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 …

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 …

cisTEM, user-friendly software for single-particle image processing

T Grant, A Rohou, N Grigorieff - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
We have developed new open-source software called cis TEM (computational imaging
system for transmission electron microscopy) for the processing of data for high-resolution …

Structures of the stator complex that drives rotation of the bacterial flagellum

JC Deme, S Johnson, O Vickery, A Aron… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The bacterial flagellum is the prototypical protein nanomachine and comprises a rotating
helical propeller attached to a membrane-embedded motor complex. The motor consists of a …

Critical differences in 3D atomic structure of individual ligand-protected nanocrystals in solution

BH Kim, J Heo, S Kim, CF Reboul, H Chun, D Kang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Precise three-dimensional (3D) atomic structure determination of individual nanocrystals is a
prerequisite for understanding and predicting their physical properties. Nanocrystals from …

A dual-constriction biological nanopore resolves homonucleotide sequences with high fidelity

SE Van der Verren, N Van Gerven, W Jonckheere… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Single-molecule long-read DNA sequencing with biological nanopores is fast and high-
throughput but suffers reduced accuracy in homonucleotide stretches. We now combine the …

Type 9 secretion system structures reveal a new protein transport mechanism

F Lauber, JC Deme, SM Lea, BC Berks - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The type 9 secretion system (T9SS) is the protein export pathway of bacteria of the Gram-
negative Fibrobacteres–Chlorobi–Bacteroidetes superphylum and is an essential …

Structure of the core of the type III secretion system export apparatus

L Kuhlen, P Abrusci, S Johnson, J Gault… - Nature structural & …, 2018 - nature.com
Export of proteins through type III secretion systems is critical for motility and virulence of
many major bacterial pathogens. Three putative integral membrane proteins (FliP, FliQ, FliR) …

CryoGAN: A new reconstruction paradigm for single-particle cryo-EM via deep adversarial learning

H Gupta, MT McCann, L Donati… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present CryoGAN, a new paradigm for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-
EM) reconstruction based on unsupervised deep adversarial learning. In single-particle cryo …

Structure and mechanism of the proton-driven motor that powers type 9 secretion and gliding motility

R Hennell James, JC Deme, A Kjӕr, F Alcock… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Three classes of ion-driven protein motors have been identified to date: ATP synthase, the
bacterial flagellar motor and a proton-driven motor that powers gliding motility and the type 9 …