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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2018

Membrane protein structural biology in the era of single particle cryo-EM.

Yifan Cheng

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers.

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78citing 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

78 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Cryogenic light microscopy of vitrified samples with angstrom precision.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Advances in native cell membrane nanoparticles system.Current opinion in structural biology · 2025
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  9. Structural insight intoActa biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2025
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  10. The structural basis of cold sensitivity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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18 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, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143, United States; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143, United States. 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
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

In the past few years, significant technological breakthroughs in single particle cryo-electron microscopy enabled a 'resolution revolution' of this technique. It also changed structural biology in an unprecedented way. For many biological macromolecules, obtaining well-ordered crystals of suitable size is no longer a prerequisite for determining their atomic structures. One of the most impacted areas is the structural biology of integral membrane proteins. New structures are now determined at a rapid pace. Despite these advances, further technological developments are still required to overcome new technical challenges that face membrane protein structural biology. In this review, I attempt to discuss some of these challenges.

Indexed as

Cryoelectron MicroscopyModels, MolecularMembrane ProteinsProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationMembrane Proteins

Identifiers

PMID30219656
PMCPMC6296881

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