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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Engineering NIR-sighted bacteria

    Stefanie SM Meier, Michael Hörzing ... Andreas Möglich
    Custom-tailored bathy-phytochromes control bacterial gene expression by near-infrared light while exhibiting minimal response to red light, thus unlocking innovative application scenarios.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Structure-based Design of Chimeric Influenza Hemagglutinins to Elicit Cross-group Immunity

    Karla M Castro, Reyhaneh Ayardulabi ... Bruno E Correia
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Pleomorphic effects of three small-molecule inhibitors on transcription elongation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase

    Omar Herrera-Asmat, Alexander B Tong ... Carlos Bustamante
    Optical tweezers are used to gain mechanistic insight in the mechanism of inhibition of three distinct compounds being developed as antibiotics against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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    Brown adipose tissue and skeletal muscle coordinately contribute to thermogenesis in mice

    Yuna Izumi-Mishima, Rie Tsutsumi ... Hiroshi Sakaue
    Muscle-derived branched-chain amino acids support thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue, thereby helping maintain body temperature during impaired muscle function or physiological stress.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    A recursive pathway for isoleucine biosynthesis arises from enzyme promiscuity

    Vittorio Rainaldi, Stefano Donati ... Nico J Claassens
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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
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A drug repurposing approach reveals targetable epigenetic pathways in Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites

    Steven P Maher, Malina A Bakowski ... Dennis E Kyle
    Drug repurposing screens reveal several epigenetic inhibitors as active against P. vivax hypnozoites demonstrating that epigenetic pathways play a central role in hypnozoite quiescence.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Synthetic gene circuits that selectively target RAS-driven cancers

    Gabriel Senn, Leon Nissen, Yaakov Benenson
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    MORC2 Mediates Transcriptional Regulation Through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and DNA Binding

    Yanshen Zhang, Weiya Xu ... Yihui Bi
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