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    Energy coupling and stoichiometry of Zn2+/H+ antiport by the prokaryotic cation diffusion facilitator YiiP

    Adel Hussein, Shujie Fan ... David L Stokes
    Cryo-EM, Molecular Dynamics, and in vitro binding assays are combined to elucidate a new occluded conformation associated with zinc binding and energy coupling with the proton motive force.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
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    Structural foundation for the role of enterococcal PrgB in conjugation, biofilm formation, and virulence

    Wei-Sheng Sun, Lena Lassinantti ... Ronnie P-A Berntsson
    The enterococcal adhesin PrgB consists of four immunoglobulin-like domains that support the proper function of its polymer adhesin domain.
    1. Cell Biology
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    The Calpain-7 protease functions together with the ESCRT-III protein IST1 within the midbody to regulate the timing and completion of abscission

    Elliott L Paine, Jack J Skalicky ... Wesley I Sundquist
    Biochemical, structural, imaging, and functional studies reveal how the ESCRT-III protein IST1 recruits the CAPN7 cysteine protease to midbodies, where its proteolytic activity is required for efficient abscission and NoCut checkpoint arrest.
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    Estimating the true stability of the prehydrolytic outward-facing state in an ABC protein

    Márton A Simon, Iordan Iordanov ... László Csanády
    Functional studies on CFTR anion channels harboring combinations of catalytic site mutations in the active ATPase site reveal the true stability of the prehydrolytic open-pore state as well as nucleotide-binding domain interface features that are unique to human CFTR.
    1. Neuroscience
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    Diminishing neuronal acidification by channelrhodopsins with low proton conduction

    Rebecca Frank Hayward, F Phil Brooks III ... Adam E Cohen
    Many channelrhodopsins acidify cells, but two new ones do not.
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    Allosteric inhibition of the T cell receptor by a designed membrane ligand

    Yujie Ye, Shumpei Morita ... Francisco N Barrera
    A designer peptide inhibits the T cell receptor through allosteric binding to the transmembrane region.
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    Absence of electron-transfer-associated changes in the time-dependent X-ray free-electron laser structures of the photosynthetic reaction center

    Gai Nishikawa, Yu Sugo ... Hiroshi Ishikita
    Revisiting limitations in time-resolved X-ray free-electron laser structures of the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center uncovers their irrelevance to proposed structural changes in electron transfer dynamics.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    A pH-sensitive switch activates virulence in Salmonella

    Dasvit Shetty, Linda J Kenney
    A single conserved residue – histidine 12 – confers pH-sensitive DNA binding to the Salmonella Typhimurium SPI-2 transcriptional regulator SsrB, thereby regulating Salmonella virulence.
    1. Plant Biology
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    Carotenoid assembly regulates quinone diffusion and the Roseiflexus castenholzii reaction center-light harvesting complex architecture

    Jiyu Xin, Yang Shi ... Xiaoling Xu
    Investigations of the reaction center (RC)-light harvesting (LH) complex from an ancient chlorosome-less anoxygenic phototroph Roseiflexus castenholzii reveal the structural basis by which carotenoids assembly regulates the architecture and quinone exchange of bacterial RC-LH complex.
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    Molecular basis of interactions between CaMKII and α-actinin-2 that underlie dendritic spine enlargement

    Ashton J Curtis, Jian Zhu ... Matthew G Gold
    CaMKII and the actin-crosslinking protein α-actinin-2 associate within minutes of the induction of long-term potentiation and disrupting this interaction prevents formation of enlarged dendritic spines.