Newsletter 548 (August 3, 2026) NIH Structural Biology Methods SIG

JULY 2026 PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE GROUP

1: None None, Razo C, DeCleene NK, Johnson CO, Stark BA, LeGrand K, Aalruz H, Abaraogu UO, Abd ElHafeez S, Abdelmasseh M, Abdelnabi M, Abd-Elsalam S, Abdelsalam Elshenawy R, Abdelwahab SI, Abdolizadeh A, Abdollahi A, Abdoun M, Abdrabou MM, Abdulah DM, Abdullahi A, Abdul-Rahman T, Abebe MS, Abebe Getahun H, Abiodun OO, Abiodun O, Abohashem S, Abonie US, Abourashed NM, Abramov D, Abrar MM, Abtahi D, Abu Farha RK, Abubakar B, Abuhelwa AY, Abukhadijah HJ, Aburuz S, Abushanab D, Adams LC, Adamu NLL, Adane MM, Addo IY, Adedokun KA, Adegbile OE, Adegoke NA, Adekola SA, Adeleke OT, Adesina MA, Adisu MA, Adnan M, Afoakwah C, Afolabi AA, Afrashteh F, Afrifa-Yamoah E, Afzal S, Agordoh PD, Agyemang-Duah W, Ahmad A, Ahmad K, Ahmad S, Ahmad S, Ahmed A, Ahmed GS, Ahmed LA, Ahmed MS, Ahmed MS, Ahmed MSA, Ahmed M, Ahmed N, Ahmed SA, Ahmed Z, Aiyer A, Ajami M, Akalanka KHM, Akhtar MN, Akindele MO, Akkaif MA, Akrami AE, Akyea RK, Al Hasan SM, Al Zoubi MAM, Alahdab F, Al-Ahmad MM, Alajajian S, Alajlani MM, Alalwan TA, Al-Aly Z, Al-Amri IS, Alanzi TM, Alarifi A, Al-Ashwal FY, Al-Azayzih A, Al-Azzam S, Al-Bashaireh AM, Albashtawy M, Al-Dewik N, Aleidi SM, Algahtani FD, Algammal AM, Alhabib KF, Alhalaiqa FN, Ali A, Ali A, Ali BR, Ali MD, Ali MU, Ali R, Ali SS, Al-Iede M, Alif SM, Alipour M, Al-Jabi SW, Aljunid SM, Alkhatib MH, Alkubati SA, Allawi RH, Allemailem KS, Allouh MZ, Almagharbeh WT, Almahmeed W, Al-Marwani S, Almazan JU, Alnaeem MM, Alniss HY, Alomari MA, Alotaibi HFF, Alqahtani SA, AlQudah M, Alqudimat MR, Al-Qudimat AR, Al-Raddadi RM, Alrimawi I, Alrousan SM, Alsbou M, Alshahrani NZ, Al-Shami AS, Altaany Z, Altaf A, Althobiani MA, Altwalbeh D, Alwafi H, Al-Worafi YM, Aly H, Al-Zalabani AH, Alzoubi A, Alzoubi KH, Al-Zubairi AS, Amafah J, Mohammadi MA, Amin A, Amini S, Amini-Salehi E, Amusa GA, Ananda RA, Ancuceanu R, Ang SP, Anieto EM, Anil A, Anjana P, Anuoluwa BS, Anvari S, Anwar SL, Anyasodor AE, Appati W, Arabloo J, Arafa EA, Arafat M, Aravkin AY, Areda D, Arefnezhad R, Aregawi BB, Arias de la Torre J, Aripov T, Arockiaraj J, de Arruda GA, Asdaq SMB, Asghari-Jafarabadi M, Ashraf S, Ashraf SA, Ashraf T, Asiamah-Asare BKY, Atac O, Athar M, Athari SS, Atorkey P, Aurangzeb K, Awan SJ, Awan UA, Awol KLL, Awotidebe AW, Ayala CO, Ayli BI, Azad AKM, Azarboo A, Aziz SA, Azzam AY, Azzolino D, Babiker R, Babu AS, Babu GR, Badar M, Badiye AD, Badran AA, Baghlaf KK, Baig AA, Bakhshali MA, Balabekova M, Balakrishnan S, Baltatu OC, Banach M, Banik PC, Barqawi HJ, Barrow A, Barua L, Bashir MI, Bashir S, Bashiri A, Bastan MM, Bayat M, Bayih MT, Beeraka NM, Begum T, Behera P, Behera SM, Behnam B, Bejarano Ramirez DF, Belayneh M, Bello AB, Belo L, Berihun AA, Bhaskar S, Bhattacharjee P, Bhatti GK, Bhatti JS, Biswas A, Biswas B, Bizzozero-Peroni B, Bodur M, Bogale SK, Bohn L, Boloor A, Bolourinejad P, Bonny A, Botero Carvajal A, Bouaoud S, Boudalia S, Britton G, Bugiardini R, Busch F, Bustanji Y, Butt ZA, Campos LA, Cao Y, Catapano AL, Cegolon L, Cembranel F, Cenko E, Cerin E, Chadwick J, Chakraborty C, Chandika RM, Chandrasekar EK, Chandrasekaran B, Chattu VK, Chau LD, Chaudhary AA, Chaudhuri S, Cheema AAA, Chen AT, Chen H, Chen H, Cheng H, Cheung KC, Chew NWS, Chi G, Chichagi F, Ching PR, Cho WCS, Choi DW, Chong B, Chopra D, Chopra H, Chopra S, Choudhari SG, Chu DT, Chukwu CW, Chung SC, Chung S, Cicero AFG, Cosma C, Criqui MH, Cruz-Martins N, Dadras O, Dahabiyeh