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Nature Catalysis, 8 Nov 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-025-01436-0 Potent preorganized pyrazolidine cyclophilin D inhibitors prevent mitochondrial and organ injury in a mouse pancreatitis disease model Robert Sutton, Paul M. O'Neill, Muhammad Awais, Christopher M. Woodley, Liqun Guo, Michael Rogerson, Neil Kershaw, Thomas Zacharchenko, Emma Shore, Arjun Kattakayam, Rajarshi Mukherjee, David N. Criddle, Suet C. Leung, Heather Lee, Joshua Burgess-Mccann, Konstantin Luzyanin, Neil G. Berry, Svetlana Antonyuk, Lu-Yun Lian
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Chemical Communications, 3 Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5CC05103G Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography Chromophore charge-state switching through copper-dependent homodimerisation of an engineered green fluorescent protein Rochelle D. Ahmed, Danoo Vitsupakorn, Kieran D. Hartwell, Karma Albalawi, Pierre J. Rizkallah, Peter Watson, D. Dafydd Jones
Chemical Science, Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5SC06589E Folding-mediated secretion of pure bispecific antibodies Cholpon Tilegenova, Tun Liu, Qian Zhao, Mahati Are, Yu Zhao, Woo Suk Choi, Anusarka Bhaumik, Ruth Steele, Nicholas A. Manieri, Bengi Turegun, Alex Ni, Rosa M. F. Cardoso, Paul Shaffer, Desmond Clark, Robin Ernst, Wenyu Li, Tracy Taylor, Suresh Kumar Swaminathan, Bhargavi Ramaraju, Kevin Liaw, Steven A. Jacobs, Sujata Sharma, Wan Cheung Cheung, Adam Zwolak
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Rsc Chemical Biology, Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5CB00205B AI-assisted delivery of novel covalent WRN inhibitors from a non-covalent fragment screen Geoffrey M. T. Smith, Laksh Aithani, Charlotte E. Barrett, Alwin O. Bucher, Christopher D. O. Cooper, Sébastien L. Degorce, Andrew Dore, Catherine T. Fletcher, Sophie Huber, Rosemary Huckvale, Amanda J. Kennedy, Abigail A. Mornement, Mark Pickworth, Prakash Rucktooa, Conor C. G. Scully, Sarah E. Skerratt
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 131 Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2025.130421 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) Signal-strapping as a protein-sequence search method for the discovery of metalloproteins Joao Paulo L. Franco Cairo, Thamy L. R. Correa, Wendy A. Offen, Alison K. Nairn, Julia Walton, Sean T. Sweeney, Gideon J. Davies, Paul H. Walton
Nature Communications, 16 Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64309-x Nucleobase catalysts for the enzymatic activation of 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase 1 Emily C. Hank, Nicholas D. D'Arcy-Evans, Emma R. Scaletti, Carlos Benítez-Buelga, Olov Wallner, Florian Ortis, Kaixin Zhou, Liuzhen Meng, Alicia Del Prado, Patricia Calvo, Ingrid Almlöf, Elisée Wiita, Karen Nierlin, Sara Kosenina, Andreas Krämer, Alice Eddershaw, Mario Kehler, Maeve Long, Ann-Sofie Jemth, Holly Dawson, Josephine Stewart, Adam Dickey, Mikhael E. Astorga, Marek Varga, Evert J. Homan, Martin Scobie, Stefan Knapp, Leandro Sastre, Pal Stenmark, Miguel De Vega, Thomas Helleday, Maurice Michel
Rsc Chemical Biology, Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D4CB00323C Probing the molecular determinants of Ty1 retrotransposon restriction specificity in yeast Sean L. Beckwith, Matthew A. Cottee, J. Adam Hannon-Hatfield, Abigail C. Newman, Emma C. Walker, Justin R. Romero, Jonathan P. Stoye, Ian A. Taylor, David J. Garfinkel
Plos Genetics, 21 Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011898 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Exploiting the cryptic αd pocket of casein kinase 2α (CK2α) to deliver highly potent and selective Type 1 inhibitors Paul A. Glossop, Paul Brear, Susanne Wright, Neil Flanagan, Melanie S. Glossop, Charlotte A. L. Lane, Richard P. Butt, David R. Spring, Marko Hyvonen, Darren Cawkill
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c01807 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Fast-feedback for unattended data collection at Diamond Light Source Nicholas Devenish, James Beilsten-Edmands, Dimitrios Vlachos
Oct 2025 DOI: 10.1063/4.0000946 Coxsackie B1 virus-like particle vaccine modified to exclude a highly conserved immunoreactive region from the capsid induces potent neutralizing antibodies and protects against infection in mice Saana Soppela, Martín González-Rodríguez, Virginia M. Stone, Iiris Mustonen, Niila V. V. Jouppila, Vili Lampinen, Teemu Haikarainen, Malin Flodström-Tullberg, Ilkka S. Junttila, Minna M. Hankaniemi
