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A pathogen lncRNA secreted into rice sequesters a host miRNA for virulence

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By: Min He · Jia Su · Xiaogang Zhou · Tuo Qi · Jiazheng Wang · Tianxin Zhang · Jinhua Chen · Mawsheng Chern · Youpin Xu · Xiang Lu · Qingqing Hou · Hongrui Liu · Wenfang Huang · Jiawei Liu · Shiying Li · Yunfei Zhu · Xue Chen · Senyu Ran · Han Li · Renju Liu · Mingliang Lei · Guosong Shu · Haicheng Liao · Junjie Yin · Xiaobo Zhu · Yongyan Tang · Li Song · Long Wang · Qing Xiong · Jiali Liu · Yu Bi · Yihua Yang · Hai Qing · Bingtian Ma · Yan Li · Jing Fan · Peng Qin · Yuping Wang · Jianming Wu · Wenming Wang · Shigui Li · Weitao Li · Jing Wang · Xuewei Chen

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10572-x

A fungal long non-coding RNA from Magnaporthe oryzae translocates into rice cells to sequester a host microRNA that normally represses PKR1, a negative immunity regulator, thereby facilitating infection and revealing a widespread RNA-based pathogen–host interaction mechanism.
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De novo design of quasisymmetric two-component protein cages

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By: Shunzhi Wang · Ying Xie · David Chemielewski · Connor Weidle · Tong Shu · Green Ahn · Ryan D. Kibler · Cindy Hernandez · Wei Chen · David Camilo Duran · Ann Carr · Asim K. Bera · Sangmin Lee · Justin Decarreau · Alex Kang · Evans Brackenbrough · Emily Joyce · Kejia Wu · Andrew J. Borst · Andrew Favor · Buwei Huang · Frank DiMaio · Liam J. Holt · David Baker

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10464-0

Researchers designed two-component proteins forming quasisymmetric cages via geometric frustration, enabling tunable virus-like assemblies for cargo delivery, cellular uptake and studying intracellular diffusion and protein localization.
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