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ReviewCell2015

Single-Particle Cryo-EM at Crystallographic Resolution.

Yifan Cheng

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Review in Cell, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 287 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
287citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

287 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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227 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Yifan ChengDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: ycheng@ucsf.edu.

Funding

X-ray Screening and Rapid Structure DeterminationP50GM082250 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FRANKEL, ALAN D · 2007 to 2018
$48.8M
Mechanism of gate-opening in the 20S proteasome induced by the proteasomal ATPaseR01GM082893 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2008 to 2017
$2.8M
Structures and gating mechanisms of TRP ion channelsR01GM098672 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2011 to 2018
$2.6M
GPU Computing Enabled Linux Computer ClusterS10RR026814 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2010 to 2010
$228k
NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR026814NCRR NIH HHS S10RR026814NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM082250NIGMS NIH HHS P50GM082250NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM082893NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM082893NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098672NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM098672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Until only a few years ago, single-particle electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) was usually not the first choice for many structural biologists due to its limited resolution in the range of nanometer to subnanometer. Now, this method rivals X-ray crystallography in terms of resolution and can be used to determine atomic structures of macromolecules that are either refractory to crystallization or difficult to crystallize in specific functional states. In this review, I discuss the recent breakthroughs in both hardware and software that transformed cryo-microscopy, enabling understanding of complex biomolecules and their functions at atomic level.

Indexed as

Molecular ConformationCrystallography, X-RayImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLikelihood FunctionsSoftware

Identifiers

PMID25910205
PMCPMC4409662

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