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Using IGF2BP1-PLK1 axis as an example, targeting oncogenic signaling represents a direction treatment for HCC patients with high FBXO45 expression.

Type 1 polyisoprenoid diphosphate phosphatase (PDP1) contributes to interconversion of isoprenols and isoprenylpyrophosphates, balancing the sterol and nonsterol branches of the mevalonate pathway by regulating ERAD of HMG CoA reductase and ER-to-Golgi transport of UBIAD1.

The yeast enzyme CTP synthase assembles inactive filaments that are driven to polymerization through the drop in cytoplasmic pH accompanying starvation.

A peptide from PCARE achieves >100-fold binding specificity for the EVH1 domain of ENAH, a protein important for metastasis, using a conformational shift mechanism unavailable to ENAH's closely related paralogs VASP and EVL.

Through interactions with both ubiquitin units that emanate from a branch point in polyubiquitin, UCH37 recognizes and hydrolyzes branched chains to promote proteasome-mediated degradation upon proteolytic stresses.

Ligand-specific-induced conformations of M₃ muscarinic receptors reveal similar requirements for G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 and G_q protein binding, whereas arrestin3 binding is mediated by distinct receptor conformations.

A molecular interpretation is provided for why some inhibitory immunoreceptors prefer to recruit SHP1 but others prefer SHP2.

SNARE–SNARE interactions that have previously only been proposed to participate in membrane fusion on the nanoscale also serve to organize SNARE domains on the mesoscale.

Chemically sumoylated histone H4 shows negative biochemical crosstalk with gene-activating histone acetylation and methylation marks, and directly inhibits RNA polymerase II-mediated gene transcription.

High-resolution proteomics in conjunction with biochemical and electrophysiological experiments revealed that the channel-kinase TRPM7 in rodent brain forms macromolecular complexes containing the metal transporters CNNM1-4 and a small G-protein ARL15.