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    Heparan sulfate-dependent phase separation of CCL5 and its chemotactic activity

    Xiaolin Yu, Guangfei Duan ... Shi-Zhong Luo
    A biochemical approach shows co-phase separation of CCL5 with heparan sulfate establishes a specific chemokine concentration gradient for chemotactic activity.
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    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Fitness landscape of substrate-adaptive mutations in evolved amino acid-polyamine-organocation transporters

    Foteini Karapanagioti, Úlfur Águst Atlason ... Sebastian Obermaier
    Secondary active transporters can evolve to accommodate a broader range of substrates without losing their original substrate specificities.
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    Mapping the molecular motions of 5-HT3 serotonin-gated channel by voltage-clamp fluorometry

    Laurie Peverini, Sophie Shi ... Pierre-Jean Corringer
    Conformational motions elicited by antagonists, partial agonists, and agonists in serotonin-gated ion channels 5-HT3AR progressively spread from the extracellular to the transmembrane domain.
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    2. Cell Biology

    Identification of a third myosin-5a-melanophilin interaction that mediates the association of myosin-5a with melanosomes

    Jiabin Pan, Rui Zhou ... Xiang-dong Li
    In addition to the exon-F-binding domain and the globular tail domain-binding motif, the actin-binding domain of melanophilin interacts with myosin-5a tail region and mediates the association of myosin-5a with melanosomes.
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    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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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    7,8-Dihydroxyflavone is a direct inhibitor of human and murine pyridoxal phosphatase

    Marian Brenner, Christoph Zink ... Antje Gohla
    Direct inhibition of pyridoxal phosphatase activity by 7,8-dihydroxyflavone indicates a pharmacological entry point into brain disorders associated with vitamin B6 deficiency.
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    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Rapid, DNA-induced interface swapping by DNA gyrase

    Thomas RM Germe, Natassja G Bush ... Anthony Maxwell
    DNA gyrase, a regulator of bacterial genomes topology, is shown to undergo rearrangements while functioning on DNA in vitro, with important potential consequences for gyrase-targeted antibiotics activity and bacterial evolution.
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    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Targeted protein degradation systems to enhance Wnt signaling

    Parthasarathy Sampathkumar, Heekyung Jung ... Yang Li
    A novel targeted protein degradation system to achieve cell-type-specific enhancement of Wnt signaling.
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Proteolytic cleavage and inactivation of the TRMT1 tRNA modification enzyme by SARS-CoV-2 main protease

    Kejia Zhang, Patrick Eldin ... Dragony Fu
    SARS-CoV-2 infection reduces the intracellular levels of a human tRNA modification enzyme and alters host tRNA modification profiles.