Red blood cell metabolism in vivo and in vitro

A D'Alessandro, AT Anastasiadi, VL Tzounakas… - Metabolites, 2023 - mdpi.com
Red blood cells (RBC) are the most abundant cell in the human body, with a central role in
oxygen transport and its delivery to tissues. However, omics technologies recently revealed …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating cellular electron microscopy with multimodal data to explore biology across space and time

CL McCafferty, S Klumpe, RE Amaro, W Kukulski… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Biology spans a continuum of length and time scales. Individual experimental methods only
glimpse discrete pieces of this spectrum but can be combined to construct a more holistic …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of membrane skeleton organization in red blood cells

N Li, S Chen, K Xu, MT He, MQ Dong, QC Zhang… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The spectrin-based membrane skeleton is a ubiquitous membrane-associated two-
dimensional cytoskeleton underneath the lipid membrane of metazoan cells. Mutations of …

The reactive species interactome in red blood cells: oxidants, antioxidants, and molecular targets

MM Cortese-Krott - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Beyond their established role as oxygen carriers, red blood cells have recently been found
to contribute to systemic NO and sulfide metabolism and act as potent circulating antioxidant …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in co-fractionation mass spectrometry: A new gold-standard in global protein interaction network discovery

RK Goel, N Bithi, A Emili - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Co-fractionation mass spectrometry (CF-MS) uses biochemical fractionation to isolate and
characterize macromolecular complexes from cellular lysates without the need for affinity …

[HTML][HTML] Protein disulfide isomerase A1 regulates fenestration dynamics in primary mouse liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs)

I Czyzynska-Cichon, M Giergiel, G Kwiatkowski… - Redox Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Protein disulfide isomerases (PDIs) are involved in many intracellular and extracellular
processes, including cell adhesion and cytoskeletal reorganisation, but their contribution to …

Biological electricity generation system based on mitochondria-nanochannel-red blood cells

Y Wang, H Chen, X Yang, X Diao, J Zhai - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The high-efficiency energy conversion process in organisms is usually carried out by
organelles, proteins and membrane systems. Inspired by the cellular aerobic respiration …

Enabling cryo‐EM density interpretation from yeast native cell extracts by proteomics data and AlphaFold structures

C Tüting, L Schmidt, I Skalidis, A Sinz, PL Kastritis - Proteomics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the cellular context, proteins participate in communities to perform their function. The
detection and identification of these communities as well as in‐community interactions has …

Bayesian methods in integrative structure modeling

M Habeck - Biological Chemistry, 2023 - degruyter.com
There is a growing interest in characterizing the structure and dynamics of large
biomolecular assemblies and their interactions within the cellular environment. A diverse …

Self Fourier shell correlation: properties and application to cryo-ET

EJ Verbeke, MA Gilles, T Bendory, A Singer - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
The Fourier shell correlation (FSC) is a measure of the similarity between two signals
computed over corresponding shells in the frequency domain and has broad applications in …