Membranes under the magnetic lens: a dive into the diverse world of membrane protein structures using Cryo-EM

SJ Piper, RM Johnson, D Wootten, PM Sexton - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins are highly diverse in both structure and function and can, therefore,
present different challenges for structure determination. They are biologically important for …

[PDF][PDF] Approaches to altering particle distributions in cryo-electron microscopy sample preparation

I Drulyte, RM Johnson, EL Hesketh… - … Section D: Structural …, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can now be used to determine high-resolution structural
information on a diverse range of biological specimens. Recent advances have been driven …

Automatic local resolution-based sharpening of cryo-EM maps

E Ramírez-Aportela, JL Vilas, A Glukhova… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Recent technological advances and computational developments have allowed
the reconstruction of Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) maps at near-atomic resolution …

Collection, pre-processing and on-the-fly analysis of data for high-resolution, single-particle cryo-electron microscopy

RF Thompson, MG Iadanza, EL Hesketh, S Rawson… - Nature protocols, 2019 - nature.com
The dramatic growth in the use of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to generate high-
resolution structures of macromolecular complexes has changed the landscape of structural …

The cytochrome bc1 complex as an antipathogenic target

N Fisher, B Meunier, GA Biagini - Febs Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The cytochrome bc1 complex is a key component of the mitochondrial respiratory chains of
many eukaryotic microorganisms that are pathogenic for plants or humans, such as fungi …

[HTML][HTML] Tuberculosis: Past, present and future of the treatment and drug discovery research

AD Bendre, PJ Peters, J Kumar - Current research in pharmacology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Despite decades of research driving advancements in drug development and …

Mitonuclear coevolution, but not nuclear compensation, drives evolution of OXPHOS complexes in bivalves

G Piccinini, M Iannello, G Puccio… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In Metazoa, four out of five complexes involved in oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) are
formed by subunits encoded by both the mitochondrial (mtDNA) and nuclear (nuDNA) …

Potent tetrahydroquinolone eliminates apicomplexan parasites

MJ McPhillie, Y Zhou, MR Hickman… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Apicomplexan infections cause substantial morbidity and mortality, worldwide. New,
improved therapies are needed. Herein, we create a next generation anti-apicomplexan …

Targeting the Ubiquinol-Reduction (Qi) Site of the Mitochondrial Cytochrome bc1 Complex for the Development of Next Generation Quinolone Antimalarials

K Amporndanai, N Pinthong, PM O'Neill, WD Hong… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Malaria is a life-threatening disease which infects millions of people a year
via mosquito bites, particularly in developing countries. Although many malaria drugs are …

Quinone binding sites of cyt bc complexes analysed by X-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy

WC Kao, C Hunte - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Cytochrome (cyt) bc 1, bcc and b 6 f complexes, collectively referred to as cyt bc complexes,
are homologous isoprenoid quinol oxidising enzymes present in diverse phylogenetic …