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ArticleScientific reports2022

Helical Indexing in Real Space.

Chen Sun, Brenda Gonzalez, Wen Jiang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Absolute hand determination of glycofibrils from natural sources in cryo-EM.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. Validation of helical symmetry parameters in the EMDB.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2025
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  16. Helical reconstruction, again.Current opinion in structural biology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Chen SunDepartment of Biological Sciences, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Brenda GonzalezDepartment of Biological Sciences, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
Wen JiangDepartment of Biological Sciences, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA. jiang12@purdue.edu.

Funding

Resource for Biocomputing Visualization and InformaticsP41GM103311 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERRIN, THOMAS E · 2012 to 2017
$8.2M
Atomic models of human tau filaments and development of tau ligandsU01NS110437 · NINDS · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI GHETTI, BERNARDINO FRANCESCO, JIANG, WEN · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
HBGA receptors in host cell entry and infection of norovirusR01AI111095 · NIAID · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI JIANG, WEN, JIANG, XI · 2015 to 2019
$2.5M
Structural analysis of tau associated with parenchymal and vascular prion protein amyloidosisRF1AG071177 · NIA · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI GHETTI, BERNARDINO FRANCESCO, JIANG, WEN · 2021 to 2021
$2.3M
Purdue University Molecular Biophysics Training ProgramT32GM132024 · NIGMS · PURDUE UNIVERSITY · PI Angeline Marie Lyon, John Tesmer · 2019 to 2026
$2.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI111095NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG071177NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103311NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM132024NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS110437
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological structures with helical symmetries of distinct twist, rise, and axial symmetry are abundant and span a wide range of organisms and functions. Performing de novo helical indexing remains challenging because of the steep learning curve involved in Fourier space layer lines. The unknown amount of out-of-plane tilt and the existence of multiple conformations of the helices further complicate indexing. In this work, we introduce a real-space indexing method that leverages the prior knowledge of the tilt and in-plane angles of the helical filaments/tubes, robust ab initio 3D reconstruction capabilities in single particle cryo-EM to obtain asymmetric reconstructions, and automatic indexing of helical parameters directly from the asymmetric density maps. We validated this approach using data from multiple helical structures of distinct helical symmetries, diameters, flexibility, data qualities, and heterogeneous states. The fully automated tool we introduce for real space indexing, HI3D, uses the 2D lattice in the autocorrelation of the cylindrical projection of a 3D density map to identify the helical symmetry. HI3D can often successfully determine the helical parameters of a suboptimal 3D density map, including ab initio single particle asymmetric reconstructions and sub-tomogram averages, with intermediate evidence that can also help assess the map quality. Furthermore, this open-source HI3D is usable independently as a Web application that can be accessed free of installation. With these methods, de novo helical indexing will be significantly more accessible to researchers investigating structures of helical filaments/tubes using cryo-EM.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedSoftwareCryoelectron Microscopy

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PMID35581231
PMCPMC9114412

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