The results are in: top codes in Stanford #RNA 3D Folding @kaggle.com competition are competitive with CASP16-leading humans Vfold, beat AlphaFold 3. Top team’s trick was template-based modeling, not #DeepLearning. Congrats: john, odat, Eigen, + all 1706 participants! www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Das Lab
Excited to share our new findings in @science.org on how the DRT3 bacterial defense system uses a reverse transcriptase that builds DNA repeats without a nucleic acid template. Microbes never cease to amaze!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
LRRC58 does so by serving as an E3 substrate adaptor that targets CDO1 for ubiquitylation and proteasomal degradation. We found that cysteine itself serves as a molecular signal to turn on and off LRRC58-mediated CDO1 degradation, and LRRC58 depletion stabilizes CDO1 to drive cysteine consumption.
For those who perform thermal proteome profiling (TPP) experiments, you might find this new data analysis approach (and open source Python software) useful. Developed by postdoc @jfhevler.bsky.social 🙏
arxiv.org/abs/2508.096...
