In viruses, multi-subunit ring-ATPases are involved in genome packaging. Here, using single-molecule techniques, the authors determine that the active bacteriophage T4 DNA packaging motor is a pentamer and show that the motor can tolerate inactive subunits, suggesting that strict coordination between the subunits is not crucial.
Nature Communications – Cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) have tunable optical properties under an external field, but these properties revert once the field is removed.…
Nature Communications – Highly renewable energy systems, built on wind, solar PV, and sectoral integration, can handle year-to-year weather variability while ensuring resource adequacy and…
Nature Communications – The tourism carbon footprint grew 2.3 times faster than the rest of the economy, reaching nearly 9% of global emissions by 2019.…
Nature Communications – Androgen response elements (AREs) regulation produce opposite effects in normal and cancer prostate cells. Here, authors engineer a modifier of ARE-containing chromatin…
Nature Communications – 33% of the world’s sandy coastlines are hardened by human-made structures, hindering natural retreat as sea levels rise. By 2100, up to…
Nature Communications – Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma that affects the skin. Here authors show that CDK9 degradation of…
Nature Communications – Adhesion GPCRs play a key role in cellular communication. Here, the authors use cryo-EM and single-molecule FRET to map the conformational changes…
Nature Communications – tRNA modifications are vital for their function in protein synthesis, one of the most central processes in all living cells. Here the…
Nature Communications – Working on human asparagine synthetase, Coricello et al show that combining 3D variability analysis (3DVA) of cryo-EM data with MD simulations is…
Nature Communications – De novo [2Fe-2S] cluster synthesis by the mitochondrial ISC complex requires electrons from ferredoxin-2 (FDX2). The authors map FDX2 binding to the…
