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.
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.
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.