Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …

Advances in the field of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy over the last decade

J Frank - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
In single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), molecules suspended in a thin
aqueous layer are rapidly frozen and imaged at cryogenic temperature in the transmission …

Structural basis of the ligand binding and signaling mechanism of melatonin receptors

Q Wang, Q Lu, Q Guo, M Teng, Q Gong, X Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Melatonin receptors (MT1 and MT2 in humans) are family AG protein–coupled receptors that
respond to the neurohormone melatonin to regulate circadian rhythm and sleep. Numerous …

Copper centers in the cryo-EM structure of particulate methane monooxygenase reveal the catalytic machinery of methane oxidation

WH Chang, HH Lin, IK Tsai, SH Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is the first enzyme in the C1 metabolic
pathway in methanotrophic bacteria. As this enzyme converts methane into methanol …

The importance of being modified: the role of RNA modifications in translational fidelity

PF Agris, A Narendran, K Sarachan, VYP Väre… - The Enzymes, 2017 - Elsevier
The posttranscriptional modifications of tRNA's anticodon stem and loop (ASL) domain
represent a third level, a third code, to the accuracy and efficiency of translating mRNA …

Activation and allosteric regulation of the orphan GPR88-Gi1 signaling complex

G Chen, J Xu, A Inoue, MF Schmidt, C Bai, Q Lu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
GPR88 is an orphan class A G-protein-coupled receptor that is highly expressed in the
striatum and regulates diverse brain and behavioral functions. Here we present cryo-EM …

How messenger RNA and nascent chain sequences regulate translation elongation

J Choi, R Grosely, A Prabhakar… - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Translation elongation is a highly coordinated, multistep, multifactor process that ensures
accurate and efficient addition of amino acids to a growing nascent-peptide chain encoded …

New insights into ribosome structure and function

A Jobe, Z Liu… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
In the past 4 years, because of the advent of new cameras, many ribosome structures have
been solved by cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) at high, often near-atomic resolution …

Phage-antibiotic synergy suppresses resistance emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae by altering the evolutionary fitness

K Qin, X Shi, K Yang, Q Xu, F Wang, S Chen, T Xu… - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Phage-antibiotic synergy (PAS) represents a superior treatment strategy for pathogen
infections with less probability of resistance development. Here, we aim to understand the …

Methylation of ribosomal RNA: a mitochondrial perspective

MIG Lopez Sanchez, M Cipullo, S Gopalakrishna… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) from all organisms undergoes post-transcriptional modifications that
increase the diversity of its composition and activity. In mitochondria, specialized …