[PDF][PDF] Implications of AlphaFold2 for crystallographic phasing by molecular replacement

AJ McCoy, MD Sammito, RJ Read - Acta Crystallographica Section …, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
The AlphaFold2 results in the 14th edition of Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction
(CASP14) showed that accurate (low root-mean-square deviation) in silico models of protein …

[PDF][PDF] The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography

J Agirre, M Atanasova, H Bagdonas… - … Section D: Structural …, 2023 - journals.iucr.org
The Collaborative Computational Project No. 4 (CCP4) is a UK-led international collective
with a mission to develop, test, distribute and promote software for macromolecular …

Electron diffraction of 3D molecular crystals

A Saha, SS Nia, JA Rodríguez - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electron crystallography has a storied history which rivals that of its more established X-ray-
enabled counterpart. Recent advances in data collection and analysis have sparked a …

The cytotoxic Staphylococcus aureus PSMα3 reveals a cross-α amyloid-like fibril

E Tayeb-Fligelman, O Tabachnikov, A Moshe… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Amyloids are ordered protein aggregates, found in all kingdoms of life, and are involved in
aggregation diseases as well as in physiological activities. In microbes, functional amyloids …

Structure of the human Parkin ligase domain in an autoinhibited state

T Wauer, D Komander - The EMBO journal, 2013 - embopress.org
Mutations in the protein Parkin are associated with Parkinson's disease (PD), the second
most common neurodegenerative disease in men. Parkin is an E3 ubiquitin (Ub) ligase of …

Modelling dynamics in protein crystal structures by ensemble refinement

BT Burnley, PV Afonine, PD Adams, P Gros - elife, 2012 - elifesciences.org
Single-structure models derived from X-ray data do not adequately account for the inherent,
functionally important dynamics of protein molecules. We generated ensembles of structures …

Structure and assembly of the S-layer in C. difficile

P Lanzoni-Mangutchi, O Banerji, J Wilson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many bacteria and archaea possess a two-dimensional protein array, or S-layer, that covers
the cell surface and plays crucial roles in cell physiology. Here, we report the crystal …

Improved molecular replacement by density-and energy-guided protein structure optimization

F DiMaio, TC Terwilliger, RJ Read, A Wlodawer… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract Molecular replacement,,, procedures, which search for placements of a starting
model within the crystallographic unit cell that best account for the measured diffraction …

Assessing the utility of CASP14 models for molecular replacement

C Millán, RM Keegan, J Pereira… - Proteins: Structure …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The assessment of CASP models for utility in molecular replacement is a measure of their
use in a valuable real‐world application. In CASP7, the metric for molecular replacement …

Structural insights into plasmalemma vesicle-associated protein (PLVAP): implications for vascular endothelial diaphragms and fenestrae

TH Chang, FL Hsieh, X Gu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
In many organs, small openings across capillary endothelial cells (ECs) allow the diffusion
of low–molecular weight compounds and small proteins between the blood and tissue …