Challenges and opportunities in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

D Lyumkis - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables structure determination of
macromolecular objects and their assemblies. Although the techniques have been …

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 …

New tools for automated high-resolution cryo-EM structure determination in RELION-3

J Zivanov, T Nakane, BO Forsberg, D Kimanius… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Here, we describe the third major release of RELION. CPU-based vector acceleration has
been added in addition to GPU support, which provides flexibility in use of resources 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 …

[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 …

Mass spectrometry-based protein footprinting for higher-order structure analysis: fundamentals and applications

XR Liu, MM Zhang, ML Gross - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins adopt different higher-order structures (HOS) to enable their unique biological
functions. Understanding the complexities of protein higher-order structures and dynamics …

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 …

Structure of the TRPV1 ion channel determined by electron cryo-microscopy

M Liao, E Cao, D Julius, Y Cheng - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are sensors for a wide range of cellular and
environmental signals, but elucidating how these channels respond to physical and …

[HTML][HTML] Single-particle cryo-EM at crystallographic resolution

Y Cheng - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Until only a few years ago, single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) was usually
not the first choice for many structural biologists due to its limited resolution in the range of …

The development of cryo-EM into a mainstream structural biology technique

E Nogales - Nature methods, 2016 - nature.com
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged over the last two decades
as a technique capable of studying challenging systems that otherwise defy structural …