L, Dahal Khatri B, Dai X, Dai Z, Dalakoti M, D'Amico E, Damtie ET, Dandona L, Dandona R, D'Anna L, Danpanichkul P, Darcho SD, Dardas LA, Das SK, Davletov D, Davletov K, Dejenie TA, Del Bo' C, Delgado-Enciso I, Denova-Gutiérrez E, Dergaa I, Derseh HA, Derviševic E, Desale AT, Devanbu VGC, Devegowda D, Dewan SMR, Dhali A, Dhimal M, Dhungel B, Dias da Silva D, Didehvar K, Ding X, Do TC, Do THP, Dohare S, Dong D, D'Oria M, Dorostkar F, Doshi OP, Doshi RP, Dourado PMM, Dowou RK, Dresse MT, Du M, Duncan BB, Duraes AR, Ebohon O, Ebraheim LLM, Edeh C, Eftekhari B, Sedeh AE, Ekholuenetale M, El Arab RA, Eladl MA, Eldaboush A, El-Dahiyat F, Elgendy IY, Elhadi M, Elhoumed M, El-Huneidi W, Elmeligy OAA, Elmonem MA, Elmoselhi AB, Elnaem MH, Eltahawy AS, Etaee F, Fabin N, Fadaka AO, Fagbamigbe AF, Fakhradiyev IR, Fakorede S, Farasani A, Fareed M, Farhana A, Faris MEM, Farsi F, Fatima Z, Fayaz M, Fazylov T, Fekadu G, Fernandez-Jimenez R, Ferreira N, Fischer F, Fogacci F, Fonzo M, Foschi M, Gadanya MA, Gajdács M, Galali Y, Ganesan B, Ganesh B, Gangachannaiah S, Gao D, Garcia-Azorin D, Garg P, Gasevic D, Gautam RK, Gaye B, Gebresilassie MH, Getacher L, Gete KY, Ghadirian F, Ghaffari K, Ghaffari Jolfayi A, Ghamkhar A, Gharaibeh L, Ghasemi M, Ghazy RM, Ghimire S, Ghith N, Gil AU, Gilani SA, Gill PS, Gnedovskaya EV, Goh LH, Gohari K, Gohil MN, Golechha M, Goleij P, Golmohammadi M, Goulart AC, Goyal A, Grada A, Grover A, Gu L, Gubari MIM, Gufue ZH, Guha A, Gunawardane DA, Guo Z, Gupta R, Gupta S, Gurgoglione FL, Guzman-Esquivel J, Guzmán-Muñoz E, Haghtalab A, Nam NH, Hailu KT, Halder P, Hamdy NM, Hamidi H, Hamidi S, Hammad EA, Hamoudi R, Hanif A, Hanifi N, Hankey GJ, Harsini S, Hartmann P, Hasan I, Hashempur MH, Hasnain MS, Hassan A, Hassan IN, Hassan I, Hassan N, Hassan TS, Hassan Ahmed O, Hayat K, Hebert JJ, Helmy YA, Hezam K, Hiraike Y, Holla R, Hoseinzadeh M, Hostiuc M, Hostiuc S, Hotwani P, Htay MNN, Hu Y, Huang J, Huang YS, Hushmandi K, Hussein D, Hussein MA, Hwang BF, Ibitoye SE, Ibrahim IA, Ibrahim KS, Ibrayeva A, Ikiroma A, Ikram J, Ilesanmi OS, Ilic IM, Ilic MD, Imam MT, Imani M, Imodoye SO, Imoh LC, Inbaraj LR, Ionescu AI, Ionescu RT, Iqhrammullah M, Irham LM, Ishaqui AA, Islek D, Ismail NE, Ismoldayev Y, Isola G, Iwagami M, Iyer M, Izquierdo-Condoy JSS, Jacob J, Jafari-Khounigh A, Jahanshahi A, Jahrami H, Jakovljevic M, Jamal A, Jamali N, Jamaluddin J, James J, Jamshidi M, Jansen R, Jarrahi E, Javaid SS, Jawaid T, Jayasinghe YA, Jebasingh FK, Jemal M, Jeong S, Jeswani BM, Ji Z, Jibat NT, Jin W, Jokar M, Joo T, Joseph AP, Joseph MA, Joseph N, Raj JVSJM, Joshi K, Joshua CE, Jung SH, Jürisson M, K V, Kadir DHH, Kahe F, Kakkar AK, Kalani R, Kalavani K, Kalra S, Kamenova S, Kamorudeen RT, Kamyshnyi O, Kanaan SF, Kanmodi KK, Kansal S, Kantar RS, Kapoor N, Kar D, Karajizadeh M, Karakasis P, Karasneh RA, Karimi A, Karimi Behnagh A, Karun S, Kashoo FZ, Kashyap MK, Kausar MA, Kazemian S, Kebede YT, Kesse-Guyot E, Khademi R, Khader YS, Khajuria H, Khaleel A, Khalid N, Khalid S, Khalil AA, Khalili A, Khalili P, Khan A, Khan M, Khan MAS, Khan MI, Khan MAB, Khan MH, Khan S, Khan S, Khan YS, Khasbage SU, Khatatbeh MM, Kheirallah KA, Khoshvaght S, Khosla P, Khosravi S, Kim HJ, Kim K, Kimokoti RW, Kisa A, Kishore L, Kivimäki M, Kokkorakis M, Kolahi AA, Kompani F, Kondybayeva A, Korzh O, Kostev K, Koulmane Laxminarayana SL, Krishan K, Kua CH, Kuddus M, Kulimbet M, Kulkarni V, Kumar C, Kumar D, Kumar GA, Kumar J, Kumar L, Kumar N, Kumar SK, Kundu A, Kundu S, Kunutsor SK, Kurniasari MD, Kurpad