Professor Leonid Sazanov and postdoc Ziyu Zhao just published their latest research in @cp-molcell.bsky.social.
Sazanov Lab
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Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Visiting Professor, Imperial College London Structure/function of molecular machines and membrane proteins cryoEM Bioenergetics Fellow of Royal Society and EMBO
Enjoyed a lot Vienna Science Ball with directors of our "Microbiome" Cluster of Excellence. Great Viennese tradition!
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Apple is entering the protein folding arena. SimpleFold: Folding Proteins is Simpler than You Think arxiv.org/abs/2509.18480 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/apple/ml-sim...
How the twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system manages to transport folded proteins across membranes without any leaks? To answer this fundamental question we solved the first structure of TatB3C3 complex with bound cargo. Please check out new preprint! t.co/962Kj9pt6F
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676506v1
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Happy to share new preprint from our collaboration with Peter Nixon group from Imperial College. New insights into Photosystem II assembly/disassembly. t.co/Qac81hZ9kp
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665390v1
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Authors use an elegant transgenic model to demonstrate that acute oral administration of metformin targets mitochondrial complex I to lower blood glucose. A crucial contribution to the debate about the mechanisms of action of #metformin. #metabolism #glucose doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Metformin targets mitochondrial complex I to lower blood glucose levels
Acute oral metformin administration lowers blood glucose levels by targeting mitochondrial complex I.
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Árbol del Tule, Montezuma cypress near Oaxaca in Mexico is amazing. It is the biggest tree in the world by trunk width (14 m diameter). How just a few green needles maintain this tree over 2000 years is a mystery to me.
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Hi, I heard there is cryo-EM starter pack here - how do I join? Many thanks!