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Modular folding of kinesin-1 motor proteins enables a fully autoinhibited state.

A structural and biochemical study reveals the molecular mechanism of the predator–prey associations of Aplysia kurodai and brown algae (akuBGL–phlorotannin/laminarin–EHEP system), which has high-potential applications in the biotechnology industry.

Sea anemones use adapted ion channels to control stinging behavior.

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.

The enterococcal adhesin PrgB consists of four immunoglobulin-like domains that support the proper function of its polymer adhesin domain.

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.

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.

Many channelrhodopsins acidify cells, but two new ones do not.

A designer peptide inhibits the T cell receptor through allosteric binding to the transmembrane region.

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.