Can CO2 be fixed into useful feedstock chemicals by enzymes?

Congratulations to Frederik Schmidt on being award one of the @GDCh_BioChem Young Scientist Awards for his work on the biochemical and structural characterization of an iron nitrogenase with potential for this application.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-023-01124-2
#Biochemistry #Chemistry #StructuralBiology #CO2Fixation

#AlphaFoldDB now has binary protein complexes!

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/technology-and-innovation/first-complexes-alphafold-database/

#AlphaFold #AlphaFold2 #StructuralBiology

Technical Notes: This month's software push includes updates to Ais, AlphaFold3, Boltzgen, Bowtie2, CellProfiler, ChimeraX, CryoMaskR, CryoSPARC-tools, Foldseek, IsoNet2, Protenix, RDKit, and upside2-md.

More here: https://sbgrid.org/software/recent/archive/2026/02/

#SBGrid #Software #StructuralBiology

Join our software webinar on March 10th to hear from Joshua Mitchell from the Open Molecular Software Foundation on Open Force Field Initiative. '

Tues, March 10, 2026 12:00PM ET
Josh Mitchell
Science Communicator, Open Force Field

Register here: https://sbgrid.org/webinars/

#SBGrid #Webinars #StructuralBiology

Meharry Medical College student Mudiare Ikoba chose to highlight a publication in Nature Communications from the laboratory of Ed Twomey of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in which the authors characterize structural features of the AMPA-subtype glutamate receptor GluA4 subunit using cryoEM to clarify functionality within the protein.

Read more here: https://medium.com/sbgrid-community-news/how-signals-move-through-the-brain-0b7be0a3d94f

#SBGrid #StructuralBiology

Postdoctoral fellow in molecular microbiology and immunology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/nyu-grossman-school-of-medicine-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-molecular-microbiology-and-immunology/

#biochemistry #genetics #immunology #microbiology #structuralbiology #ScienceJobs #hiring #researc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/nyu-grossman-school-of-medicine-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-molecular-microbiology-and-immunology/?fsp_sid=10049

New Title Alert: ThermoMPNN- is a graph neural network (GNN) designed to predict changes in stability for protein point mutants using transfer learning.

Learn more here: https://github.com/Kuhlman-Lab/ThermoMPNN

#SBGrid #SBGridSoftware #StructuralBiology

If it is closed source and I cannot use it, then it does not exist and quite frankly, who cares ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

‘An AlphaFold 4’ – scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI
#StructuralBiology #Science @strucbio

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00365-7

New Title Alert: MagCalEM- Accurate magnification determination for cryoEM determining the correct magnified pixel size of single-particle cryoEM micrographs is necessary to maximise resolution and enable accurate model building.

Learn more here: https://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/crusso/magCalEM/index.html

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