KP, Kusuma D, Kytö V, Lahariya C, Lai DTC, Lai H, Lajunen T, Lakanova B, Lallukka T, Lantos T, Larebo YM, Larsson AO, Lasrado S, Le DT, Le TTT, Le T, Le TTB, Ledda C, Lee H, Lee H, Lee SW, Lee SV, Lee SW, Lee WC, Leivaditis V, Lema GK, Lemma DA, Lenjisa J, Lewis MS, Li C, Li MC, Li Q, Li S, Li X, Li Y, Lim LL, Lindholm D, Liu H, Liu X, Liu X, Liu Y, Livingstone KM, Llanaj E, Lodhi MS, Lokunarangoda NC, López-Gil JF, Lorkowski S, Lucchetti G, Lui PPY, Luo P, Lv L, Lytvyak E, M Amin HI, Ma KS, Mabrok M, Machoy-Rakoczy M, Madinehzad SA, Maffia P, Magaña Gómez JA, Mahalleh M, Mahmood NH, Malik AA, Malik MZ, Malik T, Malta DC, Mamand DR, Maniya MT, Mannethodi K, Mansoor F, Mansourian M, Manzoor S, Maqsood K, Marateb HR, Marghani BH, Marino M, Martinez-Piedra R, Martini D, Martini S, Martorell M, März W, Marzouk S, Masi S, Masrouri S, Mathur N, Matozinhos FP, Mattiello R, Maude RJ, Mavrovounis G, McPhail SM, Mehto S, Meles HN, Mendoza W, Menezes GA, Menezes RG, Mengistie EA, Menon TP, Mensah GA, Merlino G, Mestrovic T, Mettananda CDK, Mettananda S, Metwally MMM, Miao Jonasson J, Mikrajab MAN, Minhas AMK, Mirrakhimov EM, Mitra S, Mitra T, Mittal M, Modi D, Mohamed MG, Mohamed NS, Mohamed Ahmed KAH, Mohammad AM, Mohammad T, Mohammadi A, Mohammadi M, Mohammadi S, Mohammadian-Hafshejani A, Mohammed O, Mohan S, Mohsen Y, Molla TS, Molokhia M, Monazzami A, Moni MA, Montazeri Namin S, Moodi Ghalibaf A, Morovvati M, Mosaddeghi Heris R, Motappa R, Mousavi SA, Mousavi Kiasary SMS, Mozafar M, Mozahheb Yousefi K, Mubarik S, Muhammad JS, Munkhsaikhan Y, Munshi A, Musa S, Muthu S, Mwita JC, Myung W, Nabipoorashrafi S, Nagarajan AJ, Naik GR, Naik H, Nainu F, Nargus S, Nartey Y, Nasrollahizadeh A, Nassar M, Natto ZS, Nauman J, Naureen Z, Navaratna SNK, Nawaiseh HK, Nayak BP, Nayak VC, Nazari M, Ndakotsu AK, Nega AT, Nega MH, Negash AA, Negoi I, Nejad Shahrokh Abadi R, Nematollahi MH, Nguyen CD, Nguyen CT, Nguyen HTH, Nguyen NP, Nguyen PT, Nguyen VT, Niazi RK, Nieddu L, Nketia R, Nomura S, Noreen M, Nawsherwan None, Noubiap JJ, Nri-Ezedi CA, Ntsekhe M, Nugen F, Nur A, Oancea B, Odat RM, Oddi FM, Odediji SA, Ogunmodede OS, Oh IH, Ojedoyin OO, Ojo OA, Okati-Aliabad H, Okekunle AP, Okonji OC, Oliveira GMM, Olorukooba AA, Ong QC, Ordak M, Orru H, Orscelik A, Ortiz A, Ortiz-Prado E, Osborne A, Osei GN, Ostrominski JW, Osuagwu UL, Oumer A, Ouyahia A, Owolabi MO, Oyebola K, Ozsahin I, Padukudru Anand M, Padron-Monedero A, Padubidri JR, Palicz T, Panda SK, Pandi-Perumal SR, Panos GD, Papa MV, Papadimopoulos I, Pardhan S, Parija PP, Parikh RR, Pascucci E, Pasovic M, Passera R, Patel KN, Patel M, Patel NN, Patel NR, Patel S, Patil A, Patil S, Patoulias D, Pattnaik S, Pazoki Toroudi H, Pekarcikova J, Peprah P, Pereira G, Perico N, Perna S, Petermann-Rocha F, Pirera E, Pirnejad H, Plotnikov E, Poddighe D, Poluru R, Porntaveetus T, Pradhan PMS, Prasad M, Prashant A, Prates EJS, Pugliese NR, Puvvula J, Qi X, Qiu JY, Qureshi A, Radhakrishnan V, Raghav P, Raghav YSR, Raghuveer P, Rahamon SK, Rahim F, Rahim HM, Rahimi S, Rahman FM, Rahman MM, Rahman MHU, Rahman M, Rahman MA, Raj JP, Raja A, Rajendran J, Rajput P, Ramadan MM, Ramasamy C, Ramasamy SK, Rao AG, Rao M, Rao SJ, Rashedi V, Rasouli-Saravani A, Rath S, Rathi I, Rathish D, Rauniyar SK, Rawaf DL, Rawaf S, Rawassizadeh R, Ray A, Reddy MMRK, Redwan EM, Rehman NU, Remuzzi G, Rezaei M, Rezaei N, Rezaeian M, Rodriguez JAB, Roever L, Romadlon DS, Romoli M, Rony MKK, Ross AGP, Roy S, Roy S, Rubeshkumar P, Russo M, Rwegerera GM, Saad AMA, Saber-Ayad MM, Sabet