Emerging themes in CryoEM─ Single particle analysis image processing

JL Vilas, JM Carazo, COS Sorzano - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cryo-electron microscopy (CryoEM) has become a vital technique in structural biology. It is
an interdisciplinary field that takes advantage of advances in biochemistry, physics, and …

Estimating conformational landscapes from Cryo-EM particles by 3D Zernike polynomials

D Herreros, RR Lederman, JM Krieger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The new developments in Cryo-EM Single Particle Analysis are helping us to understand
how the macromolecular structure and function meet to drive biological processes. By …

Structural mobility tunes signalling of the GluA1 AMPA glutamate receptor

D Zhang, J Ivica, JM Krieger, H Ho, K Yamashita… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
AMPA glutamate receptors (AMPARs), the primary mediators of excitatory
neurotransmission in the brain, are either GluA2 subunit-containing and thus Ca2+ …

Computational biophysics meets cryo‐EM revolution in the search for the functional dynamics of biomolecular systems

MGS Costa, M Gur, JM Krieger… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There is a variety of experimental and computational techniques available to explore protein
dynamics, each presenting advantages and limitations. One promising experimental …

A robust normalized local filter to estimate compositional heterogeneity directly from cryo-EM maps

BO Forsberg, PNM Shah, A Burt - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is used by biological research to visualize biomolecular
complexes in 3D, but the heterogeneity of cryo-EM reconstructions is not easily estimated …

ZART: a novel multiresolution reconstruction algorithm with motion-blur correction for single particle analysis

D Herreros, J Kiska, E Ramírez-Aportela… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the main purposes of CryoEM Single Particle Analysis is to reconstruct the three-
dimensional structure of a macromolecule thanks to the acquisition of many particle images …

[HTML][HTML] Algorithmic robustness to preferred orientations in single particle analysis by CryoEM

COS Sorzano, D Semchonok, SC Lin, YC Lo… - Journal of Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
The presence of preferred orientations in single particle analysis (SPA) by cryo-Electron
Microscopy (cryoEM) is currently one of the hurdles preventing many structural analyses …

The β Common Cytokine Receptor Family Reveals New Functional Paradigms From Structural Complexities

WL Kan, CM Weekley, TL Nero… - Immunological …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Cytokines are small proteins that are critical for controlling the growth and activity of
hematopoietic cells by binding to cell surface receptors and transmitting signals across …

Amortized template-matching of molecular conformations from cryo-electron microscopy images using simulation-based inference

L Dingeldein, D Silva-Sánchez, L Evans, E D'Imprima… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Biomolecules undergo conformational changes to perform their function. Cryo-electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) can capture snapshots of biomolecules in various conformations …

Exploring Advances in Single Particle CryoEM with Apoferritin: from Blobs to True Atomic Resolution

GTR Premageetha, KR Vinothkumar, S Bose - The International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Deciphering the three-dimensional structures of macromolecules is of paramount
importance for gaining insights into their functions and roles in human health and disease …