Membranes under the magnetic lens: a dive into the diverse world of membrane protein structures using Cryo-EM

SJ Piper, RM Johnson, D Wootten, PM Sexton - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins are highly diverse in both structure and function and can, therefore,
present different challenges for structure determination. They are biologically important for …

Current data processing strategies for cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

E Pyle, G Zanetti - Biochemical journal, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) can be used to reconstruct three-dimensional (3D)
volumes, or tomograms, from a series of tilted two-dimensional images of biological objects …

Atomic-resolution protein structure determination by cryo-EM

KM Yip, N Fischer, E Paknia, A Chari, H Stark - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful method for solving the three-
dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. The technological development of …

[PDF][PDF] Cryo-EM single-particle structure refinement and map calculation using Servalcat

K Yamashita, CM Palmer, T Burnley… - … Section D: Structural …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
In 2020, cryo-EM single-particle analysis achieved true atomic resolution thanks to
technological developments in hardware and software. The number of high-resolution …

The translating bacterial ribosome at 1.55 Å resolution generated by cryo-EM imaging services

SA Fromm, KM O'Connor, M Purdy, PR Bhatt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Our understanding of protein synthesis has been conceptualised around the structure and
function of the bacterial ribosome. This complex macromolecular machine is the target of …

High-resolution cryo-EM performance comparison of two latest-generation cryo electron microscopes on the human ribosome

L Fréchin, S Holvec, O von Loeffelholz… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent technological advances in cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have led to new
opportunities in the structural biology field. Here we benchmark the performance of two 300 …

A cryo-electron microscopy support film formed by 2D crystals of hydrophobin HFBI

H Fan, B Wang, Y Zhang, Y Zhu, B Song, H Xu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a powerful tool to resolve high-resolution
structures of biomacromolecules in solution. However, air-water interface induced preferred …

Better, faster, cheaper: recent advances in cryo–electron microscopy

EYD Chua, JH Mendez, M Rapp, SL Ilca… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) continues its remarkable growth as a method for
visualizing biological objects, which has been driven by advances across the entire pipeline …

Practical considerations for using K3 cameras in CDS mode for high-resolution and high-throughput single particle cryo-EM

M Sun, CM Azumaya, E Tse, DP Bulkley… - Journal of structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Detector technology plays a pivotal role in high-resolution and high-throughput cryo-EM
structure determination. Compared with the first-generation, single-electron counting direct …

Present and emerging methodologies in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

M Wu, GC Lander - Biophysical journal, 2020 - cell.com
Over the past decade, technical and methodological improvements in cryogenic electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) single-particle analysis have enabled routine high-resolution …