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Geißler, K.; Kreysing, J. P.; Wang, Y.; Glushkova, D.; Obarska-Kosinska, A.; Hoffmann, P. C.; Böhm, S.; Schmidt, A.; Meier-Credo, J.; Langer, J. D. et al.; Hummer, G.; Beck, M.: The vault associates with membranes in situ. Nature Communications 17, 3659 (2026)

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Seifert, M.; Kollenkirchen, T.; Ernst, A.; Rasoulinejad, S.; Koellner, S. M. S.; Schneider, A.-K.; Luzarowski, M.; Lübbehusen, N.; Wu, D.; Kannt, A. et al.; Safarian, S.: Glycan-based biological degraders targeting the cytokine immune axis. Communications Biology 9, 530 (2026)

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Lam, F.; Warwick, T.; Oo, J. A.; Krüger, A. Y.; Kreis, N.-N.; Diagel, A.; Ponce, J. I.; Tirunagari, P.; Bayer, M. E.; Nonn, O. et al.; Dechend, R.; Walther, T.; Boon, R. A.; Baker, A. H.; Günther, S.; Wittig, I.; Chen, Z.; Müller-McNicoll, M.; Louwen, F.; Brandes, R. P.; Leisegang, M. S.: LINC00607 facilitates endothelial VEGF-A receptor FLT1 splicing. Molecular Therapy 34 (7) (2026)

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Bulankina, A. V.; Richter, R. M.; Nettles, J. H.; Yamane, D.; Grimm, C.; Karami, Y.; Stanton, R. A.; Introini, B.; Hermann, J.; Charif, H. et al.; König, M. S.; Stroß, C.; Ortiz, C.; Kraus, N.; Wood, D.; Galceran, F.; Abele, R.; Maigret, B.; Schinazi, R. F.; Zeuzem, S.; Biondi, R. M.; Yi, M.; Tampé, R.; Kudryashev, M.; Welsch, C.: Phospholipid-driven conformational switching of HCV NS5A links protein folding to replication membrane remodeling. Science Advances 12 (14), eaeb8863 (2026)

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Brenner, J.; Plitzko, J. M.; Klumpe, S.: Exploring shaped focused ion beams for lamella preparation. Ultramicroscopy 282, 114302 (2026)

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Shin, J.; Baek, D.; Kim, J.; Park, J.; Jeong, E.; Kim, Y.; Kim, Y. J.; Cho, Y.: Structure of the melatonin-related orphan receptor, GPR50. Molecules and Cells 49 (4), 100331 (2026)

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Neuhaus, A.; McLaren, M.; Isupov, M. N.; Gaines, M.; Buzzard, E.; Sikora, M.; Hanus, C.; Daum, B.; Averhoff, B.; Gold, V. A. M.: Structural insights into the Thermus thermophilus type IV pilus machinery assembling two distinct pili. Communications Biology 9, 474 (2026)

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Seidl, S.; Patra, A. P.; Li, C.; Becker-Baldus, J.; Kaiser, S.; Reinhart, C.; Glaubitz, C.: Detection of an Antagonist Bound to the Neurokinin a Receptor in Styrene-Maleic Acid Lipid Particles by ¹⁹F Ultrafast Magic-Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. ChemBioChem: A European Journal of Chemical Biology 27 (6), e202500963 (2026)

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Ibrahim, M.; Köfinger, J.; Zacharias, M.; Schneck, E.; Schwierz, N.: RNA at Lipid/Water Interfaces: Molecular Insights from Coarse-Grained Simulations and Reflectivity Data Predictions. Langmuir 42 (12), pp. 8443 - 8452 (2026)

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Vlasova, A.; Bukhalovich, S.; Kravtsunova, D.; Gromova, A.; Bagaeva, D.; Zhilinskaya, A.; Bogorodskiy, A.; Ilyinsky, N.; Vlasov, A.; Kuklin, A. et al.; Bamberg, E.; Gordeliy, V.: Cytosol alkalization induces cytosolic and mitochondrial calcium elevation in human cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 814, 153551, p. 153551 (2026)

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Gande, S. L.; Sreeramulu, S.; Saxena, K.; Rupprecht, F. A.; Langer, J. D.; Heumann, H.; Schwalbe, H.: Cupriavidus necator, an alternative source for isotopic enrichment of proteins expressed in insect cells for NMR investigations. Journal of Biomolecular NMR 80 (1), 9 (2026)