CJ, Sadarangani KP, Sadat Rafiei SK, Saddique MN, Sadee BA, Sadeghi E, Sadeghi E, Sadeghi M, Sadek B, Sadek M, Sadr H, Saeb MR, Saeed M, Saeed U, Saeedi M, Safiullah M, Saghazadeh A, Sagoe D, Sah AK, Sharif-Askari FS, Sahebkar A, Sajadi SM, Sajid MR, Saki M, Sakshaug JW, Salami AA, Saleem RSZ, Saleh MA, Salehi M, Salihu AT, Salimi S, Samargandy S, Samodra YL, Samy AM, Saravanan A, Sarfo JO, Sarmadi M, Sarode GS, Sarode SC, Sarrafzadegan N, Sassano M, Sathian B, Sathya Narayanan MK, Savabi Far M, Schlaich MP, Schuermans A, Schwarz G, Sejben A, Selvaraj S, Semreen MH, Senol YC, Serban D, Sessa F, Sethi Y, Setiawan CH, Sewor C, Seylani A, Shahid S, Shahini E, Shahrahmani F, Shahwan MJ, Sham S, Shamim MA, Shamsi A, Shan D, Shanawaz M, Shannawaz M, Sharif N, Sharifan A, Sharma BK, Sharma B, Sharma K, Sharma M, Sharma RK, Sharma U, Sharma V, Shastry S, Shehzadi S, Sheidaei A, Shenoy RR, Shetty M, Shetty PH, Shi F, Shi HZ, Shi Y, Shimels T, Shiri R, Shittu A, Shiue I, Shoaib A, Shool S, Shorofi SA, Shrestha S, Shuval K, Sia CH, Siddig EE, Siddiqi AK, Siddiqua A, Silva DAS, Silva LMLR, Simkhada PP, Singh A, Singh B, Singh H, Singh H, Singh JA, Singh L, Singh P, Singh PS, Singh P, Singh S, Singh SK, Singh S, Singh V, Sinha MK, Sinha R, Skryabin VY, Sokhal BS, Sood P, Soraneh S, Sorensen RJD, Sorrentino M, Spartalis M, Srivastav P, Stachteas P, Stanikzai MH, Starodubova AV, Straube S, Stubbs P, Su CY, Subramaniyan V, Suhag A, Sulaieva O, Sulaiman SK, Suleiman Odidi M, Sulistiyorini D, Sun J, Sun Z, Swain CK, Szarpak L, Ty SS, Tabaee Damavandi P, Tabarés-Seisdedos R, Tabatabaei SM, Tabatabaeizadeh SA, Tabatabai S, Tabche C, Tadele A, Tagiisuran B, Taha Osman Ali E, Taheri Soodejani M, Taiba J, Tajabadi S, Talic S, Talukder A, Tamehri Zadeh SS, Tamiru Adugna D, Tampa M, Tan J, Tanabayeva D, Tanashat M, Tang J, Tantisattamo E, Tariku MK, Tariq S, Tavangar SM, Tedla MG, Temsah R, Teramoto M, Tesfamariam WB, Tesfu AA, Tewari J, Thakar V, Thangavelu L, Tharwat I, Tharwat S, Thienemann F, Thiruvengadam M, Thomas NK, Ticoalu JHV, Tiruye TY, Tiwari K, Tleshev M, Tomo S, Tonelli M, Topor-Madry R, Touvier M, Tovani-Palone MR, Tran AT, Tran TH, Tran Minh Duc N, Trico D, Tristan CD, Tse G, Tseriotis VS, Tualeka AR, Tye SC, Udoakang AJ, Ullah A, Ullah R, Ullah S, Umair M, Umar L, Upadhya D, Upadhyay E, Usman JS, Uzun Ozsahin D, Uzunçibuk H, Vaithinathan AG, Vakili O, Van den Eynde J, Varghese J, Vasankari TJ, Vellingiri B, Venketasubramanian N, Verma AK, Verma P, Villalobos-Daniel VE, Vlassov V, Wan JY, Wang C, Wang N, Wang Q, Wang S, Wang S, Wang W, Wang W, Wang W, Wang Y, Wang Y, Wang Z, Wani TAA, Waqar AB, Wei MY, Weintraub RG, Wibowo YC, Wicaksana AL, Wickramasinghe DP, Wickramasinghe ND, Wilandika A, Witts WK, Wonde TE, Wongsin U, Wu P, Xiao G, Xie W, Xu S, Xu S, Xu W, Xu X, Yadav V, Yadegar A, Yahoo S, Yamagishi K, Yang H, Yano Y, Yao H, Yarahmadi A, Yaribeygi H, Yesuf SA, Yin D, Yismaw YE, Yon DK, Yonemoto N, Yu C, Yu EA, Yu H, Yu Y, Yuan Q, Yuzbashian E, Zafar M, Zaghampour M, Zamagni G, Zamora N, Zanghì A, Zargar S, Zawiah M, Zeariya MGM, Zeru EM, Zhang B, Zhang CJP, Zhang H, Zhang JMF, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhanuzakov M, Zhao Z, Zheng MH, Zhong A, Zhong CC, Zhou H, Zhou J, Zhou XD, Zhu Z, Zhumagaliuly A, Zitoun OA, Zoghi G, Zoromba MA, Zumla A, Zyoud AH, Zyoud SH, Zyoud SH, Hay SI, Mokdad AH, Murray CJL, Roth GA.
Global Burden of Elevated LDL-C: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
JAMA 2026-07-29 doi: 10.1001/jama.2026.8628 PMID: 42525403

