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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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    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.
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    Phase separation-mediated actin bundling by the postsynaptic density condensates

    Xudong Chen, Bowen Jia ... Mingjie Zhang
    Biochemical and cell biology studies reveal that postsynaptic density condensates of neuronal synapses and actin cytoskeletons can directly communicate with each other in a phase separation-dependent manner.
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    Determinants of sugar-induced influx in the mammalian fructose transporter GLUT5

    Sarah E McComas, Tom Reichenbach ... David Drew
    Computational approach shows that the occluded state in GLUT transporters is equivalent to the transition state of soluble enzymes and this has the highest affinity for the substrate sugar.
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    SIMMER employs similarity algorithms to accurately identify human gut microbiome species and enzymes capable of known chemical transformations

    Annamarie E Bustion, Renuka R Nayak ... Katherine S Pollard
    Computational reaction representations and profile hidden Markov model searches of metagenomics databases can be harnessed to accurately predict bacterial species and enzyme sequences responsible for biotransformations in the human gut microbiome.
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    Autophagosome membrane expansion is mediated by the N-terminus and cis-membrane association of human ATG8s

    Wenxin Zhang, Taki Nishimura ... Sharon A Tooze
    cis-membrane insertion of human ATG8 N-terminus facilitates autophagosome membrane expansion independent of autophagic cargo.