Challenges and opportunities in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

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

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 …

Isotropic reconstruction for electron tomography with deep learning

YT Liu, H Zhang, H Wang, CL Tao, GQ Bi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET) allows visualization of cellular structures in situ.
However, anisotropic resolution arising from the intrinsic “missing-wedge” problem has …

Real-time cryo-electron microscopy data preprocessing with Warp

D Tegunov, P Cramer - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
The acquisition of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data from biological specimens must
be tightly coupled to data preprocessing to ensure the best data quality and microscope …

Structure of the M2 muscarinic receptor–β-arrestin complex in a lipid nanodisc

DP Staus, H Hu, MJ Robertson, ALW Kleinhenz… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
After activation by an agonist, G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) recruit β-arrestin, which
desensitizes heterotrimeric G-protein signalling and promotes receptor endocytosis …

Structure of a signaling cannabinoid receptor 1-G protein complex

KK Kumar, M Shalev-Benami, MJ Robertson, H Hu… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Cannabis elicits its mood-enhancing and analgesic effects through the cannabinoid receptor
1 (CB1), a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that signals primarily through the adenylyl …

Understanding the invisible hands of sample preparation for cryo-EM

G Weissenberger, RJM Henderikx, PJ Peters - Nature Methods, 2021 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is rapidly becoming an attractive method in the field of
structural biology. With the exploding popularity of cryo-EM, sample preparation must evolve …

Protein denaturation at the air-water interface and how to prevent it

E D'Imprima, D Floris, M Joppe, R Sánchez… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Electron cryo-microscopy analyzes the structure of proteins and protein complexes in
vitrified solution. Proteins tend to adsorb to the air-water interface in unsupported films of …

FACT caught in the act of manipulating the nucleosome

Y Liu, K Zhou, N Zhang, H Wei, YZ Tan, Z Zhang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The organization of genomic DNA into nucleosomes profoundly affects all DNA-related
processes in eukaryotes. The histone chaperone known as 'facilitates chromatin …

Membranes under the magnetic lens: a dive into the diverse world of membrane protein structures using Cryo-EM

SJ Piper, RM Johnson, D Wootten, PM Sexton - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins are highly diverse in both structure and function and can, therefore,
present different challenges for structure determination. They are biologically important for …