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    7,8-Dihydroxyflavone is a direct inhibitor of human and murine pyridoxal phosphatase

    Marian Brenner, Christoph Zink ... Antje Gohla
    Direct inhibition of pyridoxal phosphatase activity by 7,8-dihydroxyflavone indicates a pharmacological entry point into brain disorders associated with vitamin B6 deficiency.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Rapid, DNA-induced interface swapping by DNA gyrase

    Thomas RM Germe, Natassja G Bush ... Anthony Maxwell
    DNA gyrase, a regulator of bacterial genomes topology, is shown to undergo rearrangements while functioning on DNA in vitro, with important potential consequences for gyrase-targeted antibiotics activity and bacterial evolution.
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    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Targeted protein degradation systems to enhance Wnt signaling

    Parthasarathy Sampathkumar, Heekyung Jung ... Yang Li
    A novel targeted protein degradation system to achieve cell-type-specific enhancement of Wnt signaling.
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Proteolytic cleavage and inactivation of the TRMT1 tRNA modification enzyme by SARS-CoV-2 main protease

    Kejia Zhang, Patrick Eldin ... Dragony Fu
    SARS-CoV-2 infection reduces the intracellular levels of a human tRNA modification enzyme and alters host tRNA modification profiles.
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    Dual engagement of the nucleosomal acidic patches is essential for deposition of histone H2A.Z by SWR1C

    Alexander S Baier, Nathan Gioacchini ... Craig L Peterson
    Nucleosome recognition by the SWR1C chromatin remodeling enzyme requires both nucleosomal acidic patches.
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    ESAT-6 undergoes self-association at phagosomal pH and an ESAT-6-specific nanobody restricts M. tuberculosis growth in macrophages

    Timothy A Bates, Mila Trank-Greene ... Fikadu G Tafesse
    ESAT-6, a virulence factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, dimerizes at neutral pH and transitions to oligomers under acidic pH similar to that of lysosome, helping the bacterium evade host defense mechanisms.
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    A mitochondrial carrier transports glycolytic intermediates to link cytosolic and mitochondrial glycolysis in the human gut parasite Blastocystis

    Eva Pyrihová, Martin S King ... Edmund RS Kunji
    Stramenopiles are unusual, because the pay-off phase of glycolysis occurs in mitochondria rather than the cytosol and the identified mitochondrial carrier links the two parts by transporting glycolytic intermediates.
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    Human pannexin 1 channel is not phosphorylated by Src tyrosine kinase at Tyr199 and Tyr309

    Zheng Ruan, Junuk Lee ... Wei Lü
    A comprehensive analysis questioned the prevailing views of Src-mediated hPANX1 phosphorylation at Tyr199 and Tyr309.