Single-particle cryo-EM—How did it get here and where will it go

Y Cheng - Science, 2018 - science.org
Cryo–electron microscopy, or simply cryo-EM, refers mainly to three very different yet closely
related techniques: electron crystallography, single-particle cryo-EM, and electron …

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 …

Cryo-EM of full-length α-synuclein reveals fibril polymorphs with a common structural kernel

B Li, P Ge, KA Murray, P Sheth, M Zhang, G Nair… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract α-Synuclein (aSyn) fibrillar polymorphs have distinct in vitro and in vivo seeding
activities, contributing differently to synucleinopathies. Despite numerous prior attempts, how …

EMRinger: side chain–directed model and map validation for 3D cryo-electron microscopy

BA Barad, N Echols, RYR Wang, Y Cheng, F DiMaio… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Advances in high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) require the development of
validation metrics to independently assess map quality and model geometry. We report …

[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 …

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 …

Electron counting and beam-induced motion correction enable near-atomic-resolution single-particle cryo-EM

X Li, P Mooney, S Zheng, CR Booth, MB Braunfeld… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
In recent work with large high-symmetry viruses, single-particle electron cryomicroscopy
(cryo-EM) has achieved the determination of near-atomic-resolution structures by allowing …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution noise substitution to measure overfitting and validate resolution in 3D structure determination by single particle electron cryomicroscopy

S Chen, G McMullan, AR Faruqi, GN Murshudov… - Ultramicroscopy, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) structure determination by single particle electron
cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) involves the calculation of an initial 3D model, followed by …