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. 2015 Feb 23;24(3):i–iv. doi: 10.1002/pro.2563

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PROTEIN SCIENCE A PUBLICATION OF THE PROTEIN SOCIETY

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

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265 Protein Science Best Paper awards to Chih-Chia (Jack) Su and Minttu Virkki

Brian W. Matthews

Reviews

267 Emerging applications of small angle solution scattering in structural biology

Barnali N. Chaudhuri

277 Role of membrane contact sites in protein import into mitochondria

Susanne E. Horvath, Heike Rampelt, Silke Oeljeklaus, Bettina Warscheid, Martin van der Laan, and Nikolaus Pfanner

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298 The structural basis for specificity in lipoxygenase catalysis

Marcia E. Newcomer and Alan R. Brash

Articles

310 Specific ion effects on macromolecular interactions in Escherichia coli extracts

Ciara Kyne, Brian Ruhle, Virginie W. Gautier, and Peter B. Crowley

319 Molecular modeling and computational analyses suggests that the Sinorhizobium meliloti periplasmic regulator protein ExoR adopts a superhelical fold and is controlled by a unique mechanism of proteolysis

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328 Structural features of interfacial tyrosine residue in ROBO1

fibronectin domain-antibody complex: Crystallographic, thermodynamic, and molecular dynamic analyses

Taisuke Nakayama, Eiichi Mizohata, Takefumi Yamashita, Satoru Nagatoishi, Makoto Nakakido, Hiroko Iwanari, Yasuhiro Mochizuki, Yuji Kado, Yuki Yokota, Reiko Satoh, Kouhei Tsumoto, Hideaki Fujitani, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Takao Hamakubo, and Tsuyoshi Inoue

341 Exploring the folding pathway of green fluorescent protein through disulfide engineering

Derek J. Pitman, Shounak Banerjee, Stephen J. Macari, Christopher A. Castaldi, Donna E. Crone, and Christopher Bystroff

354 Kinetics and thermodynamics of metal-binding to histone deacetylase 8

Byungchul Kim, Amit S. Pithadia, and Carol A. Fierke

366 Change in structure and ligand binding properties of hyperstable

cytochrome c555 from Aquifex aeolicus by domain swapping

Masaru Yamanaka, Satoshi Nagao, Hirofumi Komori, Yoshiki Higuchi, and Shun Hirota

376 Crystal structure of afadin PDZ domain–nectin-3 complex shows the structural plasticity of the ligand-binding site

Yoshie Fujiwara, Natsuko Goda, Tomonari Tamashiro, Hirotaka Narita, Kaori Satomura, Takeshi Tenno, Atsushi Nakagawa, Masayuki Oda, Mamoru Suzuki, Toshiaki Sakisaka, Yoshimi Takai, and Hidekazu Hiroaki

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386 Crystal structure and functional analysis of MiD49, a receptor for the

mitochondrial fission protein Drp1

Oliver C. Losóon, Shuxia Meng, Huu Ngo, Raymond Liu, Jens T. Kaiser, and David C. Chan

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395 Structural basis for acceptor-substrate recognition of UDP-glucose:

anthocyanidin 3-O-glucosyltransferase from Clitoria ternatea

Takeshi Hiromoto, Eijiro Honjo, Naonobu Noda, Taro Tamada, Kohei Kazuma, Masahiko Suzuki, Michael Blaber, and Ryota Kuroki

408 Structure, activity, and stability of metagenome-derived glycoside hydrolase family 9 endoglucanase with an N-terminal Ig-like domain

Hiroyuki Okano, Eiko Kanaya, Masashi Ozaki, Clement Angkawidjaja, and Shigenori Kanaya

For the Record

420 K114 (trans, trans)-bromo-2,5-bis(4-hydroxystyryl)benzene is an efficient detector of cationic amyloid fibrils

Veli Selmani, Kevin J. Robbins, Valerie A. Ivancic, and Noel D. Lazo

426 C-terminal juxtamembrane region of full-length M2 protein forms a

membrane surface associated amphipathic helix

Shenstone Huang, Bryan Green, Megan Thompson, Richard Chen, Jessica Thomaston, William F. DeGrado, and Kathleen P. Howard

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