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    An essential cell-autonomous role for hepcidin in cardiac iron homeostasis

    Samira Lakhal-Littleton, Magda Wolna ... Peter A Robbins
    The novel role of hepcidin in cell-autonomous iron regulation changes our understanding of tissue-specific iron control, and of its interplay with systemic iron homeostasis.
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    Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 plays distinct roles at the mRNA entry and exit channels of the ribosomal preinitiation complex

    Colin Echeverría Aitken, Petra Beznosková ... Jon R Lorsch
    Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3) is required to stabilize the binding of mRNA at the exit channel of the small ribosomal subunit and acts at the entry channel to accelerate mRNA recruitment to the translation preinitiation complex.
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    Mechanism of cargo-directed Atg8 conjugation during selective autophagy

    Dorotea Fracchiolla, Justyna Sawa-Makarska ... Sascha Martens
    Autophagic cargo receptors recruit the E3-like enzyme for Atg8 lipid conjugation to the cargo and thereby promote local formation of Atg8-positive autophagosomal membranes.
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    Prefabrication of a ribosomal protein subcomplex essential for eukaryotic ribosome formation

    Cohue Peña, Sabina Schütz ... Vikram G Panse
    The ATPase Fap7 prefabricates a uS11:eS26 ribosomal protein complex for ribosome assembly.
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    Structure of protein O-mannose kinase reveals a unique active site architecture

    Qinyu Zhu, David Venzke ... Junyu Xiao
    Active site migration establishes kinase activity in protein O-mannose kinase.
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    An evidence based hypothesis on the existence of two pathways of mitochondrial crista formation

    Max E Harner, Ann-Katrin Unger ... Walter Neupert
    Lamellar and tubular cristae in mitochondria form by two different molecular pathways that form both involve F1FO-ATP synthase dimers and the MICOS complex, but formation of lamellar cristae also relies on Mgm1/Opa1.
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    Control of the structural landscape and neuronal proteotoxicity of mutant Huntingtin by domains flanking the polyQ tract

    Koning Shen, Barbara Calamini ... Judith Frydman
    The polyQ tract of pathogenic Huntingtin causes aggregation when expanded in Huntington’s disease, but its two flanking domains control its conformational landscape, proteostasis and neurotoxicity.
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    Rational design of aptazyme riboswitches for efficient control of gene expression in mammalian cells

    Guocai Zhong, Haimin Wang ... Michael Farzan
    An empirically derived scoring system for identifying optimal communication modules of aptazymes accelerates the development of ligand-responsive RNA genetic switches functional in mammalian cells.
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    Structural basis for the disaggregase activity and regulation of Hsp104

    Alexander Heuck, Sonja Schitter-Sollner ... Tim Clausen
    Protein disaggregases employ two mechanically-linked ATPase rings that are under steric control by a wrapped-around coiled-coil belt.
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    SPRTN is a mammalian DNA-binding metalloprotease that resolves DNA-protein crosslinks

    Jaime Lopez-Mosqueda, Karthik Maddi ... Ivan Dikic
    SPRTN is a protease essential for the repair of cytotoxic DNA-protein cross links and this function is defective in patients afflicted with Ruijs-Aalfs syndrome -a segmental progeroid syndrome.