Cryo-electron microscopy analysis of small membrane proteins

R Nygaard, J Kim, F Mancia - Current opinion in structural biology, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Cryo-EM is a powerful tool to investigate the structures of membrane
proteins.•Recent technological advancements in the field of cryo-EM have enabled structure …

Advancing the field of viroporins—Structure, function and pharmacology: IUPHAR Review 39

K Devantier, VMS Kjær, S Griffin… - British Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Viroporins possess important potential as antiviral targets due to their critical roles during
virus life cycles, spanning from virus entry to egress. Although the antiviral amantadine …

Routine sub-2.5 Å cryo-EM structure determination of GPCRs

R Danev, M Belousoff, YL Liang, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of small membrane proteins, such as G protein-coupled
receptors (GPCRs), remains challenging. Pushing the performance boundaries of the …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-EM studies of membrane proteins at 200 keV

C Thangaratnarajah, J Rheinberger… - Current Opinion in …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Single-particle cryogenic electron-microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a powerful
technique for the structural characterisation of membrane proteins, especially for targets …

Imaging conformations of holo- and apo-transferrin on the single-molecule level by low-energy electron holography

H Ochner, S Szilagyi, M Edte, TK Esser… - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
Conformational changes play a key role in the biological function of many proteins, thereby
sustaining a multitude of processes essential to life. Thus, the imaging of the conformational …

Molecular dynamics to predict cryo-EM: capturing transitions and short-lived conformational states of biomolecules

Ł Nierzwicki, G Palermo - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized the field of the
structural biology, providing an access to the atomic resolution structures of large …

An all-atom model of the human cardiac sodium channel in a lipid bilayer

GM Knotts, SK Lile, EM Campbell, TA Agee… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Voltage-gated sodium channels (NaV) are complex macromolecular proteins that are
responsible for the initial upstroke of an action potential in excitable cells. Appropriate …

Low-energy electron holography imaging of conformational variability of single-antibody molecules from electrospray ion beam deposition

H Ochner, S Szilagyi, S Abb, J Gault… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Imaging of proteins at the single-molecule level can reveal conformational variability, which
is essential for the understanding of biomolecules. To this end, a biologically relevant state …

Establishing the catalytic and regulatory mechanism of RNA‐based machineries

J Borišek, J Aupič, A Magistrato - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ribonucleoprotein (RNP)‐machineries are comprised of intricate networks of long
noncoding RNAs and proteins that allow them to actively participate in transcription, RNA …

Automated pipelines for rapid evaluation during cryoEM data acquisition

JH Mendez, EYD Chua, M Paraan, CS Potter… - Current Opinion in …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) has become a popular method for determining high-
resolution structures of biomolecules. However, data processing can be time-consuming …