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    Cryo-EM structure of VASH1-SVBP bound to microtubules

    Faxiang Li, Yang Li ... Hongtao Yu
    Cryo-electron microscopy structure of vasohibin 1 bound to microtubules reveals how this enzyme prefers to remove the C-terminal tyrosine of α-tubulin in the microtubule lattice.
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    Atomic structure of a mitochondrial complex I intermediate from vascular plants

    Maria Maldonado, Abhilash Padavannil ... James A Letts
    The first atomic resolution structure of a mitochondrial respiratory complex from plants provides insight into the assembly and evolution of respiration in autotrophic eukaryotes.
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    Structural insights into the Ca2+-dependent gating of the human mitochondrial calcium uniporter

    Yan Wang, Yan Han ... Youxing Jiang
    Cryo-EM structures of human MCU-EMRE-MICU1-MICU2 complex in the apo and Ca2+-bound states reveal how MICU1 and MICU2 impart their gating function to the mitochondrial calcium uniporter.
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    Structure of human Frizzled5 by fiducial-assisted cryo-EM supports a heterodimeric mechanism of canonical Wnt signaling

    Naotaka Tsutsumi, Somnath Mukherjee ... K Christopher Garcia
    Cryo-EM structure of monomeric human Frizzled5 was determined with a universal fiducial antibody at 3.7 Å overall resolution, which supports a simple Fzd/LRP6 heterodimerization mechanism of canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling.
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    Measuring protein stability in the GroEL chaperonin cage reveals massive destabilization

    Ilia Korobko, Hisham Mazal ... Amnon Horovitz
    Protein stability in the cage formed by the chaperonin GroEL and its cofactor GroES is reduced by more than 5 kcal mol-1 relative to that in bulk solution.
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    Cryo-EM structure of the lysosomal chloride-proton exchanger CLC-7 in complex with OSTM1

    Marina Schrecker, Julia Korobenko, Richard K Hite
    Single-particle cryo-EM structures of CLC-7 in the presence and absence of its β-subunit, OSTM1, reveal insights into transporter regulation.
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    Structural basis of mitochondrial translation

    Shintaro Aibara, Vivek Singh ... Alexey Amunts
    Structural analysis of translating human mitoribosome illustrates elemental steps of translation in mitochondria.
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    Structures reveal gatekeeping of the mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter by MICU1-MICU2

    Chongyuan Wang, Agata Jacewicz ... Stephen Barstow Long
    Cryo-EM structures reveal that MICU1-MICU2 operates like a regulatable toxin to block the pore of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter and confer Ca2+-dependent control.
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    Global alignment and assessment of TRP channel transmembrane domain structures to explore functional mechanisms

    Katherine E Huffer, Antoniya A Aleksandrova ... Kenton J Swartz
    Structure-based alignment of TRP channels enables comparison of structural changes, ion permeation pathways and ligand-binding sites and reveals over-representation of structures that represent non-conducting states.
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    Cryo-EM structures of human ZnT8 in both outward- and inward-facing conformations

    Jing Xue, Tian Xie ... Xiao-chen Bai
    Cryo-EM analysis of human ZnT8 reveals a large conformational change of TMD during the transport cycle.