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Arch Microbiol
January 2025
Department of Botany, CMS College Kottayam, Kottayam, Kerala, 686001, India.
Among all photosynthetic life forms, cyanobacteria exclusively possess a water-soluble, light-sensitive carotenoprotein complex known as orange carotenoid proteins (OCPs), crucial for their photoprotective mechanisms. These protein complexes exhibit both structural and functional modularity, with distinct C-terminal (CTD) and N-terminal domains (NTD) serving as light-responsive sensor and effector regions, respectively. The majority of cyanobacterial genomes contain genes for OCP homologs and related proteins, highlighting their essential role in survival of the organism over time.
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January 2025
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Coronaviruses utilize a positive-sense single-strand RNA, functioning simultaneously as mRNA and the genome. An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) plays a dual role in transcribing genes and replicating the genome, making RdRP a critical target in therapies against coronaviruses. This review explores recent advancements in understanding the coronavirus transcription machinery, discusses it within virus infection context, and incorporates kinetic considerations on RdRP activity.
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December 2024
Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Shear thinning of associative polymers is tied to bond breakage under deformation and retraction of dangling chains, as predicted by transient network theories. However, an in-depth understanding of the molecular mechanisms is limited by our ability to measure the molecular states of the polymers during deformation. Herein, utilizing a custom-built rheo-fluorescence setup, bond dissociation in model end-linked associative polymers is quantified in real time with nonlinear shear deformation based on a fluorescence quench transition when phenanthroline ligands bind with Ni.
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December 2024
Molecular Medicine Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada.
Vacuolar-type ATPases (V-ATPases) are membrane-embedded proton pumps that acidify intracellular compartments in almost all eukaryotic cells. Homologous with ATP synthases, these multisubunit enzymes consist of a soluble catalytic V subcomplex and a membrane-embedded proton-translocating V subcomplex. The V and V subcomplexes can undergo reversible dissociation to regulate proton pumping, with reassociation of V and V requiring the protein complex known as RAVE (regulator of the ATPase of vacuoles and endosomes).
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November 2024
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, Scripps Research, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037.
The transthyretin (TTR) tetramer, assembled as a dimer of dimers, transports thyroxine and retinol binding protein in blood plasma and cerebrospinal fluid. Aggregation of wild type or pathogenic variant TTR leads to transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), which is associated with neurodegenerative and cardiac disease. The trigger for TTR aggregation under physiological conditions is unknown.
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