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Sci Rep
January 2025
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA.
The development of high-brightness electron sources is critical to state-of-the-art electron accelerator applications like X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) and ultra-fast electron microscopy. Cesium telluride is chosen as the electron source material for multiple cutting-edge XFEL facilities worldwide. This manuscript presents the first demonstration of the growth of highly crystalized and epitaxial cesium telluride thin films on 4H-SiC and graphene/4H-SiC substrates with ultrasmooth film surfaces.
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January 2025
Max Perutz Labs, Vienna Biocenter Campus (VBC), Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria; University of Vienna, Max Perutz Labs, Department of Microbiology, Immunobiology and Genetics, Dr.-Bohr-Gasse 9, 1030 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address:
The fidelity of immune responses depends on timely controlled and selective mRNA degradation that is largely driven by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). It remains unclear whether stochastic or directed processes govern the selection of an individual mRNA molecule for degradation. Using human and mouse cells, we show that tristetraprolin (TTP, also known as ZFP36), an essential anti-inflammatory RBP, destabilizes target mRNAs via a hierarchical molecular assembly.
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January 2025
Max Perutz Labs, Vienna Biocenter Campus, Vienna 1030, Austria.
RNA G-quadruplexes (rG4s), the four-stranded structures formed by guanine-rich RNA sequences, are recognized by regions in RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) that are enriched in arginine-glycine repeats (RGG motifs). Importantly, arginine and glycine are encoded by guanine-rich codons, suggesting that some RGG motifs may both be encoded by and interact with rG4s in autogenous messenger RNAs (mRNAs). By analyzing transcriptome-wide rG4 datasets, we show that hundreds of RGG motifs in humans are at least partly encoded by rG4s, with an increased incidence for longer RGG motifs (~10 or more residues).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Mol Biol
January 2025
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohr Gasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria. Electronic address:
N-degrons are amino-terminal degradation signals. Non-acetylated first residues with bulky side chains were the first discovered N-degrons. In yeast, their ability to destabilize a protein depends on ubiquitin ligase Ubr1, which has a binding site for basic first residues, the UBR box, and one for hydrophobic first residues, the N domain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanoscale
January 2025
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Targeted delivery has emerged as a critical strategy in the development of novel therapeutics. The advancement of nanomedicine hinges on the safe and precise cell-specific delivery of protein-based therapeutics to the immune system. However, major challenges remain, such as developing an efficient delivery system, ensuring specificity, minimizing off-target effects, and attaining effective intracellular localization.
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