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ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2018

Single-particle cryo-EM-How did it get here and where will it go.

Yifan Cheng

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Review in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 236 papers.

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236citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

236 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Cryogenic electron microscopy and coagulation factors.Current opinion in hematology · 2026
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  10. AI-Physics-Experiment Trinity for Integrated Protein Dynamics Modeling.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  11. Structural basis of long-range transcription-translation coupling.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  13. Measurement of atomic scattering factors by cryoelectron microscopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  20. Subcellular mass spectrometry reveals proteome remodeling in an asymmetrically dividing (frog) embryonic stem cell.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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176 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 ChengHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9535-0369

Funding

X-ray Screening and Rapid Structure DeterminationP50GM082250 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FRANKEL, ALAN D · 2007 to 2018
$48.8M
Structure, States and Transition in ABC Transporters pp360-431P01GM111126 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SALI, ANDREJ · 2015 to 2019
$9.8M
Structural mechanism of integrin-mediated TGF-b activationR01HL134183 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Yifan Cheng, Stephen L Nishimura · 2016 to 2026
$5.9M
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
Acquisition of an electron microscope for high-resolution single particle cryo-EMS10OD021741 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2016 to 2016
$2.0M
Linux cluster for near atomic resolution single particle cryo-EMS10OD020054 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2015 to 2015
$456k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL134183NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM111126NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM082250NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM082893NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM098672NIH HHS S10 OD020054NIH HHS S10 OD021741
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryo-electron microscopy, or simply cryo-EM, refers mainly to three very different yet closely related techniques: electron crystallography, single-particle cryo-EM, and electron cryotomography. In the past few years, single-particle cryo-EM in particular has triggered a revolution in structural biology and has become a newly dominant discipline. This Review examines the fascinating story of its start and evolution over the past 40-plus years, delves into how and why the recent technological advances have been so groundbreaking, and briefly considers where the technique may be headed in the future.

Indexed as

AnimalsCatalaseCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayHumansSingle Molecule ImagingTransient Receptor Potential ChannelsCatalaseTransient Receptor Potential Channels

Identifiers

PMID30166484
PMCPMC6460916

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