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Cell wall target fragment discovery using a low‐cost, minimal fragment library

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
LoCoFrag100 is a fragment library made up of 100 different compounds. Similarity between the fragments is minimized and 10 different fragments are mixed into a single cocktail, which is soaked to protein crystals. These crystals are analysed by X‐ray crystallography, revealing the binding modes of the bound fragment ligands.
Kaizhou Yan, Mathew Stanley, Olawale Raimi, Andrew T. Ferenbach, Helge C Dorfmueller, Daan M. F. van Aalten   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural biology of ferritin nanocages

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ferritin is a conserved iron‐storage protein that sequesters iron as a ferric mineral core within a nanocage, protecting cells from oxidative damage and maintaining iron homeostasis. This review discusses ferritin biology, structure, and function, and highlights recent cryo‐EM studies revealing mechanisms of ferritinophagy, cellular iron uptake, and ...
Eloise Mastrangelo, Flavio Di Pisa
wiley   +1 more source

Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa, Konstantinos Makryniotis, Theofani‐Iosifina Sousani, Evangelos Topakas, Vangelis Daskalakis, Maria Dimarogona   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rotating fermion-boson stars

Physical Review D
Rotating fermion-boson stars are hypothetical celestial objects that consist of both fermionic and bosonic matter interacting exclusively through gravity. Bosonic fields are believed to arise in certain models of particle physics describing dark matter and could accumulate within neutron stars, modifying some of their properties and gravitational wave ...
Mourelle, Jorge Castelo, Adam, Christoph, Bustillo, Juan Calderón, Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas   +3 more
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A methionine‐lined active site governs carbocation stabilization and product specificity in a bacterial terpene synthase

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study reveals a unique active site enriched in methionine residues and demonstrates that these residues play a critical role by stabilizing carbocation intermediates through novel sulfur–cation interactions. Structure‐guided mutagenesis further revealed variants with significantly altered product profiles, enhancing pseudopterosin formation. These
Marion Ringel, Carl P. O. Helmer, Shani Zev, Ronja Driller, Emily Buhr, Markus Reinbold, Renana Schwartz, Gabriel Foley, Mikael Boden, Daniel Garbe, Gerhard Schenk, Dan Thomas Major, Bernhard Loll, Thomas Brück   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

In vitro models of cancer‐associated fibroblast heterogeneity uncover subtype‐specific effects of CRISPR perturbations

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Development of therapies targeting cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) necessitates preclinical model systems that faithfully represent CAF–tumor biology. We established an in vitro coculture system of patient‐derived pancreatic CAFs and tumor cell lines and demonstrated its recapitulation of primary CAF–tumor biology with single‐cell transcriptomics ...
Elysia Saputra, Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal, Lixia Li, Hong Sun, Khoa Nguyen, Amber Montano, Suchitra Natarajan, Federica Piccioni, Alex Michael Tamburino, Xin Yu, Aleksandra Katarzyna Olow   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Populations of rotating stars [PDF]

Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013
Accepted for publication in A&A, language ...
Granada, A.; Ekström, S.; Georgy, C.; Krtička, J.; Owocki, S.; Meynet, G.; Maeder, A.   +7 more
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung, David Bickel, Lena C. M. Krause, Daria Ezeriņa, Christian Ickes, Julian Wojtachnia, Christine S. Gibhardt, Magdalena Shumanska, Khadija Wahni, Andrea Paluschkiwitz, Julia Malo Pueyo, Ekaterina Baranova, Wim Vranken, Hedwig Stanisz, Ioana Stejerean‐Todoran, Michael P. Schön, Joris Messens, Ivan Bogeski   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Basroparib inhibits YAP‐driven cancers by stabilizing angiomotin

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Basroparib, a selective tankyrase inhibitor, suppresses Wnt signaling and attenuates YAP‐driven oncogenic programs by stabilizing angiomotin. It promotes AMOT–YAP complex formation, enforces cytoplasmic YAP sequestration, inhibits YAP/TEAD transcription, and sensitizes YAP‐active cancers, including KRAS‐mutant colorectal cancer, to MEK inhibition.
Young‐Ju Kwon, Dong Young Kim, Yuna Kim, Uk‐Il Kim, Jae‐Sung Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum vacuum instability near rotating stars [PDF]

Physical Review D, 1993
We discuss the Starobinskii-Unruh process for the Kerr black hole. We show how this effect is related to the theory of squeezed states. We then consider a simple model for a highly relativistic rotating star and show that the Starobinskii-Unruh effect is absent.
Matacz, A L, Ottewill, A C, Davies, P C W   +2 more
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