Taxonomic Status and First Record of a Yellow-Flowered <i>Astragalus</i> (sect. <i>Dissitiflori</i>, Fabaceae) from Central Balkans. [PDF]
Lazarević P +3 more
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Structural and biochemical analysis of a B12 superbinder
BtuG proteins are vitamin B12 scavengers in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a dominant human gut bacterium. We present crystal structures of three BtuG homologs bound to cobalamin and its precursor cobinamide, revealing picomolar binding affinities, among the highest known for any natural protein.
Jose M. Martinez Felices +3 more
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refloraR: An R package for efficiently retrieving and analyzing plant specimen data from the Herbário Virtual Reflora. [PDF]
Calderón Del Cid C +5 more
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Mycobacterial 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA carboxylase uses a mobile biotin‐carrying domain to shuttle a carboxyl group between two catalytic sites, enabling carboxylation of 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA during leucine breakdown. Cryo‐electron microscopy captures the carrier at both sites and reveals an inward loop movement that may prevent futile rebinding to the ...
Ajit Yadav +2 more
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Functional organization outweighs spatial separation in structuring microbial communities across a petroleum-hydrocarbon groundwater plume. [PDF]
Zhang R, Chen Y, Hou D.
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How do genomes gain new functional parts? In eukaryotes, which tend to evolve under weak selection, much of the genome is junk. Palazzo and Qiu borrow the logic of Markov chains to show how non‐functional DNA becomes functional through the appearance of intermediate states, which arise due to epistasis, buffering, and biochemical messiness, allowing ...
Alexander F. Palazzo, Yi Qiu
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Electrophoresis in taxonomic studies illustrated by analyses of blood proteins
Dessauer, Herbert C. +3 more
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A scalable and cost-effective nanopore workflow for 16S rRNA microbiome profiling validated in a zebrafish gut model. [PDF]
Juanpere-Borras M +4 more
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The Shewanella oneidensis Fic enzyme SoFic targets the switch‐I region of EF‐Tu for AMPylation
Fic enzymes mediate diverse post‐translational modifications across all domains of life, including AMPylation. Prokaryotic EF‐Tu can be AMPylated and deAMPylated by the conserved Fic enzyme SoFic. Structural and biochemical approaches were used to characterize the effect of AMPylation on EF‐Tu, SoFic's enzymatic activities, and the enzyme‐target ...
Svenja Runge +6 more
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