Challenges and opportunities in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

D Lyumkis - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables structure determination of
macromolecular objects and their assemblies. Although the techniques have been …

Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …

Structure deformation and curvature sensing of PIEZO1 in lipid membranes

X Yang, C Lin, X Chen, S Li, X Li, B Xiao - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
PIEZO channels respond to piconewton-scale forces to mediate critical physiological and
pathophysiological processes,,,–. Detergent-solubilized PIEZO channels form bowl-shaped …

Quadrivalent influenza nanoparticle vaccines induce broad protection

S Boyoglu-Barnum, D Ellis, RA Gillespie… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Influenza vaccines that confer broad and durable protection against diverse viral strains
would have a major effect on global health, as they would lessen the need for annual …

Tectonic conformational changes of a coronavirus spike glycoprotein promote membrane fusion

AC Walls, MA Tortorici, J Snijder… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The tremendous pandemic potential of coronaviruses was demonstrated twice in the past
few decades by two global outbreaks of deadly pneumonia. The coronavirus spike (S) …

[HTML][HTML] Induction of potent neutralizing antibody responses by a designed protein nanoparticle vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus

J Marcandalli, B Fiala, S Ols, M Perotti… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a worldwide public health concern for which no vaccine
is available. Elucidation of the prefusion structure of the RSV F glycoprotein and its …

Understanding the invisible hands of sample preparation for cryo-EM

G Weissenberger, RJM Henderikx, PJ Peters - Nature Methods, 2021 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is rapidly becoming an attractive method in the field of
structural biology. With the exploding popularity of cryo-EM, sample preparation must evolve …

Broad receptor tropism and immunogenicity of a clade 3 sarbecovirus

J Lee, SK Zepeda, YJ Park, AL Taylor, J Quispe… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Although Rhinolophus bats harbor diverse clade 3 sarbecoviruses, the structural
determinants of receptor tropism along with the antigenicity of their spike (S) glycoproteins …

Structural basis for the RNA-guided ribonuclease activity of CRISPR-Cas13d

C Zhang, S Konermann, NJ Brideau, P Lotfy, X Wu… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas endonucleases directed against foreign nucleic acids mediate prokaryotic
adaptive immunity and have been tailored for broad genetic engineering applications. Type …

Cryo-EM analysis of a membrane protein embedded in the liposome

X Yao, X Fan, N Yan - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Membrane proteins (MPs) used to be the most difficult targets for structural biology when X-
ray crystallography was the mainstream approach. With the resolution revolution of single …