Adult neural stem cells (NSCs) in the mouse brain are predominantly quiescent, with activation tightly regulated to balance neurogenesis and stem cell maintenance. Circadian clocks temporally organize...

The T7 bacteriophage deactivates bacterial defence systems through T7K phosphorylation of nearly all host and phage proteins during infection.

Thylakoid membranes are indispensable for oxygenic photosynthesis, yet the mechanisms that protect these membranes from photooxidative damage remai...

Cryo-EM captures FAT10 activation and transfer from UBA6 to E2 UBE2Z, revealing FAT10 monopolises UBA6. Efficient transfer requires E2 engagement of both FAT10 UBL domains, particularly UBL2, and co-o...

Cytoplasmic lattices (CPLs) are filamentous assemblies essential for mammalian embryonic development. They are known to regulate organelle organization, spindle assembly, and protein homeostasis, but ...

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Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a central polymer of gene expression, whose ultrastructure and defining regulatory rules remain unclear. To visualize the ultrastructure of mRNA, we here develop Combi-PAINT, a...

Noboru Mizushima is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where he runs a laboratory studying the mechanisms and physiological functions of autophagy and o...

Cas12a2 enables RNA-triggered, sequence-specific killing of eukaryotic cells via widespread DNA shredding, allowing selective elimination of cells on the basis of gene expression, including virus-infe...

The ability of Salmonella Typhimurium to exploit macrophages as a niche for survival, replication, and dissemination is central to its pathogenesis. T…

General and regulatory proteolysis in bacteria is executed by a set of ATP-dependent proteases composed of hexameric ring-forming AAA+ proteins and associated peptidase barrels (e.g. ClpP). These AAA+...

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Hepatitis D-like satellite viruses, known as deltaviruses, have been recently discovered in a wide range of animals. These viruses are thought to expr…

IMPRS-LM stands for International Max Planck Research School for Living Matter. We are interested in the molecular, chemical and physical properties

Polymerization-inducing chimeras are a novel bifunctional modality that uses protein symmetry to sequester targets by forming insoluble supramolecular assemblies. This approach overcomes reliance on a...

Nuclear protein homeostasis relies on proteasome import into the nucleus. Here the authors identify how assembled human proteasomes are transported across the nuclear pore complex and reveal a mechani...

Ruslan Medzhitov shares his thoughts on the balance between generating data and developing theories in immunology, with a focus on exploring the rules that govern complex systems.

A combination of biochemical, cell biological and electron microscopy analyses reveal a ‘nucleotide code’ that coordinates Lis1–dynein binding stoichiometry, which in turn governs Lis1’s ability to re...

Single-particle tracking experiments in intact cells reveal dynamic co- and post-translational interactions of the TRiC–PFD chaperonin complex with client proteins during in vivo protein folding.

Phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate is a ligand of STING and, together with cGAMP, induces STING activation and innate immune responses.

Large oligomeric proteins constitute a major fraction of proteomes, but are difficult to refold in vitro, raising the question of how cells direct their biogenesis. Roeselová and Shivakumaraswamy et a...

Lipid droplets have key roles in energy storage and lipid metabolism. This Review discusses tools used for assessing lipid droplet heterogeneity, and how their heterogeneous composition and interactio...

In eukaryotic nuclei, transcription is associated with the clustering of RNA Polymerase II (RNAPII) molecules. The mechanisms underlying cluster formation, their interactions with genes, and their imp...

Conformational biasing (CB) is a rapid and streamlined computational method that uses contrastive scoring by inverse folding models to predict protein variants biased toward desired conformational sta...