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    1. Neuroscience
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    The molecular infrastructure of glutamatergic synapses in the mammalian forebrain

    Julia Peukes, Charlie Lovatt ... René AW Frank
    CryoCLEM-guided cryoET of Psd95-GFP knockin mouse tissue and ultra-fresh synaptonerosomes indicate that the postsynaptic density is a not a conserved feature of glutamatergic synapses in the mouse brain.
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    Enzyme Dynamics: Capturing enzymes in motion

    Álvaro de la Gándara, Agnieszka A Kendrick
    A combination of cryogenic electron microscopy and molecular simulations has been used to study the structure and dynamics of an enzyme called ACE.
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    Dimerization and dynamics of human angiotensin-I converting enzyme revealed by cryo-EM and MD simulations

    Jordan M Mancl, Xiaoyang Wu ... Wei-Jen Tang
    Structural and computational approaches uncover the molecular basis for dimerization, open-closed conformational transitions, and the dynamic behavior of the human angiotensin-I converting enzyme dimer.
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    Conformational changes, excess area, and elasticity of the Piezo protein-membrane nanodome from coarse-grained and atomistic simulations

    Sneha Dixit, Frank Noé, Thomas R Weikl
    Piezo proteins induce a curved protein-membrane nanodome with an excess area of about 40 nm2 in tensionless membranes and resist tension-induced flattening with a force constant of about 60 pN/nm.
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    Multiphase separation in postsynaptic density regulated by membrane geometry via interaction valency and volume

    Risa Yamada, Giovanni B Brandani, Shoji Takada
    Membrane geometry switches protein condensate organization of postsynaptic density proteins by reducing crowding effects while maintaining specific binding, allowing targeted interactions to dominate over size-based exclusion.
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    Crosslinking by ZapD drives the assembly of short FtsZ filaments into toroidal structures in solution

    Adrián Merino-Salomón, Jonathan Schneider ... Germán Rivas
    Promoting FtsZ toroidal polymer formation by ZapD offers new insights into stabilizing the bacterial division ring.
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    p53 isoforms have a high aggregation propensity, interact with chaperones and lack binding to p53 interaction partners

    Anamari Brdar, Christian Osterburg ... Volker Dötsch
    p53 isoforms induce cellular stress based on their only partially folded states.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure-guided loop grafting improves expression and stability of influenza neuraminidase for vaccine development

    Pramila Rijal, Leiyan Wei ... Alain RM Townsend
    Grafting surface loops containing antibody epitopes of a poorly expressed flu neuraminidase protein onto a high-expressing, stable scaffold improves its production and stability for vaccine development.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
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    Atomistic simulation of voltage activation of a truncated BK channel

    Zhiguang Jia, Jianhan Chen
    Ten-microsecond atomistic simulations directly capture the voltage activation of the Core-MT big potassium channel, revealing novel voltage sensing and sensor-pore coupling mechanisms that have largely eluded the community.