Highlights of the Month

Special Event - PSB Seminar Prof. Ruedi Aebersold, Wednesday, February 13, 11 am Chadwick Amphitheatre, ILL

CrystalDirect: a new method for automated crystal harvesting based on laser-induced photoablation of thin films.

By F. Cipriani, M. Röwer, C. Landret, U. Zander, F. Felisaz and J. A. Márquez.
 Acta Cryst. Section D. PMID:22993093

MSL1-mediated dimerization of the dosage compensation complex is essential for male X-chromosome regulation in Drosophila.

By Hallacli, E., Lipp, M., Georgiev, P., Spielman, C., Cusack, S., Akhtar, A. and Kadlec, J.
 Mol Cell. PMID: 23084835

GFP-like phototransformation mechanisms in the cytotoxic fluorescent protein KillerRed unraveled by structural and spectroscopic investigations.

By Eve de Rosny and Philippe Carpentier. - JACS PMID:23025285

Near-atomic resolution neutron crystallography on perdeuterated Pyrococcus furiosus rubredoxin implicates hydronium ions and protonation state equilibria in redox changes

By M.G. Cuypers,b, S.A. Mason, M. P. Blakeley, E.P. Mitchell, M. Haertlein, V.T. Forsyth. - Angewandte Chemie. PMID: xxxxxxxx

Structural Basis for Prereceptor Modulation of Plant Hormones by GH3 Proteins.

By Westfall CS, Zubieta C, Herrmann J, Kapp U, Nanao MH, Jez JM.
 Science. PMID: 22628555

Highlight from the ESRF Structural Biology Beamlines

Agonist-bound adenosine A2A receptor structures reveal common features of GPCR activation By Lebon G., Warne T., Edwards PC, Bennett K., Langmead CJ., Leslie AGW. & Tate C.G.
 Nature PMID:21593763
 Data were collected at the ESRF (ID23-2).