Establishing electron diffraction in chemical crystallography

T Gruene, JJ Holstein, GH Clever… - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The emerging field of 3D electron diffraction (3D ED) opens new opportunities for structure
determination from sub-micrometre-sized crystals. Although the foundations of this …

Enantioselectivity of discretized helical supramolecule consisting of achiral cobalt phthalocyanines via chiral-induced spin selectivity effect

H Aizawa, T Sato, S Maki-Yonekura… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Enantioselectivity of helical aggregation is conventionally directed either by its homochiral
ingredients or by introduction of chiral catalysis. The fundamental question, then, is whether …

Measurement of charges and chemical bonding in a cryo-EM structure

S Maki-Yonekura, K Kawakami, K Takaba… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Hydrogen bonding, bond polarity, and charges in protein molecules play critical roles in the
stabilization of protein structures, as well as affecting their functions such as enzymatic …

High-resolution cryo-EM performance comparison of two latest-generation cryo electron microscopes on the human ribosome

L Fréchin, S Holvec, O von Loeffelholz… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent technological advances in cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have led to new
opportunities in the structural biology field. Here we benchmark the performance of two 300 …

Applications and limitations of electron 3D crystallography

K Yonekura, S Maki-Yonekura, K Takaba - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
Three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED) is a measurement and analysis technique in
transmission electron microscopy that is used for determining atomic structures from small …

Machine learning-based real-time object locator/evaluator for cryo-EM data collection

K Yonekura, S Maki-Yonekura, H Naitow… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
In cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data collection, locating a target object is error-prone.
Here, we present a machine learning-based approach with a real-time object locator named …

[PDF][PDF] Improving data quality for three-dimensional electron diffraction by a post-column energy filter and a new crystal tracking method

T Yang, H Xu, X Zou - Journal of applied crystallography, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
Three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED) has become an effective technique to
determine the structures of submicrometre-(nanometre-) sized crystals. In this work, energy …

Protein and organic-molecular crystallography with 300kV electrons on a direct electron detector

K Takaba, S Maki-Yonekura, S Inoue… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Electron 3D crystallography can reveal the atomic structure from undersized crystals of
various samples owing to the strong scattering power of electrons. Here, a direct electron …

Exploration and development of molecule-based printed electronics materials: an integrated approach using experimental, computational, and data sciences

T Hasegawa, S Inoue, S Tsuzuki… - … and Technology of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The challenge in developing molecule-based electronic materials lies in the uncontrollable
or unpredictable nature of their crystal structures, which are crucial for determining both …

Deep learning driven de novo drug design based on gastric proton pump structures

K Abe, M Ozako, M Inukai, Y Matsuyuki… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Existing drugs often suffer in their effectiveness due to detrimental side effects, low binding
affinity or pharmacokinetic problems. This may be overcome by the development of distinct …