2: Mandal R, Hickman AB, Desai RP, Primich A, Dyda F.
Structure-based recasting of a mammalian DNA transpososome as an obligate heterodimer.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026-07-29 doi: 10.64898/2026.07.15.738711 PMID: 42523445

3: Yang W, Lian X, Teng F, Guo T, Song Y, Chen J, Zhou Y, Zhou W, Zheng T, Zhu L, Wu W, Jiang M, Zhang H, Zhou D, Xu J, Wang Y, Tian Z, Zhang Q, Sirajuddin A, Arai AE, Zhao S, Gao L, Zhao X, Zhu S, Lu M.
SCAN-MRI: Cardiac MRI-integrated Risk Score for Predicting Cardiovascular Events in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
Radiology 2026-07-28 doi: 10.1148/radiol.252374 PMID: 42517762

4: Zou Z, Sun PD.
Combining gene amplification with SEAP-reporter to achieve high expression of recombinant omicron XBB.1.5 spike protein.
Protein expression and purification 2026-07-28 doi: 10.1016/j.pep.2026.106987 PMID: 42508707

5: Zhu WY, Skeparnias I, Shaukat AN, Zhang J, Liu RJ.
Mitochondrial tRNA biogenesis, modifications and disease relevance.
Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology 2026-07-25 doi: 10.1038/s41580-026-00999-5 PMID: 42498773

6: Shelke GV, Williamson CD, Keren-Kaplan T, Bonifacino JS.
TBC1D9 and TBC1D9B are ARL8 effectors that modulate exosome secretion through a RAB11A-exocyst pathway.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2026-07-23 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2527864123 PMID: 42490381

7: Lee K, Negi H, Chen X, Atallah-Yunes K, Truslow S, Castelino RE, Guest MR, Ciancone AM, Lu X, Tarasov SG, Chari R, Walters KJ, O'Reilly FJ.
Structures of dynamic interactors at native proteasomes by PhIX-MS and cryo-electron microscopy.
Molecular cell 2026-07-21 doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2026.06.032 PMID: 42476128

8: Klemm BP, Sikkema AP, Schugardt ER, Hall TMT.
Intrinsic catalytic parameters drive specificity of non-templated poly(UG) tail synthesis.
Nucleic acids research 2026-07-20 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkag724 PMID: 42475678

9: Zimmer E, Reif-Trauttmansdorff T, Ciancone A, Appelgren S, Kahnt J, Deobald D, Abendroth F, Vázquez O, Hochberg GKA, O'Reilly FJ, Schuller JM.
Interface swapping orchestrates carbon transfer in the archaeal acetyl-CoA decarbonylase/synthase.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026-07-17 doi: 10.64898/2026.07.07.736967 PMID: 42465409

10: Rajagopalan S, Chiu J, Chaurasia P, Lu J, Mastorakos GM, Majumder S, Nolan K, Petersen J, Adams EJ, Sun PD, Rossjohn J, Hogg PJ, Long EO.
Allosteric disulfide control of ligand binding and endocytosis of KIR2DL4, the natural killer cell receptor for HLA-G.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026-07-17 doi: 10.64898/2026.02.18.706601 PMID: 42465296

11: Yao Y, Harrison CB, Freddolino L, Schulten K, Mayer ML.
Author Correction: Molecular mechanism of ligand recognition by NR3 subtype glutamate receptors.
The EMBO journal 2026-07-17 doi: 10.1038/s44318-026-00861-6 PMID: 42463914

12: Dyda F.
Transposition mechanism in the IS110 family: Cut or copy?
Molecular cell 2026-07-17 doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2026.06.020 PMID: 42462697

13: Demeshkina NA, Ferré-D'Amaré AR.
Cytoplasmic circular dsDNA is a key constituent of stress granules.
eLife 2026-07-13 doi: 10.7554/eLife.111336 PMID: 42440362

