Advanced techniques for detecting protein misfolding and aggregation in cellular environments

Y Bai, S Zhang, H Dong, Y Liu, C Liu… - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation, a key contributor to the progression of numerous
neurodegenerative diseases, results in functional deficiencies and the creation of harmful …

The JAK-STAT pathway: from structural biology to cytokine engineering

Y Lv, J Qi, JJ Babon, L Cao, G Fan, J Lang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway
serves as a paradigm for signal transduction from the extracellular environment to the …

The membrane surface as a platform that organizes cellular and biochemical processes

TA Leonard, M Loose, S Martens - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
Membranes are essential for life. They act as semi-permeable boundaries that define cells
and organelles. In addition, their surfaces actively participate in biochemical reaction …

Bridging structural and cell biology with cryo-electron microscopy

E Nogales, J Mahamid - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Most life scientists would agree that understanding how cellular processes work requires
structural knowledge about the macromolecules involved. For example, deciphering the …

Structural basis of mRNA maturation: Time to put it together

MK Vorländer, B Pacheco-Fiallos… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In eukaryotes, the expression of genetic information begins in the cell nucleus with precursor
messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) transcription and processing into mature mRNA. The mRNA is …

High-speed atomic force microscopy for filming protein molecules in dynamic action

T Ando, S Fukuda, KX Ngo… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Structural biology is currently undergoing a transformation into dynamic structural biology,
which reveals the dynamic structure of proteins during their functional activity to better …

Overcoming resolution attenuation during tilted cryo-EM data collection

S Aiyer, PR Baldwin, SM Tan, Z Shan, J Oh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Structural biology efforts using cryogenic electron microscopy are frequently stifled by
specimens adopting “preferred orientations” on grids, leading to anisotropic map resolution …

Structural advances toward understanding the catalytic activity and conformational dynamics of modular nonribosomal peptide synthetases

KD Patel, MR MacDonald, SF Ahmed, J Singh… - Natural Product …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to fall 2022. Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are a family of
modular, multidomain enzymes that catalyze the biosynthesis of important peptide natural …

Diffusion models in protein structure and docking

J Yim, H Stärk, G Corso, B Jing… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Generative AI is rapidly transforming the frontier of research in computational structural
biology. Indeed, recent successes have substantially advanced protein design and drug …

[HTML][HTML] Protein dynamics: The future is bright and complicated!

K Nam, M Wolf-Watz - Structural Dynamics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Biological life depends on motion, and this manifests itself in proteins that display motion
over a formidable range of time scales spanning from femtoseconds vibrations of atoms at …