Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …

How cryo-EM is revolutionizing structural biology

XC Bai, G McMullan, SHW Scheres - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2015 - cell.com
For many years, structure determination of biological macromolecules by cryo-electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) was limited to large complexes or low-resolution models. With recent …

3DFlex: determining structure and motion of flexible proteins from cryo-EM

A Punjani, DJ Fleet - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Modeling flexible macromolecules is one of the foremost challenges in single-particle
cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), with the potential to illuminate fundamental …

A Bayesian approach to single-particle electron cryo-tomography in RELION-4.0

J Zivanov, J Otón, Z Ke, A von Kügelgen, E Pyle, K Qu… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
We present a new approach for macromolecular structure determination from multiple
particles in electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET) data sets. Whereas existing subtomogram …

3D variability analysis: Resolving continuous flexibility and discrete heterogeneity from single particle cryo-EM

A Punjani, DJ Fleet - Journal of structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Single particle cryo-EM excels in determining static structures of protein molecules, but
existing 3D reconstruction methods have been ineffective in modelling flexible proteins. We …

Characterisation of molecular motions in cryo-EM single-particle data by multi-body refinement in RELION

T Nakane, D Kimanius, E Lindahl, SHW Scheres - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Macromolecular complexes that exhibit continuous forms of structural flexibility pose a
challenge for many existing tools in cryo-EM single-particle analysis. We describe a new …

Deep learning-based mixed-dimensional Gaussian mixture model for characterizing variability in cryo-EM

M Chen, SJ Ludtke - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Structural flexibility and/or dynamic interactions with other molecules is a critical aspect of
protein function. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides direct visualization of …

Processing of structurally heterogeneous cryo-EM data in RELION

SHW Scheres - Methods in enzymology, 2016 - Elsevier
This chapter describes algorithmic advances in the RELION software, and how these are
used in high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure determination. Since …

Unravelling biological macromolecules with cryo-electron microscopy

R Fernandez-Leiro, SHW Scheres - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of the three-dimensional structures of proteins and other biological
macromolecules often aids understanding of how they perform complicated tasks in the cell …

[HTML][HTML] RELION: implementation of a Bayesian approach to cryo-EM structure determination

SHW Scheres - Journal of structural biology, 2012 - Elsevier
RELION, for REgularized LIkelihood OptimizatioN, is an open-source computer program for
the refinement of macromolecular structures by single-particle analysis of electron cryo …