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    Replication: The remarkable gymnastics of ORC

    Bruce Stillman
    As a cell prepares to divide, a molecular actor known as the Origin Recognition Complex makes intricate ATP-driven movements to recruit proteins required to duplicate DNA.
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    Covalent inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum chaperone GRP78 disconnects the transduction of ER stress signals to inflammation and lipid accumulation in diet-induced obese mice

    Dan Luo, Ni Fan ... Jianhui Rong
    Celastrol covalently inhibited the chaperone activity of GRP78 and could disconnect the transduction of ER stress signal to downstream inflammatory response and lipid metabolism.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    LRET-derived HADDOCK structural models describe the conformational heterogeneity required for DNA cleavage by the Mre11-Rad50 DNA damage repair complex

    Marella D Canny, Michael P Latham
    Multiple solution-state structures are used for the DNA double-strand break repair functions of the Mre11-Rad50 protein complex.
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    Phosphoproteomics of ATR signaling in mouse testes

    Jennie R Sims, Vitor M Faça ... Marcus B Smolka
    An in-depth map of ATR signaling during mouse meiosis is revealed using a combination of genetic and pharmacological approaches coupled to quantitative mass spectrometry.
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    Molecular determinants of phase separation for Drosophila DNA replication licensing factors

    Matthew W Parker, Jonchee A Kao ... Michael R Botchan
    The intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of metazoan DNA replication licensing factors phase separate through synergistic electrostatic DNA-IDR and hydrophobic inter-IDR interactions.
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    Comprehensive interrogation of the ADAR2 deaminase domain for engineering enhanced RNA editing activity and specificity

    Dhruva Katrekar, Yichen Xiang ... Prashant Mali
    A deep mutational scan of the ADAR2 deaminase domain creates a map for designing tailored ADAR2 variants, and splitting the deaminase between residues 468 and 469 enables highly transcript-specific RNA editing.
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    Cooperation among c-subunits of FoF1-ATP synthase in rotation-coupled proton translocation

    Noriyo Mitome, Shintaroh Kubo ... Shoji Takada
    Biochemical analysis on hetero-mutated c10 subunits ring and molecular dynamics simulations demonstrate the cooperation among c-subunits of FoF1-ATP synthase in rotation-coupled proton translocation.
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    The mitotic spindle protein CKAP2 potently increases formation and stability of microtubules

    Thomas S McAlear, Susanne Bechstedt
    Demonstration of the biochemical capacity of the spindle protein CKAP2 as the most potent assembly factor of microtubules.
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    2. Developmental Biology

    Maternal diet-induced obesity during pregnancy alters lipid supply to mouse E18.5 fetuses and changes the cardiac tissue lipidome in a sex-dependent manner

    Lucas C Pantaleão, Isabella Inzani ... Susan E Ozanne
    Maternal obesity alters the fetal cardiac and serum lipidome, promoting early fetal cardiac metabolic maturation, with evidence that the female heart lipidome is more responsive to an in utero obesogenic environment.
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    Synergistic phase separation of two pathways promotes integrin clustering and nascent adhesion formation

    Lindsay B Case, Milagros De Pasquale ... Michael K Rosen
    Biochemical and cell biological data suggest a model of nascent integrin adhesion complex formation based on synergistic phase separation of pathways surrounding the focal adhesion kinase (FAK) and the adaptor protein p130Cas.