Engineering a cytochrome P450 O-demethylase for the bioconversion of hardwood lignin Megan E. Wolf, Daniel J. Hinchen, Michael Zahn, John Mcgeehan, Lindsay D. Eltis
Acs Synthetic Biology, 1 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6c00337 Janus kinase 2 activation loop as a regulator of catalysis and trans-activation Ya Miao, Vasyl V. Mykuliak, Stevan R. Hubbard, Olli Silvennoinen, Vesa Hytönen, Teemu Haikarainen
International Journal Of Biological Macromolecules, 409 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2026.153276 A de novo CO2 reductase featuring a cysteine-ligated cobalt porphyrin cofactor Emily J. Radley, Alessia C. Andrews, Indrek Kalvet, Yunling Deng, Elizabeth L. Bell, Colin W. Levy, Mary Ortmayer, Derren J. Heyes, Clare F. Megarity, Reyes Núñez-Franco, Amy E. Hutton, Yi Lu, David Baker, Anthony P. Green
Journal Of The American Chemical Society, Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c07615 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography How cryoEM has advanced our understanding of bacteriophages and bacteriocins targeting Clostridioides difficile Per A. Bullough, Jason S. Wilson, Hannah L. Berry, Robert P. Fagan
Iucrj, 13 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1107/S2052252526005105 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography Krios I-Titan Krios I at Diamond open access Trio analysis in dystonia identifies de novo KLC1 variants in a kinesinopathy with distinct motor and neurodevelopmental features Elisa Peirano, Laura O'Regan, Philip Harrer, Ivana Dzinovic, Magda S. Chegkazi, Petra Havrankova, Theresa Brunet, Rossella Capolino, Claudia Cesario, Stefania Ferro, Eva Hammar, Russia Hà-Vinh Leuchter, Elisabetta Indelicato, Maureen Jacob, Lukas Kunc, Henri Margot, Oriano Marin, Maria Mazurkiewicz-Bełdzińska, Niccolò E. Mencacci, Antonio Novelli, Laura Orec, Michael Poschmann, Alexandra Sitzberger, Ugo Sorrentino, Melanie Spanjaard, Matias Wagner, Magdalena Krygier, Sylvia Boesch, Jan Necpal, Matej Skorvanek, Donald L. Gilbert, Robert Jech, Mark Dodding, Roberto A. Steiner, Michael Zech
Ebiomedicine, 129 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2026.106358 Probing the role of accessory domains in oxygen stability of [FeFe]-hydrogenases Abdulrahman Alogaidi, Stephen Carr, Lucy Hudson, Henry Lloyd-Laney, Alison Parkin, Ashley Love, Michael W. George, Anca Pordea, Simone Morra
Journal Of The American Chemical Society, 6340 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c05865 Functional role of a tethered domain as a naturally fused cognate partner is demonstrated in a three-domain copper nitrite reductase Nopphon Petchyam, Allegra Mbouku, Robert R. Eady, S. Samar Hasnain, Svetlana V. Antonyuk
Iucrj, 13 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1107/S2052252526004549 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Structural insights into multitargeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pkn kinases Angelika Pölläniemi, Ya Miao, Lotta Laitila, Hannaleena Piippo, Milka Hammarén, Mataleena Parikka, Teemu Haikarainen
Microbiology Spectrum, 59 Jul 2026 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00049-26 Global identification of Chromobacterium violaceum T6SS effectors reveals an Rhs antibacterial toxin featuring FIX and ADP-ribosyltransferase domains Júlia A. Alves, Genady Pankov, Andrew M. Frey, Matthias Trost, Germán G. Sgro, Sarah J. Coulthurst, José F. Da Silva Neto
Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 197 June 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2026.113216 Structural and functional mapping of protective human monoclonal antibodies against enterovirus A71 Daming Zhou, Abhay Kotecha, James T. Kelly, Peng-Nien Huang, Yi-Yin Chen, Thomas S. Walter, Helen M. E. Duyvesteyn, Raymond J. Owens, Shu-Yuan Ho, Tzou-Yien Lin, Elizabeth E. Fry, Jingshan Ren, Kuan-Ying A. Huang, David I. Stuart
