3DFlex: determining structure and motion of flexible proteins from cryo-EM

A Punjani, DJ Fleet - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Modeling flexible macromolecules is one of the foremost challenges in single-particle
cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), with the potential to illuminate fundamental …

Conformational heterogeneity and probability distributions from single-particle cryo-electron microscopy

WS Tang, ED Zhong, SM Hanson, EH Thiede… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique that takes projection
images of biomolecules frozen at cryogenic temperatures. A major advantage of this …

Methods for cryo-EM single particle reconstruction of macromolecules having continuous heterogeneity

B Toader, FJ Sigworth, RR Lederman - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Macromolecules change their shape (conformation) in the process of carrying out their
functions. The imaging by cryo-electron microscopy of rapidly-frozen, individual copies of …

3D variability analysis: Resolving continuous flexibility and discrete heterogeneity from single particle cryo-EM

A Punjani, DJ Fleet - Journal of structural biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Single particle cryo-EM excels in determining static structures of protein molecules, but
existing 3D reconstruction methods have been ineffective in modelling flexible proteins. We …

3D flexible refinement: structure and motion of flexible proteins from Cryo-EM

A Punjani, DJ Fleet - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Single particle cryo-EM excels in determining static structures of biological macromolecules
such as proteins. However, many proteins are dynamic, with their motion inherently linked to …

Frozen in time: analyzing molecular dynamics with time-resolved cryo-EM

SJ Amann, D Keihsler, T Bodrug, NG Brown… - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
Molecular machines, such as polymerases, ribosomes, or proteasomes, fulfill complex tasks
requiring the thermal energy of their environment. They achieve this by restricting random …

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 …

Better, faster, cheaper: recent advances in cryo–electron microscopy

EYD Chua, JH Mendez, M Rapp, SL Ilca… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) continues its remarkable growth as a method for
visualizing biological objects, which has been driven by advances across the entire pipeline …

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 …

Integrating molecular models into CryoEM heterogeneity analysis using scalable high-resolution deep Gaussian mixture models

M Chen, B Toader, R Lederman - Journal of molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Resolving the structural variability of proteins is often key to understanding the structure–
function relationship of those macromolecular machines. Single particle analysis using …