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The sialylation pathway is uniquely partitioned in Drosophila between glia and neurons and mediates a novel mechanism of glia-neuron coupling that regulates neural functions, promotes tolerance to heat and oxidative stress, and maintains the normal level of voltage-gated sodium channels.

Targeted therapies induce an aberrant fucosylation of complex tumor secretomes stimulating the expansion of minority drug-resistant clones and promoting therapy resistance.

The functional differences between actin isoforms have been explored through structural studies.

FHOD1 and CARP/Ankrd1 interact with the N-terminal region of palladin and cardiomyocyte-specific deletion of palladin in adult, but not embryonic, mice leads to dilated cardiomyopathy associated with intercalated disc widening.

New HIV-1 protease inhibitor designs result in more potent inhibitors with high genetic barriers to resistance and the ability to lead virus evolution down less fit pathways when resistance occurs.

A high-throughput method to profile tyrosine kinases and phosphotyrosine recognition domains reveals new rules for sequence specificity and maps the effects of mutations on the recognition of tyrosine phosphorylation sites.

Structural mass spectrometry reveals conformational changes in emerging SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants that correlate with increased viral fitness.

The important oncogene KRasG13C can be targeted by covalently binding nucleotide-analogues, resulting in a locked protein that can no longer induce oncogenic signaling.

OGT-mediated protein O-GlcNAcylation balances osteogenic versus adipogenic differentiation and controls hematopoietic niche function of bone marrow stromal cells.

In vivo studies reveal that mitochondrial Complex I deficiencies induce iron misregulation and liver iron overload that may contribute to neurodegeneration in mitochondrial disease mice, and that iron restriction is effective in reducing disease progression.