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Pest Management Science, 148 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1002/ps.70199 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Mechanistic basis for inhibition of the extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase GES‐1 by enmetazobactam and tazobactam Michael Beer, Philip Hinchliffe, Marko Hanževački, Christopher R. Bethel, Catherine L. Tooke, Marc W. Van Der Kamp, Krisztina M. Papp‐wallace, Robert A. Bonomo, Stuart Shapiro, Adrian J. Mulholland, James Spencer
Febs Letters, 3 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.70155 Strategic fluorination to achieve a potent, selective, metabolically stable, and orally bioavailable inhibitor of CSNK2 Han Wee Ong, Xuan Yang, Jeffery L. Smith, Sharon Taft-Benz, Stefanie Howell, Rebekah J. Dickmander, Tammy M. Havener, Marcia K. Sanders, Jason W. Brown, Rafael M. Counago, Edcon Chang, Andreas Kramer, Nathaniel J. Moorman, Mark Heise, Alison D. Axtman, David H. Drewry, Timothy M. Willson
Molecules, 29 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29174158 Design of 2-aminobenzothiazole derivatives targeting trypanosomatid PTR1 by a multidisciplinary fragment hybridization approach Joanna Panecka-Hofman, Pasquale Linciano, Ina Pöhner, Edyta Dyguda-Kazimierowicz, Wiktoria Jedwabny, Giacomo Landi, Nuno Santarem, Gesa Witt, Bernhard Ellinger, Maria Kuzikov, Rosaria Luciani, Stefania Ferrari, Daniele Aiello, Stefano Mangani, Cecilia Pozzi, Anabela Cordeiro-Da-Silva, Sheraz Gul, Maria Paola Costi, Rebecca C. Wade
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, 51 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c01799 Itaconate utilisation by the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa requires uptake via the IctPQM TRAP transporter Javeria Mehboob, Reyme Herman, Rory C. Elston, Heritage Afolabi, Bethan E. Kinniment-Williams, Marjan W. Van Der Woude, Anthony J. Wilkinson, Gavin H. Thomas
Biochemical Journal, 482 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20253132 Discovery of selective and orally bioavailable heterobifunctional degraders of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 Philip N. Collier, Xiaozhang Zheng, Melissa Ford, Matthew Weiss, Dapeng Chen, Kunhua Li, Joseph D. Growney, Annan Yang, Murugappan Sathappa, Susanne B. Breitkopf, Brad Enerson, Tong Liang, Atanu Paul, Rupa Sawant, Lijing Su, Robert J. Aversa, Charles Howarth, Kirti Sharma, Juliet Williams, Nicholas P. Kwiatkowski
Journal Of Medicinal Chemistry, 68 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c01160 Structure of the human non-muscle myosin 2A motor domain: insights into isoform-specific mechanochemistry Robin S. Heiringhoff, Johannes N. Greve, Michael Zahn, Dietmar J. Manstein
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Plant Science, 66 Sept 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2025.112768 Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance Daniel Rozbesky
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Rsc Medicinal Chemistry, 76 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5MD00440C Development of a highly active engineered PETase enzyme for polyester degradation Shapla Bhattacharya, Rossella Castagna, Hajar Estiri, Toms Upmanis, Andrea Ricci, Alfonso Gautieri, Emilio Parisini
The Febs Journal, 371 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1111/febs.70228 Functional and structural insights into a thermostable (S)-selective amine transaminase and its improved substrate scope by protein engineering Stefania Patti, Simone A. De Rose, Michail N. Isupov, Ilaria Magrini Alunno, Sergio Riva, Erica Elisa Ferrandi, Jennifer A. Littlechild, Daniela Monti
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Chemical Science, Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5SC05576H Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Nanobodies restore stability to cancer-associated mutants of tumor suppressor protein p16INK4a Owen Burbidge, Martyna W. Pastok, Diana Papini, Samantha L. Hodder, Grasilda Zenkevičiūtė, Kenneth Z. J. Tan, Shannon Turberville, Martin E. M. Noble, Jane A. Endicott, Laura Itzhaki
