Cryo-electron tomography on focused ion beam lamellae transforms structural cell biology

C Berger, N Premaraj, RBG Ravelli, K Knoops… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryogenic electron microscopy and data processing enable the determination of structures
of isolated macromolecules to near-atomic resolution. However, these data do not provide …

Bringing structure to cell biology with cryo-electron tomography

LN Young, E Villa - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy have marked only the beginning of the
potential of this technique. To bring structure into cell biology, the modality of cryo-electron …

AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

S Mosalaganti, A Obarska-Kosinska, M Siggel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The eukaryotic nucleus protects the genome and is enclosed by the two
membranes of the nuclear envelope. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) perforate the nuclear …

Cross-linking mass spectrometry for investigating protein conformations and protein–protein Interactions─ A method for all seasons

L Piersimoni, PL Kastritis, C Arlt, A Sinz - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry (MS) has become one of the key technologies of structural biology. In this
review, the contributions of chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry (XL …

Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo

CE Zimmerli, M Allegretti, V Rantos, SK Goetz… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The nucleus harbors and protects the genetic information in eukaryotes. It
is surrounded by the nuclear envelope, which separates the nucleoplasm from the cytosol …

The cellular environment shapes the nuclear pore complex architecture

AP Schuller, M Wojtynek, D Mankus, M Tatli… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) create large conduits for cargo transport between the
nucleus and cytoplasm across the nuclear envelope (NE),–. These multi-megadalton …

Cone-shaped HIV-1 capsids are transported through intact nuclear pores

V Zila, E Margiotta, B Turoňová, TG Müller, CE Zimmerli… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) remains a major health threat. Viral capsid
uncoating and nuclear import of the viral genome are critical for productive infection. The …

Convolutional networks for supervised mining of molecular patterns within cellular context

I de Teresa-Trueba, SK Goetz, A Mattausch… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomograms capture a wealth of structural information on the molecular
constituents of cells and tissues. We present DeePiCt (deep picker in context), an open …

Translation dynamics in human cells visualized at high resolution reveal cancer drug action

H **ng, R Taniguchi, I Khusainov, JP Kreysing… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ribosomes catalyze protein synthesis by cycling through various functional states. These
states have been extensively characterized in vitro, but their distribution in actively …

Architecture of the cytoplasmic face of the nuclear pore

CJ Bley, S Nie, GW Mobbs, S Petrovic, AT Gres, X Liu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cytoplasmic face of the human NPC. Near-atomic composite structure of
the NPC generated by docking high-resolution crystal structures into a cryo‑ET …