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Croce, C. M.; Tait, S. W. G.; García-Sáez, A. J.; Villunger, A.; Letai, A.; Walter, H. S.; Dyer, M. J. S.; Green, D. R.; Shi, Y.; Melino, G.: What does BCL-2 do? From new molecular insights to the clinical implications. Cell Death & Differentiation 33 (4), pp. 673 - 693 (2026)

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Schwarz, A.; Mueller, M.; Will, H.; Dietrich, L.; Giandomenico, S. L.; Tushev, G.; Bartnik, I.; Khusainov, I.; Fusco, C. M.; Schuman, E. M.: Ribosomal RNA expansion segments mediate the oligomerization of inactive animal ribosomes. Science 391 (6787), eadr4287 (2026)

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Tang, X.; Qu, L.; Wilfling, F.; Beck, F.; Ernst, O. P.; Schulman, B. A.; Baumeister, W.; Enenkel, C.: Metabolically regulated proteasome supramolecular organization in situ. Cell 189 (4), pp. 1153 - 1169.e16 (2026)

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Franco, P. H. C.; Üresin, D.; Borst, A.; Rusling, L. A.; Soppa, J.; Langer, J. D.: Proteome characterization of single gene deletion mutants lacking zinc finger µ-proteins in Haloferax volcanii. microLife 7, uqag005 (2026)

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Debnath, J.; Hummer, G.: Random Functions as Data Compressors for Machine Learning of Molecular Processes. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 22 (3), pp. 1504 - 1513 (2026)

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Schreiber, M.; Turoňová, B.: TANGO: Analysis and curation of particles in cryo-electron tomography. Nature Communications 17 (1), 1557 (2026)

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Storm, K. R.; Wiebeler, C.; Cruz-León, S.; Körösy, C.; Schwierz, N.; Lipfert, J.: DNA twist at high alkali ion concentrations: evidence against C-form DNA in solution. Nucleic Acids Research 54 (5), gkag192 (2026)

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Tesmer, L.; Matter, H.; Klingler, O.; Schudok, M.; Hessler, G.; Mehdipour, A. R.; Güssregen, S.; Schreuder, H.; Hummer, G.: Nonstandard Factor VIIa Binding Mode Reveals S1 Pocket Plasticity in Trypsin-Like Proteases. ChemMedChem 21 (2), e202500846 (2026)

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Martínez-Osorio, V.; Ros, U.; García-Sáez, A. J.: Spotted: RIPK3 and MLKL assembling necroptotic complexes. Open Biology 16 (1), 250236 (2026)

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Mello-Vieira, J.; Dikic, I.: Ubiquitination and autophagy in host-pathogen interactions: from immune surveillance to therapeutic targeting. Nature Reviews Immunology (2026)

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Babic, R.; Brenneisen, J.; Wilfling, F.; Kraft, C.: Autophagy regulation by phase separation, avidity, and wetting. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 51 (1), pp. 27 - 38 (2026)

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Glushkova, D.; Böhm, S.; Beck, M.: Systematic membrane thickness variation across cellular organelles revealed by cryo-ET. Journal of Cell Biology 225 (1), e202504053 (2026)

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Paul, S.: Integrative Multiscale Simulations Uncover the Mechanistic Principles Governing COPII Mediated Vesicle Formation. The Journal of Membrane Biology 259 (1), 1 (2026)

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Post, M.; Hummer, G.: AI-guided transition path sampling of lipid flip-flop and membrane nanoporation. Nature Communications 17, 224 (2026)

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Natriashvili, A.; Mohammadsadeghi, N.; Milanov, M.; Smudde, E.; Prucker, I.; Jessen, H. J.; Carabadjac, I.; Heerklotz, H.; Franco, P. H. C.; Langer, J. D. et al.; Koch, H.-G.: Metabolic silencing induced by the small bacterial membrane protein YohP. iScience 28 (12), 114123 (2025)

