Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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    Folding of prestin’s anion-binding site and the mechanism of outer hair cell electromotility

    Xiaoxuan Lin, Patrick R Haller ... Tobin R Sosnick
    Identification of Cl-induced folding advances the field’s understanding of prestin’s unique voltage-sensing mechanism and its involvement in mammalian hearing sensation.
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    Dynamic landscape of the intracellular termini of acid-sensing ion channel 1a

    Megan M Cullinan, Robert C Klipp ... John R Bankston
    A novel FRET approach suggests that the intracellular termini of acid-sensing ion channel 1a do not form a complex at rest requiring a new hypothesis for ASIC1a involvement in stroke.
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    Divergent Pairwise Epistasis in the Context of Unstable Membrane Protein Variants

    Laura M. Chamness, Charles P. Kuntz ... Jonathan P. Schlebach
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    The catalytic mechanism of the RNA methyltransferase METTL3

    Ivan Corbeski, Pablo Andrés Vargas-Rosales ... Amedeo Caflisch
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    Baited reconstruction with 2D template matching for high-resolution structure determination in vitro and in vivo without template bias

    Bronwyn A Lucas, Benjamin A Himes, Nikolaus Grigorieff
    2D template matching enables a streamlined single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy workflow that can be used to discover new high-resolution structural features in molecules and complexes, such as bound ligands and drugs.

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