[HTML][HTML] Overview of membrane protein sample preparation for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy analysis

C Vénien-Bryan, CAH Fernandes - International journal of molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM SPA) has recently emerged as an
exceptionally well-suited technique for determining the structure of membrane proteins …

Better Cryo-EM specimen preparation: how to deal with the air–water interface?

N Liu, HW Wang - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is now one of the most powerful and widely used
methods to determine high-resolution structures of macromolecules. A major bottleneck of …

Overcoming the preferred-orientation problem in cryo-EM with self-supervised deep learning

YT Liu, H Fan, JJ Hu, ZH Zhou - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
While advances in single-particle cryo-EM have enabled the structural determination of
macromolecular complexes at atomic resolution, particle orientation bias (the …

Lipid nanoparticle-targeted mRNA formulation as a treatment for ornithine-transcarbamylase deficiency model mice

K Yamazaki, K Kubara, S Ishii, K Kondo… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) plays a significant role in the urea cycle, a metabolic
pathway functioning in the liver to detoxify ammonia. OTC deficiency (OTCD) is the most …

Biochemical and structural characterization of Rab3GAP reveals insights into Rab18 nucleotide exchange activity

GMJ Fairlie, KM Nguyen, SE Nam, AL Shaw… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
The heterodimeric Rab3GAP complex is a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for the
Rab18 GTPase that regulates lipid droplet metabolism, ER-to-Golgi trafficking, secretion …

Recent technical advances in sample preparation for single-particle cryo-EM

Y Xu, S Dang - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cryo-sample preparation is a vital step in the process of obtaining high-resolution structures
of macromolecules by using the single-particle cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) method; …

Structural basis for activity switching in polymerases determining the fate of let-7 pre-miRNAs

G Yi, M Ye, L Carrique, A El-Sagheer, T Brown… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Tumor-suppressor let-7 pre-microRNAs (miRNAs) are regulated by terminal
uridylyltransferases TUT7 and TUT4 that either promote let-7 maturation by adding a single …

Cryo-EM structure of influenza helical nucleocapsid reveals NP-NP and NP-RNA interactions as a model for the genome encapsidation

F Chenavier, LF Estrozi, JM Teulon, E Zarkadas… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Influenza virus genome encapsidation is essential for the formation of a helical viral
ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complex composed of nucleoproteins (NP), the trimeric …

CryoEM grid preparation: a closer look at advancements and impact of preparation mode and new approaches

IJ Hirst, WJR Thomas, RA Davies… - Biochemical Society …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Sample preparation can present a significant hurdle within single particle cryo-electron
microscopy (cryoEM), resulting in issues with reproducibility, data quality or an inability to …

Structural and functional characterization of the Sin Nombre virus L protein

K Meier, SR Thorkelsson, Q Durieux Trouilleton… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Bunyavirales order is a large and diverse group of segmented negative-strand RNA
viruses. Several virus families within this order contain important human pathogens …