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Leucine-zipper transcription regulator 1 (LZTR1) is a highly mutated tumor suppressor gene, involved in the pathogenesis of several cancer types and developmental disorders. In proteasomal degradation, it acts as an adaptor protein responsible for the recognition and recruitment of substrates to be ubiquitinated in Cullin3-RING ligase E3 (CRL3) machinery. LZTR1 belongs to the BTB-Kelch family, a multi-domain protein where the Kelch propeller plays as the substrate recognition region and for which no experimental structure has been solved. Recently, large effort mutational analyses pointed to the role of disease-associated LZTR1 mutations in the RAS/MAPK signaling pathway and RIT1, a small Ras-related GTPase protein, has been identified by mass spectroscopy to interact with LZTR1. Hence, a better understanding of native structure, molecular mechanism, and substrate specificity would help clarifying the role of LZTR1 in pathological diseases, thus promoting advancement in the development of novel therapeutic strategies. Here, we address the interaction model between adaptor LZTR1 and substrate RIT1 by applying an integrated computational approach, including molecular modeling and docking techniques. We observe that the interaction model LZTR1-RIT1 is stabilized by an electrostatic bond network established between the two protein surfaces, which is reminiscent of homologous ubiquitin ligases complexes. Then, running MD simulations, we characterize differential conformational dynamics of the multi-domain LZTR1, offering interesting implications on the mechanistic role of specific point mutations. We identify G248R and R283Q as damaging mutations involved in the recognition process of the substrate RIT1 and R412C as a possible allosteric mutation from the Kelch to the C-term BTB-domain. Our findings provide important structural insights on targeting CRL3s for drug discovery.Unlike planar photoelectrodes, bendable and malleable photoelectrodes extend their application to mechanical flexibility beyond conventional rigid structures, which have garnered new attention in the field of photoelectrochemical water splitting. A bendable metal (Hastelloy), which has both bendability and compatibility with various oxide layers, allows high-temperature processes for crystallization; therefore it is far superior as a substrate than a conventional flexible polymer. In this study, we fabricate bendable BiVO4 crystalline thin films on the metal substrates by employing template layers (SrRuO3/SrTiO3) to reduce the structural misfits between BiVO4 and the substrate. The crystallinities were verified through X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy, and photocatalytic performances were examined. FIIN-2 inhibitor The crystallinity of BiVO4 was significantly improved by utilizing similar lattice constants and affinities between BiVO4 and the oxide template layers. We also formed a type II heterojunction by adding a WO3 layer which complements the charge separation and charge transfer as a photoanode. The photocurrent densities of tensile-bent BiVO4/WO3 thin films with a bending radius of 10 mm are comparable to those of pristine BiVO4/WO3 thin film in various aqueous electrolytes. Moreover, photostability tests showed that the tensile-bent crystalline photoanodes retained 90% of their initial photocurrent density after 24 h, which proved their exceptional durability. Our work demonstrates that the bendable photoelectrodes with crystallinity hold great potential in terms of device structure for solar-driven water splitting.A rhodium-catalyzed enantioselective construction of triorgano-substituted silicon-stereogenic siloxanes and alkoxysilanes is developed. This process undergoes a direct intermolecular dehydrogenative Si-O coupling between dihydrosilanes with silanols or alocohols, giving access to a variety of highly functionalized chiral siloxanes and alkoxysilanes in decent yields with excellent stereocontrol, that significantly expand the chemical space of the silicon-centered chiral molecules. Further utility of this process was illustrated by the construction of CPL-active (circularly polarized luminescence) silicon-stereogenic alkoxysilane small organic molecules. Optically pure bis-alkoxysilane containing two silicon-stereogenic centers and three pyrene groups displayed a remarkable glum value with a high fluorescence quantum efficiency (glum = 0.011, ΦF = 0.55), which could have great potential application prospects in chiral organic optoelectronic materials.Polymer networks are complex systems consisting of molecular components. Whereas the properties of the individual components are typically well understood by most chemists, translating that chemical insight into polymer networks themselves is limited by the statistical and poorly defined nature of network structures. As a result, it is challenging, if not currently impossible, to extrapolate from the molecular behavior of components to the full range of performance and properties of the entire polymer network. Polymer networks therefore present an unrealized, important, and interdisciplinary opportunity to exert molecular-level, chemical control on material macroscopic properties. A barrier to sophisticated molecular approaches to polymer networks is that the techniques for characterizing the molecular structure of networks are often unfamiliar to many scientists. Here, we present a critical overview of the current characterization techniques available to understand the relation between the molecular properties and the resulting performance and behavior of polymer networks, in the absence of added fillers. We highlight the methods available to characterize the chemistry and molecular-level properties of individual polymer strands and junctions, the gelation process by which strands form networks, the structure of the resulting network, and the dynamics and mechanics of the final material. The purpose is not to serve as a detailed manual for conducting these measurements but rather to unify the underlying principles, point out remaining challenges, and provide a concise overview by which chemists can plan characterization strategies that suit their research objectives. Because polymer networks cannot often be sufficiently characterized with a single method, strategic combinations of multiple techniques are typically required for their molecular characterization.