Newsletter 538 (October 1, 2025) NIH Structural Biology Methods SIG
SEPTEMBER 2025 PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE GROUP
1: Soubias O, Foley SL, Jian X, Jackson RA, Zhang Y, Rosenberg EM, Hu BJ, Li J, Heinrich F, Johnson ME, Sodt AJ, Randazzo PA, Byrd RA.
An active allosteric mechanism in ASAP1-mediated Arf1 GTP hydrolysis redefines PH domain function.
Nature communications 2025-10-01 doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63764-w
PMID: 41028713
2: Zhou BR, Orris B, Guan R, Lian T, Bai Y, Bai Y.
Erratum to "Structural insights into the recognition of native nucleosomes by pioneer transcription factors" [Current Opinion in structural Biology 92 (June 2025) 1-1, article number: 103,024].
Current opinion in structural biology 2025-09-25 doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2025.103161
PMID: 40992137
3: Kubatova N, Schmidt T, Wang Q, Clore GM.
Dimerization propensity of the Β
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2025-09-18 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2519609122
PMID: 40966289
4: Tripathi P, Koo JH, Chen X, Da Silva Pereira L, Dillon M, Zhang B, Lofgren M, Nguyen KT, Teng IT, Bonilla B, Kerscher S, Kong WP, Ransier A, Stephens T, Tsybovsky Y, Weldon SR, Douek DC, Pierson TC, Batista FD, Idris AH, Seder RA, Kwong PD, Zhou T.
Protective immunity against malaria by a nanoparticle CIS43-based junctional vaccine alone or in combination with R21.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025-09-18 doi: 10.1101/2025.09.05.665822
PMID: 40964283
5: Dumas RP, Succar BE, Vella MA, Appelbaum RD, Neal MD, Dultz LA, Shah KH, Patel NJ, Brito AM, Kornblith LZ, Murphy PB, Bankhead BK, Sleet MC, Molavi I, Asfaw SH, Schreiber MA, Kutcher ME, Sperry JL, Yang W, Cannon JC, Martin MJ.
The use of tranexamic acid in the management of injured patients at risk of hemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis and an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Practice Management Guideline.
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2025-09-16 doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004773
PMID: 40956301
6: Ritt DA, Durrant DE, Drew MR, Sandin SI, Martinez Fiesco JA, Zhang X, Aydin F, Carpenter TS, Scheidemantle GM, D'Ippolito RA, Sohn AL, DeHart CJ, Shrestha R, Snead K, Hull J, Tempkin JOB, Yang Y, Lightstone FC, Streitz FH, Zhang P, Turbyville TJ, Stephen AG, Esposito D, Ingólfsson HI, Nissley DV, Morrison DK.
An in vitro BRAF activation assay elucidates molecular mechanisms driving disassembly of the autoinhibited BRAF state.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2025-09-15 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2508169122
PMID: 40953270
7: Foote MK, Huffman WC, Santos EN, Lee PR, Jarnik M, Li W, Bonifacino JS, Fields RD.
Non-synaptic Mechanism of Ocular Dominance Plasticity.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025-09-15 doi: 10.1101/2025.09.02.673699
PMID: 40949970
8: Absar F, Novy B, Nagy E, Petrotchenko EV, Popov KI, Cross JB, Thapar R, Borchers CH.
A Hit Prioritization Strategy for Compound Library Screening Using LiP-MS and Molecular Dynamics Simulations Applied to KRas G12D Inhibitors.
Analytical chemistry 2025-09-12 doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c03103
PMID: 40939179
9: Dharmaiah S, Bonsor DA, Mo SP, Fernandez-Cabrera A, Chan AH, Messing S, Drew M, Vega M, Nissley DV, Esposito D, Castel P, Simanshu DK.
