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Structural insights into how the FtsEX system breaks down peptidoglycan during cell division

Li J; He Y; Xu X; Alcorlo M; Shi J; Naskar S; Briggs NS; Roper DI; Hermoso JA; Sham LT; Luo M

This study shows how a bacterial protein team called FtsEX helps control cell division by turning on enzymes that cut the cell wall at the right time. The researchers found that ATP helps hold the complex together, and that EnvC makes FtsEX work faster, giving clues about how bacteria carefully split into two cells.

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Loose Link Between Calcium Channels and Release Sensors as a Synaptic Sign of Higher Brain Function

Bornschein G; Schwarze M; Brunner A; Arshia A; Brachtendorf S; Schmidt H

The study found that brain cells in two mouse brain areas, the prefrontal cortex and the somatosensory cortex, have the same kind of synapses but work in different ways. In the prefrontal cortex, these synapses were more loosely connected, while in the somatosensory cortex they were more tightly connected, which changed how fast and well they worked.

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