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    Ais: streamlining segmentation of cryo-electron tomography datasets

    Mart GF Last, Leoni Abendstein ... Thomas H Sharp
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    CTFFIND5 provides improved insight into quality, tilt and thickness of TEM samples

    Johannes Elferich, Lingli Kong ... Nikolaus Grigorieff
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    Functional implications of the exon 9 splice insert in GluK1 kainate receptors

    Surbhi Dhingra, Prachi M Chopade ... Janesh Kumar
    GluK1-1 splice variant alters the gating properties of kainate receptors, providing crucial insights into receptor modulation by auxiliary proteins and advancing the understanding of synaptic transmission.
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    TMEM16 and OSCA/TMEM63 proteins share a conserved potential to permeate ions and phospholipids

    Augustus J Lowry, Pengfei Liang ... Yang Zhang
    Proteins in the Transmembrane Channel-Scramblase (TCS) superfamily share an evolutionarily conserved ability to permeate ions and phospholipids, challenging distinctions between ion channels and lipid scramblases.
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    Cryo-electron tomographic investigation of native hippocampal glutamatergic synapses

    Aya Matsui, Cathy Spangler ... Eric Gouaux
    By harnessing antibody fragments conjugated to small gold nanoparticles together with high pressure freezing, FIB/SEM milling and cryo-electron tomography, AMPA receptors were identified from mouse brain tissue.
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    Conservation of the cooling agent binding pocket within the TRPM subfamily

    Kate Huffer, Matthew CS Denley ... Kenton J Swartz
    The cooling agent pocket in TRPM8 is conserved in a subset of other TRPM channels and the cooling agent icilin can regulate opening of TRPM4 channels in response to calcium and voltage.
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    PUFA stabilizes a conductive state of the selectivity filter in IKs channels

    Alessia Golluscio, Jodene Eldstrom ... H Peter Larsson
    Polyunsaturated fatty acids activate IKs channels by stabilizing a conductive state of the selectivity filter.
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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.