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    Structural insight into guanylyl cyclase receptor hijacking of the kinase–Hsp90 regulatory mechanism

    Nathanael A Caveney, Naotaka Tsutsumi, K Christopher Garcia
    Cryo-EM structures reveal GC-C associates with regulatory heat shock proteins similarly to bona fide protein kinases and this can guide the further development of mGC-targeted therapeutics.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of the connexin-43 gap junction channel in a putative closed state

    Chao Qi, Silvia Acosta Gutierrez ... Volodymyr M Korkhov
    Cryo-EM structures and molecular dynamics simulations of Cx43 gap junction channel and hemichannel reveal a putative closed state.
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    Conformational regulation and target-myristoyl switch of calcineurin B homologous protein 3

    Florian Becker, Simon Fuchs ... Carola Hunte
    The target-myristoyl switch induced by protein-protein interaction is a novel regulatory mechanism for myristoylated EF-hand calcium-binding proteins, in which target binding facilitates exposure of the myristoyl anchor and the association to the lipid membrane in a calcium-independent manner.
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    Phosphorylation of tyrosine 90 in SH3 domain is a new regulatory switch controlling Src kinase

    Lenka Koudelková, Markéta Pelantová ... Daniel Rösel
    The functional role of novel regulatory mechanism within prototypic oncogenic kinase c-Src is described with particular emphasis on cancer cell migration, invasiveness, oncogenic transformation, and multilevel regulation of Src itself.
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    A critical evaluation of protein kinase regulation by activation loop autophosphorylation

    Ronja Reinhardt, Thomas A Leonard
    Understanding protein kinase regulation by activation loop autophosphorylation depends on a critical assessment of experimental design, execution, and interpretation.
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    2. Cancer Biology

    Cancer: How nearby nutrients shape tumor growth

    Nada Kalaany
    Studying the nutrient composition immediately surrounding pancreatic cancer cells provides new insights into their metabolic properties and how they can evade the immune system to promote disease progression.
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    MYC overrides HIF-1α to regulate proliferating primary cell metabolism in hypoxia

    Courtney A Copeland, Benjamin A Olenchock ... William M Oldham
    Hypoxia does not increase glycolysis in proliferating primary cells and antagonizes the increase in glycolysis caused by activation of hypoxia-inducible factor in normoxia, in part, through activation of MYC signaling pathways.
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    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    A back-door insight into the modulation of Src kinase activity by the polyamine spermidine

    Sofia Rossini, Marco Gargaro ... Giada Mondanelli
    A road to modulators of the kinase activity and the non-enzymatic functions of Src and IDO1 at once.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Allosteric activation or inhibition of PI3Kγ mediated through conformational changes in the p110γ helical domain

    Noah J Harris, Meredith L Jenkins ... John E Burke
    Regulation of phosphoinositide 3 kinase (PI3Kγ) is essential in immune function, and stimuli that modulate the dynamics of the PI3Kγ helical domain can activate or inhibit kinase activity.
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    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    The ER folding sensor UGGT1 acts on TAPBPR-chaperoned peptide-free MHC I

    Lina Sagert, Christian Winter ... Robert Tampé
    The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) folding sensor UGGT1 essentially cooperates with the peptide editor TAPBPR to provide quality control of MHC I molecules in the antigen presentation pathway.