Science Advances, 12 June 2026 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aee8217 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Structure-based discovery of potent BCL-XL inhibitors through rescaffolding Matyas Pal Timari, Attila Paczal, Andras Herner, Mark Molnar, Zoltan Madarasz, Miklos Nyerges, Simon T. Bedford, Teresa Brooks, James Davidson, Zoe Daniels, Mark Dodsworth, Pawel Dokurno, James B. Murray, Rachel Parsons, Emma Sanders, Julia Smith, Paul Webb, Neil Whitehead, Roderick E. Hubbard, Jérôme-Benoît Starck, Ana Leticia Maragno, Gaëtane Le Toumelin-Braizat, Laura Bresson, Francesca Rocchetti, Didier Demarles, Frédéric Colland, Olivier Geneste, Andras Kotschy, Tibor Novak
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, 60 June 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6c00865 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access A chemoproteomic biotechnological toolkit for resolving xylanase specificity in decorated xylan Thamy L. R. Correa, Zirui Li, Olga Moroz, Isabelle B. Pickles, Andrey A. Lebedev, Saeed Akkad, Lianne I. Willems, Jeroen D. C. Codée, Herman S. Overkleeft, Gideon J. Davies
Nature Communications, June 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74484-0 Variant-dependent pharmacological rescue of phenylalanine hydroxylase supports a precision therapeutic strategy for phenylketonuria María Conde-Giménez, Sandra Salillas, María Galiana-Cameo, Juan E. Martínez-Oliván, Alejandro Mahía, Manuel Ledesma, Juan José Galano-Frutos, Ritwik Maity, Adrián Velázquez-Campoy, María D. Díaz-De-Villegas, Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero, Javier Sancho
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 199 June 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2026.119371 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Structure-guided optimization of novel inhibitors of Plasmodium lysyl-tRNA synthetase with multistage activity against malaria parasites Barbara Forte, Fiona Bellany, Peter S. Campbell, Giulia Chemi, Alice Dawson, Mark Anderson, Yaw Aniweh, Anna Y. Burkhard, Anna Caroline Campos Aguiar, Alisje Churchyard, Caitlin A. Cooper, Amália Dos Santos Ferreira, Mufuliat Toyin Famodimu, Francis G. Fang, Xiao Hu, Tonnie Huijs, Delphine Baud, Chimed Jansen, María Belén Jiménez Díaz, Roger Bonnert, Susan Boyd, Benigno Crespo-Fernández, Branko Mitasev, Simone Montagna, Sachel Mok, Dinakaran Murugesan, Sunil K. Narwal, Neil R. Norcross, John Okombo, Heekuk Park, Caroline Peet, Dhelio B. Pereira, John M. Post, Janette Reader, Jennifer Riley, David A. Robinson, Raku Shinkyo, Frederick R. C. Simeons, Laura Simpson, Alasdair Smith, Dennis Smith, Josefine Striepen, Carolina B. G. Teles, Rianne Van Der Laak, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Amélie Vantaux, Caroline Wilson, Benoît Witkowski, Gavin Wood, Tomas Yeo, Fabio Zuccotto, Iñigo Angulo-Barturen, Jake Baum, Judith M. Bolscher, Rafael Victorio Carvalho Guido, Lyn-Marié Birkholtz, Michael J. Delves, Laurent Dembele, David A. Fidock, Francisco Javier Gamo, Dennis E. Kyle, Steven P. Maher, Jean Popovici, Chris Walpole, Fabian Gusovsky, Paul A. Willis, Kevin D. Read, Ian H. Gilbert, Beatriz Baragaña
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, 45 June 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6c00823 Receptor-substrate competition for the TonB homolog FusB suggests a model for ferredoxin import Marta Wojnowska, Victor Flores, Tamas Yelland, Stuart R. Fisher, Agnieszka Bogucka, Katherine Stott, Daniel Walker
Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 302 June 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2026.113121 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Structure, characterisation and application of an unspecific peroxygenase from Daldinia childiae Alexander Mckenzie, Claudia Clark, Katy A. S. Cornish, Jiacheng Li, Jack Domenech, Benjamin Melling, Miles P. H. Ralston, Jared Cartwright, Nicholas P. Mulholland, William P. Unsworth, Gideon Grogan
