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A recent Angewandte Chemie paper by the Vagstad and Piel groups (IMB) illuminates key mechanistic features of the unusual conversion of tyrosine residues to α-keto-β-amino acids by post-translational spliceases. Such ketoamide moieties are clinically used protease-inhibiting pharmacophores.
A recent “Nucleic Acids Research” paper by the Sunagawa group (IMB) showcases the new mOTUs online database (mOTUs-db), a resource which allows to select and download genomes from host- associated and environmental microbiomes, representing the largest prokaryotic genome collection to date.
A recent "Cell Reports" paper by the Oxenius group (IMB) demonstrates a role of targeted centrosome inheritance during CD8+ T cell division for the generation of memory precursor cells.
