International journal of molecular sciences
May 6, 2023
Heterogeneous three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an important but very challenging technique for recovering the conformational heterogeneity of flexible biological macromolecules such as pro...
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a widely used structural determination technique. Because of the extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of images captured by cryo-EM, clustering single-particle cryo-EM images with high accuracy is challengin...
In cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM), sample thickness is one of the most important parameters that governs image quality. When combining cryo-TEM with other imaging methods, such as light microscopy, measuring and controlling the samp...
As a result of evolutionary selection, the subunits of naturally occurring protein assemblies often fit together with substantial shape complementarity to generate architectures optimal for function in a manner not achievable by current design approa...
Recent progress in cryo-EM research has ignited a revolution in biological macromolecule structure determination. Resolution is an essential parameter for quality assessment of a cryo-EM density map, and it is known that resolution varies in differen...
The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is a giant protein assembly that penetrates the double layers of the nuclear membrane. The overall structure of the NPC has approximately eightfold symmetry and is formed by approximately 30 nucleoporins. The great size...
Drug discovery is a crucial part of human healthcare and has dramatically benefited human lifespan and life quality in recent centuries, however, it is usually time- and effort-consuming. Structural biology has been demonstrated as a powerful tool to...
Resolving the structural variability of proteins is often key to understanding the structure-function relationship of those macromolecular machines. Single particle analysis using Cryogenic electron microscopy (CryoEM), combined with machine learning...
Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a key technology to determine the structure of proteins, particularly large protein complexes and assemblies in recent years. A key challenge in cryo-EM data analysis is to automatically reconstruct a...
The study of macromolecular structures has expanded our understanding of the amazing cell machinery and such knowledge has changed how the pharmaceutical industry develops new vaccines in recent years. Traditionally, X-ray crystallography has been th...
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