Rsc Chemical Biology, June 2026 DOI: 10.1039/D6CB00141F Discovery of an orally available potent ER Aminopeptidase 1 (ERAP1) inhibitor that enhances antitumor responses and limits inflammatory autoimmunity in vivo Christopher P. Tinworth, Justyna Wojno-Picon, Michael Adam, Stephan Gade, Ashley P. Hancock, David J. Hirst, Jonathan P. Hutchinson, Semra Kitchen, Despoina Koumantou, Jonathan Lea, Stephanie Lehmann, John Liddle, Richard Lonsdale, Margarete Neu, Leng Nickels, Alex Phillipou, James E. Rowedder, Paul Rowland, Jessica L. Schneck, Paul Scott-Stevens, Hester Sheehan, Michael Steidel, Chloe L. Tayler, Ioannis Temponeras, Kevin Thang, David F. Tough, Giovanni Vitulli, Ian D. Wall, Robert J. Young, Nico Zinn, Simon Peace, Efstratios Stratikos
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, June 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6c00029 Synthesis of novel serine β-lactamase inhibitors Justin Young Ho
June 2026 Thesis I03-Macromolecular Crystallography
Structural architecture of a hybrid β-barrel assembly machinery BAM-TAM complex in Borrelia burgdorferi Kalvis Brangulis
Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 35 June 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2026.113267 Structural basis for uracil removal from DNA by human SMUG1 Julian M. Ludäscher, Emma Scaletti Hutchinson, Guillem Vila-Julià, Ann-Sofie Jemth, Saher Shahid, Elisee Wiita, Israel Cabeza De Vaca, Szymon Pach, Lukas Gajdos, Swati Aggarwal, Ellen Walse, Oliver Mortusewicz, Thomas Helleday, Jens Carlsson, Pal Stenmark
Nature Communications, 17 June 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72937-0 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Structural and biophysical analysis of the four CHRD domains of human chordin reveals a novel binding site for glycosaminoglycans Matthew Snee, Holly L. Birchenough, Mark H. Becker, Jonathan F. Popplewell, Hilary L. Ashe, Clair Baldock
Journal Of Biological Chemistry, 8 June 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2026.113248 Journal Paper B21-High Throughput SAXS I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Targeted protein degradation of NUDT5 dissociates catalytic inhibition from protein loss in 6-thioguanine response Anne-Sophie M. C. Marques, Ludwig G. Bauer, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Alejandro Gonzalez Orta, Jan-Lennart Venne, Carol Cheng, Esra Balikci, Yusi Liu, Barr Tivon, Alena Kroupova, Alessio Ciulli, Nir London, Stefan Kubicek, Kilian V. M. Huber
Nature Communications, June 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-74489-9 Two birds with one stone: An antibiotic hit blocking Staphylococcus aureus heme uptake with serendipitous hemoglobin left-shifting activity Sarah Hijazi, Francesco Marchesani, Marialaura Marchetti, Valeria Buoli Comani, Paul Brear, Barbara Campanini, Luca Ronda, Serena Faggiano, Eleonora Gianquinto, Somayeh Asgharpour Hassankiade, Barbara Rolando, Francesca Spyrakis, Carlotta Compari, Loretta Lazzarato, Omar De Bei, Emanuela Frangipani, Stefano Bettati
Iscience, 29 May 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2026.115625 Optimization and in vivo characterization of a series of Cbl-b inactive-state inhibitors Michael J. Lambrecht, Jun Liang, Peter Man-Un Ung, Malcolm P. Huestis, Bing-Yan Zhu, Lisa M. Barton, Georgette M. Castanedo, Jason R. Zbieg, Robin Larouche-Gauthier, Araz Jakalian, Jean-Philippe Leclerc, Arun Yadav, Pouyan Haghshenas, Samuel Aubert-Nicol, Hossein Ismaili, Liang Zhao, Mélissa Leblanc, Jian Wang, Shouliang Wang, Qiuyue Wang, Thomas Garner, Sophia Tan, Madeleine Prangley, Fabio Broccatelli, Jodie Pang, Jeremy Murray, Christine Yu, Peter Hsu, Sascha Rutz, Satoko Kakiuchi-Kiyota, Isabel Ishizuka, Dennis H. Leung, Ponien Kou, Linda Bao, Xiaojing Wang
Acs Medicinal Chemistry Letters, May 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6c00103 Fluorogenic coupled assays reveal catalytic properties, inhibition constants and cellular location of mucin-active carbohydrate sulfatases Charles W. E. Tomlinson, Madouc D. Bergers, David N. Bolam, Ana S. Luis, Alan Cartmell, Zachary Armstrong
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 597 May 2026 DOI: 10.1002/anie.2991471 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Rapid fragment screening by 19F steady-state free precession NMR Laura Ruduša, Sintija Ozola, Kostiantyn P. Melnykov, Yaroslav I. Filatov, Serhiy V. Ryabukhin, Raitis Bobrovs, Dmytro M. Volochnyuk, Kristaps Jaudzems, Rihards Aleksis
