Structural energetics of cold sensitivity
Lead A team led by Yifan Cheng and David Julius reports (Nature, 25 March 2026) high-resolution structures and local energetic measurements that explain how the cold receptor TRPM8 senses temperature. Using cryo-EM of cell-derived membrane vesicles together with hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX–MS), the authors capture two interconverting architectures—a canonical “fully swapped” and a newly … Read more