Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    ProteinConformers: large-scale and energetically profiled descriptions of protein conformational landscapes

    Yihang Zhou, Chen Wei ... Yang Zhang
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Incomplete
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RNA Selectively Modulates Activity of Virulent Amyloid PSMα3 and Host Defense LL-37 via Phase Separation and Aggregation Dynamics

    Bader Rayan, Eilon Barnea ... Meytal Landau
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Binding Entropy Can Be Predicted by Crystallographic Ensembles

    Charlotte A Miller, Stephanie A Wankowicz
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    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    ATP-driven conformational dynamics reveal hidden intermediates in a heterodimeric ABC transporter

    Matija Pečak, Christoph Nocker, Robert Tampé
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Intraflagellar transport protein IFT172 contains a C-terminal ubiquitin-binding U-box-like domain involved in ciliary signaling

    Nevin K Zacharia, Stefanie Kuhns ... Esben Lorentzen
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Convincing
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural insights into the recruitment of viral Type 2 IRES to ribosomal preinitiation complex for protein synthesis

    Deepakash Das, Tanweer Hussain
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    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Natural xanthones as α-Mangostin induce vasorelaxation involving key gating residues in the S6 domain of BK channels

    Soenke Cordeiro, Robert Patejdl ... Marianne A Musinszki
    Identification of mangostins as potent BK channel activators links natural xanthones to vascular smooth muscle relaxation, providing a mechanistic basis for their reported antihypertensive effects.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Defining the Antigenic Topology and Prospective Binding Breadth of Vaccination-induced SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies

    Deepika Jaiswal, Clara G Altomare ... Goran Bajic
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Cryo-EM structure of the bicarbonate receptor GPR30

    Shota Kaneda, Airi Jo-Watanabe ... Osamu Nureki
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    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Unbend, correction of local beam-induced sample motion in cryo-EM images using a 3D spline model

    Lingli Kong, Ximena Zottig ... Nikolaus Grigorieff
    Movie alignment software uses a 3D spline model to capture beam-induced motion in cryo-electron microscopy movie frames, correct local sample distortions, and improve two-dimensional template matching signal-to-noise ratios in the corrected images.
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Glycobiology: How enzymes make the right choice during biosynthesis

    Ana S Ramírez, Camilo Perez
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Membrane Biology: Two binding sites are better than one

    Mackenzie K Scott, John E Burke
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Membrane Proteins: A missing link for efflux pumps

    Hilal Wehbi, Isabelle Broutin