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    A completely genetically encoded boronic-acid-containing designer enzyme was created and characterized using X-ray crystallography, high-resolution mass spectrometry and 11B NMR spectroscopy, allowing chemistry that is unknown in nature and currently not possible with small-molecule catalysts.

    • Lars Longwitz
    • , Reuben B. Leveson-Gower
    •  & Gerard Roelfes

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    | Open Access

    We find that bile salt hydrolase N-acyltransferase activity can form bacterial bile acid amidates that are positively correlated with the colonization of gut bacteria that assist in the regulation of the bile acid metabolic network.

    • Bipin Rimal
    • , Stephanie L. Collins
    •  & Andrew D. Patterson

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    Enzyme-bound ketyl radicals derived from thiamine diphosphate are selectively generated through single-electron oxidation by a photoexcited organic dye and shown to lead to enantioselective radical acylation reactions.

    • Yuanyuan Xu
    • , Hongwei Chen
    •  & Xiaoqiang Huang

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    An inhibitor of the ferroptosis-suppressing FSP1 induces phase separation of FSP1, thereby impairing its function and reducing tumour growth.

    • Toshitaka Nakamura
    • , Clara Hipp
    •  & Marcus Conrad

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    | Open Access

    CRISPR systems lacking Cas4 can use fused or recruited exonucleases for faithful acquisition of new CRISPR immune sequences.

    • Joy Y. Wang
    • , Owen T. Tuck
    •  & Jennifer A. Doudna

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    | Open Access

    A deep-learning-based strategy is used to design artificial luciferases that catalyse the oxidative chemiluminescence of diphenylterazine with high substrate specificity and catalytic efficiency.

    • Andy Hsien-Wei Yeh
    • , Christoffer Norn
    •  & David Baker

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    Structures of the human METTL1–WDR4 complex are revealed, providing molecular insights into substrate recognition, modification and catalytic regulation by the N7-methylguanosine methyltransferase complex.

    • Jiazhi Li
    • , Longfei Wang
    •  & Richard I. Gregory

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    | Open Access

    Structural insights into the poly-ADP-ribosyltransferase tankyrase reveal its filamentous architecture and illustrate how assembly controls catalytic and non-catalytic functions.

    • Nisha Pillay
    • , Laura Mariotti
    •  & Sebastian Guettler

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    A structural analysis focusing on plant immunity reveals how LRR-containing receptor-like proteins recognize pathogenic ligands and consequently become activated, with the data suggesting that these proteins target pathogens through two different mechanisms.

    • Yue Sun
    • , Yan Wang
    •  & Jijie Chai

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    | Open Access

    Through structural analysis of the activation of bacterial STING, the molecular basis of STING filament formation and TIR effector domain activation in antiphage signalling is defined.

    • Benjamin R. Morehouse
    • , Matthew C. J. Yip
    •  & Philip J. Kranzusch

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    The cryo-electron microscopy structure of the filamentous hydrogen-dependent CO2 reductase (HDCR) enzyme from Thermoanaerobacter kivui, together with enzymatic analysis and in situ cryo-electron tomography, provides insight into the high catalytic activity of HDCR.

    • Helge M. Dietrich
    • , Ricardo D. Righetto
    •  & Jan M. Schuller

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    | Open Access

    Cryo-electron microscopy structure, molecular dynamics and biochemical analyses of the SHOC2–PP1C–MRAS complex demonstrate the dependence of the complex formation on RAS–GTP and identify the determinants of RAS isoform preference for SHOC2–PP1C and specificity of the complex for RAF dephosphorylation.

    • Nicholas P. D. Liau
    • , Matthew C. Johnson
    •  & Jawahar Sudhamsu

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    The development of confined organocatalysts for the enantioselective cyanosilylation of small, unbiased substrates, including 2-butanone, is shown to lead to catalysts that are as selective as enzymes, with excellent levels of control.

    • Hui Zhou
    • , Yu Zhou
    •  & Benjamin List

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    A study using a biochemical screen of 57 phages in two bacterial species identifies and characterizes proteins enabling phages to evade CBASS and Pycsar immune systems, and describes the mechanisms involved.

