Cryo-EM: beyond the microscope

LA Earl, V Falconieri, JLS Milne… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•The number of structures determined by cryo-EM is continuing to grow
rapidly.•Computational methods are hel** resolve conformational heterogeneity.• …

Cryo-EM as a powerful tool for drug discovery

JH Van Drie, L Tong - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent revolution in cryo-EM has produced an explosion of structures at near-atomic or
better resolution. This has allowed cryo-EM structures to provide visualization of bound …

[HTML][HTML] Breaking cryo-EM resolution barriers to facilitate drug discovery

A Merk, A Bartesaghi, S Banerjee, V Falconieri, P Rao… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Recent advances in single-particle cryoelecton microscopy (cryo-EM) are enabling
generation of numerous near-atomic resolution structures for well-ordered protein …

A fully automatic method yielding initial models from high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy maps

TC Terwilliger, PD Adams, PV Afonine, OV Sobolev - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
We report a fully automated procedure for the optimization and interpretation of
reconstructions from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data, available in Phenix as …

Sirtuin5 contributes to colorectal carcinogenesis by enhancing glutaminolysis in a deglutarylation-dependent manner

YQ Wang, HL Wang, J Xu, J Tan, LN Fu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Reversible post-translational modifications represent a mechanism to control tumor
metabolism. Here we show that mitochondrial Sirtuin5 (SIRT5), which mediates lysine …

The involvement of allosteric effectors and post‐translational modifications in the control of plant central carbon metabolism

MD Hartman, BE Rojas, AA Iglesias… - The Plant …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant metabolism is finely orchestrated to allow the occurrence of complementary and
sometimes opposite metabolic pathways. In part this is achieved by the allosteric regulation …

Technologies for direct detection of covalent protein–drug adducts

E Mons, RQ Kim, MPC Mulder - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the past two decades, drug candidates with a covalent binding mode have gained the
interest of medicinal chemists, as several covalent anticancer drugs have successfully …

The knowns and unknowns in protein–metabolite interactions

I Kurbatov, G Dolgalev, V Arzumanian… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Increasing attention has been focused on the study of protein–metabolite interactions (PMI),
which play a key role in regulating protein functions and directing an orchestra of cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Optical tweezers for drug discovery

MTJ Halma, JA Tuszynski, GJL Wuite - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Studying biomolecular folding with optical tweezers grants high dynamic
range.•Combining optical tweezers with molecular dynamics simulation enables accurate …

The 2.8 Å electron microscopy structure of adeno-associated virus-DJ bound by a heparinoid pentasaccharide

Q **e, JM Spear, AJ Noble, DR Sousa… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2017 - cell.com
Atomic structures of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-DJ, alone and in complex with
fondaparinux, have been determined by cryoelectron microscopy at 3 Å resolution. The …