Architecture of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter

K Oxenoid, Y Dong, C Cao, T Cui, Y Sancak… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Mitochondria from many eukaryotic clades take up large amounts of calcium (Ca2+) via an
inner membrane transporter called the uniporter. Transport by the uniporter is membrane …

4.0-Å resolution cryo-EM structure of the mammalian chaperonin TRiC/CCT reveals its unique subunit arrangement

Y Cong, ML Baker, J Jakana… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The essential double-ring eukaryotic chaperonin TRiC/CCT (TCP1-ring complex or
chaperonin containing TCP1) assists the folding of∼ 5–10% of the cellular proteome. Many …

PRIME: probabilistic initial 3D model generation for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy

H Elmlund, D Elmlund, S Bengio - Structure, 2013 - cell.com
Low-dose electron microscopy of cryo-preserved individual biomolecules (single-particle
cryo-EM) is a powerful tool for obtaining information about the structure and dynamics of …

Reconstructing virus structures from nanometer to near-atomic resolutions with cryo-electron microscopy and tomography

J Chang, X Liu, RH Rochat, ML Baker, W Chiu - Viral Molecular Machines, 2012 - Springer
The past few decades have seen tremendous advances in single-particle electron cryo-
microscopy (cryo-EM). The field has matured to the point that near-atomic resolution density …

Single particle analysis at high resolution

Y Cong, SJ Ludtke - Methods in enzymology, 2010 - Elsevier
Electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) and single particle analysis is emerging as a powerful
technique for determining the 3D structure of large biomolecules and biomolecular …

Symmetry‐free cryo‐EM structures of the chaperonin TRiC along its ATPase‐driven conformational cycle

Y Cong, GF Schröder, AS Meyer, J Jakana, B Ma… - The EMBO …, 2012 - embopress.org
The eukaryotic group II chaperonin TRiC/CCT is a 16‐subunit complex with eight distinct but
similar subunits arranged in two stacked rings. Substrate folding inside the central chamber …

Rapid solution of the cryo-EM reconstruction problem by frequency marching

A Barnett, L Greengard, A Pataki, M Spivak - SIAM Journal on Imaging …, 2017 - SIAM
Determining the three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins and protein complexes at
atomic resolution is a fundamental task in structural biology. Over the last decade …

Structural mechanism of SDS-induced enzyme activity of scorpion hemocyanin revealed by electron cryomicroscopy

Y Cong, Q Zhang, D Woolford, T Schweikardt, H Khant… - Structure, 2009 - cell.com
Phenoloxidases (POs) occur in all organisms and are involved in skin and hair coloring in
mammals, and initiating melanization in wound healing. Mutation or overexpression of PO …

Pre-pro is a fast pre-processor for single-particle cryo-EM by enhancing 2D classification

SC Chung, HH Lin, PY Niu, SH Huang, IP Tu… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 2D classification plays a pivotal role in analyzing single particle cryo-electron
microscopy images. Here, we introduce a simple and loss-less pre-processor that …

Cryo-EM image alignment based on nonuniform fast Fourier transform

Z Yang, PA Penczek - Ultramicroscopy, 2008 - Elsevier
In single particle analysis, two-dimensional (2-D) alignment is a fundamental step intended
to put into register various particle projections of biological macromolecules collected at the …