14: Wang Y, Li L, Teng F, Song Y, Duan X, Lian X, Zheng T, Zhou W, Zhu L, Xu J, Zhou D, Yang W, Jiang M, Zhang H, Sirajuddin A, Arai AE, Litt H, Witschey WR, Zhao S, Gao L, Ju Z, Zhao X, Lu M.
Entropy for Prediction of MACEs in Myocarditis: A Cardiac MRI-based Biomarker of Myocardial Tissue Heterogeneity.
Radiology 2026-07-07 doi: 10.1148/radiol.251932 PMID: 42411967

15: Giacomini KM, Lin L, Surratt CK, Edwards KL, Davis SL, Smith KM, Stover KR, Petros WP, Calabrese SV, Robinson JD, Hall PD.
National Institutes of Health-Funded Institutional Training Programs in Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy.
American journal of pharmaceutical education 2026-07-05 doi: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2026.102038 PMID: 42401388

16: Liu L, Wang C, Kravets O, Fermin D, Eichinger F, Zanoni F, Khan A, Zhang JY, Ouyang Y, Li Q, Hamilton P, Kalra PA, Chinnadurai R, Reidy K, Kopp J, Mucha K, Smith C, Smith AR, Mcnulty M, Eddy S, Nair V, Helmuth ME, Vasylyeva TL, Smoyer WE, Berthier C, Parekh R, Wenderfer SE, Onugha E, Martin T, Sokolova K, Sealfon RSG, Theesfeld CL, Parsa A, Gbadegesin R, Sampson M, Sanna-Cherchi S, Troyanskaya OG, Paul DS, Petrovski S, Goldstein D, Mariani LH, Gharavi A, None None, Kretzler M, Kiryluk K.
Atlas of glomerular disease-specific genetic effects on blood transcriptome.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2026-07-03 doi: 10.64898/2026.06.22.26356281 PMID: 42396300

17: Kautz A, Yang DH, Chickery S, Irving SA, Klein NP, Grannis SJ, Ong TC, Ball SW, DeSilva MB, Dascomb K, Naleway AL, Zerbo O, Hansen JR, Block L, Dixon BE, Rogerson CM, Fadel WF, Duszynski TJ, Barron MA, Mayer D, Chavez C, Zhuang Y, Weber ZA, Vazquez-Benitez G, Cao J, Akinsete OO, Bride D, Sheffield T, Van Otterloo J, Arndorfer J, Natarajan K, Ciesla AA, Najdowski M, Mak J, DeCuir J, Wiegand RE, Link-Gelles R, Payne AB.
Influence of correlated vaccination behaviors on estimates of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in older adults - VISION network, October 2023 - March 2024.
Vaccine 2026-07-02 doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.128891 PMID: 42391690

18: Tyson KJ, Velez AZ, Hanson BM, Jiang J, Lu KY, Ruffin F, Sutton G, Brinkac LM, Clarke TH, Tao Y, Fouts DE, Adams MD, Arias CA, Khandelwal S, Fowler VG, Thaden JT, Conlon BP, Parsons JB.
Loss of O-antigen due to
Science advances 2026-07-01 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aec4661 PMID: 42384788

19: Li Y, Durnell-Bettis LA, Alam F, Golding AE, Bonifacino JS, Vogt MR.
ATG9A is an essential host factor for parechovirus RNA replication.
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20: Deme JC, Bryant OJ, Batista MRB, Stansfeld PJ, Berks BC, Lea SM.
Structure and substrate recognition by the bacterial twin-arginine translocation (Tat) core complex.
Nature microbiology 2026-06-23 doi: 10.1038/s41564-026-02399-z PMID: 42332062

21: Zhou BR, Luzete-Monteiro E, Zhang J, Takenaka N, Tang HY, Fernandez Garcia M, Coradin M, Frederick M, Donahue G, Garcia B, Bai Y, Zaret KS.
Distinct associations of pioneer factor Ascl1-E12a with nucleosomes drive changes in cell fate.
Molecular cell 2026-06-13 doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2026.05.020 PMID: 42285106

22: Van CTS, Reboul CF, Caesar JJE, Meana-Pañeda R, Elmlund H.
A polar Fourier geometric approach to volume-free single-particle 3D reconstruction.
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23: Wang HC, Chen R, Yang W, Muthukumar R, Hu T, Patel RM, Casey EB, Denby E, Zhang R, Xie G, Ge K, Challen GA, Bednarski JJ, Magee JA.
MLL3 and MLL4 sustain hematopoietic stem cell multipotency by opposing a B-cell default state.
Blood 2026-05-12 doi: 10.1182/blood.2025032969 PMID: 42118696

24: Sasse A, Ray D, Laverty KU, Tam CL, Albu M, Zheng H, Levdansky Y, Lyudovyk O, Dalal T, Nie K, Magis C, Notredame C, Valkov E, Weirauch MT, Hughes TR, Morris Q.
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RECENT TOPICS IN THE LITERATURE:


