmann, Márton Liziczai ... Cristina Manatschal
The structure of the human iron exporter ferroportin in complex with its inhibitor vamifeport, which is currently in clinical development against β-thalassemia and sickle cell disease, provides insight into pharmacological mechanisms.
The glycine T-box riboswitch recognizes tRNAgly and senses its aminoacylation state by first interacting with the anticodon region and subsequently probing the 3' end of the ligand using both specific structural elements and conformational dynamics.
Dorota Rousová, Vaishnavi Nivsarkar ... John R Weir
Mer2 interacts directly with meiotic chromatin, axial proteins, and the DNA break forming machinery to facilitate the formation of meiotic double-strand breaks.