Structural basis for LZTR1 recognition of RAS GTPases for degradation.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2025-09-11 doi: 10.1126/science.adv7088
PMID: 40934300
10: Lawrenson K, Kar S, McCue K, Kuchenbaeker K, Michailidou K, Tyrer J, Beesley J, Ramus SJ, Li Q, Delgado MK, Lee JM, Aittomäki K, Andrulis IL, Anton-Culver H, Arndt V, Arun BK, Arver B, Bandera EV, Barile M, Barkardottir RB, Barrowdale D, Beckmann MW, Benitez J, Berchuck A, Bisogna M, Bjorge L, Blomqvist C, Blot W, Bogdanova N, Bojesen A, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Bonanni B, Børresen-Dale AL, Brauch H, Brennan P, Brenner H, Bruinsma F, Brunet J, Buhari SA, Burwinkel B, Butzow R, Buys SS, Cai Q, Caldes T, Campbell I, Cannioto R, Chang-Claude J, Chiquette J, Choi JY, Claes KBM, None None, Cook LS, Cox A, Cramer DW, Cross SS, Cybulski C, Czene K, Daly MB, Damiola F, Dansonka-Mieszkowska A, Darabi H, Dennis J, Devilee P, Diez O, Doherty JA, Domchek SM, Dorfling CM, Dörk T, Dumont M, Ehrencrona H, Ejlertsen B, Ellis S, None None, Engel C, Lee E, Evans DG, Fasching PA, Feliubadalo L, Figueroa J, Flesch-Janys D, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Foretova L, Fostira F, Foulkes WD, Fridley BL, Friedman E, Frost D, Gambino G, Ganz PA, Garber J, García-Closas M, Gentry-Maharaj A, Ghoussaini M, Giles GG, Glasspool R, Godwin AK, Goldberg MS, Goldgar DE, González-Neira A, Goode EL, Goodman MT, Greene MH, Gronwald J, Guénel P, Haiman CA, Hall P, Hallberg E, Hamann U, Hansen TVO, Harrington PA, Hartman M, Hassan N, Healey S, None None, Heitz F, Herzog J, Høgdall E, Høgdall CK, Hogervorst FBL, Hollestelle A, Hopper JL, Hulick PJ, Huzarski T, Imyanitov EN, None None, None None, Isaacs C, Ito H, Jakubowska A, Janavicius R, Jensen A, John EM, Johnson N, Kabisch M, Kang D, Kapuscinski M, Karlan BY, Khan S, Kiemeney LA, Kjaer SK, Knight JA, Konstantopoulou I, Kosma VM, Kristensen V, Kupryjanczyk J, Kwong A, de la Hoya M, Laitman Y, Lambrechts D, Le N, De Leeneer K, Lester J, Levine DA, Li J, Lindblom A, Long J, Lophatananon A, Loud JT, Lu K, Lubinski J, Mannermaa A, Manoukian S, Le Marchand L, Margolin S, Marme F, Massuger LFAG, Matsuo K, Mazoyer S, McGuffog L, McLean C, McNeish I, Meindl A, Menon U, Mensenkamp AR, Milne RL, Montagna M, Moysich KB, Muir K, Mulligan AM, Nathanson KL, Ness RB, Neuhausen SL, Nevanlinna H, Nord S, Nussbaum RL, Odunsi K, Offit K, Olah E, Olopade OI, Olson JE, Olswold C, O'Malley D, Orlow I, Orr N, Osorio A, Park SK, Pearce CL, Pejovic T, Peterlongo P, Pfeiler G, Phelan CM, Poole EM, Pylkäs K, Radice P, Rantala J, Rashid MU, Rennert G, Rhenius V, Rhiem K, Risch HA, Rodriguez G, Rossing MA, Rudolph A, Salvesen HB, Sangrajrang S, Sawyer EJ, Schildkraut JM, Schmidt MK, Schmutzler RK, Sellers TA, Seynaeve C, Shah M, Shen CY, Shu XO, Sieh W, Singer CF, Sinilnikova OM, Slager S, Song H, Soucy P, Southey MC, Stenmark-Askmalm M, Stoppa-Lyonnet D, Sutter C, Swerdlow A, Tchatchou S, Teixeira MR, Teo SH, Terry KL, Terry MB, Thomassen M, Tibiletti MG, Tihomirova L, Tognazzo S, Toland AE, Tomlinson I, Torres D, Truong T, Tseng CC, Tung N, Tworoger SS, Vachon C, van den Ouweland AMW, van Doorn HC, van Rensburg EJ, Van't Veer LJ, Vanderstichele A, Vergote I, Vijai J, Wang Q, Wang-Gohrke S, Weitzel JN, Wentzensen N, Whittemore AS, Wildiers H, Winqvist R, Wu AH, Yannoukakos D, Yoon SY, Yu JC, Zheng W, Zheng Y, Khanna KK, Simard J, Monteiro AN, French JD, Couch FJ, Freedman ML, Easton DF, Dunning AM, Pharoah PD, Edwards SL, Chenevix-Trench G, Antoniou AC, Gayther SA.
