DomainFit: Identification of protein domains in cryo-EM maps at intermediate resolution using AlphaFold2-predicted models

J Gao, M Tong, C Lee, J Gaertig, T Legal, KH Bui - Structure, 2024 - cell.com
Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized the structural determination of
macromolecular complexes. With the paradigm shift to structure determination of highly …

Hydrogen Plasma Inhibits Ion Beam Restructuring of GaP

JA Scott, J Bishop, G Budnik, M Toth - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Focused ion beam (FIB) techniques are employed widely for nanofabrication and
processing of materials and devices. However, ion irradiation often gives rise to severe …

[HTML][HTML] Structural biology in cellulo: Minding the gap between conceptualization and realization

FL Kyrilis, JKK Low, JP Mackay, PL Kastritis - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent technological advances have deepened our perception of cellular structure.
However, most structural data doesn't originate from intact cells, limiting our understanding …

Mechanical forces and the 3D genome

GV Shivashankar - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditionally, the field of genomics has been studied from a biochemical perspective.
Besides chemical influences, cells are subject to a variety of mechanical signals from their …

[HTML][HTML] Cell and developmental biology: grand challenges

AG Fisher - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cellular and developmental biology spans a huge portion of modern biology, so providing a
brief synopsis of a decade of progress is a particularly daunting task. Collectively our …

[PDF][PDF] Insights into protein structure using cryogenic light microscopy

H Mazal, FF Wieser… - Biochemical Society …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Fluorescence microscopy has witnessed many clever innovations in the last two decades,
leading to new methods such as structured illumination and super-resolution microscopies …

Three-dimensional quantitative analysis of porosity evolution and inheritance from biomass to biochar through pyrolysis

K Shen, Z Wang, L Xia, W Ding, F Pan, K Jiao… - New Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Three-dimensional electron tomography was employed to carry out a thorough and
quantitative analysis of the porosity in biomass tobacco and its resulting carbon materials …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of protein–protein and protein–membrane interactions by isotope-edited infrared spectroscopy

SA Tatulian - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The objective of this work is to highlight the power of isotope-edited Fourier transform
infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in resolving important problems encountered in biochemistry …

In situ cryo-electron tomography: a new method to elucidate cytoplasmic zoning at the molecular level

L Chen, Y Fukata, K Murata - The Journal of Biochemistry, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cryo-electron microscopy was developed as a powerful tool for imaging biological
specimens in near-native conditions. Nowadays, advances in technology, equipment and …

Serialized On-grid Lift-In Sectioning for Tomography (SOLIST)

NHT Dung, G Perone, R Vazzana, FK Don, M Silva… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cryo-focused ion beam milling has enabled groundbreaking structural discoveries in native
cells. Progress toward medically relevant applications, however, has been slow. We here …