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    Inhibited KdpFABC transitions into an E1 off-cycle state

    Jakob M Silberberg, Charlott Stock ... Cristina Paulino
    The serine phosphorylated and inhibited KdpFABC complex (KdpFABS162-PC) adopts an off-cycle E1P tight state, due to an impaired E1P/E2P transition.
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    Structure and flexibility of the yeast NuA4 histone acetyltransferase complex

    Stefan A Zukin, Matthew R Marunde ... Avinash B Patel
    The core of histone acetyltransferase complex, NuA4, flexibly tethers various histone recognition modules, including the HAT module which is capable of binding nucleosomes marked by H3K4me3 and H3 acetylation.
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    Structure of SARS-CoV-2 M protein in lipid nanodiscs

    Kimberly A Dolan, Mandira Dutta ... Stephen G Brohawn
    A cryo-EM structure of the SARS-CoV-2 M protein, the most abundant protein in the viral envelope, provides insight into its essential role in virus assembly.
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    Computational model of the full-length TSH receptor

    Mihaly Mezei, Rauf Latif, Terry F Davies
    Molecular dynamics simulation of the full-length TSH receptor, a major human autoantigen whose full structure remains uncertain, showed that its linker region is an intrinsically disordered protein, explaining the difficulty of obtaining an experimental structure.
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    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Architecture of the chikungunya virus replication organelle

    Timothée Laurent, Pravin Kumar ... Lars-Anders Carlson
    The combination of cellular cryo-electron tomography, biochemistry, and mathematical modeling provides the first integrated structural model of the Alphavirus replication organelle.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular mechanism of active Cas7-11 in processing CRISPR RNA and interfering target RNA

    Hemant N Goswami, Jay Rai ... Hong Li
    Three-dimensional structure of CRISPR Cas7-11 shed light on protein evolution and guide development of biotechnology for RNA manipulations in cells.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of the HOPS tethering complex, a lysosomal membrane fusion machinery

    Dmitry Shvarev, Jannis Schoppe ... Christian Ungermann
    The structure of the yeast HOPS tethering complex suggests how this large complex may catalyze fusion by tethering Rab-decorated membranes and promoting the assembly of SNAREs.
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    Determination of oligomeric states of proteins via dual-color colocalization with single molecule localization microscopy

    Hua Leonhard Tan, Stefanie Bungert-Plümke ... Gabriel Stölting
    The DCC-SMLM algorithm allows to determine protein oligomeric states in situ, using the information obtained from the colocalization of fluorescent markers, overcoming the need for extraction of proteins from cells or complicated experimental setups when using microscopy.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Fuzzy supertertiary interactions within PSD-95 enable ligand binding

    George L Hamilton, Nabanita Saikia ... Mark E Bowen
    A combination of single molecule fluorescence with DMD simulations and disulfide mapping resolved the multistate structural landscape of the PSG supramodule from PSD-95, which explains how interdomain interactions within PSD-95 enable PDZ3 binding of the critical synaptic adhesion protein neuroligin.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Neurotransmission: Unmasking a two-faced protein

    Ivan Maslov, Jelle Hendrix
    Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations illuminate the structure and dynamics of PSD-95, a protein involved in neural plasticity.
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