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    Structural diversity of oligomeric β-propellers with different numbers of identical blades

    Evgenia Afanasieva et al.
    A protein fragment forms different folded structures when amplified to different copy numbers within a single polypeptide chain.
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    Deamidation disrupts native and transient contacts to weaken the interaction between UBC13 and RING-finger E3 ligases

    Priyesh Mohanty et al.
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    Ctf4 organizes sister replisomes and Pol α into a replication factory

    Zuanning Yuan et al.
    Eukaryotic replisomes are strongly connected together to replicate both sister DNAs produced from a bidirectional origin.
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    2. Cell Biology

    Endothelial PKA activity regulates angiogenesis by limiting autophagy through phosphorylation of ATG16L1

    Xiaocheng Zhao et al.
    The cAMP-dependent protein kinase A controls the switch from actively sprouting new blood vessel formation to vessel quiescence by reducing endothelial autophagy through phosphorylation-mediated destabilisation of ATG16L1.
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    Identification of an allosteric binding site on the human glycine transporter, GlyT2, for bioactive lipid analgesics

    Shannon N Mostyn et al.
    Identification of how bioactive lipids bind and inhibit glycine transporters has the potential to be exploited in the development of a new class of analgesics for chronic pain.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Near-infrared dual bioluminescence imaging in mouse models of cancer using infraluciferin

    Cassandra L Stowe et al.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure based inhibitors of Amyloid Beta core suggest a common interface with Tau

    Sarah L Griner et al.
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    Evolution of (p)ppGpp-HPRT regulation through diversification of an allosteric oligomeric interaction

    Brent W Anderson et al.
    The signaling ligand (p)ppGpp regulates the enzyme HPRT across species by binding to a novel class of conserved motif, yet its specificity is allosterically altered through evolution of enzyme oligomerization.
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    2. Cell Biology

    Intracellular cholesterol trafficking is dependent upon NPC2 interaction with Lysobisphosphatidic Acid

    Leslie A McCauliff et al.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Homology sensing via non-linear amplification of sequence-dependent pausing by RecQ helicase

    Yeonee Seol et al.
    The rate of DNA unwinding by RecQ helicases is dramatically modulated by the DNA duplex stability in a geometry-dependent manner, providing an intrinsic mechanism for suppressing illegitimate recombination.
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    University of California, Berkeley, United States
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    The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain
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    University of California, Berkeley, United States
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