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Mineev, K. S.; Gande, S. L.; Wenzel, A.; Linhard, V.; Andrews-Clark, H.; Witt, K.; Köster, S.; Segarra, M.; McDowell, M. A.; Acker-Palmer, A. et al.; Schwalbe, H.: Structural Role of Conformational Heterogeneity and Juxtamembrane Regions in the Ephrin A1 Interactions With the EphA2 Receptor Ligand-binding Domain. Journal of Molecular Biology 437 (24), 169454 (2025)

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Kompa, J.; Dornfeld, L. J.; Porzberg, N.; Jang, S.; Zedlitz, S.; Lilje, S. H.; Catapano, C.; Jocher, D.; Merk, L.; Hoege, C. et al.; Mao, R.; Wilhelm, J.; Dietz, M. S.; Tarnawski, M.; Hiblot, J.; Hyman, A. A.; Heilemann, M.; Johnsson, K.: Fast, Bright, and Reversible Fluorescent Labeling of Rhodamine-Binding Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society (accepted)

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Roos, L.; Garrido-Charles, A.; Albrecht, N.; Vavakou, A.; Alekseev, A.; Bleyer, M.; Thirumalai, A.; Mittring, A.; Alvanos, T.; Huet, A. T. et al.; Bamberg, E.; Kusch, K.; Wolf, B. J.; Moser, T.; Mager, T.: Channelrhodopsin variants for high-rate optogenetic neurostimulation at low light intensities. Embo Molecular Medicine (2025)

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Majoul, A.; Garcia-Saez, A. J.: Dynamic regulation of cell death signaling. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 97, 102583 (2025)

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Majtner, T.; Turoňová, B.: Automated removal of corrupted tilts in cryo-electron tomography. Journal of Structural Biology: X 12, 100130 (2025)

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Okuda, E. K.; Kessler, L. F.: A new rapid-degradation system combined with super-resolution microscopy. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 26 (12), p. 904 (2025)

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Schäfer, D.; Prieto-Garcia, C.; Wang, J.; Heinz, M.; Matkovic, V.; Kielkowski, P.; Hasselbeck, S.; Shah, V. J.; Knapp, S.; Hummer, G. et al.; Dikic, I.; Cheng, X.: Targeting the Spliceosomal Protein USP39 Through Allosteric Ligands and PROTAC-Induced Degradation. Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English), p. e16809 (2025)

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Berrevoets, E. S.; Kessler, L. F.; Balakrishnan, A.; Okuda, E. K.; Müller-McNicoll, M.; Rieger, B.; Stallinga, S.; Heilemann, M.: Smart 3D super-resolution microscopy reveals the architecture of the RNA scaffold in a nuclear body. Nature Communications 16, 10689 (2025)

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Müller-McNicoll, M.: Getting sticky: How nuclear speckles tune the condensation-prone proteome. Molecular Cell 85 (22), pp. 4116 - 4118 (2025)

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Germain, H.; Hoffmann, P. C.: The Arabidopsis thaliana nuclear pore complex structure reveals conserved and distinct features. Nature Plants 11, pp. 2198 - 2199 (2025)

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Rosenkranz, N.; Birtasu, A. N.; Wieland, K.; Rehm, L.; Sharma, R.; Vats, A.; Manger, S.; Srivastava, A.; Bhattacharya, A.; Hummer, G. et al.; Frangakis, A. S.; Gottschalk, A.: In situ structure of a gap junction-stomatin complex. Science Advances 11 (45), eaea8596 (2025)

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Mondal, S.; Mukherjee, S.; Namitz, K. E. W.; Yennawar, N. H.; Boehr, D. D.: Multivalent Interactions Between the Picornavirus 3C(D) Main Protease and RNA Oligonucleotides Induce Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation. Viruses 17 (11), 1473 (2025)

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Hohorst, L.; Ros, U.; Garcia-Saez, A. J.: Mitochondrial dynamics and pore formation in regulated cell death pathways. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 50 (11), pp. 1001 - 1014 (2025)

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Sanchez Carrillo, I. B.; Hoffmann, P. C.; Obarska-Kosinska, A.; Fourcassié, V.; Beck, M.; Germain, H.: In situ architecture of the nuclear pore complex of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Plants 11, pp. 2368 - 2380 (2025)

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Yang, T.-J.; Mukherjee, S.; Langer, J. D.; Hummer, G.; McDowell, M. A.: SND3 is the membrane insertase within a distinct SEC61 translocon complex. Nature Communications 16, 9566 (2025)

