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    Squidly: Enzyme Catalytic Residue Prediction Harnessing a Biology-Informed Contrastive Learning Framework

    William JF Rieger, Mikael Boden ... Ariane Mora
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    Investigating the native functions of [NiFe]-carbon monoxide dehydrogenases through genomic context analysis

    Maximilian Böhm, Henrik Land
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    A green lifetime biosensor for calcium that remains bright over its full dynamic range

    Franka H van der Linden, Stephen C Thornquist ... Joachim Goedhart
    Directed evolution was used to engineer a green fluorescent biosensor for quantitative calcium imaging that remains fluorescent, yet shows a large change in lifetime in cells.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    A systematic bi-genomic split-GFP assay illuminates the mitochondrial matrix proteome and protein targeting routes

    Yury S Bykov, Solene Zuttion ... Maya Schuldiner
    Combined with high-throughput yeast genetics, a split green fluorescent protein encoded directly in the mitochondrial DNA helps to identify targeting signals and functions of dually localized proteins.
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    2. Neuroscience

    Affinity-guided labeling reveals P2X7 nanoscale membrane redistribution during BV2 microglial activation

    Benoit Arnould, Adeline Martz ... Thomas Grutter
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    A simplified and highly efficient cell-free protein synthesis system for prokaryotes

    Xianshengjie Lang, Changbin Zhang ... Wenfei Li
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    General trends in the calnexin-dependent expression and pharmacological rescue of clinical CFTR variants

    Austin Tedman, John A Olson III ... Jonathan P Schlebach
    Combining deep mutational scanning with CRISPR, interactome measurements, and electrophysiology reveals nuanced effects of the lectin chaperone calnexin on the pharmacological properties of 232 cystic fibrosis variants.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Noncanonical amino acid incorporation enables minimally disruptive labeling of stress granule and TDP-43 proteinopathy

    Hao Chen, Haocheng Wang ... Jiou Wang
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    Deep learning reveals endogenous sterols as allosteric modulators of the GPCR–Gα interface

    Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, Aayushi Mittal ... Gaurav Ahuja
    An AI-driven computational toolkit, Gcoupler, integrates ligand design, statistical modeling, and graph neural networks to predict endogenous metabolites that allosterically modulate the GPCR–Gα interface and regulate downstream signaling.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Dietary sulfur amino acid restriction elicits a cold-like transcriptional response in inguinal but not epididymal white adipose tissue of male mice

    Philip MM Ruppert, Aylin S Güller ... Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld
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