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    2. Neuroscience

    Phasic oxygen dynamics confounds fast choline-sensitive biosensor signals in the brain of behaving rodents

    Ricardo M Santos, Anton Sirota
    Fast fluctuations of oxygen, linked to behavioral and neural dynamics in vivo, cause phasic transients is amperometry-measured cholinergic signals via the mechanism of non-steady-state enzyme kinetics in the choline-oxidase-based biosensor.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    HP1 proteins compact DNA into mechanically and positionally stable phase separated domains

    Madeline M Keenen, David Brown ... Sy Redding
    Heterochromatin proteins compartmentalize DNA into compact structures resistant to mechanical disruption but susceptible to competitive dissolution.
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    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Mitochondrial copper and phosphate transporter specificity was defined early in the evolution of eukaryotes

    Xinyu Zhu, Aren Boulet ... Paul A Cobine
    Ancient evolutionary signatures reveal mechanistic details of substrate specificity in copper-transporting mitochondria carrier family proteins.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Uncovering an allosteric mode of action for a selective inhibitor of human Bloom syndrome protein

    Xiangrong Chen, Yusuf I Ali ... Antony W Oliver
    Discovery and characterisation of a novel allosteric inhibitor-binding site in human Bloom syndrome protein.
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    2. Cell Biology

    Complex structures of Rsu1 and PINCH1 reveal a regulatory mechanism of the ILK/PINCH/Parvin complex for F-actin dynamics

    Haibin Yang, Leishu Lin ... Cong Yu
    Structural, biochemical, and cell biology study revealed that Rsu1, through binding to PINCH1, inhibits the actin bundling ability of ILK/PINCH/Parvin to regulate the actin dynamics at focal adhesion.
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    Controlling opioid receptor functional selectivity by targeting distinct subpockets of the orthosteric site

    Rajendra Uprety, Tao Che ... Susruta Majumdar
    The structure-based design established a new approach to control pathway-selective activation of opioid receptors, resulting in new dual MOR/KOR G-protein biased agonist analgesics with attenuated liabilities.
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    Identification of host proteins differentially associated with HIV-1 RNA splice variants

    Rachel Knoener, Edward Evans III ... Lloyd M Smith
    The distinct protein-RNA interactomes of HIV-1 RNA splice forms are revealed using a powerful multiplex strategy for RNA capture and mass spectrometric analysis.
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    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Integration of IL-2 and IL-4 signals coordinates divergent regulatory T cell responses and drives therapeutic efficacy

    Julie Y Zhou, Carlos A Alvarez, Brian A Cobb
    Simultaneous cytokine signaling results in unexpected transcription factor changes that fuel a cellular response divergent from the sum of each cytokine alone.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Myosin with hypertrophic cardiac mutation R712L has a decreased working stroke which is rescued by omecamtiv mecarbil

    Aaron Snoberger, Bipasha Barua ... E Michael Ostap
    Mechanochemical defects of a β-cardiac myosin mutation that results in severe hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are reported and the heart failure drug omecamtiv mecarbil rescues these defects.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Residue-by-residue analysis of cotranslational membrane protein integration in vivo

    Felix Nicolaus, Ane Metola ... Gunnar von Heijne
    The cotranslational membrane integration of three multispanning Escherichia coli inner membrane proteins is followed using force profile analysis, uncovering unexpected complexities in the membrane integration process.