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Protective Dps–DNA co‐crystallization in stressed cells: an in vitro structural study by small‐angle X‐ray scattering and cryo‐electron tomography
FEBS Letters. 2019. Vol. 593. No. 12. P. 1360–1371.
Dadinova L., Chesnokov Y., Kamyshinsky R., Orlov I., Petoukhov M., Mozhaev AA, Soshinskaya E., Lazarev V., Manuvera V., Orekhov A., Vasiliev A., Shtykova E.
Under severe or prolonged stress, bacteria produce a nonspecific DNA-binding protein (Dps), which effectively protects DNA against damaging agents both in vitro and in vivo by forming intracellular biocrystals. The phenomenon of protective crystallization of DNA in living cells has been intensively investigated during the last two decades; however, the results of studies are somewhat contradictory, and up to now, there has been no direct determination of a Dps–DNA crystal structure. Here, we report the in vitro analysis of the vital process of Dps–DNA co-crystallization using two complementary structural methods: synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering in solution and cryo-electron tomography. Importantly, for the first time, the DNA in the co-crystals was visualized, and the lattice parameters of the crystalline Dps–DNA complex were determined.
Ekaterina D. Riumina, Klink G. V., Alekseeva E. et al., PNAS, США 2026 Vol. 123 No. 35 P. 1–20
The role of escape from the cytotoxic T cell (CTL) response in SARS-CoV-2 evolution remains controversial. Here, we study the origin and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants whose mutations reduce presentation by the HLA class I alleles common in human populations. We find that 35% of mutations that are characteristic of the variants of concern, and ...
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Aly Ismailov, Poptsova M., Plos One 2026 Vol. 21 No. 9 Article e0355902
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Knyazev E., Чеботарева О. Е., М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2026.
This teaching and learning guide provides a concise overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the basic skills required to work in a biological laboratory. It also includes protocols for practical classes conducted as part of the introductory professional training placement for first-year students in the Bachelor’s programme in Cell and Molecular Biotechnology at ...
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Ryskina H., Knyazev E., Вопросы биологической, медицинской и фармацевтической химии 2026 Т. 29 № 9 С. 84–91
Introduction. The active integration of rapidly developing omics and computer technologies in the 21st century has led to a breakthrough in understanding the principles of the functioning of living systems. One of the dynamically developing integrative areas in biology is biological modeling. The fundamental paradigm has been the methodology that allows for the prediction of ...
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Gureev M., Advanced Science 2026 P. 1–13
Targeted protein degradation represents a promising therapeutic strategy, yet its broader application is often limited by the scarcity of usable E3 ligases. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) is a key target for inducing ferroptosis, but achieving sustained and potent inhibition remains challenging with conventional enzymatic inhibitors. Herein, we report the first small‐molecule GPX4 degraders that incorporate ...
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Diachkova E., Nikulin D., Кубкин Я. В. et al., American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2026 Vol. 212
Accurate classification of a patient with pulmonary hypertension (PH) into one of five groups is fundamental for appropriate disease management strategies. The time from disease onset to correct diagnosis is unacceptably long in many cases. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) develops as a consequence of venous thromboemboli, resulting in a more pronounced hereditary predisposition to ...
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Xu Y., Ryabov F., Alexandrov I. et al., USA 2026 Vol. 6 No. 8 Article 101324
Центромеры обеспечивают расхождение хромосом, однако организацию их хроматина в пределах повторяющейся альфа-сателлитной ДНК долгое время было трудно изучать. Для решения этой задачи мы создали гаплотип-разрешённые аннотации сателлитной ДНК для полной диплоидной сборки генома человека T2T-HG002. Затем с помощью метода направленного метилирования с секвенированием длинных прочтений (DiMeLo-seq) мы картировали центромерный белок A (CENP-A), модификацию H3K9me3 и ...
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Hebbar P., Ryabov F., Alexandrov I. et al., Cell 2026 Vol. 189 P. 4891–4908.e12
The common marmoset is a New World monkey widely used to study primate evolution and human disease. We present a telomere-to-telomere (T2T) reference assembly for the species, plus three near-T2T haplotypes. These resolve previously inaccessible regions, including the centromeres, sex chromosomes, subterminal satellites, acrocentric chromosomes, and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). We find marmoset centromeres ...
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Shaitan A., Ke Y., Shutao C. et al., 2026 No. 24 Article 181
Background Therapeutic peptides exert pivotal effects in diverse biological processes, and have attracted significant interest in the field of biomedicine in recent years. However, most existing methods often fail to adequately capture the intricate interactions among amino acid residues and the contextual dependencies within peptide sequences, which hampers the extraction of deep semantic representations and ...
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Anton Rogachev, Sysoeva O., Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2025 Vol. 19 Article 1658243
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Anton Rogachev, Sysoeva O., Cognitive Systems Research 2024 Vol. 86 Article 101236
Receptive speech is the ability to understand speech addressed to a person. It is a crucial process for a child’s cognitive development. We examine the relationship between receptive speech and neural tracking of natural speech in 52 children aged 3–8 years to infer the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech development. We registered a 32-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) ...
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Чеботарева О. Е., Пирогов А. А., Antipenko I. et al., Доклады российской академии наук. Науки о жизни 2026 Т. 529 № 1 С. 389–395
Preeclampsia (PE) is a severe obstetric complication caused by chronic placental ischaemia. Genome-wide profiling of microRNA isoforms in two trophoblast hypoxia models (CoCl2 and the oxyquinoline derivative neuradapt, BeWo b30 cells) and clinical PE samples (placental tissue, syncytiotrophoblast vesicles) revealed concordant downregulation of hsa-miR-143-3p isoforms. Under a strict fold-change threshold, the canonical isoform (21 nt) ...