Author Correction: Functional mechanisms underlying pleiotropic risk alleles at the 19p13.1 breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility locus.
Nature communications 2025-09-10 doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63507-x
PMID: 40925936
11: Zhou D, Zhang H, Yang W, Wang Y, Zhu L, Jiang M, Xu J, Teng F, Zhao X, Zhu S, Liu D, Zhang Q, Sirajuddin A, Arai AE, Zhao S, Lu M.
Risk Stratification of Sudden Cardiac Death in Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Arrhythmogenic Substrate Assessment in Cardiac MRI.
Radiology 2025-09-09 doi: 10.1148/radiol.243427
PMID: 40923889
12: Nicholson B, Santé JF, Chaney EH, Deme JC, Deecker SR, Sztanko K, Davidson AR, Lea SM, Ensminger AW.
The discovery of a Legionella phage explains a key determinant of human disease
Science advances 2025-09-03 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adx9722
PMID: 40901954
13: Kumar S, Jain S, Wali B, Zarnitsyna VI, Joshi D, Ellis ML, Lai L, Malik AA, McPherson TO, Godbole S, Patel A, Linderman S, Solis D, Sahoo MK, Bechnak K, Paredes I, Tanios R, Kazzi B, Dib SM, Litvack MB, Wimalasena ST, Hicks H, Tamin A, Bowen NE, Atherton L, Paden C, Harcourt JL, Wentworth DE, Ciric C, West RH, Rostad CA, Teng IT, Wang D, Ortlund EA, Menachery VD, Edupuganti S, Kwong PD, Rouphael N, Pinsky BA, Douek DC, Moreno A, Wrammert J, Suthar MS.
The XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine elicits a durable antibody response to ancestral and XBB.1.5 SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins.
Science translational medicine 2025-09-03 doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adu8067
PMID: 40901926
14: Zhu Y, Kleinpeter AB, Rey JS, Shen J, Shen Y, Xu J, Hardenbrook N, Chen L, Lucic A, Perilla JR, Freed EO, Zhang P.
Structural basis for HIV-1 capsid adaption to a deficiency in IP6 packaging.
Nature communications 2025-09-02 doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63363-9
PMID: 40890096
15: De Pace R, Ghosh S, Williamson CD, Bonifacino JS.
BLOC-1 and BORC: Complex regulators of endolysosomal dynamics.
Cell chemical biology 2025-09-02 doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2025.08.001
PMID: 40865516
16: Lee J, Chin N, Zou J, Mazli WNAB, Jarnik M, Saidi L, Xu Y, Jeong E, Suh J, Replogle J, Ward ME, Bonifacino JS, Zheng W, Hao L, Ye Y.
CHIP protects lysosomes from CLN4 mutant-induced membrane damage.
Nature cell biology 2025-08-26 doi: 10.1038/s41556-025-01738-2
PMID: 40855364
17: Banco MT, Paul T, Jiang J, Myong S, Ferré-D'Amaré AR.
Structural basis for dual DNA and RNA specificity of the G-quadruplex-resolving DEAH-box helicase DHX36.
Cell reports 2025-08-20 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116136
PMID: 40833853
18: Sueyoshi T, Negishi M.
CAR: Discovery and development by the pharmacogenetics laboratory at NIEHS, NIH.
Pharmacological research 2025-08-14 doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2025.107907
PMID: 40812694
19: Dharavath S, Song H, Ji X.
Unraveling the mechanism of RNA duplex unwinding by DEAD-box helicase DDX3X: Insights into Cooperativity and roles of protomers.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2025-06-28 doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2025.152206
PMID: 40578281
20: Shaukat AN, Zhang J.
