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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
    A DNA origami nanospring introduces a force-sensing technology that enables measurement of motor protein stall forces without optical trapping, detecting force changes in kinesin KIF1A and its disease-related mutants.
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    Interrogating the structure and function of the human voltage-gated proton channel (hHv1) with a fluorescent noncanonical amino acid

    Emerson M Carmona, William N Zagotta, Sharona E Gordon
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    Superoxide dismutases maintain niche homeostasis in stem cell populations

    Olivia Majhi, Aishwarya Chhatre ... Devanjan Sinha
    Superoxide dismutases, particularly Sod1, differentially tune redox signaling of germline and cyst stem cells, enabling their self-renewal and differentiation, thereby maintaining Drosophila testicular stem cell homeostasis.
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    Dietary sulfur amino acid restriction elicits a cold-like transcriptional response in inguinal but not epididymal white adipose tissue of male mice

    Philip MM Ruppert, Aylin S Gueller ... Jan-Wilhelm Kornfeld
    Transcriptomic profiling on liver and adipose depots reveals tissue-specific and beige-fat–convergent responses to methionine restriction and cold, providing a high-quality resource to guide combinatorial lifestyle interventions for metabolic disease research.
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    Rescuing the Function of Missense-Mutated Tumor Suppressor VHL using Stabilizing Small Molecules

    Mariam Ahmed Fouad, Christopher S Parry ... John Karanicolas
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    Multiple modes of cholesterol translocation in the human Smoothened receptor

    Prateek D Bansal, Maia Kinnebrew ... Diwakar Shukla
    Multiple competing hypotheses concerning the cholesterol accessibility of oncoprotein Smoothened are quantitatively assessed and experimentally validated, showing that cholesterol takes two pathways from either membrane leaflet to the binding sites.
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    Structural elucidation of the hexameric MmpS4-MmpL4 complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Jennifer C Earp, Nicolas P Lichti ... Markus A Seeger
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