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 …

Prospects and limitations of high-resolution single-particle cryo-electron microscopy

A Chari, H Stark - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has matured into a robust method for the
determination of biological macromolecule structures in the past decade, complementing X …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and opportunities in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

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

Quantifying the heterogeneity of macromolecular machines by mass photometry

A Sonn-Segev, K Belacic, T Bodrug, G Young… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sample purity is central to in vitro studies of protein function and regulation, and to the
efficiency and success of structural studies using techniques such as x-ray crystallography …

[HTML][HTML] An introduction to sample preparation and imaging by cryo-electron microscopy for structural biology

RF Thompson, M Walker, CA Siebert, SP Muench… - Methods, 2016 - Elsevier
Transmission electron microscopy (EM) is a versatile technique that can be used to image
biological specimens ranging from intact eukaryotic cells to individual proteins> 150 kDa …

The cryo-electron microscopy structure of huntingtin

Q Guo, B Huang, J Cheng, M Seefelder, T Engler… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Huntingtin (HTT) is a large (348 kDa) protein that is essential for embryonic development
and is involved in diverse cellular activities such as vesicular transport, endocytosis …

The inhibition mechanism of human 20S proteasomes enables next-generation inhibitor design

J Schrader, F Henneberg, RA Mata, K Tittmann… - Science, 2016 - science.org
The proteasome is a validated target for anticancer therapy, and proteasome inhibition is
employed in the clinic for the treatment of tumors and hematological malignancies. Here, we …

Protein-adaptive differential scanning fluorimetry using conformationally responsive dyes

T Wu, JC Yu, A Suresh, ZJ Gale-Day, MG Alteen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Differential scanning fluorimetry (DSF) is a technique that reports protein thermal stability via
the selective recognition of unfolded states by fluorogenic dyes. However, DSF applications …

Approaches to altering particle distributions in cryo-electron microscopy sample preparation

I Drulyte, RM Johnson, EL Hesketh… - Biological …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can now be used to determine high-resolution structural
information on a diverse range of biological specimens. Recent advances have been driven …

Map** the catalytic conformations of an assembly-line polyketide synthase module

DP Cogan, K Zhang, X Li, S Li, GD Pintilie, SH Roh… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Assembly-line polyketide synthases, such as the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS),
are large enzyme factories prized for their ability to produce specific and complex polyketide …