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26 items found for 2026 [total: 509]
Enantioselective synthesis of lactic acid from CO2 using a novel pyruvate decarboxylase in a scalable biocatalytic cascade Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 368 June 2026 DOI: 10.1002/adsc.70557
Structural basis for recognition of diverse localizing mRNAs by Egl–BicD Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 83 May 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-026-01794-8
Dual E3 ligase recruitment by monovalent degraders for tunable SMARCA 2/4 degradation Nature Chemical Biology, 21 May 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-026-02224-y
Cryo-FIB lift-out and electron tomography workflow for bacteria–nanopillar interface imaging under native conditions: investigating dragonfly inspired bactericidal titanium surfaces Small Methods, May 2026 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.70715
Structural insights into cobalamin loading and reactivation of human methionine synthase Nature Communications, May 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72899-3
Identification of a novel fiber shaft structural motif and overexpression of key transcripts elucidated in human adenovirus D 10 Plos Pathogens, 22 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1014182
Sub-2 Å cryo-EM structures of transcribing RNA polymerase II reveal critical roles of water molecules in catalysis Molecular Cell, 9 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2026.04.007
Journal Paper Krios I-Titan Krios I at Diamond Krios II-Titan Krios II at Diamond Krios IV-Titan Krios IV at Diamond open access
Shared structural mechanisms of alternating access between the secondary peptide transporter SbmA and ABC transporters Nature Communications, 167 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71633-3
Structure of a contractile injection system in Salmonella enterica subsp. salamae Nature Communications, 29 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71989-6
Atomic structures of medin and Aβ fibrils reveal polymorphic remodeling in mixed amyloid systems Nature Communications, Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72515-4
Oseltamivir aziridines are potent influenza neuraminidase inhibitors and imaging agents Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 123 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504045123
Structural basis for Rep-mediated adeno-associated virus packaging Cell Reports, 45 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117044
Post-catalysis structures of mitochondrial complex I with ubiquinol-10 bound in the active site Nature Communications, 82 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70030-0
Structural basis of human γTuRC closure during CM1-activated microtubule nucleation Nature Communications, 22 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70773-w
Microtubule end stabilisation by cooperative oligomers of Ska and Ndc80 complexes The Embo Journal, 5 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s44318-026-00749-5
Structure of a pH-sensitive pentameric ligand-gated ion channel from the Sarcoptes scabies mite Nature Communications, 43 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70575-0
Structural insights into the Thermus thermophilus type IV pilus machinery assembling two distinct pili Communications Biology, 9 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-026-09762-0
Journal Paper Krios II-Titan Krios II at Diamond Krios III-Titan Krios III at Diamond Krios IV-Titan Krios IV at Diamond open access
Avoiding mitochondrial apoptosis by the Bcl-2-driven bax oligomerization on membrane surfaces Acs Chemical Biology, 37 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.5c00913
Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate Science, 391 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1126/science.adx2867