Conduits, Doppelgängers, and Chimeras: RNA Structures at the Virus-Host Interface.
Annual review of virology 2025-05-30 doi: 10.1146/annurev-virology-100422-031237
PMID: 40446307
21: Jiang C, Li Z, Seok S, Li P, Ma Y, Podguski SK, Moturi S, Yoneda N, Kawai K, Uehara S, Ohnishi Y, Suemizu H, Zhang J, Cao H.
Systemic Identification of Functionally Conserved Long Noncoding RNA Metabolic Regulators in Human and Mouse Livers.
Gastroenterology 2025-03-25 doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2025.03.015
PMID: 40127783
22: Yachimski P, Zhang J, Coté GA, Edmundowicz SA, Wani S, Shah R, Bang JY, Varadarajulu S, Singh VK, Khashab M, Kwon RS, Scheiman JM, Willingham FF, Keilin SA, Papachristou GI, Chak A, Slivka A, Mullady D, Kushnir V, Buxbaum J, Keswani R, Gardner TB, Forbes N, Rastogi A, Ross A, Law J, Chen YI, Barkun A, Smith ZL, Serrano J, Petersen B, Wang AY, Saltzman JR, Spitzer RL, Ordiah C, Spino C, Foster LD, Durkalski-Mauldin V, Elmunzer BJ, None None.
Thirty-day hospital admission following high-risk outpatient ERCP: incidence and analysis of risk factors based on a secondary analysis of the Stent Versus Indomethacin trial dataset.
Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2025-02-07 doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2025.01.035
PMID: 39914634
RECENT TOPICS IN THE LITERATURE:
METHODS — Sample Preparation Tips
N. Premaraj et al.,
"Advancing cryo-EM and cryo-ET through innovation in sample carriers: a perspective"
PMID: 40476672.
I.J. Hirst et al.,
"Untangling the effects of flexibility and the AWI in cryoEM sample preparation: A case study using KtrA"
PMID: 40324569.
Y. Huang et al.,
"Recent Advances in Expression Screening and Sample Evaluation for Structural Studies of Membrane Proteins"
PMID: 39362625.
K. McGuire et al.,
"Tuning ice thickness using the chameleon for high-quality cryoEM data collection"
PMID: 38746094.
B. Cook et al.,
"Preparation of oxygen-sensitive proteins for high-resolution cryoEM structure determination using (an)aerobic blot-free vitrification"
PMID: 39091810.
R. Warmack et al.,
"Anaerobic cryoEM protocols for air- sensitive nitrogenase proteins"
PMID: 38575747.
I.J. Hirst et al.,
"CryoEM grid preparation: a closer look at advancements and impact of preparation mode and new approaches"
PMID: 38864435.
S. Yadav and K.R. Vinothkumar,
"Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM"
PMID: 38935342.
S.E.J. Bowman et al.,
"Preparing research samples for safe arrival at centers and facilities: recipes for successful experiments"
PMID: 38990054.
METHODS — Macromolecular Crystallography
N. L. Inniss et al.,
"Structural genomics of bacterial drug targets: application of a high-throughput pipeline to solve 59 protein structures from pathogenic and related bacteria"
PMID: 40391899.
.J. Simpkin et al.
"Slice'N'Dice: maximizing the value of predicted models for structural biologists"
PMID: 39976565.
G. Budziszewski et al.
"Preparing for successful protein crystallization experiments"
PMID: 40454464.
M. Schaefer et al.,
"Surface-mutagenesis strategies to enable structural biology crystallization platforms"
PMID: 39207897.
METHODS — Integrative Structural Biology
S. Bazzi and S. Sayyed,
"Revealing arginine-cysteine and glycine-cysteine NOS linkages by a systematic re-evaluation of protein structures"
PMID: 40360719.
R. Mitra et al.
"RNAproDB: a webserver and interactive database for analyzing protein-RNA interactions"
PMID: 40126909.
H. McCann et al.,
"R2DT: a comprehensive platform for visualizing RNA secondary structure"
PMID: 39921562.
B. Vallat et al.,
"PDB-IHM: a system for deposition, curation, validation, and dissemination of integrative structures"
PMID: 40110969.