Structure, 366 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2025.07.017 Potassium binding by carbonyl clusters, halophilic adaptation and catalysis of Haloferax mediterranei D-2-hydroxyacid dehydrogenase Jessica Domenech, Nuttawan Pramanpol, Claudine Bisson, Sveta E. Sedelnikova, Joshua R. Barrett, Abdul A. A. B. Dakhil, Vitaliy Mykhaylyk, Ali S. Abdelhameed, Stephen E. Harding, David W. Rice, Patrick J. Baker, Juan Ferrer
Communications Biology, 8 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08587-7 Journal Paper I02-Macromolecular Crystallography I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I23-Long wavelength MX open access Electrostatic interactions influence diazabicyclooctane inhibitor potency against OXA-48-like β-lactamases Joseph F. Hoff, Kirsty E. Goudar, Karina Calvopina, Michael Beer, Philip Hinchliffe, John M. Shaw, Catherine L. Tooke, Yuiko Takebayashi, Andrew F. Cadzow, Nicholas Harmer, Adrian J. Mulholland, Christopher J. Schofield, James Spencer
Rsc Medicinal Chemistry, Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1039/D5MD00512D Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography I24-Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography open access Crystallographic fragment screening of CDK2-cyclin A: FragLites map sites of protein-protein interaction Ian Hope, Mathew P. Martin, Ziwei Jiang, Michael J. Waring, Martin E. M. Noble, Jane A. Endicott, Natalie J. Tatum
Structure, 15 Aug 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2025.07.016 Barrel expansion of outer membrane protein G nanopore through β‐hairpin duplication Joshua C. Foster, Bach Pham, Ryan Pham, Patrick Ryan, Nhu Tong, Jacqueline Sharp, Satomi Inoue, Jie Liang, Konstantinos Beis, Min Chen
Protein Science, 34 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1002/pro.70203 A CD1c lipid agnostic T cell receptor bispecific engager redirects T cells against CD1c+ cells Rita Szoke-Kovacs, Sophie Khakoo, Victor Lopes Rangel, Pietro Della Cristina, Johanne Pentier, Rahul Khanolkar, Sam El-Ajouz, Robert Simmons, David K. Cole, Peter Gogolak, Mariolina Salio, Vijaykumar Karuppiah
Frontiers In Immunology, 16 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1614610 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Convergent evolution of distinct D-ribulose utilisation pathways in attaching and effacing pathogens Curtis Cottam, Kieran Bowran, Rhys T. White, Arnaud Basle, Inokentijs Josts, James P. R. Connolly
Nature Communications, 16 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62476-5 Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1–5 Muhammad Saleem, Chan Li, Bubacarr G. Kaira, Alexander K. Brown, Monika Pathak, Shabir Najmudin, Nathan Cowieson, Ingrid Dreveny, Clare Wilson, Aleksandr Shamanaev, David Gailani, Stephanie A. Smith, James H. Morrissey, Helen Philippou, Jonas Emsley
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, 81 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325005297 Journal Paper B21-High Throughput SAXS I03-Macromolecular Crystallography open access Structures of “Tyrosine-IRED” IR91 from Kribbella flavida in complex with a reductive amination substrate and product Krishnan Srinivas, Amelia K. Gilio, Mahima Sharma, Lawrence Green, Alexander Ascham, Jack Domenech, Balázs Pogrányi, Jiacheng Li, Scott P. France, Russell D. Lewis, William P. Unsworth, Gideon Grogan
Chembiochem, 22 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202500450 Journal Paper I03-Macromolecular Crystallography I04-1-Macromolecular Crystallography (fixed wavelength) Directed evolution of α-ketoisovalerate decarboxylase for improved isobutanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol production in cyanobacteria Hao Xie, Afshan Begum, Laura H. Gunn, Peter Lindblad
Biotechnology For Biofuels And Bioproducts, 18 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-025-02687-6 Structural and functional insights of ZnT1 C-terminal domain as a regulator of zinc transport Tomer Eli Ben Yosef, Itamar Kass, Anat Shahar, Ekaterina Eremenko, Alon Monsonego, Daniel Gitler, Arie Moran, Raz Zarivach
Scientific Reports, 15 Jul 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-07351-5 Crystal structure analysis of oxygen-induced degradation occurring in rsCherry Thi Yen Hang Bui, Ludovic Pecqueur, Peter Dedecker, Luc Van Meervelt
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