Amino acid and viral binding by the high-affinity Cationic Amino acid Transporter 1 (CAT1) from Mus musculus Nature Communications, 17 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69421-0
Trypanosome histone variants H3.V and H4.V promote nucleosome plasticity in repressed chromatin Structure, 19 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2026.01.008
H pilin cyclisation and pilus biogenesis are promiscuous but electrostatic perturbations impair conjugation efficiency Nature Communications, 23 Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69599-3
Capsid restructuring activates semi-conservative dsRNA transcription in cystovirus ɸ6 Molecular Cell, 726 Jan 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.12.025
Structural insights into the antibacterial function of the Pseudomonas putida effector Tke5 The Embo Journal, 630 Jan 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s44318-025-00689-6
Atkinsonella hypoxylon virus capsid structure highlights the diversity of capsid proteins among the Partitiviridae Journal Of General Virology, 107 Jan 2026 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.002209
Discovery and mechanism of negative allosteric modulation of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor by nanobodies Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 123 Jan 2026 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2514734123
- Silvia Fruncillo, Daan M. Van Vliet, Jurgen J. Mateman, Dirk C. Van Seijst, Jan Stoutjesdijk, Jason Van Rooyen, Akash Pandya, James Galman, Annette Alcasabas, Tom A. Ewing, "Enantioselective synthesis of lactic acid from CO2 using a novel pyruvate decarboxylase in a scalable biocatalytic cascade", Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 368 (2026), DOI: 10.1002/adsc.70557
- Kashish Singh, Sabila Chilaeva, Mark A. Mcclintock, Andrew P. Carter, Simon L. Bullock, "Structural basis for recognition of diverse localizing mRNAs by Egl–BicD", Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 83 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41594-026-01794-8
- Valentina A. Spiteri, Dmitri Segal, Alejandro Correa-Sáez, Kentaro Iso, Ryan Casement, Miquel Muñoz I Ordoño, Mark A. Nakasone, Gajanan Sathe, Caroline Schätz, Hannah E. Peters, Mark Doward, Lisa Kainacher, Angus D. Cowan, Alessio Ciulli, Georg E. Winter, "Dual E3 ligase recruitment by monovalent degraders for tunable SMARCA 2/4 degradation", Nature Chemical Biology, 21 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41589-026-02224-y
- Chaturanga D. Bandara, Dominik Pinkas, Martina Zanova, Martin Uher, Judith Mantell, Bo Su, Angela H. Nobbs, Paul Verkade, "Cryo-FIB lift-out and electron tomography workflow for bacteria–nanopillar interface imaging under native conditions: investigating dragonfly inspired bactericidal titanium surfaces", Small Methods (2026), DOI: 10.1002/smtd.70715
- Douglas S. M. Ferreira, Katie Mclennan, Calum Diamond, Melanie Vollmar, Wasim Kiyani, D. Sean Froese, Jola Kopec, Henry J. Bailey, Rod Chalk, Arnaud Basle, Jonathan M. Elkins, Jesse Coker, Wyatt W. Yue, Thomas J. Mccorvie, "Structural insights into cobalamin loading and reactivation of human methionine synthase", Nature Communications (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72899-3
- Rosie M. Mundy, Kasim Waraich, Emily A. Bates, Pierre J. Rizkallah, Alexander T. Baker, Mark T. Young, Edward Morris, Paula C. A. Da Fonseca, Carly M. Bliss, David Matthews, David Bhella, Alan L. Parker, "Identification of a novel fiber shaft structural motif and overexpression of key transcripts elucidated in human adenovirus D 10", Plos Pathogens, 22 (2026), DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1014182
- Qingrong Li, Gangshun Yi, Yue Wu, Sophy Xu, Jenny Chong, Xuhui Huang, Peijun Zhang, Dong Wang, "Sub-2 Å cryo-EM structures of transcribing RNA polymerase II reveal critical roles of water molecules in catalysis", Molecular Cell, 9 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2026.04.007
