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ReviewAnnual review of biochemistry2021

An Overview of Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (MicroED).

Xuelang Mu, Cody Gillman, Chi Nguyen, Tamir Gonen

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Review in Annual review of biochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Special Issue "Structural Dynamics of Macromolecules".International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  11. Unraveling atomic complexity from frozen samples.Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.) · 2025
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  13. MicroED structure of the C11 cysteine protease clostripain.Journal of structural biology: X · 2024
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  14. Review
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  16. The big chill: Growth ofQRB discovery · 2024
    Review
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  18. Electron crystallography and dedicated electron-diffraction instrumentation.Acta crystallographica. Section E, Crystallographic communications · 2023
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  19. Design and implementation of suspended drop crystallization.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Xuelang MuHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA; email: tgonen@g.ucla.edu.
Cody GillmanHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA; email: tgonen@g.ucla.edu.
Chi NguyenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA; email: tgonen@g.ucla.edu.
Tamir GonenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA; email: tgonen@g.ucla.edu.

Funding

TRD4: Design and Engineering of MicroED hardware for nanocrystallization and time resolved studiesP41GM136508 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI GONEN, TAMIR · 2020 to 2024
$7.6M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM136508
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bedrock of drug discovery and a key tool for understanding cellular function and drug mechanisms of action is the structure determination of chemical compounds, peptides, and proteins. The development of new structure characterization tools, particularly those that fill critical gaps in existing methods, presents important steps forward for structural biology and drug discovery. The emergence of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) expands the application of cryo-electron microscopy to include samples ranging from small molecules and membrane proteins to even large protein complexes using crystals that are one-billionth the size of those required for X-ray crystallography. This review outlines the conception, achievements, and exciting future trajectories for MicroED, an important addition to the existing biophysical toolkit.

Indexed as

Cryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallizationDrug DiscoveryElectronsMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionNanoparticlesProteinsWorkflowProteinscryo–electron microscopycryo-EMcrystallographymicrocrystal electron diffractionMicroEDproteinsstructures

Identifiers

PMID34153215
PMCPMC9974886

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