The International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw has a pleasure to announce the best IIMCB papers in 2015. The best papers are selected by Institute’s Principal Investigators based on their contents and significance, but not the bibliometric data (more information in IIMCB best papers award - Regulation of the voting).

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Best IIMCB papers in 2015 selected by Institute’s PIs in secret voting
(in alphabetical order):

• SimRNA: a coarse-grained method for RNA folding simulations and 3D structure prediction.

Boniecki MJ, Lach G, Dawson WK, Tomala K, Lukasz P, Soltysinski T, Rother KM, Bujnicki JM. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015. (pdf)

• Retro-translocation of mitochondrial intermembrane space proteins.

Bragoszewski P, Wasilewski M, Sakowska P, Gornicka A, Böttinger L, Qiu J, Wiedemann N, Chacinska A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015. (pdf)

• Structural and Mechanistic Analysis of the Slx1-Slx4 Endonuclease.

Gaur V, Wyatt HD, Komorowska W, Szczepanowski RH, de Sanctis D, Gorecka KM, West SC, Nowotny M. Cell Rep. 2015. (pdf)

• Sequence-specific cleavage of dsRNA by Mini-III RNase.

Głów D, Pianka D, Sulej AA, Kozłowski ŁP, Czarnecka J, Chojnowski G, Skowronek KJ, Bujnicki JM. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015. (pdf)

• Tuberous sclerosis complex neuropathology requires glutamate-cysteine ligase.

Malik AR, Liszewska E, Skalecka A, Urbanska M, Iyer AM, Swiech LJ, Perycz M, Parobczak K, Pietruszka P, Zarebska MM, Macias M, Kotulska K, Borkowska J, Grajkowska W, Tyburczy ME, Jozwiak S, Kwiatkowski DJ, Aronica E, Jaworski J. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2015 Jul 30;3:48. (pdf)

• Endocytic Adaptor Protein Tollip Inhibits Canonical Wnt Signaling.

Toruń A, Szymańska E, Castanon I, Wolińska-Nizioł L, Bartosik A, Jastrzębski K, Miętkowska M, González-Gaitán M, Miaczynska M. PLoS One. 2015. (pdf)

• Mistargeted mitochondrial proteins activate a proteostatic response in the cytosol.

Wrobel L, Topf U, Bragoszewski P, Wiese S, Sztolsztener ME, Oeljeklaus S, Varabyova A, Lirski M, Chroscicki P, Mroczek S, Januszewicz E, Dziembowski A, Koblowska M, Warscheid B, Chacinska A. Nature. 2015. (Abstract)