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    Stall force measurement of the kinesin-3 motor KIF1A using a programmable DNA origami nanospring

    Nobumichi Takamatsu, Hiroko Furumoto ... Kumiko Hayashi
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    Purified Zymogens Reveal Mechanisms of Snake Venom Metalloproteinase Auto-Activation

    Sophie Hall, Iara Aimê Cardoso ... Christiane Schaffitzel
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Shifting the PPARγ conformational ensemble toward a transcriptionally repressive state improves covalent inhibitor efficacy

    Liudmyla Arifova, Brian S MacTavish ... Douglas J Kojetin
    Covalent PPARγ inhibitors that better stabilize a repressive conformation are more effective inhibitors, but structural plasticity still allows ligand cobinding by enabling a shift back to an active conformation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Effects of residue substitutions on the cellular abundance of proteins

    Thea K Schulze, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Neuroscience

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

    Benoit Arnould, Adeline Martz ... Thomas Grutter
    An affinity-guided chemical strategy enabling highly specific biotinylation of P2X7 receptors reveals, by super-resolution microscopy, how the nanoscale organization of endogenous P2X7 in BV2 microglial cells dynamically changes upon activation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    The interplay between biomolecular assembly and phase separation

    Giacomo Bartolucci, Ivar S Haugerud ... Christoph A Weber
    Biomolecular assembly typically promotes phase separation while the presence of coexisting phases alters assembly kinetics.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Differential Regulation of Hepatic Macrophage Fate by Chi3l1 in MASLD

    Jia He, Bo Chen ... Zhao Shan
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Superoxide Dismutases maintain niche homeostasis in stem cell populations

    Olivia Majhi, Aishwarya Chhatre ... Devanjan Sinha
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    • Inadequate
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Investigating the native functions of [NiFe]-carbon monoxide dehydrogenases through genomic context analysis

    Maximilian Böhm, Henrik Land
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    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

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

    William JF Rieger, Mikael Boden ... Ariane Mora
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    William J Allen, Ian Collinson

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