METHODS — Sample Preparation Tips


N. Premaraj et al., "Advancing cryo-EM and cryo-ET through innovation in sample carriers: a perspective" PMID: 40476672.
I.J. Hirst et al., "Untangling the effects of flexibility and the AWI in cryoEM sample preparation: A case study using KtrA" PMID: 40324569.
Y. Huang et al., "Recent Advances in Expression Screening and Sample Evaluation for Structural Studies of Membrane Proteins" PMID: 39362625.
K. McGuire et al., "Tuning ice thickness using the chameleon for high-quality cryoEM data collection" PMID: 38746094.
B. Cook et al., "Preparation of oxygen-sensitive proteins for high-resolution cryoEM structure determination using (an)aerobic blot-free vitrification" PMID: 39091810.
R. Warmack et al., "Anaerobic cryoEM protocols for air- sensitive nitrogenase proteins" PMID: 38575747.
I.J. Hirst et al., "CryoEM grid preparation: a closer look at advancements and impact of preparation mode and new approaches" PMID: 38864435.
S. Yadav and K.R. Vinothkumar, "Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM" PMID: 38935342.
S.E.J. Bowman et al., "Preparing research samples for safe arrival at centers and facilities: recipes for successful experiments" PMID: 38990054.

METHODS — Macromolecular Crystallography


N. L. Inniss et al., "Structural genomics of bacterial drug targets: application of a high-throughput pipeline to solve 59 protein structures from pathogenic and related bacteria" PMID: 40391899.
.J. Simpkin et al. "Slice'N'Dice: maximizing the value of predicted models for structural biologists" PMID: 39976565.
G. Budziszewski et al. "Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments" PMID: 40454464.
M. Schaefer et al., "Surface-mutagenesis strategies to enable structural biology crystallization platforms" PMID: 39207897.

METHODS — Integrative Structural Biology


S. Bazzi and S. Sayyed, "Revealing arginine-cysteine and glycine-cysteine NOS linkages by a systematic re-evaluation of protein structures" PMID: 40360719.
R. Mitra et al. "RNAproDB: a webserver and interactive database for analyzing protein-RNA interactions" PMID: 40126909.
H. McCann et al., "R2DT: a comprehensive platform for visualizing RNA secondary structure" PMID: 39921562.
B. Vallat et al., "PDB-IHM: a system for deposition, curation, validation, and dissemination of integrative structures" PMID: 40110969.
D. A. Erlanson et al., "Where and how to house big data on small fragments" PMID: 40325009.
M. Bazayeva et al., "A database overview of metal-coordination distances in metalloproteins" PMID: 38682667.
H. Zheng et al., "PinMyMetal: a hybrid learning system to accurately model metal binding sites in macromolecules" PMID: 40155596.
M. Bochtler, "X-rays, electrons, and neutrons as probes of atomic matter" PMID: 38412856.

METHODS — XFEL, Serial Crystallography


L. Sauthof et al. "Serial-femtosecond crystallography reveals how a phytochrome variant couples chromophore and protein structural changes" PMID: 40435264.
M. Maestre-Reyna et al., "Capturing structural intermediates in an animal-like cryptochrome photoreceptor by time-resolved crystallography" PMID: 40378212.
M. Sonawal et al. "Functional implications of hexameric dynamics in SARS-CoV-2 Nsp15" PMID: 40411374.

METHODS — Micro-ED


M.T.B. Clabbers and T. Gonen, "Recovering high-resolution information using energy filtering in MicroED" PMID: 40370641.
J. Lin et al., "Ligand screening and discovery using cocktail soaking and automated MicroED" PMID: 40027750.
W. J. Nicolas et al., "Structure of the lens MP20 mediated adhesive junction" PMID: 40140346.
J.E. Miller et al., "AlphaFold-assisted structure determination of a bacterial protein of unknown function using X-ray and electron crystallography" PMID: 38451205.

METHODS — Cryo-EM


R.C. Kretsch et al., "Complex water networks visualized by cryogenic electron microscopy of RNA" PMID: 40068818.
R.C. Kretsch et al., "Naturally ornate RNA-only complexes revealed by cryo-EM" PMID: 40328315.
G. Pintilie et al., "Q-score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid, and small molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM density maps" PMID: 39868161.
R. Read et al., "Likelihood-based interactive local docking into cryo-EM maps in ChimeraX" PMID: 39058381.
R. Karimi et al., "Vesicle Picker: a tool for efficient identification of membrane protein complexes in vesicles" PMID: 39481498.
D. Bobe et al., "Multi-species cryoEM calibration and workflow verification standard" PMID: 39494502.
C.L. Lawson et al., "Outcomes of the EMDataResource Cryo-EM Ligand Modeling Challenge" PMID: 38343795.
B. Greber et al., "High-resolution cryo-EM of the human CDK-activating kinase for structure-based drug design" PMID: 38480681.
G.J. Kleywegt, "Community recommendations on cryoEM data archiving and validation" PMID: 38358351.
M. Kschonsak et al., "Cryo-EM reveals an unprecedented binding site for Nav1.7 inhibitors enabling rational design of potent hybrid inhibitors" PMID: 36975198.

METHODS — SAXS


E. Brookes et al., "SAXS-A-Fold: a website for fast ensemble modeling optimizing the fit of AlphaFold or user-supplied protein structures with flexible regions to SAXS data" PMID: 40475948.
K. Lytje and J.S. Pederson, "Validation of electron-microscopy maps using solution small-angle X-ray scattering" PMID: 38935344.

