Electron nanocrystallography for organic and macromolecular structure determination

Macromolecular structure determination by cryo-electron microscopy.

Recent advances in transmission electron microscopy (EM) hardware, low-temperature methods and image-processing software have made cryo-EM an important complement to X-ray crystallography and NMR for macromolecular structure determination, particularly of large assemblies. This review provides a summary of the main advances and a survey of the capabilities of this approach.

A new principle for macromolecular structure determination

Protein NMR spectroscopy is a modern experimental technique for elucidating the threedimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution. From the data-analytical point of view, structure determination has always been considered an optimisation problem: much effort has been spent on the development of minimisation strategies; the underlying rationale, however, has not been revised. C...

Three dimensional electron microscopy and in silico tools for macromolecular structure determination.

Recently, structural biology witnessed a major tool - electron microscopy - in solving the structures of macromolecules in addition to the conventional techniques, X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Three dimensional transmission electron microscopy (3DTEM) is one of the most sophisticated techniques for structure determination of molecular machines. Known to give the 3...

Dipolar couplings in macromolecular structure determination.

Integrating diverse data for structure determination of macromolecular assemblies.

To understand the cell, we need to determine the macromolecular assembly structures, which may consist of tens to hundreds of components. First, we review the varied experimental data that characterize the assemblies at several levels of resolution. We then describe computational methods for generating the structures using these data. To maximize completeness, resolution, accuracy, precision, a...