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TABLE OF CONTENTS

October 2018 Volume 14, Issue 10

Research Highlights
News & Views
Articles
Amendments & Corrections
 
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Research Highlights

 

PUP up the volume    p903
Caitlin Deane
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0138-9

Cost–benefit analysis    p903
Grant Miura
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0139-8

Fatal chemoattraction    p903
Mirella Bucci
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0140-2

Diversifying bases    p903
Yiyun Song
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0141-1

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News & Views

 

A new target for thalidomide    pp904 - 905
Peter G. Wells
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0134-0

Flipping out the peptide    pp905 - 906
Stephanie Gras
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0133-1

The substrate lends a hand    pp907 - 908
Albert A. Bowers
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0135-z

 
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Articles

 

O-GlcNAc modification of eIF4GI acts as a translational switch in heat shock response    pp909 - 916
Xingqian Zhang, Xin Erica Shu & Shu-Bing Qian
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0120-6

O-GlcNAcylation of translation initiation factor component eIF4GI blocks interactions to poly(A)-binding protein Pab1 to induce disassembly of stress granules, releasing Hsp70-induced mRNAs and leading to translation of protective proteins

 

 

Establishment of the PAR-1 cortical gradient by the aPKC-PRBH circuit    pp917 - 927
Ravikrishna Ramanujam, Ziyin Han, Zhen Zhang, Pakorn Kanchanawong & Fumio Motegi
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0117-1

The asymmetric cortical gradient of PAR-1 is patterned via an integration of its cortical exclusion and stabilization by a circuit consisting of aPKC and the PRBH protein PAR-2.

 

 

Substrate-assisted enzymatic formation of lysinoalanine in duramycin    pp928 - 933
Linna An, Dillon P. Cogan, Claudio D. Navo, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, Satish K. Nair et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0122-4

During the biosynthesis of the lanthipeptide duramycin, DurN catalyzes stereospecific lysinoalanine formation by preorganizing the reactive conformation of the substrate, such that one of the substrate’s own residues serves as the catalytic base.

 

 

T cell receptor cross-reactivity expanded by dramatic peptide–MHC adaptability    pp934 - 942
Timothy P. Riley, Lance M. Hellman, Marvin H. Gee, Juan L. Mendoza, Jesus A. Alonso et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0130-4

Structural analysis shows that cross-reactivity of the T cell receptor DMF5 is governed by adaptability of the peptide antigen, which can undergo TCR-binding-induced frameshifting forcing the peptide C terminus to extend from the MHC-binding groove.

 

 

Nuclear RNR-α antagonizes cell proliferation by directly inhibiting ZRANB3    pp943 - 954
Yuan Fu, Marcus J. C. Long, Somsinee Wisitpitthaya, Huma Inayat, Timothy M. Pierpont et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0113-5

The large subunit of ribonucleotide reductase RNR-α downregulates DNA replication in the nucleus by directly disrupting PCNA and ZRANB3 interactions. RNR-α nuclear entry is regulated by an interplay between IRBIT and importin-α1.

 

 

Post-translational site-selective protein backbone α-deuteration    pp955 - 963
Sébastien R. G. Galan, James R. Wickens, Jitka Dadova, Wai-Lung Ng, Xinglong Zhang et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0128-y

A chemical method for site-selective deuterium exchange at protein backbone α-carbons, involving conversion of cysteine to dehydroalanine and then to deuterated cysteine, is used to explore the mechanism of a model protein bioconjugation reaction.

 

 

A multicolor riboswitch-based platform for imaging of RNA in live mammalian cells    pp964 - 971
Esther Braselmann, Aleksandra J. Wierzba, Jacob T. Polaski, Mikołaj Chromiński, Zachariah E. Holmes et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0103-7

A new riboswitch-based RNA sensor called Riboglow binds to quenched fluorescent probes to induce fluorescence turn-on. Riboglow enables tagging and tracking of mRNA and short noncoding RNAs with different colored fluorophores in live mammalian cells.

 

 

Continuous directed evolution of proteins with improved soluble expression    pp972 - 980
Tina Wang, Ahmed H. Badran, Tony P. Huang & David R. Liu
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0121-5

Through use of a split-intein pIII, soluble expression phage-assisted continuous evolution (SE-PACE) enables two simultaneous positive selections to rapidly evolve proteins with improved expression while maintaining their desired activities.

 

 

SALL4 mediates teratogenicity as a thalidomide-dependent cereblon substrate    pp981 - 987
Mary E. Matyskiela, Suzana Couto, Xinde Zheng, Gang Lu, Julia Hui et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0129-x

Thalidomide-induced degradation of the transcription factor SALL4 in a cereblon-dependent manner provides an explanation for the teratogenic effects.

 

 

Amendments & Corrections

 

Publisher Correction: Evolution of chalcone isomerase from a noncatalytic ancestor    p988
Miriam Kaltenbach, Jason R. Burke, Mirco Dindo, Anna Pabis, Fabian S. Munsberg et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0079-3

Publisher Correction: The Jumonji-C oxygenase JMJD7 catalyzes (3S)-lysyl hydroxylation of TRAFAC GTPases    p988
Suzana Markolovic, Qinqin Zhuang, Sarah E. Wilkins, Charlotte D. Eaton, Martine I. Abboud et al.
doi:10.1038/s41589-018-0104-6

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