D. A. Erlanson et al.,
"Where and how to house big data on small fragments"
PMID: 40325009.
M. Bazayeva et al.,
"A database overview of metal-coordination distances in metalloproteins"
PMID: 38682667.
H. Zheng et al.,
"PinMyMetal: a hybrid learning system to accurately model metal binding sites in macromolecules"
PMID: 40155596.
M. Bochtler,
"X-rays, electrons, and neutrons as probes of atomic matter"
PMID: 38412856.
METHODS — XFEL, Serial Crystallography
L. Sauthof et al.
"Serial-femtosecond crystallography reveals how a phytochrome variant couples chromophore and protein structural changes"
PMID: 40435264.
M. Maestre-Reyna et al.,
"Capturing structural intermediates in an animal-like cryptochrome photoreceptor by time-resolved crystallography"
PMID: 40378212.
M. Sonawal et al.
"Functional implications of hexameric dynamics in SARS-CoV-2 Nsp15"
PMID: 40411374.
METHODS — Micro-ED
M.T.B. Clabbers and T. Gonen,
"Recovering high-resolution information using energy filtering in MicroED"
PMID: 40370641.
J. Lin et al.,
"Ligand screening and discovery using cocktail soaking and automated MicroED"
PMID: 40027750.
W. J. Nicolas et al.,
"Structure of the lens MP20 mediated adhesive junction"
PMID: 40140346.
J.E. Miller et al.,
"AlphaFold-assisted structure determination of a bacterial protein of unknown function using X-ray and electron crystallography"
PMID: 38451205.
METHODS — Cryo-EM
R.C. Kretsch et al.,
"Complex water networks visualized by cryogenic electron microscopy of RNA"
PMID: 40068818.
R.C. Kretsch et al.,
"Naturally ornate RNA-only complexes revealed by cryo-EM"
PMID: 40328315.
G. Pintilie et al.,
"Q-score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid, and small molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM density maps"
PMID: 39868161.
R. Read et al.,
"Likelihood-based interactive local docking into cryo-EM maps in ChimeraX"
PMID: 39058381.
R. Karimi et al.,
"Vesicle Picker: a tool for efficient identification of membrane protein complexes in vesicles"
PMID: 39481498.
D. Bobe et al.,
"Multi-species cryoEM calibration and workflow verification standard"
PMID: 39494502.
C.L. Lawson et al.,
"Outcomes of the EMDataResource Cryo-EM Ligand Modeling Challenge"
PMID: 38343795.
B. Greber et al.,
"High-resolution cryo-EM of the human CDK-activating kinase for structure-based drug design"
PMID: 38480681.
G.J. Kleywegt,
"Community recommendations on cryoEM data archiving and validation"
PMID: 38358351.
M. Kschonsak et al.,
"Cryo-EM reveals an unprecedented binding site for Nav1.7 inhibitors enabling rational design of potent hybrid inhibitors"
PMID: 36975198.
METHODS — SAXS
E. Brookes et al.,
"SAXS-A-Fold: a website for fast ensemble modeling optimizing the fit of AlphaFold or user-supplied protein structures with flexible regions to SAXS data"
PMID: 40475948.
K. Lytje and J.S. Pederson,
"Validation of electron-microscopy maps using solution small-angle X-ray scattering"
PMID: 38935344.
METHODS — NMR Spectroscopy
L. S. Pidgu et al.,
"Observing nucleotide flipping in DNA using indirect 2’-F nucleotide probes and 19F NMR"
PMID: 40488280.
M. Bütikofer et al.,
"Rapid Protein-Ligand Affinity Determination by Photoinduced Hyperpolarized NMR"
PMID: 38957136.
METHODS — AlphaFold
A. Fadini et al.,
"AlphaFold as a prior: experimental structure determination conditioned on a pretrained neural network"
PMID: 40027838.
R.M. Keegan et al.,
"The success rate of processed predicted models in molecular replacement: implication for experimental phasing in the AlphaFold era"
PMID: 39360967.
B.K. Poon et al.,
"The Phenix-AlphaFold webservice: enabling AlphaFold predictions for use in Phenix"
PMID: 3864706.