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Lago-Maciel, A.; Soares, J. C.; Zarzycki, J.; Buchanan, C. J.; Reif-Trauttmansdorff, T.; Schmidt, F. V.; Lometto, S.; Paczia, N.; Schuller, J. M.; Hansen, D. F. et al.; Heller, G. T.; Prinz, S.; Hochberg, G. K. A.; Pierik, A. J.; Rebelein, J. G.: Methylthio-alkane reductases use nitrogenase metalloclusters for carbon-sulfur bond cleavage. Nature Catalysis 8 (10), pp. 1086 - 1099 (2025)

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Bresciani, V.; Rinaldi, F.; Franco, P.; Girotto, S.; Cavalli, A.; Langer, J. D.; Masetti, M.; Bernetti, M.: Dissecting the RAD51–BRC4 Interaction Landscape through Integrative Molecular Simulations and Experimental Biophysics. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 65 (21), pp. 11965 - 11978 (2025)

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Grabarczyk, D. B.; Aird, E. J.; Reznikow, V.; Kirchgatterer, P. C.; Ehrmann, J. F.; Kurzbauer, R.; Bell, L. E.; Kellner, M. J.; Aggarwal, R.; Schleiffer, A. et al.; Faas, V.; Deszcz, L.; Meinhart, A.; Versteeg, G. A.; Penninger, J. M.; Stelzl, L. S.; Gaidt, M. M.; Tessmer, I.; Corn, J. E.; Clausen, T.: A split-site E3 ligase mechanism enables ZNFX1 to ubiquitinate and cluster single-stranded RNA into ubiquitin-coated nucleoprotein particles. Cell 188 (21), pp. 5995 - 6011 (2025)

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Sachweh, J.; Börmel, M.; Klumpe, S.; Becker, A.; Taniguchi, R.; Kubańska, M. A.; Pintschovius, V.; Kaindl, E.; Plitzko, J. M.; Wilfling, F. et al.; Beck, M.; Hampoelz, B.: The small GTPase Ran defines nuclear pore complex asymmetry. Cell 188 (21), pp. 5931 - 5946 (2025)

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Langschied, F.; Iruegas, R.; Sikora, M.; Covino, R.; Ebersberger, I.: A Multi-level Perspective on the Evolution of Orthologs and Their Functions. Journal of Molecular Evolution 93, pp. 720 - 729 (2025)

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Grothaus, I. L.; Spellerberg, P.; Rovira, C.; Colombi Ciacchi, L.: Shaping the Glycan Landscape: Hidden Relationships between Linkage and Ring Distortions Induced by Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes. Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (42), pp. 38376 - 38389 (2025)

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Majtner, T.; Kreysing, J. P.; Tuijtel, M.; Cruz-León, S.; Liu, J.; Hummer, G.; Beck, M.; Turoňová, B.: cryoTIGER: deep-learning based tilt interpolation generator for enhanced reconstruction in cryo electron tomography. Communications Biology 8, 1443 (2025)

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Kumari, R.; Nath, T.; Pflaum, J.; R, I.; Vinay, S.; Wilfling, F.; Manjithaya, R.: The autophagy-specific exocyst subcomplex contributes to phagophore assembly site integrity by promoting phagophore expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (41), e2426476122 (2025)

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Hasselbeck, S.; Wang, J.; Bai, Z.; Hüfner, T.; Hummer, G.; Grote, P.; Cheng, X.: A Chemically Induced CRISPR/dCas13^FCPF Platform for Precise and Programmable RNA Regulation. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 68, pp. 22633 - 22649 (2025)

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Manger, S.; Arghittu, S. M.; Sprankel, L.; Meier-Credo, J.; Wieland, K.; Bublak, D.; Langer, J. D.; Covino, R.; Frangakis, A. S.: How does Mycoplasma pneumoniae scavenge lipids from its host membranes? Science Advances 11 (40), eady4746 (2025)

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Zaghbani, S.; Faber, L.; Garcia Saez, A. J.: Convolutional Neural Network approach to classify mitochondrial morphologies. Computational Biology and Chemistry 118, 108477 (2025)

