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    The Structural Dynamics of IRE1 and its Interaction with Unfolded Peptides

    Elena Spinetti, G Elif Karagöz, Roberto Covino
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    Structure of an oxygen-induced tubular nanocompartment in Pyrococcus furiosus

    Wenfei Song, Jan Fiala ... Friedrich Förster
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    Structural mechanisms of PIP2 activation and SEA0400 inhibition in human cardiac sodium-calcium exchanger NCX1

    Jing Xue, Weizhong Zeng ... Youxing Jiang
    Cryo-EM structures of HsNCX1 in complex with either phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (a physiological activator) or SEA0400 (a pharmacological inhibitor) provide mechanistic insights into the cellular regulation and pharmacology of NCX proteins.
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    A Kv2 inhibitor combination reveals native neuronal conductances consistent with Kv2/KvS heteromers

    Robert G Stewart, Matthew James Marquis ... Jon T Sack
    Drugs are identified that unmask molecular origins of certain neuronal potassium currents, enabling functional analysis of previously indistinguishable potassium channel subtypes.
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    Reliable protein–protein docking with AlphaFold, Rosetta, and replica exchange

    Ameya Harmalkar, Sergey Lyskov, Jeffrey J Gray
    New protein-protein docking algorithm combining deep learning (AlphaFold2) and physics (Rosetta and enhanced sampling) achieves high success rates.
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    A comprehensive antigen-antibody complex database unlocking insights into interaction interface

    Yuwei Zhou, Wenwen Liu ... Jian Huang
    AACDB provides a comprehensive, manually curated antigen-antibody interface dataset with rich metadata, interaction annotations, and therapeutic target annotations to advance antibody drug development.
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    Structural and dynamic impacts of single-atom disruptions to guide RNA interactions within the recognition lobe of Geobacillus stearothermophilus Cas9

    Helen B Belato, Alexa L Knight ... George P Lisi
    Solution biophysics defines the influence of local dynamics and allosteric regulation on guide RNA binding affinity and DNA cleavage specificity in a thermophilic Cas9 from Geobacillus stearothermophilus.
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    Structure, function and assembly of soybean primary cell wall cellulose synthases

    Ruoya Ho, Pallinti Purushotham ... Jochen Zimmer
    Structural and biochemical analyses suggest the association of homotrimeric CesAs of different isoforms into cellulose biosynthesis complexes via their class-specific regions.
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    ATP-release pannexin channels are gated by lysophospholipids

    Erik Henze, Russell N Burkhardt ... Toshimitsu Kawate
    Lysophospholipids directly and reversibly activate pannexin channels, triggering the release of signaling molecules critical for inflammation.
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    Hidden GPCR structural transitions addressed by multiple walker supervised molecular dynamics (mwSuMD)

    Giuseppe Deganutti, Ludovico Pipito ... Christopher Arthur Reynolds
    Multiple walker supervised molecular dynamics simulations deliver insights on glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor activation, Gs protein binding, and guanosine diphosphate release from the Gsα subunit using an adaptive sampling approach.