A.M. Lau et al.,
"Exploring structural diversity across the protein universe with The Encyclopedia of Domains"
PMID: 39480926.
J. Abramson et al.,
"Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3"
PMID: 38718835.
METHODS — Mass Spectrometry
M.A. Gonzalez-Lozano et al.,
"EndoMAP.v1 charts the structural landscape of human early endosome complexes"
PMID: 40437099.
R.A. D'Ippoito et al.,
"Determining KRAS4B-Targeting Compound Specificity by Top-Down Mass Spectrometry"
PMID: 39052227.
A. Vetrano et al.,
"Protein secondary structure patterns in short-range cross-link atlas"
PMID: 4043759.
M.D. Mann et al.,
"Structural proteomics defines a sequential priming mechanism for the progesterone receptor"
PMID: 403555435.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — General Structural Biology
R. Nussinov et al.,
"Allostery in disease: anticancer drugs, pockets, and the tumor heterogeneity challenge"
PMID: 40021049.
K. Matange et al.,
"Biological polymers: evolution, function, and significance"
PMID: 39905926.
L.C. Schofield et al.,
"Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank"
PMID: 39207896.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — Macromolecular Crystallography
K.L. Shelley and E.F. Garman,
"Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography"
PMID: 38700059.
G. Khusainov et al.,
"The time revolution in macromolecular crystallography"
PMID: 38616866.
J.R. Helliwell et al.,
"The evolution of raw data archiving and the growth of its importance in crystallography"
PMID: 38864497.
D.J. Haas,
"Fifty years on: why macromolecular cryocrystallography has been so successful" IUCr Newsletter (2023) 31(3).
W.A. Hendrickson,
"Facing the phase problem"
PMID: 37668214.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — Cryo-EM
C.T. Chien et al.,
"Single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy structure determination for membrane proteins"
PMID: 40228430.
G.C. Lander,
"Single particle cryo-EM map and model validation: It's not crystal clear"
PMID: 39293191.
E. Nogales & J. Mahamid,
"Bridging structural and cell biology with cryo-electron microscopy"
PMID: 38570716.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — Serial Crystallography
C. J. Tremlett et al.,
"Small but mighty: the power of microcrystals in structural biology"
PMID: 40080159.
A. Henkel and D. Oberthur,
"A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done for us"
PMID: 38984902.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — MicroED
A. Haymaker & B.L. Nannenga,
"Advances and applications of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED)"
PMID: 10882645.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — NMR Spectroscopy
O. A. Alimowska et al.,
"Advances in the application of NMR to the study of GPCRs and ligand-GPCR interactions"
PMID: 40485639.
G. Platzer et al.,
"NMR-driven structure-based drug discovery by unveiling molecular interactions"
PMID: 40450181.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Y. Jiang et al.,
"A structural biology compatible file format for atomic force microscopy"
PMID: 39955301.
A.C. Dumitru et al.,
"Recent advances in the application of atomic force microscopy to structural biology"
PMID: 37044358.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — AlphaFold/AI
E. Callaway,
"Chemistry Nobel goes to developers of AlphaFold AI that predicts protein structures"
PMID: 39384918.
E. Callaway,
"The huge protein database that spawned AlphaFold and biology's AI revolution"
PMID: 39424937.
T.C. Terwilliger et al.,
"AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination"
PMID: 38036854.
S. Subramaniam,
"Structural biology in the age of AI"
PMID: 38066345.
READINGS & TUTORIALS — Protein Data Bank/Data Archiving
H. Berman and S.K. Burley,
"Protein Data Bank (PDB): Fifty-three years young and having a transformative impact on science and society"
PMID: 39973356.
S.K. Burley et al.,
"Updated resources for exploring experimentally-determined PDB structures and computed structure models at the RCSB Protein Data Bank"
PMID: 39607707.
IN THE NEWS:
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DATABASES — Structural Biology
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UPCOMING MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, & WORKSHOPS
75th ACA Annual Meeting, July 18-23, 2025
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Microscopy Society of America Annual Meeting, July 27-31, 2025
Salt Lake City, UT
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Macromolecular Crystallography Course, October 12-28, 2025
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
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