Conformational heterogeneity and probability distributions from single-particle cryo-electron microscopy

WS Tang, ED Zhong, SM Hanson, EH Thiede… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique that takes projection
images of biomolecules frozen at cryogenic temperatures. A major advantage of this …

Cryo-EM: beyond the microscope

LA Earl, V Falconieri, JLS Milne… - Current opinion in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•The number of structures determined by cryo-EM is continuing to grow
rapidly.•Computational methods are helping resolve conformational heterogeneity.• …

Deep learning-based mixed-dimensional Gaussian mixture model for characterizing variability in cryo-EM

M Chen, SJ Ludtke - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
Structural flexibility and/or dynamic interactions with other molecules is a critical aspect of
protein function. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) provides direct visualization of …

Model-based local density sharpening of cryo-EM maps

AJ Jakobi, M Wilmanns, C Sachse - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Atomic models based on high-resolution density maps are the ultimate result of the cryo-EM
structure determination process. Here, we introduce a general procedure for local …

MDSPACE: Extracting continuous conformational landscapes from Cryo-EM single particle datasets using 3D-to-2D flexible fitting based on molecular dynamics …

R Vuillemot, A Mirzaei, M Harastani… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article presents an original approach for extracting atomic-resolution landscapes of
continuous conformational variability of biomolecular complexes from cryo electron …

NMMD: Efficient cryo-EM flexible fitting based on simultaneous Normal Mode and Molecular Dynamics atomic displacements

R Vuillemot, O Miyashita, F Tama, I Rouiller… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Atomic models of cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps of biomolecular conformations
are often obtained by flexible fitting of the maps with available atomic structures of other …

MDTOMO method for continuous conformational variability analysis in cryo electron subtomograms based on molecular dynamics simulations

R Vuillemot, I Rouiller, S Jonić - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows observing macromolecular complexes in their
native environment. The common routine of subtomogram averaging (STA) allows obtaining …

DeepHEMNMA: ResNet-based hybrid analysis of continuous conformational heterogeneity in cryo-EM single particle images

I Hamitouche, S Jonic - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a technique for biomolecular structure
reconstruction from vitrified samples containing many copies of a biomolecular complex …

Deep generative modeling for volume reconstruction in cryo-electron microscopy

C Donnat, A Levy, F Poitevin, ED Zhong… - Journal of structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) for high-resolution imaging of biomolecules
in solution have provided new challenges and opportunities for algorithm development for …

Computational methods for single-particle electron cryomicroscopy

A Singer, FJ Sigworth - Annual review of biomedical data …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Single-particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) is an increasingly popular technique for
elucidating the three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins and other biologically significant …