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Ho-Xuan, H.; Bruckmann, A.; Natali, L.; Prieto-Garcia, C.; Stuke, J. F. M.; Brunello, L.; Vicente, A.; Pfab, A.; Wesseling, H.; Cano-Franco, S. et al.; Khatri, A.; Larivera, S.; Sanz-Martinez, P.; de la Cruz-Thea, B.; Jacomin, A.-C.; Prochazka, J.; Feederle, R.; Dötsch, V.; Sedlacek, R.; Hummer, G.; Kaiser, S.; Dikic, I.; Musri, M. M.; Meister, G.; Stolz, A.: YTHDF proteins and m⁶A-RNA clients undergo autophagic turnover during contact inhibition. Cell Reports 44 (9), 116188 (2025)

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Fábián, B.; Stuke, J. F. M.; Heinz, M.; Hummer, G.: AlphaFold modeling of polyubiquitin complexes and covalently linked proteins. Cell Reports Physical Science 6 (9), 102796 (2025)

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Sucharitakul, J.; Mangkalee, M.; Intasian, P.; Pornsuwan, S.; Ermler, U.; Buckel, W.; Chaiyen, P.: Kinetic mechanisms of electron bifurcation with electron transfer flavoprotein, NADH, butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, and ferredoxin reveal a semiquinone cycle. Journal of Biological Chemistry 301 (10), 110727 (2025)

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King, L. E.; Faber, L.; García-Sáez, A. J.: Activator of apoptosis harakiri (HRK) localisation at mitochondria alters mitochondrial morphology independently of other BCL-2 proteins. The FEBS Journal (2025)

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Brdar, A.; Osterburg, C.; Münick, P.; Machel, A. C.; Rathore, R.; Osterburg, S.; Yüksel, B.; Schäfer, B.; Desch, K.; Langer, J. D. et al.; Dikic, I.; Dötsch, V.: p53 isoforms have a high aggregation propensity, interact with chaperones and lack binding to p53 interaction partners. eLife 13, RP103537 (2025)

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Shrestha, R.; Alessandri, R.; Vögele, M.; Hilpert, C.; Souza, P. C. T.; Marrink, S. J.; Monticelli, L.: Martini 3 Coarse-Grained Models for Carbon Nanomaterials. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 21 (18), pp. 9035 - 9053 (2025)

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Zietek, M.; Miguel, A.; Shi, H.; Khusainov, I.; Asmar, A. T.; Ram, S.; Wartel, M.; Sueki, A.; Schorb, M.; Goulian, M. et al.; Collet, J.-F.; Beck, M.; Huang, K. C.; Typas, A.: Bacterial cell widening alters periplasmic size and activates envelope stress responses. The EMBO Journal 44 (20), pp. 5816 - 5833 (2025)

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Blum, T. B.; Davies, K. M.; Kühlbrandt, W.: Subtomogram averages of mitochondrial ATP synthase dimers from plants show a conserved extra density at the peripheral stalk. IUCrJ 12, pp. 563 - 569 (2025)

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Zeinert, R.; Zhou, F.; Franco, P.; Zöller, J.; Madni, Z. K.; Lessen, H.; Aravind, L.; Langer, J. D.; Sodt, A. J.; Storz, G. et al.; Matthies, D.: P-type ATPase magnesium transporter MgtA acts as a dimer. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 32 (9), pp. 1633 - 1643 (2025)

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Horvath, F.; Jung, H.; Grabmayr, H.; Fahrner, M.; Romanin, C.; Hummer, G.: STIM1 transmembrane helix dimerization captured by AI-guided transition path sampling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (35), e2506516122 (2025)

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Kaulich, E.; Waselenchuk, Q.; Fürst, N.; Desch, K.; Mosbacher, J.; Ciirdaeva, E.; Juengling, M.; Ray, R.; Nassim-Assir, B.; Tushev, G. et al.; Langer, J. D.; Schuman, E. M.: An integrated transcriptomic and proteomic map of the mouse hippocampus at synaptic resolution. Nature Communications 16, 7942 (2025)

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Dikic, I.; Mayor-Ruiz, C.; Winter, G. E.; Koch, K.; Ciulli, A.; Thomä, N. H.: Opportunities in proximity modulation: Bridging academia and industry. Molecular Cell 85 (16), pp. 3012 - 3022 (2025)

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Franco, P. H. C.; Zeinert, R.; Meier-Credo, J.; Storz, G.; Langer, J. D.: Detection and Quantitation of Small Proteins Using Mass Spectrometry. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 24 (9), 101052 (2025)