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 5 May 2026 DOI: 10.1002/anie.6891540 The crystal structure of the Borrelia burgdorferi nicotinamidase BBE22 resolves a long‐standing annotation error Kalvis Brangulis
Febs Open Bio, 35 May 2026 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.70268 Targeting a pleckstrin homology domain with a lysine-reactive covalent binder Rebekah M. West, Radu Costin Bizga Nicolescu, Paul Brear, James Wagstaff, Beata K. Blaszczyk, Tomas Deingruber, Matthew G. Sanders, Francisco Javier Pérez-Areales, David R. Spring, Marko Hyvonen
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, May 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c03818 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Development of water-trapping pyrrole-2-carboxylic acids as broad-spectrum metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors Monisha Singha, Liam A. Wilson, Elisabete C. C. M. Moura, Maria M. Trush, Karina Calvopina, Gurleen Kaur, Greta Zaborskytė, Toms Kalniņš, Tharindi Panduwawala, Matthew J. Bowen, Matthew J. Beech, Jurgen Brem, Peter J. Mchugh, Edgars Suna, Timothy R. Walsh, Christopher J. Schofield, Alistair J. M. Farley
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, May 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c03534 Induced circular dichroism from the binding of achiral bivalent ligands to transthyretin Stephen Wood, Yiwei Guan, James Pitts, Raj Gill, Simon Kolstoe, Tamas Javorfi, Rohanah Hussain, Giuliano Siligardi
Journal Of Molecular Recognition, 39 May 2026 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.70037 Journal Paper B23-Circular Dichroism I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) open access Crystallise, poise, capture: a multimodal platform for correlated structural and spectroscopic characterisation of redox enzymes Shoba Laxmi, Sofia Jaho, William K. Myers, Kylie A. Vincent, Stephen B. Carr
Jbic Journal Of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 13 May 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s00775-026-02148-x Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Identification and validation of 3-cyano-quinoline ligands targeting integrin-linked kinase (ILK) Francesco Aleksy Greco, Kamal Rayees Abdul Azeez, Marko Mitrović, Saran Aswathaman Sivashanmugam, Martin Peter Schwalm, Franziska Preuss, Deep Chatterjee, Viktoria Morasch, Sebastian Mathea, Thomas Hanke, Susanne Müller, Stefan Knapp
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, May 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c03773 Structural basis of iron piracy by human gut Bacteroides Augustinas Silale, Yung Li Soo, Hannah Mark, Rachel N. Motz, Arnaud Basle, Elizabeth M. Nolan, Bert Van Den Berg
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 123 May 2026 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2528036123 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access ssRNA bacteriophage metagenomes reveal a diverse set of novel protein families Jānis Rūmnieks, Ieva Baltā, Mihails Šišovs, Kaspars Tārs
Protein Science, 35 May 2026 DOI: 10.1002/pro.70582 Crystal structure of HERV-K envelope glycoprotein surface subunit Nikos Nikolopoulos, Yorgo Modis
Journal Of Virology, May 2026 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00195-26 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Nicotine biosynthesis is completed by cryptic activating glucosylation Benjamin T. W. Schwabe, Isabelle M. Angstman, Katharina Vollheyde, Zoe Ingold, Jiacheng Li, Ksenia S. Stankevich, Christopher D. Spicer, Martin A. Fascione, Gideon Grogan, Fernando Geu-Flores, Benjamin R. Lichman
Nature Communications, 17 May 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72705-0 Uridine cytidine kinases govern molnupiravir bioactivation and anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity Huazhang Shu, Julian M. Ludäscher, Sushma Sharma, Seher Alam, Lilian Frank, Emma Scaletti Hutchinson, Marianna Tampere, Chloé Lévêque, André B. P. Van Kuilenburg, Nicholas C. K. Valerie, Mikael Altun, Andrei Chabes, Pal Stenmark, Sean G. Rudd, Si Min Zhang
