Jonathan Pruneda

jnpruneda.bsky.social

22 October 2026 06:06

Just in time for Halloween, we've posted a new preprint on zombie deubiquitinases! As it turns out, standard #DUB catalytic mutants aren't truly dead - they've just become zombies that are still capable of removing noncanonical, ester-linked #ubiquitin signals...

Joanna Bagniewska

joannabagniewska.com

04 September 2026 11:18

Kissing definition: “non-agonistic interactions involving directed, intraspecific, oral-oral contact with some movement of the lips/mouthparts and no food transfer” in ants, birds, polar bears and humans. (Provided by researchers from @biology.ox.ac.uk 💚) 💋🧪

Joanna Bagniewska

joannabagniewska.com

04 September 2026 11:18

The IgNobel for Biomechanics goes to @matildabrindle.bsky.social, @stuwest.bsky.social and C. Talbot for a precise definition of kissing (provided in the comment below). That's well and good, but I think Dr Brindle's work on non-reproductive sex behaviours should be getting an IgNobel too. 🧪💋

Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

lindorfflarsen.bsky.social

19 July 2026 08:52

It’s time for the World Cup final with one of the greatest footballers that may be playing his last cup So time for a short thread on a link between Messi and an intrinsically disordered protein. 1/n

Rune Busk Damgaard

rbdamgaard.bsky.social

07 July 2026 11:14

🚨New preprint!🚨 Lack of specific affinity reagents hinders studies of signalling mechanisms. We show that sdAbs provide a robust scaffold for making linkage-specific ubiquitin binders, exemplified by 2A6, a versatile reagent for M1-linked ubiquitin chains. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...