A cardinal rule of DNA replication is to prevent any possibility of pre-replication complexes re-loading during S phase, risking genotoxic over-replication. But can this rule be broken in emergency situations to preserve genome integrity?

White adipose tissue secretes the small polypeptide hormone leptin, which controls food intake and satiety. Unlike other metabolic hormones such as insulin and glucagon, leptin does not act on the major metabolic organs liver, muscle, and white adipose tissue, but instead exerts its primary function on the central nervous system.

Recent studies offer new insight on the mechanisms of IP6-mediated HIV-1 capsid assembly. The immature Gag lattice enables enrichment of IP6 into virions, aiding capsid maturation. Structures of capsid protein (CA) assemblies reveal motifs serving as switches modulating the conformations of CA pentamers/hexamers and affect co-factor accessibility.

The authors perform cryo-EM of pre-tRNA in complex with the human tRNA splicing endonuclease complex TSEN to understand the basis of pre-tRNA recognition and processing by TSEN.

A systematic survey of the budding yeast proteome identifies hundreds of post-transcriptional regulators. Regulatory activity is enriched in RNA-binding proteins but lies outside the RNA-binding domains, often within intrinsically disordered regions.

The authors provide cryo-EM reconstructions of human transfer RNA splicing endonuclease during substrate recognition, rationalizing disease-relevant mutations.

The structure of synapses is critical for brain function. Yu et al. show how the synaptic vesicle protein synaptogyrin binds lipids and helps to ensure that vesicles are uniformly sized, allowing for precise storage of neurotransmitters.

Here, the authors show that anchoring of the PRC2 complex to its own sites requires nuclear condensation of Ccc1, a H3K27me3 reader in the yeast Cryptococcus neoformans, suggesting a functional role for condensates in ensuring heterochromatin fidelity.

Here, the authors show that the lncRNA LoNA links nucleolar structure to epigenetic reprogramming and zygotic genome activation. Loss of LoNA leads to 2C arrest by impairing nucleolar assembly and repression of 2C gene transcription.