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    The serine protease hepsin mediates urinary secretion and polymerisation of Zona Pellucida domain protein uromodulin

    Martina Brunati, Simone Perucca ... Luca Rampoldi
    Hepsin is the first protease identified to modulate specific cleavage and secretion of a Zona Pellucida domain protein, uromodulin.
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    ABHD17 proteins are novel protein depalmitoylases that regulate N-Ras palmitate turnover and subcellular localization

    David Tse Shen Lin, Elizabeth Conibear
    Palmitate turnover is controlled by distinct enzyme families with different specificities.
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    2. Cell Biology

    Protein translocation channel of mitochondrial inner membrane and matrix-exposed import motor communicate via two-domain coupling protein

    Rupa Banerjee, Christina Gladkova ... Dejana Mokranjac
    Two domains of the peripheral membrane protein Tim44 interact with two different sectors of a translocase to coordinate the translocation of proteins across the inner mitochondrial membrane.
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    Kindlin-2 cooperates with talin to activate integrins and induces cell spreading by directly binding paxillin

    Marina Theodosiou, Moritz Widmaier ... Reinhard Fässler
    Kindlin-2 co-operates with talin to activate fibronectin-binding integrins on fibroblasts and subsequently induces cell spreading by recruiting paxillin to small, peripheral nascent adhesions.
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    A general strategy to construct small molecule biosensors in eukaryotes

    Justin Feng, Benjamin W Jester ... David Baker
    A new method for developing biosensors from ligand binding domains that have concentration-dependent and selective responses to small molecules in yeast, mammalian cells and plants.
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    An extracellular biochemical screen reveals that FLRTs and Unc5s mediate neuronal subtype recognition in the retina

    Jasper J Visser, Yolanda Cheng ... Woj M Wojtowicz
    An integrated approach for studying laminar organization in the developing mouse retina identifies two families of extracellular recognition proteins that mediate neuronal subtype-specific recognition.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural basis of death domain signaling in the p75 neurotrophin receptor

    Zhi Lin, Jason Y Tann ... Carlos F Ibanez
    Structures of the death domain of the p75 neurotrophin receptor in complex with downstream effectors show how competitive protein-protein interactions orchestrate the hierarchical activation of downstream pathways in non-catalytic receptors.
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    AMPylation matches BiP activity to client protein load in the endoplasmic reticulum

    Steffen Preissler, Cláudia Rato ... David Ron
    Attaching a molecule of adenosine mono-phosphate (AMP) to the BiP protein at threonine 518 regulates its chaperone activity in the endoplasmic reticulum.
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    A vocabulary of ancient peptides at the origin of folded proteins

    Vikram Alva, Johannes Söding, Andrei N Lupas
    A comparative study of modern proteins identifies 40 fragments that may represent the observable remnants of a primordial RNA-peptide world.
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    A chemical proteomic atlas of brain serine hydrolases identifies cell type-specific pathways regulating neuroinflammation

    Andreu Viader, Daisuke Ogasawara ... Benjamin F Cravatt
    Cell-specific pathways regulate lipid transmitters and neuroinflammation in the brain.