Plos Pathogens, 22 May 2026 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1014225 Prothrombinase processivity is conferred by substrate allostery Fatma Işık Üstok, Alexandre Faille, Alan J. Warren, James A. Huntington
The Embo Journal, 630 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s44318-026-00782-4 Structure-based design of a novel covalent 4-(1-methylindol-3-yl)pyrimidin-2-amine series targeting FGFR2 resistance mutations Robert L. Hudkins, Eric Allen, Samhita Iyer, Alexandra Balcer, Melissa Neal, Qing Ye, Marc Rideout, Caleb B. Frye, Kirk J. Nelson, Isaac D. Hoffman, Jacqueline H. Starrett, Todd Harris, Ronald V. Swanson, Daniel C. Bensen
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, 69 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6c00514 Pharmacological inhibition of PMS2 induces MMR deficiency and response to immune checkpoint blockade Julian Blagg, Philippe Riou, Alexia Hervieu, Eleonora Piumatti, Maria T. Rodriguez-Plata, Paolo Battuello, Adam Peall, Vito Amodio, Pietro Paolo Vitiello, Daniel J. H. Nightingale, Ruzica Bago, Paige Tongue, Tessa Slater, Kalpesh Parmar, Pradip Patel, Javier Rodríguez González, David E. Clark, Gareth W. Langley, Charles Nichols, Alba Guarne, Paul C. M. Winship, Matthew Baker, Martin Drysdale, Giovanni Germano, Alberto Bardelli
Cancer Discovery, Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-26-0003 Template technology for biocrystallization Zhichun Lin
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Npj Vaccines, 450 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41541-026-01427-7 The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv0132c gene product Mtb-FGD2 can act as an F420-dependent glucose dehydrogenase Adewale V. Aderemi, Matthew Snee, Richard B. Tunnicliffe, Linus O. Johanissen, Matthew J. Cliff, Colin W. Levy, Derren J. Heyes, Marina Golovanova, Thomas A. Jowitt, Sam Hay, Andrew W. Munro, Jonathan P. Waltho, David Leys
Proteins: Structure, Function, And Bioinformatics, 124 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1002/prot.70139 Structural and functional characterization of a hyperthermostable single‐stranded DNA ‐binding protein from a hot spring metagenome Olesia Werbowy, Maria Håkansson, Sebastian Dorawa, Aleksandra Stefańska-Kaźmierczak, L. Anders Svensson, Salam Al-Karadaghi, Agata Jurczak-Kurek, Karolina Kwiatkowska-Semrau, Magdalena Plotka, Olafur H. Fridjonsson, Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson, Arnthór Aevarsson, Sławomir Dąbrowski, Anna‐karina Kaczorowska, Tadeusz Kaczorowski
Protein Science, 35 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1002/pro.70538 Automated molecular design in BRADSHAW, applied to the optimization of ERAP1 inhibitors Robert P. Law, Ian D. Wall, Richard Lonsdale, Ross P. Hryczanek, Daniel Barker, Tim N. Barrett, Rino A. Bit, John J. Coward, Matthew W. Gray, Darren V. S. Green, Callum J. Hall, Ashley P. Hancock, Carl Haslam, David J. Hirst, Heather F. Hryczanek, Jonathan P. Hutchinson, Semra Kitchen, David Marcus, Jared Marklew, Joseph Mason, Nicholas D. Measom, Margarete Neu, Simon Peace, Alex Phillipou, Stephen D. Pickett, Peter Pogány, James Rowedder, Paul Rowland, Paul Scott-Stevens, Gail A. L. Seal, Hester Sheehan, Efstratios Stratikos, Chloe Tayler, Jonathan A. Taylor, Christopher P. Tinworth, Giovanni Vitulli
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c03071 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography The human TIMP-1 unbound structure provides a platform for fragment screening Ahmed Shemy, Jana Van Broeckhoven, Niels Hellings, Arnout Voet
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, 82 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798326001749 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) Discovery and characterization of novel 2-phosphoglycerate kinase and cyclic 2,3-diphosphoglycerate synthase from thermophilic (meta)genomes Stefania Patti, Simone A. De Rose, Michail N. Isupov, Ilya V. Kublanov, Ilaria Magrini Alunno, Sergio Riva, Ivan Bassanini, Eleonora Dore, Christina Stracke, Bettina Siebers, Erica Elisa Ferrandi, Jennifer A. Littlechild, Daniela Monti
