Meet the authors: Ying Lu, Donghoon Lee, and Yanan Zhu.

We talk to co-first authors Donghoon Lee and Yanan Zhu and co-corresponding author Ying Lu about their paper "Molecular mechanism for activation of the 26S proteasome by ZFAND5" (this issue of Molecular Cell), the challenges of the project, their scientific pathways, and the late Dr. Alfred Goldberg.