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Poddiakov A., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026. No. 7437658.
Clarity of knowledge and reasoning is necessary in many cases. Yet vagueness in scientific thinking related to surprise, curiosity, "ability to engage with not-knowing" (de Freitas) and abductive reasoning is also a crucially important source of scientific creativity which supplements combinatorial logic when dealing with the already known. Starting from studies by C. S. Peirce ...
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Bug D. S., Kuzovenkova D. A., Tishkov A. V. et al., Biochemical Genetics 2026
Deciphering the evolutionary history of genes is foundational for biomedical research, enabling the identification of compensatory mutations in disease-associated genes and the selection of evolutionarily relevant model organisms. However, challenges of multi-isoform handling, the presence of incomplete genomes/proteomes initial datasets, and problems of evolutionary history representation are still present. To address these issues, we introduce ...
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Ребрейкина А. Б., Liaukovich K., Современная зарубежная психология 2024 Т. 13 № 2 С. 33–43
Создание методик диагностики на основе анализа движений глаз является особенно актуальным для оценки когнитивных функций у детей, которые не могут дать речевой или моторный ответ в силу своего возраста или из-за нарушений развития. Для таких детей использование объективных методов оценки когнитивных функций на основе айтрекинга может стать полезным диагностическим инструментом, дополняющим традиционные поведенческие опросники и ...
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Ребрейкина А. Б., Liaukovich K., Современная зарубежная психология 2023 Т. 12 № 4 С. 51–61
Активное развитие метода видеоокулографии, т. е. регистрации движений глаз, создает возможности для создания новых подходов для развития когнитивных функций и обучения. Методики, основанные на видеоокулографии, могут быть полезны не только для детей с серьезными нарушениями моторных функций, но и детей с нарушениями развития когнитивных функций, прежде всего внимания, так как контроль движений глаз тесно связан ...
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Портнова Г. В., Liaukovich K., Васильева Л. Н. et al., Журнал высшей нервной деятельности им. И.П. Павлова 2022 Т. 72 № 4 С. 504–519
Когнитивная и эмоциональная нагрузка в ходе увеличения сложности задач приводит к активации различных звеньев вегетативной нервной системы и может сопровождаться как увеличением эффективности решения задач, так и способствовать дестабилизации эмоционального состояния и уменьшению продуктивности. Увеличение когнитивной нагрузки при условии высокой мотивации испытуемых является стрессовым фактором и выражается в различной реакции симпатического и парасимпатического звеньев в ...
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Shaitan A., Ke Y., Hongjun Y. et al., PLoS Computational Biology 2026 Article e1013836
The interaction between peptides and human leukocyte antigen class II (HLA-II)
molecules plays a pivotal role in adaptive immune responses, as HLA-II mediates
the recognition of exogenous antigens and initiates T cell activation through peptide
presentation. Accurate prediction of peptide-HLA-II binding serves as a cornerstone
for deciphering cellular immune responses, and is essential for guiding the optimization
of antibody therapeutics. ...
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Gribkova A., Armeev G. A., Kirpichnikov M. et al., Nucleic Acids Research 2026 Vol. 54 No. 2 Article gkaf1489
The full complement of chromatin-associated proteins—collectively referred to as the chromatome—enables genome functioning in eukaryotes by participating in a wide range of physico-chemical processes. These include mediating diverse specific and nonspecific intermolecular interactions, catalyzing in situ synthesis and modification of macromolecules, facilitating ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling, etc. Despite considerable progress in epigenomics and the structural characterization ...
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Amaro R., Åqvist J., Bahar I. et al., Nature Methods 2025 Vol. 22 P. 641–645
The communities that embraced data archiving efforts decades ago are now, in the era of data-driven biology, gaining the most from the AI revolution. The structural biology community was a pioneer in this regard, establishing the Protein Data Bank in 1971 and making data accessible using the FAIR principles even before these were articulated1,2. The ...
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Beknazarov N., Dmitry Konovalov, Herbert A. et al., Scientific Reports 2024 Vol. 14 Article 17786
A long-standing question concerns the role of Z-DNA in transcription. Here we use a deep learning approach DeepZ that predicts Z-flipons based on DNA sequence, structural properties of nucleotides and omics data. We examined Z-flipons that are conserved between human and mouse genomes after generating whole-genome Z-flipon maps and then validated them by orthogonal approaches ...
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Shtykova E., Petoukhov M., Mozhaev AA et al., Journal of biological chemistry 2019 Vol. 294 No. 47 P. 17790–17798
Insulin receptor–related receptor (IRR) is a receptor tyrosine kinase of the insulin receptor family and functions as an extracellular alkali sensor that controls metabolic alkalosis in the regulation of the acid–base balance. In the present work, we sought to analyze structural features of IRR by comparing them with those of the insulin receptor, which is ...
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Kamyshinsky R., Chesnokov Y., Dadinova L. et al., Biomolecules 2019 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 39–0
Rapid increase of intracellular synthesis of specific histone-like Dps protein that binds DNA to protect the genome against deleterious factors leads to in cellulo crystallization—one of the most curious processes in the area of life science at the moment. However, the actual structure of the Dps–DNA co-crystals remained uncertain in the details for more than ...
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Petoukhov M., Konarev P., Volkov V. et al., Biochemistry, Supplemental Series A 2021 Vol. 15 No. 3 P. 270–283
The construction of three-dimensional models of protein macromolecules is a serious challenge due to the possible ambiguity of solving the inverse problem of reconstructing a three-dimensional structure from a one-dimensional small-angle scattering profile. The target function of this task can have several local minima, which leads to the dependence of the solution on the initial ...
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