    • Samuel J. Hobbs
    • , Tanita Wein
    •  & Philip J. Kranzusch

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    A biocatalytic enzyme originating from bacteria, EneIRED, facilitates amine-activated conjugate alkene reduction followed by reductive amination, efficiently preparing chiral amine diastereomers, which are commonly used in pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. 

    • Thomas W. Thorpe
    • , James R. Marshall
    •  & Nicholas J. Turner

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    A bacterial enzyme is characterized and demonstrated to have Ni2+-dependent activity and high specificity for free guanidine enabling the bacteria to use guanidine as the sole nitrogen source for growth.

    • D. Funck
    • , M. Sinn
    •  & J. S. Hartig

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    Combining NMR spectroscopy-derived pseudocontact shifts (PCSs) with Carr–Purcell–Meiboom–Gill (CPMG) relaxation dispersion enables protein structure determination of lowly populated high-energy states that are essential for macromolecular function.

    • John B. Stiller
    • , Renee Otten
    •  & Dorothee Kern

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    Structural and mechanistic data of the ADP-ribosyltransferase DarT demonstrate the role of ADP-ribosylation of DNA by this enzyme in generating toxicity and regulating cellular signalling processes in bacteria.

    • Marion Schuller
    • , Rachel E. Butler
    •  & Ivan Ahel

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    The PARP2–HPF1 histone-modifying complex bridges two nucleosomes to align broken DNA ends for ligation, initiating conformational changes that activate PARP2 and enable DNA damage repair.

    • Silvija Bilokapic
    • , Marcin J. Suskiewicz
    •  & Mario Halic

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    Crystal structures of the MEK kinase bound to the scaffold protein KSR and various MEK inhibitors, including the anti-cancer drug trametinib, reveal the molecular and functional mechanisms behind MEK inhibition.

    • Zaigham M. Khan
    • , Alexander M. Real
    •  & Arvin C. Dar

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    Structures of the acetohydroxyacid synthase complexes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana provide insights into the biosynthesis of and feedback inhibition by branched-chain amino acids.

    • Thierry Lonhienne
    • , Yu Shang Low
    •  & Luke W. Guddat

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    A cryo-electron microscopy structure of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of SARS-CoV-2 sheds light on coronavirus replication and enables the analysis of the inhibitory mechanisms of candidate antiviral drugs.

    • Hauke S. Hillen
    • , Goran Kokic
    •  & Patrick Cramer

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    The structure of human diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1, a membrane protein that synthesizes triacylglycerides, is solved with cryo-electron microscopy, providing insight into its function and mechanism of enzymatic activity.

    • Lie Wang
    • , Hongwu Qian
    •  & Ming Zhou

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    Phosphorylation of INSIG1 and INSIG2 by PCK1 leads to a reduction in the binding of sterols, the activation of SREBP1 and SREBP2 and the downstream transcription of lipogenesis-associated genes that promote tumour growth.

    • Daqian Xu
    • , Zheng Wang
    •  & Zhimin Lu

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    Bacteria and archaea use cyclic oligoadenylate molecules as part of the CRISPR system for antiviral defence; here, a family of viral enzymes that rapidly degrades cyclic oligoadenylates is identified and biochemically and structurally described.

    • Januka S. Athukoralage
    • , Stephen A. McMahon
    •  & Malcolm F. White

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    Marine Proteobacteria use the β-hydroxyaspartate cycle to assimilate glycolate, which is secreted by algae on a petagram scale, providing evidence of a previously undescribed trophic interaction between autotrophic phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacterioplankton.

    • Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski
    • , Francesca Severi
    •  & Tobias J. Erb

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    A hydrolytic enzyme with a non-canonical organocatalytic mechanism was generated by introducing Nδ-methylhistidine into a designed active site using engineered translation components, allowing optimization of enzyme performance using laboratory evolution.

    • Ashleigh J. Burke
    • , Sarah L. Lovelock
    •  & Anthony P. Green

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