Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The αC-β4 loop controls the allosteric cooperativity between nucleotide and substrate in the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A

    Cristina Olivieri, Yingjie Wang ... Gianluigi Veglia
    The αC-β4 loop emerges as a hot spot for tuning allosteric cooperativity in the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Ais: streamlining segmentation of cryo-electron tomography datasets

    Mart G.F. Last, Leoni Abendstein ... Thomas H. Sharp
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Automated multiconformer model building for X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM

    Stephanie A Wankowicz, Ashraya Ravikumar ... James S Fraser
    Creating structural models with multiple conformations of proteins improves the fit of the model to experimental data X-ray crystallography and improve the model geometry.
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    The mechanism of mammalian proton-coupled peptide transporters

    Simon M Lichtinger, Joanne L Parker ... Philip C Biggin
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural features of heteromeric channels composed of CALHM2 and CALHM4 paralogs

    Katarzyna Drożdżyk, Martina Peter, Raimund Dutzler
    Structural studies revealing the organization of assemblies consisting of CALHM2 and CALHM4 subunits provide insight into the mechanism of heteromerization of large pore channels.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural analysis of the dynamic ribosome-translocon complex

    Aaron JO Lewis, Frank Zhong ... Ramanujan S Hegde
    A combination of cryo-electron microscopy, structure prediction, and evolutionary analyses reveal several functional states of the dynamic protein translocation machinery at the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structural characterization of ligand binding and pH-specific enzymatic activity of mouse Acidic Mammalian Chitinase

    Roberto Efraín Díaz, Andrew K Ecker ... James S Fraser
    Biochemical and structural investigations of the pH adaptability of mouse Acidic Mammalian Chitinase offer insights for designing enhanced enzyme variants that can function in both lung and gut.

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    Iowa State University, United States
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    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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