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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Functional implications of MIR domains in protein O-mannosylation

    Antonella Chiapparino, Antonija Grbavac ... Irmgard Sinning
    The MIR domain of protein-O-mannosyltransferases participates in glycosylation by binding mannosylated peptides and regulates enzyme processivity.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Biochemical patterns of antibody polyreactivity revealed through a bioinformatics-based analysis of CDR loops

    Christopher T Boughter, Marta T Borowska ... Erin J Adams
    A new software developed for high-throughput antibody, T cell receptor, and MHC repertoire analysis uncovers neutrality of the binding interface and intramolecular crosstalk as distinguishing properties of polyreactive antibodies.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular rationale for antibody-mediated targeting of the hantavirus fusion glycoprotein

    Ilona Rissanen, Robert Stass ... Thomas A Bowden
    An integrated cryoEM and X-ray crystallography study resolves the structural basis for antibody-mediated targeting of the hantavirus fusion glycoprotein and provides insight into the conformational landscape of the hantavirion surface.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    In vitro reconstitution of dynamically interacting integral membrane subunits of energy-coupling factor transporters

    Inda Setyawati, Weronika K Stanek ... Dirk J Slotboom
    Integral membrane subunits of energy-coupling factor transporters associate with and dissociate from each other as part of the transport mechanism.
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    The mechanism of kinesin inhibition by kinesin-binding protein

    Joseph Atherton, Jessica JA Hummel ... Carolyn A Moores
    Cryo-electron microscopy reveals how kinesin-binding protein inhibits microtubule attachment in a subset of kinesins.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    XLF acts as a flexible connector during non-homologous end joining

    Sean M Carney, Andrew T Moreno ... Joseph J Loparo
    The disordered C-terminal tail allows XRCC4-like factor (XLF) to find and bind the XRCC4-Lig4 complex, enabling DNA end synapsis and subsequent ligation during non-homologous end joining.
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    Structural insights into the nucleic acid remodeling mechanisms of the yeast THO-Sub2 complex

    Sandra K Schuller, Jan M Schuller ... Elena Conti
    The THO-Sub2 complex is an asymmetric homodimer that uses the spatial arrangement of two Sub2 helicases to prevent RNA:DNA hybrids.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of the human core transcription-export complex reveals a hub for multivalent interactions

    Thomas Pühringer, Ulrich Hohmann ... Clemens Plaschka
    The cryo-EM structure of the human transcription-export THO–UAP56 complex reveals mechanisms of mRNA nuclear export licensing.
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    Structural basis of TRPC4 regulation by calmodulin and pharmacological agents

    Deivanayagabarathy Vinayagam, Dennis Quentin ... Stefan Raunser
    Cryo-EM structures reveal how the canonical TRPC4 cation channel is regulated by calmodulin, and how it is modulated by pyridazinone-based inhibitors.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The heteromeric PC-1/PC-2 polycystin complex is activated by the PC-1 N-terminus

    Kotdaji Ha, Mai Nobuhara ... Markus Delling
    Soluble fragments cleaved from the N-terminus of PC-1 activate the PC-1/PC-2 heteromeric polycystin channel, describing for the first time that the N-terminus itself is an endogenous ligand.