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    Ligand response of guanidine-IV riboswitch at single-molecule level

    Lingzhi Gao, Dian Chen, Yu Liu
    A folding-function model for the guanidine-IV riboswitch under both guanidine-free and guanidine-present conditions offers valuable insights into its regulatory mechanism.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    The membrane domains of mammalian adenylyl cyclases are lipid receptors

    Marius Landau, Sherif Elsabbagh ... Joachim E Schultz
    The dodecahelical membrane anchors of mammalian adenylyl cyclase isoforms are receptors for unsaturated free fatty acids and, as a tonic signal, enhance or attenuate GPCR/Gsα-stimulated cyclic AMP formation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Determining the off-target activity of antibiotics and novel translation initiation sites in mitochondria

    James Marks, Emma Young, Markus Hafner
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    Alzheimer-mutant γ-secretase complexes stall amyloid β-peptide production

    Parnian Arafi, Sujan Devkota ... Michael S Wolfe
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Recognition and Cleavage of Human tRNA Methyltransferase TRMT1 by the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease

    Angel D’Oliviera, Xuhang Dai ... Jeffrey S Mugridge
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    2. Medicine

    Increased bone inflammation in type 2 diabetes and obesity correlates with Wnt signaling downregulation and reduced bone strength

    Giulia Leanza, Malak Faraj ... Nicola Napoli
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Identification of Suitable Target/E3 Ligase Pairs for PROTAC Development using a Rapamycin-induced Proximity Assay (RiPA)

    Bikash Adhikari, Katharina Schneider ... Elmar Wolf
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Control of 3ʹ splice site selection by the yeast splicing factor Fyv6

    Katherine A Senn, Karli A Lipinski ... Aaron A Hoskins
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    PDZ-directed substrate recruitment is the primary determinant of specific 4E-BP1 dephosphorylation by PP1-Neurabin

    Roman O Fedoryshchak, Karim El-Bouri ... Richard Treisman
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Biochemical and neurophysiological effects of deficiency of the mitochondrial import protein TIMM50

    Eyal Paz, Sahil Jain ... Abdussalam Azem
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