Cryo-EM and antisense targeting of the 28-kDa frameshift stimulation element from the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome

K Zhang, IN Zheludev, RJ Hagey, R Haslecker… - Nature Structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
Drug discovery campaigns against COVID-19 are beginning to target the SARS-CoV-2 RNA
genome. The highly conserved frameshift stimulation element (FSE), required for balanced …

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 …

CR-I-TASSER: assemble protein structures from cryo-EM density maps using deep convolutional neural networks

X Zhang, B Zhang, PL Freddolino, Y Zhang - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become a leading approach for protein structure
determination, but it remains challenging to accurately model atomic structures with cryo-EM …

Advances in structure modeling methods for cryo-electron microscopy maps

E Alnabati, D Kihara - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has now become a widely used technique for structure
determination of macromolecular complexes. For modeling molecular structures from …

eIF4A1-dependent mRNAs employ purine-rich 5'UTR sequences to activate localised eIF4A1-unwinding through eIF4A1-multimerisation to facilitate translation

T Schmidt, A Dabrowska, JA Waldron… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Altered eIF4A1 activity promotes translation of highly structured, eIF4A1-dependent
oncogene mRNAs at root of oncogenic translational programmes. It remains unclear how …

Centriolar cap proteins CP110 and CPAP control slow elongation of microtubule plus ends

SS Iyer, F Chen, FE Ogunmolu, S Moradi… - Journal of Cell …, 2025 - rupress.org
Centrioles are microtubule-based organelles required for the formation of centrosomes and
cilia. Centriolar microtubules, unlike their cytosolic counterparts, are stable and grow very …

Cryo-electron microscopy and exploratory antisense targeting of the 28-kDa frameshift stimulation element from the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome

K Zhang, IN Zheludev, RJ Hagey, MTP Wu… - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Drug discovery campaigns against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) are beginning to target the viral RNA genome,. The frameshift stimulation …

Molecular dynamics to predict cryo-EM: capturing transitions and short-lived conformational states of biomolecules

Ł Nierzwicki, G Palermo - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has revolutionized the field of the
structural biology, providing an access to the atomic resolution structures of large …

Fostering discoveries in the era of exascale computing: How the next generation of supercomputers empowers computational and experimental biophysics alike

MCR Melo, RC Bernardi - Biophysical Journal, 2023 - cell.com
Over a century ago, physicists started broadly relying on theoretical models to guide new
experiments. Soon thereafter, chemists began doing the same. Now, biological research …

An asymmetric sheath controls flagellar supercoiling and motility in the leptospira spirochete

KH Gibson, F Trajtenberg, EA Wunder, MR Brady… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Spirochete bacteria, including important pathogens, exhibit a distinctive means of swimming
via undulations of the entire cell. Motility is powered by the rotation of supercoiled' …