- Thijs W. Ettema, Satomi Inaba-Inoue, Chancievan Thangaratnarajah, Leticia Alves Da Silva, Nikas Senning, Amy Clarke, Piotr Stepien, Anokhi Shah, Yue Ma, Katie Hardman, Sophia David, Hassane El Mkami, Jonathan G. Heddle, Norimichi Nomura, Satoshi Ogasawara, So Iwata, Dmitry Ghilarov, Christos Pliotas, Thomas Stockner, Dirk J. Slotboom, Konstantinos Beis, "Shared structural mechanisms of alternating access between the secondary peptide transporter SbmA and ABC transporters", Nature Communications, 167 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71633-3
- Rooshanie N. Ejaz, Kristin Funke, Claudia S. Kielkopf, Freddie J. O. Martin, Marta Šiborová, Ivo A. Hendriks, Nicholas H. Sofos, Tillmann Pape, Eva M. Steiner-Rebrova, Michael L. Nielsen, Marc Erhardt, Nicholas M. I. Taylor, "Structure of a contractile injection system in Salmonella enterica subsp. salamae", Nature Communications, 29 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71989-6
- Brajabandhu Pradhan, Senthil T. Kumar, Jessica Wagner, Rodrigo Gallardo, Gabriele Orlando, Matthias De Vleeschouwer, Valentina Zorzini, Jillian Madine, Nikolaos Louros, Jonas J. Neher, Frederic Rousseau, Joost Schymkowitz, "Atomic structures of medin and Aβ fibrils reveal polymorphic remodeling in mixed amyloid systems", Nature Communications (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72515-4
- Merijn B. L. Vriends, Elisha Moran, Martín Calvelo, Thomas Hansen, Isabelle B. Pickles, Xincheng Xin, Marieke Biezeno, Zachary W. B. Armstrong, Maria J. Ferraz, Lei Li, Alice Lilley, Ruth Harvey, Dmitri V. Filippov, Qinghua Liao, Sybrin P. Schröder, Gijsbert A. Van Der Marel, Marta Artola, Johannes M. F. G. Aerts, James N. Blaza, Jeroen D. C. Codée, Carme Rovira, Herman S. Overkleeft, Gideon J. Davies, "Oseltamivir aziridines are potent influenza neuraminidase inhibitors and imaging agents", Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 123 (2026), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504045123
- Victoria Xu, Aiysha Mcinnes, Matthew Wake, Marta Acebron Garcia De Eulate, Joseph D. Barritt, Doryen Bubeck, Sarah L. Rouse, "Structural basis for Rep-mediated adeno-associated virus packaging", Cell Reports, 45 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117044
- Injae Chung, Caroline S. Pereira, John J. Wright, Guilherme M. Arantes, Judy Hirst, "Post-catalysis structures of mitochondrial complex I with ubiquinol-10 bound in the active site", Nature Communications, 82 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70030-0
- Marina Serna, Cláudia Brito, Silvia Speroni, Fabian Zimmermann, Andres Lopez-Perrote, Maria Gili, Cristina Lacasa, Jens Lüders, Thomas Surrey, Oscar Llorca, "Structural basis of human γTuRC closure during CM1-activated microtubule nucleation", Nature Communications, 22 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70773-w
- Renjith M Radhakrishnan, Lauren Stokes, Matthew Day, Pim J Huis In 'T Veld, Vladimir A. Volkov, "Microtubule end stabilisation by cooperative oligomers of Ska and Ndc80 complexes", The Embo Journal, 5 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s44318-026-00749-5
- Jessica Kleiz-Ferreira, Marijke Brams, Peter J. Harrison, Casey I. Gallagher, Mieke Nys, Ysaline Donze, Andrew Quigley, Daniel Bertrand, Chris Ulens, "Structure of a pH-sensitive pentameric ligand-gated ion channel from the Sarcoptes scabies mite", Nature Communications, 43 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-70575-0
- Alexander Neuhaus, Mathew Mclaren, Michail N. Isupov, Matthew Gaines, Emma Buzzard, Mateusz Sikora, Cyril Hanus, Bertram Daum, Beate Averhoff, Vicki A. M. Gold, "Structural insights into the Thermus thermophilus type IV pilus machinery assembling two distinct pili", Communications Biology, 9 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s42003-026-09762-0
