Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Single molecule poly(A) tail-seq shows LARP4 opposes deadenylation throughout mRNA lifespan with most impact on short tails

    Sandy Mattijssen et al.
    LARP4 protects mRNAs against deadenylation over a wide range of poly(A) lengths but with most apparent functional impact on short lengths known to sensitize PABP binding and mRNA stability.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Positively selected modifications in the pore of TbAQP2 allow pentamidine to enter Trypanosoma brucei

    Ali Alghamdi et al.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural insights into the Ca2+-dependent gating of the human mitochondrial calcium uniporter

    Yan Wang et al.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Transient intracellular acidification regulates the core transcriptional heat shock response

    Catherine G Triandafillou et al.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    How to measure and evaluate binding affinities

    Inga Jarmoskaite et al.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Transposase-assisted tagmentation of RNA/DNA hybrid duplexes

    Bo Lu et al.
    Tn5 transposase has direct tagmentation activity towards RNA/DNA hybrids, which is harnessed as a more convenient and faster RNA-seq library construction method and will benefit RNA and chromatin research.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Real-time in vivo imaging of extracellular ATP in the brain with a hybrid-type fluorescent sensor

    Nami Kitajima et al.
    Hybrid-type fluorescent ATP sensor showing submicromolar affinity, a large fluorescence response, high selectivity and pH-independence visualized extracellular ATP dynamics in the brain of living mice with high spatiotemporal resolution.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Antagonistic control of DDK binding to licensed replication origins by Mcm2 and Rad53

    Syafiq Abd Wahab, Dirk Remus
    The mechanism of Dbf4-dependent kinase (DDK) recruitment to replication origins and its regulation by the checkpoint have been identified.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    The Structural Determinants of PH Domain-Mediated Regulation of Akt Revealed by Segmental Labeling

    Nam Chu et al.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    EDF1 coordinates cellular responses to ribosome collisions

    Niladri K Sinha et al.
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    Harvard Medical School, United States
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    National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States
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    University of Sydney, Australia
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