Interpreting solution X-ray scattering data using molecular simulations

JS Hub - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering in solution (SAXS, WAXS, SWAXS) is an
increasingly accurate method for obtaining information on biomolecular structures …

X-ray scattering studies of protein structural dynamics

SP Meisburger, WC Thomas, MB Watkins… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
X-ray scattering is uniquely suited to the study of disordered systems and thus has the
potential to provide insight into dynamic processes where diffraction methods fail. In …

Accurate SAXS profile computation and its assessment by contrast variation experiments

D Schneidman-Duhovny, M Hammel, JA Tainer… - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
A major challenge in structural biology is to characterize structures of proteins and their
assemblies in solution. At low resolution, such a characterization may be achieved by small …

ModBase, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models and associated resources

U Pieper, BM Webb, GQ Dong… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract ModBase (http://salilab. org/modbase) is a database of annotated comparative
protein structure models. The models are calculated by ModPipe, an automated modeling …

SAXS studies of RNA: structures, dynamics, and interactions with partners

Y Chen, L Pollack - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Small‐angle X‐ray scattering, SAXS, is a powerful and easily employed experimental
technique that provides solution structures of macromolecules. The size and shape …

Multidomain architecture of estrogen receptor reveals interfacial cross-talk between its DNA-binding and ligand-binding domains

W Huang, Y Peng, J Kiselar, X Zhao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Human estrogen receptor alpha (hERα) is a hormone-responsive nuclear receptor (NR)
involved in cell growth and survival that contains both a DNA-binding domain (DBD) and a …

Protein footprinting: Auxiliary engine to power the structural biology revolution

MR Chance, ER Farquhar, S Yang, DT Lodowski… - Journal of molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Structural biology is entering an exciting time where many new high-resolution structures of
large complexes and membrane proteins are determined regularly. These advances have …

Advances, Applications, and Perspectives in Small‐Angle X‐ray Scattering of RNA

JN Tants, A Schlundt - Chembiochem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
RNAs exhibit a plethora of functions far beyond transmitting genetic information. Often, RNA
functions are entailed in their structure, be it as a regulatory switch, protein binding site, or …

A metastable contact and structural disorder in the estrogen receptor transactivation domain

Y Peng, S Cao, J Kiselar, X Xiao, Z Du, A Hsieh, S Ko… - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
The N-terminal transactivation domain (NTD) of estrogen receptor alpha, a well-known
member of the family of intrinsically disordered proteins, mediates the receptor's …

SAXS data alone can generate high-quality models of protein-protein complexes

CEM Schindler, SJ de Vries, A Sasse, M Zacharias - Structure, 2016 - cell.com
Modeling driven by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) combines low-resolution data with
computational modeling to predict the structure of biomolecular assemblies. A new protocol …