- Sophie E. Ayscough, Luke A. Clifton, Jörgen Ådén, Sebastian Köhler, Nicolò Paracini, James Doutch, Eilis C. Bragginton, Anna E. Leung, Oliver Bogojevic, Jia-Fei Poon, Tamás Milán Nagy, Hanna P. Wacklin-Knecht, Gerhard Gröbner, "Avoiding mitochondrial apoptosis by the Bcl-2-driven bax oligomerization on membrane surfaces", Acs Chemical Biology, 37 (2026), DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.5c00913
- Donghwi Ko, Raili Ruonala, Alexandre Faille, Eva Hellmann, Hanna Help, Huili Liu, Ronni Nielsen, Anders Haakonsson, Nuria De Diego, Anja Paatero, Mariia V. Shcherbii, Karolina Stefanowicz, Sanja Ćavar Zeljković, Tine Drud Lundager Rasmussen, Ondrej Novak, Zsuzsanna Bodi, Gugan Eswaran, Brecht Wybouw, Matthieu Bourdon, Cristina Urbez, Xiaonan Liu, Kari Salokas, Tiina Öhman, Tanya Waldie, Petri Törönen, Sedeer El-Showk, Martin Balcerowicz, Fabrice Besnard, Xiaomin Liu, Patrick Perkins, Serina Mazzoni-Putman, Julia P. Vainonen, Maija Sierla, Mikko J. Frilander, Susanne Mandrup, Teva Vernoux, Karin Ljung, Alejandro Ferrando, Miguel A. Blazquez, Liisa Holm, Rupert Fray, Markku Varjosalo, Ottoline Leyser, Ville O. Paavilainen, Ari Pekka Mähönen, Anna Stepanova, Jose Alonso, Steffen Heber, Robert Malinowski, Finn Kirpekar, Alan J. Warren, Ykä Helariutta, "Recruitment of bifunctional regulator thermospermine to methylated ribosomes directs xylem fate", Science, 391, 694 - 699 (2026), DOI: 10.1126/science.adx2867
- Mingda Ye, Zhu Liang, Daming Zhou, Ashley C. W. Pike, Siyi Wang, Dong Wang, Souvika Bakshi, Laurent Brooke, Eleanor P. Williams, Jonathan M. Elkins, Benedikt M. Kessler, David I. Stuart, David B. Sauer, "Amino acid and viral binding by the high-affinity Cationic Amino acid Transporter 1 (CAT1) from Mus musculus", Nature Communications, 17 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69421-0
- Gauri Deak, Hayden Burdett, James Watson, Marcus D. Wilson, "Trypanosome histone variants H3.V and H4.V promote nucleosome plasticity in repressed chromatin", Structure, 19 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2026.01.008
- Shan He, Naito Ishimoto, Joshua L. C. Wong, Sophia David, Julia Sanchez-Garrido, Mikhail Bogdanov, Konstantinos Beis, Gad Frankel, "H pilin cyclisation and pilus biogenesis are promiscuous but electrostatic perturbations impair conjugation efficiency", Nature Communications, 23 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-69599-3
- Serban L. Ilca, Xiaoyu Sun, Esa-Pekka Kumpula, Katri Eskelin, David I. Stuart, Minna M. Poranen, Juha T. Huiskonen, "Capsid restructuring activates semi-conservative dsRNA transcription in cystovirus ɸ6", Molecular Cell, 726 (2026), DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2025.12.025
- Carmen Velázquez, Maialen Zabala-Zearreta, Carmen Paredes, Cristina Civantos, Jon Altuna-Alvarez, Patricia Bernal, David Albesa-Jove, "Structural insights into the antibacterial function of the Pseudomonas putida effector Tke5", The Embo Journal, 630 (2026), DOI: 10.1038/s44318-025-00689-6
- Micol Venturi, Matthew Calthorpe-Byrne, Beate Aftret, Donna Mcneale, Bernd H. A. Rehm, Frank Sainsbury, "Atkinsonella hypoxylon virus capsid structure highlights the diversity of capsid proteins among the Partitiviridae", Journal Of General Virology, 107 (2026), DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.002209
- Nathalie Barilone, Maria Vangelatou, F. Zahra Marouf, Gabrielle Dejean De La Bâtie, Qimeng Li, Pierre Lafaye, Gabriel Aymé, Pierre-Jean Corringer, Marie S. Prevost, "Discovery and mechanism of negative allosteric modulation of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor by nanobodies", Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 123 (2026), DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2514734123
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