METHODS — NMR Spectroscopy


L. S. Pidgu et al., "Observing nucleotide flipping in DNA using indirect 2’-F nucleotide probes and 19F NMR" PMID: 40488280.
M. Bütikofer et al., "Rapid Protein-Ligand Affinity Determination by Photoinduced Hyperpolarized NMR" PMID: 38957136.

METHODS — AlphaFold


A. Fadini et al., "AlphaFold as a prior: experimental structure determination conditioned on a pretrained neural network" PMID: 40027838.
R.M. Keegan et al., "The success rate of processed predicted models in molecular replacement: implication for experimental phasing in the AlphaFold era" PMID: 39360967.
B.K. Poon et al., "The Phenix-AlphaFold webservice: enabling AlphaFold predictions for use in Phenix" PMID: 3864706.
A.M. Lau et al., "Exploring structural diversity across the protein universe with The Encyclopedia of Domains" PMID: 39480926.
J. Abramson et al., "Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3" PMID: 38718835.

METHODS — Mass Spectrometry


M.A. Gonzalez-Lozano et al., "EndoMAP.v1 charts the structural landscape of human early endosome complexes" PMID: 40437099.
R.A. D'Ippoito et al., "Determining KRAS4B-Targeting Compound Specificity by Top-Down Mass Spectrometry" PMID: 39052227.
A. Vetrano et al., "Protein secondary structure patterns in short-range cross-link atlas" PMID: 4043759.
M.D. Mann et al., "Structural proteomics defines a sequential priming mechanism for the progesterone receptor" PMID: 403555435.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — General Structural Biology


R. Nussinov et al., "Allostery in disease: anticancer drugs, pockets, and the tumor heterogeneity challenge" PMID: 40021049.
K. Matange et al., "Biological polymers: evolution, function, and significance" PMID: 39905926.
L.C. Schofield et al., "Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank" PMID: 39207896.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — Macromolecular Crystallography


K.L. Shelley and E.F. Garman, "Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography" PMID: 38700059.
G. Khusainov et al., "The time revolution in macromolecular crystallography" PMID: 38616866.
J.R. Helliwell et al., "The evolution of raw data archiving and the growth of its importance in crystallography" PMID: 38864497.
D.J. Haas, "Fifty years on: why macromolecular cryocrystallography has been so successful" IUCr Newsletter (2023) 31(3).
W.A. Hendrickson, "Facing the phase problem" PMID: 37668214.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — Cryo-EM


C.T. Chien et al., "Single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy structure determination for membrane proteins" PMID: 40228430.
G.C. Lander, "Single particle cryo-EM map and model validation: It's not crystal clear" PMID: 39293191.
E. Nogales & J. Mahamid, "Bridging structural and cell biology with cryo-electron microscopy" PMID: 38570716.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — Serial Crystallography


C. J. Tremlett et al., "Small but mighty: the power of microcrystals in structural biology" PMID: 40080159.
A. Henkel and D. Oberthur, "A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done for us" PMID: 38984902.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — MicroED


A. Haymaker & B.L. Nannenga, "Advances and applications of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED)" PMID: 10882645.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — NMR Spectroscopy


O. A. Alimowska et al., "Advances in the application of NMR to the study of GPCRs and ligand-GPCR interactions" PMID: 40485639.
G. Platzer et al., "NMR-driven structure-based drug discovery by unveiling molecular interactions" PMID: 40450181.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)


Y. Jiang et al., "A structural biology compatible file format for atomic force microscopy" PMID: 39955301.
A.C. Dumitru et al., "Recent advances in the application of atomic force microscopy to structural biology" PMID: 37044358.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — AlphaFold/AI


E. Callaway, "Chemistry Nobel goes to developers of AlphaFold AI that predicts protein structures" PMID: 39384918.
E. Callaway, "The huge protein database that spawned AlphaFold and biology's AI revolution" PMID: 39424937.
T.C. Terwilliger et al., "AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination" PMID: 38036854.
S. Subramaniam, "Structural biology in the age of AI" PMID: 38066345.

READINGS & TUTORIALS — Protein Data Bank/Data Archiving


H. Berman and S.K. Burley, "Protein Data Bank (PDB): Fifty-three years young and having a transformative impact on science and society" PMID: 39973356.
S.K. Burley et al., "Updated resources for exploring experimentally-determined PDB structures and computed structure models at the RCSB Protein Data Bank" PMID: 39607707.

IN THE NEWS:


Ruth Nussinov elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 05/02/2025
Simulations implicate structural changes as a culprit in mutant protein’s cancer role and point to possible treatments, 03/25/2025
Lipoprotein structure gives insights into "bad" cholesterol, 01/14/2025

DATABASES — Structural Biology


AlphaFold DB
BioCyc
DisProt
ExPASy
HAD
HIC-Up
NDB
PDB
PDBe
PDB SARS-CoV-2 Resources
SARS-CoV-2 Related Structures
RaMP-DB
virusMED

UPCOMING MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, & WORKSHOPS


75th ACA Annual Meeting, July 18-23, 2025 Lombard, IL
Microscopy Society of America Annual Meeting, July 27-31, 2025 Salt Lake City, UT
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Macromolecular Crystallography Course, October 12-28, 2025 Cold Spring Harbor, NY Application Deadline: July 15, 2025