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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Genomic and structural insights into Jyvaskylavirus, the first giant virus isolated from Finland

    Gabriel Magno de Freitas Almeida, Iker Arriaga ... Lotta-Riina Sundberg
    Jyvaskylavirus, the northernmost isolate of the Marseilleviridae family, shows that giant viruses are also part of the boreal Finnish environment and brings structural information with relevance for understanding other viruses.
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    A role for JAK2 in mediating cell surface GHR-PRLR interaction

    Chen Chen, Jing Jiang ... André Leier
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    Elucidating the Mechanism Underlying UBA7•UBE2L6 Disulfide Complex Formation

    Pei-Tzu Chen, Jia-Yin Yeh ... Kuen-Phon Wu
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    A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains

    Cristina Paissoni, Sarita Puri ... Carlo Camilloni
    Computational modeling and in vitro experiments identify a unique conformational state in amyloidogenic light chains, providing a structural basis for amyloidosis and a precise target for drug design.
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    Electrostatics of salt-dependent reentrant phase behaviors highlights diverse roles of ATP in biomolecular condensates

    Yi-Hsuan Lin, Tae Hun Kim ... Hue Sun Chan
    A combination of polymer physics theories consistently rationalizes comprehensive experimental effects of salt, ATP, phosphorylation, and sequence charge and arginine/lysine patterns on the reentrant phase behaviors of intrinsically disordered proteins.
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    PROTAC-induced protein structural dynamics in targeted protein degradation

    Kingsley Y Wu, Ta I Hung, Chia-en A Chang
    Multi-level molecular modeling reveals how PROTAC-induced protein structural dynamics of degradation machinery complexes promote ubiquitination processes.
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    Structure and Cl- Conductance Properties of the Open State of Human CFTR

    Zhi-Wei Zeng, Christopher E Ing, Régis Pomès
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    Drug Discovery: How to exploit the recycling system of a cell

    Sasha L Evans, Bethany A Haynes ... Rivka L Isaacson
    Nature has inspired the design of improved inhibitors for cancer-causing proteins.
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    Wide transition-state ensemble as key component for enzyme catalysis

    Gabriel E Jara, Francesco Pontiggia ... Dorothee Kern
    Computational and experimental evidence shows that the reaction catalyzed by adenylate kinase operates through a broad transition-state ensemble (TSE), utilizing protein conformational diversity to reduce activation entropy.
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    CryoEM structures of Kv1.2 potassium channels, conducting and non-conducting

    Yangyu Wu, Yangyang Yan ... Fred J Sigworth
    The well-studied Kv1.2 potassium ion channel is observed in a variety of states and conditions, to understand mechanisms of ion permeation, gating and block.