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Week of January 8

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

Oxygen-18 Labeling Reveals a Mixed Fe-O Mechanism in the Last Step of Cytochrome P450 51 Sterol 14α-Demethylation. Angewandte Chemie.

Kevin McCarty*, Yasuhiro Tateishi, Tatiana Hargrove, Galina Lepesheva, Frederick Peter Guengerich*.
Ninety-eight semesters of cytochrome P450 enzymes and related topics—what have I taught and learned? Journal of Biological Chemistry.
F. Peter Guengerich*.

Cell and Developmental Biology

WD Repeat Domain 5 Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy: Not What You Think. Journal of Clinical Medicine.
April Weissmiller (Middle Tennessee State University), Stephen Fesik*, William Tansey*.

Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

TALK-1-mediated alterations of β-cell mitochondrial function and insulin secretion impair glucose homeostasis on a diabetogenic diet. Cell Reports.
Sarah Graff*, Arya Nakhe*, Prasanna Dadi, Matthew Dickerson, Jordyn Dobson, Karolina Zaborska, Chloe Ibsen, Regan Butterworth, Nicholas Vierra, David Jacobson*.

Pharmacology

Disordered-to-ordered transitions in assembly factors allow the complex II catalytic subunit to switch binding partners. Nature Communications.
Pankaj Sharma*, Markus Voehler, Tina Iverson*.
Arrestin-3 binds parkin and enhances parkin-dependent mitophagy. Journal of Neurochemistry.
Chen Zheng*, Kevin Nguyen, Sergey Vishnivetskiy, Vsevolod Gurevich*, Eugenia Gurevich*.

Other biomedical basic sciences papers

Effects of open access publishing on article metrics in Neuropsychopharmacology. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Briana Chen (Columbia University)*, Lisa Monteggia.
Rescue of Impaired Blood-Brain Barrier in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Patient Derived Neurovascular Unit (preprint). bioRxiv.

Jacquelyn Brown, Shannon Faley, Monika Judge, Patricia Ward, Rebecca Ihrie, Robert Carson, Laura Armstrong, John Wikswo, Kevin Ess, Diana Neely.

Weight Loss–Independent Effect of Liraglutide on Insulin Sensitivity in Individuals With Obesity and Prediabetes. Diabetes.
Mona Mashayekhi*, Hui Nian, Dustin Mayfield, Jorge Gamboa, Heidi Silver, Kevin Niswender, James Luther.

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