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 …

The ugly, bad, and good stories of large-scale biomolecular simulations

C Gupta, D Sarkar, DP Tieleman… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecular modeling of large biomolecular assemblies exemplifies a disruptive area holding
both promises and contentions. Propelled by peta and exascale computing, several …

DeepMainmast: integrated protocol of protein structure modeling for cryo-EM with deep learning and structure prediction

G Terashi, X Wang, D Prasad, T Nakamura, D Kihara - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
Three-dimensional structure modeling from maps is an indispensable step for studying
proteins and their complexes with cryogenic electron microscopy. Although the resolution of …

Structural insights into the modulation of coronavirus spike tilting and infectivity by hinge glycans

D Chmielewski, EA Wilson, G Pintilie, P Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coronavirus spike glycoproteins presented on the virion surface mediate receptor binding,
and membrane fusion during virus entry and constitute the primary target for vaccine and …

CombFold: predicting structures of large protein assemblies using a combinatorial assembly algorithm and AlphaFold2

B Shor, D Schneidman-Duhovny - Nature methods, 2024 - nature.com
Deep learning models, such as AlphaFold2 and RosettaFold, enable high-accuracy protein
structure prediction. However, large protein complexes are still challenging to predict due to …

Progressive assembly of multi-domain protein structures from cryo-EM density maps

X Zhou, Y Li, C Zhang, W Zheng, G Zhang… - Nature computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Progress in cryo-electron microscopy has provided the potential for large-size protein
structure determination. However, the success rate for solving multi-domain proteins …

Advancing cryo-electron microscopy data analysis through accelerated simulation-based flexible fitting approaches

O Miyashita, F Tama - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible fitting based on molecular dynamics simulation is a technique for structure modeling
from cryo-EM data. It has been utilized for nearly two decades, and while cryo-EM resolution …

Novel artificial intelligence-based approaches for ab initio structure determination and atomic model building for cryo-electron microscopy

MC DiIorio, AW Kulczyk - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Single particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as the prevailing method
for near-atomic structure determination, shedding light on the important molecular …

Exploring cryo-electron microscopy with molecular dynamics

JW Vant, D Sarkar, J Nguyen, AT Baker… - Biochemical Society …, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Single particle analysis cryo-electron microscopy (EM) and molecular dynamics (MD) have
been complimentary methods since cryo-EM was first applied to the field of structural …

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 …