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Nomura, S.; San Segundo-Acosta, P.; Protasov, E.; Kaneko, M.; Kahnt, J.; Murphy, B. J.; Shima, S.: Electron flow in hydrogenotrophic methanogens under nickel limitation. Nature 644 (8076), pp. 490 - 496 (2025)

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North, B. J.; Fracchiolla, D.; Ragusa, M. J.; Martens, S.; Shoemaker, C. J.: The rapidly expanding role of LC3-interacting regions in autophagy. Journal of Cell Biology 224 (8), e202504076 (2025)

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Adriaenssens, E.; Schaar, S.; Cook, A. S. I.; Stuke, J. F. M.; Sawa-Makarska, J.; Nguyen, T. N.; Ren, X.; Schuschnig, M.; Romanov, J.; Khuu, G. et al.; Uoselis, L.; Lazarou, M.; Hummer, G.; Hurley, J. H.; Martens, S.: Reconstitution of BNIP3/NIX-mitophagy initiation reveals hierarchical flexibility of the autophagy machinery. Nature Cell Biology 27 (8), pp. 1272 - 1287 (2025)

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Mukherjee, R.; Bhattacharya, A.; Tomaskovic, I.; Mello-Vieira, J.; Brunstein, M. E.; Başoğlu, M.; Veenendaal, T.; Bailey, H.; Colby, T.; Misra, M. et al.; Eimer, S.; Klumperman, J.; Münch, C.; Matic, I.; Dikic, I.; Đikić, I.: Phosphoribosyl ubiquitination of SNARE proteins regulates autophagy during Legionella infection. The EMBO Journal 44 (15), pp. 4252 - 4279 (2025)

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Zabelskii, D.; Bukhdruker, S.; Bukhalovich, S.; Tsybrov, F.; Lamm, G. H. U.; Astashkin, R.; Doroginin, D.; Matveev, G.; Sudarev, V.; Kuzmin, A. et al.; Zinovev, E.; Vlasova, A.; Ryzhykau, Y.; Ilyinsky, N.; Gushchin, I.; Bourenkov, G.; Alekseev, A.; Round, A.; Wachtveitl, J.; Bamberg, E.; Gordeliy, V.: Ion-conducting and gating molecular mechanisms of channelrhodopsin revealed by true-atomic-resolution structures of open and closed states. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 32 (8), pp. 1347 - 1357 (2025)

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Zaghbani, S.; Pranti, R. K.; Faber, L.; Garcia-Saez, A. J.: MitoSkel: AI tool for semantic segmentation and quantification of mitochondria from light microscopy images. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 106, 107762 (2025)

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Pedersen, K. B.; Ingólfsson, H. I.; Ramirez-Echemendia, D. P.; Borges-Araújo, L.; Andreasen, M. D.; Empereur-mot, C.; Melcr, J.; Ozturk, T. N.; Bennett, W. F. D.; Kjølbye, L. R. et al.; Brasnett, C.; Corradi, V.; Khan, H. M.; Cino, E. A.; Crowley, J.; Kim, H.; Fábián, B.; Borges-Araújo, A. C.; Pavan, G. M.; Launay, G.; Lolicato, F.; Wassenaar, T. A.; Melo, M. N.; Thallmair, S.; Carpenter, T. S.; Monticelli, L.; Tieleman, D. P.; Schiøtt, B.; Souza, P. C. T.; Marrink, S. J.: The Martini 3 Lipidome: Expanded and Refined Parameters Improve Lipid Phase Behavior. ACS Central Science 11 (9), pp. 1598 - 1610 (2025)

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Rose, K.; Herrmann, E.; Kakudji, E.; Lizarrondo, J.; Celebi, A. Y.; Wilfling, F.; Lewis, S. C.; Hurley, J. H.: In situ cryo-ET visualization of mitochondrial depolarization and mitophagic engulfment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (31), e2511890122 (2025)

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Agip, A.-N. A.; Ornelas, P.; Yang, T.-J.; Uboldi, E.; Häder, S.; McDowell, M.; Kühlbrandt, W.: Structures of Chaetomium thermophilum TOM complexes with bound preproteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (29), e2507279122 (2025)

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