Graphene-Assisted Electron-Based Imaging of Individual Organic and Biological Macromolecules: Structure and Transient Dynamics

DY Zhang, Z Xu, JY Li, S Mao, H Wang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Characterizing the structures, interactions, and dynamics of molecules in their native liquid
state is a long-existing challenge in chemistry, molecular science, and biophysics with …

Graphene sandwich–based biological specimen preparation for cryo-EM analysis

J Xu, X Gao, L Zheng, X Jia, K Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
High-quality specimen preparation plays a crucial role in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-
EM) structural analysis. In this study, we have developed a reliable and convenient …

Small LEA proteins mitigate air-water interface damage to fragile cryo-EM samples during plunge freezing

KM Abe, G Li, Q He, T Grant, CJ Lim - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Air-water interface (AWI) interactions during cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) sample
preparation cause significant sample loss, hindering structural biology research. Organisms …

Dual-affinity graphene sheets for high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy

H Cheng, L Zheng, N Liu, C Huang, J Xu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the development of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), high-resolution structures of
macromolecules can be reconstructed by the single particle method efficiently. However …

[HTML][HTML] Graphene in cryo-EM specimen optimization

N Liu, HW Wang - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Specimen preparation is a critical but challenging step in high-resolution cryogenic electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) structural analysis of macromolecules. In the past decade, graphene …

Functionalized graphene-oxide grids enable high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the SNF2h-nucleosome complex without crosslinking

US Chio, E Palovcak, AAA Smith, H Autzen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-particle cryo-EM is widely used to determine enzyme-nucleosome complex
structures. However, cryo-EM sample preparation remains challenging and inconsistent due …

Open architecture of archaea MCM and dsDNA complexes resolved using monodispersed streptavidin affinity CryoEM

J Ma, G Yi, M Ye, C MacGregor-Chatwin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) method has enabled high-resolution structure
determination of numerous biomolecules and complexes. Nevertheless, cryoEM sample …

Fabrication of Monolayer Graphene-Coated Grids for Cryoelectron Microscopy

B Basanta, W Chen, DE Pride, GC Lander - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2023 - jove.com
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) has emerged as a powerful technique for probing
the atomic structure of macromolecular complexes. Sample preparation for cryoEM requires …

Expanding the Cryogenic Electron Microscopy from Biology to Materials Science

W Li, S Weng, D Su, X Wang - Renewables, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
Revealing the underlying correlations between microscopic structures and the fundamental
physicochemical properties is essential for designing better functional materials. Cryogenic …

Cryo-electron microscopy-based drug design

E Cebi, J Lee, VK Subramani, N Bak, C Oh… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Structure-based drug design (SBDD) has gained popularity owing to its ability to develop
more potent drugs compared to conventional drug-discovery methods. The success of …