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The structure of the full catalytic cycle of Vibrio cholerae NFeoB https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.06.680749v1

🚨 Just out in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 🚨 Kate, Candice, and Mark's paper on the structure of the V. cholerae NFeoB NTPase catalytic cycle. Serendipity of a P1 spacegroup with 4 mols in the ASU played a role in capturing all the states, and Mg is pivotal! Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/263u9vtn

A great opportunity to work with a great mentor!

Someone got pooped from helping us decorate for Halloween…🎃

🚨 Our 4th example of metalloallosteric regulation of kinase activity. Out today in @CellReports with @KJSsci. The ER stress sensor kinase PERK needs copper to work. Without copper, PERK can’t protect cells under stress. cell.com/cell-reports/p…

The NSF GRFP is now limited to undergrads and first-year grads drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper alert! We ID resides of CIA targeting complex that recruit clients - in contradiction to what was predicted from previous studies, we find it is the cia1-cia2 interface, not cia1 on its own, that mediates the interaction. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Copper regulates the evolution of REM sleep and transition of animals from water to land! It all relies on a new “metalloadaptor” function for RAD23B linking Cu uptake to distribution to multiple Cu targets. Tong and Dan co-led this @cp-molcell.bsky.social story www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from @fisherlab.bsky.social at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social in Journal of Biological Chemistry: Copper acquisition in Bacillus subtilis involves Cu(II) exchange between YcnI and YcnJ. Read more here: buff.ly/myITTv8 #SBGrid #ScienceMatters

New review on the generation and consequences of N-terminal proteoform diversity from Evan Morrison and Olivia Rissland | #N-degron #RNA @cp-cellreports.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

See our @natmicrobiol.nature.com News&Views on the publication from Yun Chen laboratory A rapid writing exercise for María Negre Rodríguez, a PhD student in my group Ecological function of phenazine in soil www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology

@jonathanccc-chem.bsky.social's predictor for discovering lipid interacting proteins is now in press - congratulations to all the authors!. We are delighted that SLiPP has spurred so many new research directions in the lab and nucleated many collaborations! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The 4th Annual Early Career Symposium at IBBR is Sept. 17th - Its a forum for graduate students & post-docs to share their scientific research in the fields of disease biology & biotherapeutics development & analysis - zurl.co/4oUyS We are sponsoring & exhibiting there

Exciting news 🎉! Notice of Award from NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for a new instrument in the National Crystallization Center! Stay tuned for more details... hint: 🦟 🤖 @getacrystal.bsky.social

JFC: www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...

Minipreps eating up your day? Skip the pipetting. Skip the spins. Send your colonies and get full plasmid sequences the next morning. No prep needed. Curious? Learn more about ZeroPrep: plasmidsaurus.com/products/zer...

Zinc is a critical nutrient for many bacterial pathogens. New research in #JBacteriology expands our understanding of a novel zinc transport system & provides evidence for an alternative mechanism of cell wall protein localization in C. diphtheriae. asm.social/2zf

Cool story on the re-purposing of a protein I worked on in graduate school! Curious about other work that led to this? See: tinyurl.com/56mybjmd tinyurl.com/ksmau4xm tinyurl.com/yw9av9yh tinyurl.com/yuujhajc tinyurl.com/5987f53r Way to go Burstyn Group alumni!! And check out: tinyurl.com/mvvpzj3f

Pyrite would obviously win if it were there; however, in its absence, it's got to be either hematite or azurite...

New Title Alert: UGENE- a free open-source bioinformatics software for macOS, and Linux. Learn more here: ugene.net #SBGridSoftware #SBGrid #StructuralBiology

Alright folks, first day of Biochemistry 1 for the Fall 2025 semester at UMBC. Let's go!! 😀🧬🧪🔬

Here is the video from the Clinical Center patient in a different format. Thanks for @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social for covering this story.

The final #ACSBIOL sessions of #ACSFall2025 are tomorrow! In the Westin, River Birch room B: ⌚ Current Topics in Biochem/ChemBio and Virtually: 💻 Translational Biomaterials Science We hope to see you there!

Nitric oxide promotes cysteine N-degron proteolysis through control of oxygen availability | Important finding by Kim, Tian, Ratcliffe and Keeley @ox.ac.uk @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social #N-degron www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congrats to the newly-minted Ph.D. from the @smithlabumbc.bsky.social Dr. Misti Cartwright @chemisti.bsky.social ! Way to go on an excellent thesis defense!!

Looking forward to @chemisti.bsky.social 's Ph.D. thesis defense today at 10 am in Meyerhoff Chemistry and Biochemistry seminar room 120! Don't miss it!!

But...why...?

I swear if we reach 1000 followers on here before #ACSFall2025 I'll eat an entire banana 🍌

“thinking like a scientist also requires us to feel like a scientist [...] How do we broaden the ability to feel like a scientist when sharing the value of and passion for science with the public or other communities?" @cenmag @AmerChemSociety #POTACS cen.acs.org/acs-news/com...

Madison local achievement unlocked. I was interviewed live on-air this morning on WORT-FM about mRNA research! www.wortfm.org/dispelling-t...

Way to go!!

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

The 4th Annual Early Career Symposium at IBBR is Sept. 17th - Its a forum for graduate students & post-docs to share their scientific research in the fields of disease biology & biotherapeutics development & analysis - zurl.co/4oUyS We are sponsoring & exhibiting there

Our July member tale is from Emina Stojković from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Stojković is exploring new frontiers in photoreception & signaling while seeking new opportunities to advance the careers of her students after three NIH grant terminations. More here:

NEW The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year Chokes off billions in research funding Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol... with @nidhisubs.bsky.social

How to express, purify and assess the activity of the ATE1 arginyltransferase | Methods in Enzymology | Yi Zhang lab @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Metal ions are universally required for life, and many of the foundational principles of metal homeostasis have emerged from studies of microbial systems. In this review, I provide a introductory overview targeted to those new to the field. #MicroSky #Metals rdcu.be/eycU2

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This will be wild (not really in a good way!) if it actually comes to fruition…

NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications from an individual Principal Investigator/Program Director or Multiple Principal Investigator for all council rounds in a calendar year. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide....

Recent coverage from UMBC news about the new incarnation of our Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) program. Happy that NIH is still supporting this program that is critical for biomedical graduate trainees at UMBC and UMB! umbc.edu/stories/chem...

Copper acquisition in Bacillus subtilis involves Cu(II) exchange between YcnI and YcnJ #JBiolChem from @fisherlab.bsky.social with @johnhelmann.bsky.social www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Excited to share our latest work using AI-designed proteins to block heme-piracy by E. coli. Published in @natcomms.nature.com. A team effort between my lab and the ‪‪@knottrna.bsky.social‬ ‬lab, with experimental work led by the talented @danielrfox.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DEGRONOPEDIA - a web server for identifying and predicting protein degradation signals across eukaryotic proteomes. Detailed guide by Natalia Szulc @lumirare.com and Wojciech Pokrzywa @wpokrzywa.bsky.social in Methods in Enzymology. @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How to detect protein N-terminal arginylation - a key step of protein degradation via the Arg/N-degron pathway. By Jasper Eising and @ndissmeyer.bsky.social in Methods in Enzymology. @ispt-proteinterm.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...