Super-resolution microscopy for structural cell biology

S Liu, P Hoess, J Ries - Annual review of biophysics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Super-resolution microscopy techniques, and specifically single-molecule localization
microscopy (SMLM), are approaching nanometer resolution inside cells and thus have great …

Challenges and opportunities in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

D Lyumkis - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables structure determination of
macromolecular objects and their assemblies. Although the techniques have been …

Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant derived from recombination of two Omicron subvariants

T Tamura, J Ito, K Uriu, J Zahradnik, I Kida… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract In late 2022, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants have become highly diversified,
and XBB is spreading rapidly around the world. Our phylogenetic analyses suggested that …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] BA. 2.12. 1, BA. 4 and BA. 5 escape antibodies elicited by Omicron infection

Y Cao, A Yisimayi, F Jian, W Song, T Xiao, L Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sublineages BA.
2.12. 1, BA. 4 and BA. 5 exhibit higher transmissibility than the BA. 2 lineage 1. The receptor …

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 …

AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

S Mosalaganti, A Obarska-Kosinska, M Siggel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The eukaryotic nucleus protects the genome and is enclosed by the two
membranes of the nuclear envelope. Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) perforate the nuclear …

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 …

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 …