Uncovering structural ensembles from single-particle cryo-EM data using cryoDRGN

LF Kinman, BM Powell, ED Zhong, B Berger… - Nature protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a powerful
technique to visualize the structural landscape sampled by a protein complex. However …

Cryo-EM in molecular and cellular biology

HR Saibil - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
This review summarizes the current state of methods and results achievable by cryo-electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) imaging for molecular, cell, and structural biologists who wish to …

3DFlex: determining structure and motion of flexible proteins from cryo-EM

A Punjani, DJ Fleet - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Modeling flexible macromolecules is one of the foremost challenges in single-particle
cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), with the potential to illuminate fundamental …

Fanzor is a eukaryotic programmable RNA-guided endonuclease

M Saito, P Xu, G Faure, S Maguire, S Kannan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
RNA-guided systems, which use complementarity between a guide RNA and target nucleic
acid sequences for recognition of genetic elements, have a central role in biological …

Structural basis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron immune evasion and receptor engagement

M McCallum, N Czudnochowski, LE Rosen, SK Zepeda… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant of
concern evades antibody-mediated immunity that comes from vaccination or infection with …

Imprinted antibody responses against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages

YJ Park, D Pinto, AC Walls, Z Liu, A De Marco… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sublineages carry
distinct spike mutations resulting in escape from antibodies induced by previous infection or …

Neutralization, effector function and immune imprinting of Omicron variants

A Addetia, L Piccoli, JB Case, YJ Park, M Beltramello… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Currently circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants have acquired convergent mutations at hot spots
in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein. The effects of these mutations on …

SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape

TN Starr, N Czudnochowski, Z Liu, F Zatta, YJ Park… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
An ideal therapeutic anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody would resist viral escape,–, have activity
against diverse sarbecoviruses,,–, and be highly protective through viral neutralization,,–and …

SARS-CoV-2 variant prediction and antiviral drug design are enabled by RBD in vitro evolution

J Zahradník, S Marciano, M Shemesh, E Zoler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest and concern will continue to emerge for the duration of the
COVID-19 pandemic. To map mutations in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike …

Structure of SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein essential for virus assembly

Z Zhang, N Nomura, Y Muramoto, T Ekimoto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The coronavirus membrane protein (M) is the most abundant viral structural protein and
plays a central role in virus assembly and morphogenesis. However, the process of M …