Serial femtosecond crystallography

TRM Barends, B Stauch, V Cherezov… - Nature reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
With the advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), new, high-throughput serial
crystallography techniques for macromolecular structure determination have emerged …

Design of protein-binding proteins from the target structure alone

L Cao, B Coventry, I Goreshnik, B Huang, W Sheffler… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The design of proteins that bind to a specific site on the surface of a target protein using no
information other than the three-dimensional structure of the target remains a challenge …

[PDF][PDF] Validation of the crystallography open database using the crystallographic information framework

A Vaitkus, A Merkys, S Gražulis - Journal of applied crystallography, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
Data curation practices of the Crystallography Open Database (COD) are described with
additional focus being placed on the formal validation using the Crystallographic Information …

Structural genomics and the protein data bank

K Michalska, A Joachimiak - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
The field of Structural Genomics arose over the last 3 decades to address a large and
rapidly growing divergence between microbial genomic, functional, and structural data …

[HTML][HTML] Sharing biological data: why, when, and how

SL Wilson, GP Way, W Bittremieux, JP Armache… - FEBS …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sharing data has a crucial role in the advancement of biological science. The use of different
types of data within and between scientific fields complicates establishing a single standard …

Identification of potent and selective N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors of Plasmodium vivax liver stage hypnozoites and schizonts

D Rodríguez-Hernández, K Vijayan, R Zigweid… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Drugs targeting multiple stages of the Plasmodium vivax life cycle are needed to reduce the
health and economic burdens caused by malaria worldwide. N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) …

Albumin-based transport of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in mammalian blood plasma

MP Czub, KB Handing… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Every day, hundreds of millions of people worldwide take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory
drugs (NSAIDs), often in conjunction with multiple other medications. In the bloodstream …

Efficacy and Mode of Action of a Direct Inhibitor of Mycobacterium abscessus InhA

M Alcaraz, F Roquet-Baneres… - ACS Infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is an unmet medical need for effective treatments against Mycobacterium abscessus
pulmonary infections, to which cystic fibrosis (CF) patients are particularly vulnerable …

Identification of and Structural Insights into Hit Compounds Targeting N-Myristoyltransferase for Cryptosporidium Drug Development

MK Fenwick, AR Reers, Y Liu, R Zigweid… - ACS Infectious …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Each year, approximately 50,000 children under 5 die as a result of diarrhea caused by
Cryptosporidium parvum, a protozoan parasite. There are currently no effective drugs or …

Structure-Guided Synthesis of FK506 and FK520 Analogs with Increased Selectivity Exhibit In Vivo Therapeutic Efficacy against Cryptococcus

MJ Hoy, E Park, H Lee, WY Lim, DC Cole… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Calcineurin is an essential virulence factor that is conserved across human fungal
pathogens, including Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Candida …