Cryo-electron tomography on focused ion beam lamellae transforms structural cell biology

C Berger, N Premaraj, RBG Ravelli, K Knoops… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryogenic electron microscopy and data processing enable the determination of structures
of isolated macromolecules to near-atomic resolution. However, these data do not provide …

Bringing structure to cell biology with cryo-electron tomography

LN Young, E Villa - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy have marked only the beginning of the
potential of this technique. To bring structure into cell biology, the modality of cryo-electron …

AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

S Mosalaganti, A Obarska-Kosinska, M Siggel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The eukaryotic nucleus protects the genome and is enclosed by the two
membranes of the nuclear envelope. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) perforate the nuclear …

Nuclear pores dilate and constrict in cellulo

CE Zimmerli, M Allegretti, V Rantos, SK Goetz… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The nucleus harbors and protects the genetic information in eukaryotes. It
is surrounded by the nuclear envelope, which separates the nucleoplasm from the cytosol …

The cellular environment shapes the nuclear pore complex architecture

AP Schuller, M Wojtynek, D Mankus, M Tatli… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) create large conduits for cargo transport between the
nucleus and cytoplasm across the nuclear envelope (NE),–. These multi-megadalton …

The structure of the nuclear pore complex (an update)

DH Lin, A Hoelz - Annual review of biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The nuclear pore complex (NPC) serves as the sole bidirectional gateway of
macromolecules in and out of the nucleus. Owing to its size and complexity (∼ 1,000 protein …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive structure and functional adaptations of the yeast nuclear pore complex

CW Akey, D Singh, C Ouch, I Echeverria, I Nudelman… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) mediate the nucleocytoplasmic transport of
macromolecules. Here we provide a structure of the isolated yeast NPC in which the inner …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances and current trends in cryo-electron microscopy

M Guaita, SC Watters, S Loerch - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
All steps of cryogenic electron-microscopy (cryo-EM) workflows have rapidly evolved over
the last decade. Advances in both single-particle analysis (SPA) cryo-EM and cryo-electron …

Structure and assembly of the nuclear pore complex

B Hampoelz, A Andres-Pons… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) mediate nucleocytoplasmic exchange. They are
exceptionally large protein complexes that fuse the inner and outer nuclear membranes to …

Principles for integrative structural biology studies

MP Rout, A Sali - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Integrative structure determination is a powerful approach to modeling the structures of
biological systems based on data produced by multiple experimental and theoretical …