Catalysts, 16 Apr 2026 DOI: 10.3390/catal16040305 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access The CRISPR ring nuclease Csx15 oligomerises on cyclic nucleotide binding to regulate antiviral defence Malcolm F. White, Stephen A. Mcmahon, Haotian Chi, Shirley Graham
Biochemical Journal, Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20260019 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life J. Maximilian Fels, Aidan B. Hill, Richard Han, Jasmine M. Garcia, Hugo Bisio, Chantal Abergel, Philip J. Kranzusch, Amy S. Y. Lee
Cell, 189 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.01.008 Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12 ‐binding function Charlea Clarke, Michal Banasik, Rokas Juodeikis, Martin J. Warren, Richard W. Pickersgill
Febs Open Bio, 369 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.70231 Journal Paper I02-Macromolecular Crystallography I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Design, optimization and characterization of a de novo gold hydroaminase Elinor Morris, Boris Lozhkin, Jan Uhrhan, Indrek Kalvet, Sophie Basler, Roman P. Jakob, David Baker, Thomas R. Ward
Acs Catalysis, Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c08100 Crystallographic data for Pyrococcus furiosus dolichylphosphate mannose synthase suggest that the enzyme could flip its glycolipid product Rosaria Gandini, Markus M. Keskitalo, Tom Reichenbach, Dayanand C. Kalyani, Christina Divne
Scientific Reports, 16 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-44343-5 Yeast display technology enables rapid discovery of low-nanomolar macrocyclic peptide inhibitors of human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 Zhanna Romanyuk, Giacomo Bettin, Paul Brear, Sara Linciano, Ylenia Mazzocato, Simone Bonadies, Ilaria Zanotto, Camilla Mazzucco, Alan Monferone, Miguel A. Soler, Gianfranco Pasut, Sara De Martin, Alessandro Scarso, Christian Heinis, Sylvia Rothenberger, Marko Hyvonen, Alessandro Angelini
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, 7 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c02876 Metal-dependent 2-keto-3,6-dideoxy-6-sulfo-gluconate (KDSG) aldolase: decoding the key C-C bond cleaving step in bacterial sulfoglycolysis Arashdeep Kaur, Ruby K. Williams, Shuxin Yang, Mihwa Lee, Niccolay Madiedo Soler, Ethan D. Goddard-Borger, Gideon J. Davies, Mahima Sharma, Spencer J. Williams
Chemistry – A European Journal, 28 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1002/chem.70857 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography Binding of 14-3-3 stabilises recombinant AMPKγ2-containing complexes David Carling, Shu-Yang Chen, Jane Bennett, Naveenan Navaratnam, Rebeca Fiadeiro, Angela Woods, Alex Montoya, Pavel Shliaha, Simone Kunzelmann, Steven A. Howell, Shahid Mehmood, Andrew G. Purkiss, Jon R. Wilson, Steven J. Gamblin
Biochemical Journal, Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20250342 Structural and functional validation of Pseudomonas savastanoi ethylene forming enzymes reveals flexibility in 2-oxoglutarate binding mode and conformation Yihong Sun, Siddhant Dhingra, Mark D. Allen, Ethan S. Z. Cheng, Zhihong Zhang, Christopher J. Schofield, Lennart Brewitz
Chembiochem, 27 Mar 2026 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202500702 An enzyme's metal preference evolves through redox modulation driven by the cofactor’s secondary coordination sphere E. S. Mackenzie, K. M. Sendra, A. Basle, R. Mazgaj, T. E. Kehl-Fie, K. J. Waldron
Molecular Biology And Evolution, Feb 2026 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msag040 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Nucleotide signals coordinate activation and inhibition of bacterial immunity Sonomi Yamaguchi, Samantha G. Fernandez, Douglas R. Wassarman, Marlen Lüders, Frank Schwede, Philip J. Kranzusch
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