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    Elucidating ATP’s role as solubilizer of biomolecular aggregate

    Susmita Sarkar, Saurabh Gupta ... Jagannath Mondal
    ATP prevents condensation of aggregation-prone intrinsically disordered protein by modulating its conformation.
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    Predicting the sequence-dependent backbone dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins

    Sanbo Qin, Huan-Xiang Zhou
    SeqDYN, a sequence-based method, accurately predicts the residue-specific transverse relaxation rates of intrinsically disordered proteins.
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    TRPML1 gating modulation by allosteric mutations and lipids

    Ninghai Gan, Yan Han ... Youxing Jiang
    Design and characterization of allosteric mutations that recapitulate TRPML1 gating and structural insights into PI(4,5)P2 and sphingomyelin inhibition of TRPML1.
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    Heterozygous expression of a Kcnt1 gain-of-function variant has differential effects on somatostatin- and parvalbumin-expressing cortical GABAergic neurons

    Amy N Shore, Keyong Li ... Matthew C Weston
    An epilepsy-associated potassium channel variant causes neuron-type-dependent alterations in ionic currents, neuronal excitability, and network connectivity.
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    Dynamic basis of lipopolysaccharide export by LptB2FGC

    Marina Dajka, Tobias Rath ... Benesh Joseph
    LptC regulates the LPS entry gate in LptB2FG, likely through a dynamic behavior of its transmembrane helix, while the β-jellyroll domains are tethered in the periplasm.
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    Activation of polycystin-1 signaling by binding of stalk-derived peptide agonists

    Shristi Pawnikar, Brenda S Magenheimer ... Yinglong Miao
    Structural dynamic insights revealed the mechanisms of PC1 activation by stalk-derived peptide agonists which can form a foundation for development of PC1 as a therapeutic target for ADPKD treatment.
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    Interaction of GAT1 with sodium ions: from efficient recruitment to stabilisation of substrate and conformation

    Erika Lazzarin, Ralph Gradisch ... Thomas Stockner
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    The Arthropoda-specific Tramtrack group BTB protein domains use previously unknown interface to form hexamers

    Artem N Bonchuk, Konstantin I Balagurov ... Pavel G Georgiev
    The cryo-EM structure of the CG6765 BTB domain and solution scattering experiments revealed a unique three-dimer hexameric assembly for the arthropod Tramtrack group BTB domains.
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    PPI-hotspotID for detecting protein–protein interaction hot spots from the free protein structure

    Yao Chi Chen, Karen Sargsyan ... Carmay Lim
    PPI-hotspotID, trained using an automated machine-learning framework, AutoGluon, on the largest PPI-hot spot dataset to date, detects hot spots beyond protein–protein interfaces, uncovering druggable interactions to aid design of PPI-modulating therapeutics.