Structural basis for SARM1 inhibition and activation under energetic stress

M Sporny, J Guez-Haddad, T Khazma, A Yaron… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
SARM1, an executor of axonal degeneration, displays NADase activity that depletes the key
cellular metabolite, NAD+, in response to nerve injury. The basis of SARM1 inhibition and its …

[HTML][HTML] ScipionTomo: Towards cryo-electron tomography software integration, reproducibility, and validation

JJ de la Morena, P Conesa, YC Fonseca… - Journal of structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Image processing in cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET) is currently at a similar state as
Single Particle Analysis (SPA) in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) was a few years …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-function analysis of ceTIR-1/hSARM1 explains the lack of Wallerian axonal degeneration in C. elegans

T Khazma, A Grossman, J Guez-Haddad, C Feng… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Wallerian axonal degeneration (WD) does not occur in the nematode C. elegans, in contrast
to other model animals. However, WD depends on the NADase activity of SARM1, a protein …

Continuous flexibility analysis of SARS-CoV-2 spike prefusion structures

R Melero, COS Sorzano, B Foster, JL Vilas, M Martínez… - IUCrJ, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
Using a new consensus-based image-processing approach together with principal
component analysis, the flexibility and conformational dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 spike in …

Advances in xmipp for cryo–electron microscopy: From xmipp to scipion

D Strelak, A Jiménez-Moreno, JL Vilas… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Xmipp is an open-source software package consisting of multiple programs for processing
data originating from electron microscopy and electron tomography, designed and managed …

Scipion-Chem: An Open Platform for Virtual Drug Screening

D Del Hoyo, M Salinas, A Lomas… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Virtual drug screening (VDS) tackles the problem of drug discovery by computationally
reducing the number of potential pharmacological molecules that need to be tested …

Cryo-EM structure of enteric adenovirus HAdV-F41 highlights structural variations among human adenoviruses

M Pérez-Illana, M Martínez, GN Condezo… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Enteric adenoviruses, one of the main causes of viral gastroenteritis in the world, must
withstand the harsh conditions found in the gut. This requirement suggests that capsid …

A duplex structure of SARM1 octamers stabilized by a new inhibitor

T Khazma, Y Golan-Vaishenker… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, there has been growing interest in SARM1 as a potential breakthrough drug
target for treating various pathologies of axon degeneration. SARM1-mediated axon …

Near-atomic structure of an atadenovirus reveals a conserved capsid-binding motif and intergenera variations in cementing proteins

R Marabini, GN Condezo, M Krupovic… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Of five known adenovirus genera, high-resolution structures are available only for
mammalian-infecting mastadenoviruses. We present the first high-resolution structure of an …

Image processing in Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Single Particles: the power of combining methods

COS Sorzano, A Jiménez-Moreno, D Maluenda… - Structural Proteomics …, 2021 - Springer
Cryo-electron microscopy has established as a mature structural biology technique to
elucidate the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules. The Coulomb …