Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Ab initio prediction of specific phospholipid complexes and membrane association of HIV-1 MPER antibodies by multi-scale simulations

    Colleen Maillie, Jay Golden ... Marco Mravic
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    PDZ-directed substrate recruitment is the primary determinant of specific 4E-BP1 dephosphorylation by PP1-Neurabin

    Roman O Fedoryshchak, Karim El-Bouri ... Richard Treisman
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Control of 3ʹ splice site selection by the yeast splicing factor Fyv6

    Katherine A Senn, Karli A Lipinski ... Aaron A Hoskins
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    A conformational fingerprint for amyloidogenic light chains

    Cristina Paissoni, Sarita Puri ... Carlo Camilloni
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Plant Biology

    Molecular dynamics simulations illuminate the role of sequence context in the ELF3-PrD-based temperature sensing mechanism in plants

    Richard J Lindsay, Rafael Giordano Viegas ... Sonya M Hanson
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Unanticipated mechanisms of covalent inhibitor and synthetic ligand cobinding to PPARγ

    Jinsai Shang, Douglas J Kojetin
    Commonly used covalent PPARγ inhibitors weaken, but do not block, binding of other ligands via an allosteric mechanism where ligands clash with a covalent ligand-induced transcriptionally repressive structural conformation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Biochemical and structural insights into the auto-inhibited state of Mical1 and its activation by Rab8

    Amrita Rai, Petra Janning ... Roger S Goody
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Protonation/deprotonation-driven switch for the redox stability of low-potential [4Fe-4S] ferredoxin

    Kei Wada, Kenji Kobayashi ... Masaki Unno
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Structure of human PIEZO1 and its slow inactivating channelopathy mutants

    Yuanyue Shan, Xinyi Guo ... Duanqing Pei
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Impact of the clinically approved BTK inhibitors on the conformation of full-length BTK and analysis of the development of BTK resistance mutations in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

    Raji E Joseph, Thomas E Wales ... Amy H Andreotti
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Cell Biology
    3. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Allosteric Regulation of Kinase Activity – call for papers

    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Modelling biomolecular condensates

    Furqan Dar, Rohit Pappu
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Same structure, different mechanisms?

    Francis TF Tsai, Christopher P Hill

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    Iowa State University, United States
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    The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
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    Boston University, United States
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