Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Article	Citations
Raman spectroscopy and imaging of protein droplet formation and aggregation	177
How molecular modelling can better broaden the understanding of glycosylations	172
Mutational fitness landscape and drug resistance	132
Editorial	126
Computer-aided drug design, quantum-mechanical methods for biological problems	123
In silico reconstitution of DNA replication. Lessons from single-molecule imaging and cryo-tomography applied to single-particle cryo-EM	113
Catalysis and structure of nitrogenases	104
Pump-like channelrhodopsins: Not just bridging the gap between ion pumps and ion channels	95
Access and utilization of long chain fatty acyl-CoA by zDHHC protein acyltransferases	93
Advancing biomolecular simulation through exascale HPC, AI and quantum computing	89
Structure-based virtual screening of vast chemical space as a starting point for drug discovery	82
Harnessing the 14-3-3 protein–protein interaction network	81
Single-point mutations in disordered proteins: Linking sequence, ensemble, and function	80
May the proton motive force be with you: A plant transporter review	79
Single-particle Cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations: A perfect match	78
Genome modeling: From chromatin fibers to genes	75
Editorial overview: Biophysical methods: Exploring structures in motions, from biomolecules to cells, and how to drug them	74
Implications of disease-related mutations at protein–protein interfaces	73
Modeling membranes in situ	72
Markov field models: Scaling molecular kinetics approaches to large molecular machines	72
Deep learning for intrinsically disordered proteins: From improved predictions to deciphering conformational ensembles	70
Advancing protein structure prediction beyond AlphaFold2	69
The mannose receptor ligands and the macrophage glycome	68
Mucin networks: Dynamic structural assemblies controlling mucus function	68
Principles of nucleosome recognition by chromatin factors and enzymes	66

Editorial Board	63
Dynamics and interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins	61
Inner workings of RAG recombinase and its specialization for adaptive immunity	59
Structure-based analyses of gut microbiome-related proteins by neural networks and molecular dynamics simulations	58
Mutually beneficial confluence of structure-based modeling of protein dynamics and machine learning methods	57
Molecular dynamics simulations for the study of chromatin biology	57
Gut power: Modulation of human amyloid formation by amyloidogenic proteins in the gastrointestinal tract	55
NMR tools to detect protein allostery	54
Structural insights into host–microbe glycointeractions	53
Conformational penalties: New insights into nucleic acid recognition	52
Proteins with alternative folds reveal blind spots in AlphaFold-based protein structure prediction	52
Protein dynamics underlying allosteric regulation	52
Interpretable artificial intelligence and exascale molecular dynamics simulations to reveal kinetics: Applications to Alzheimer's disease	51
Viral amyloids: New opportunities for antiviral therapeutic strategies	50
Table of contents	48
Table of contents	46
Editorial overview: Molecular determinants, mechanisms, and state-of-the-art approaches in allostery	45
Editorial Board	45
Biomolecular simulations at the exascale: From drug design to organelles and beyond	44
Structural insights into assembly of transcription preinitiation complex	44
Probing protein–DNA interactions and compaction in nanochannels	43
The opportunities and challenges posed by the new generation of deep learning-based protein structure predictors	42
Dynamic interactions drive early spliceosome assembly	41
Challenges and compromises: Predicting unbound antibody structures with deep learning	41
Computational approaches to predict protein functional families and functional sites	40
Insight into the structural dynamics of light sensitive proteins from time-resolved crystallography and quantum chemical calculations	40
Photo-crosslinkers boost structural information from crosslinking mass spectrometry	40
NMR of RNA - Structure and interactions	40
Macromolecular assemblies: Molecular mechanisms abound	40
Microsecond time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy	39
DDK promotes DNA replication initiation: Mechanistic and structural insights	39
CryoEM of V-ATPases: Assembly, disassembly, and inhibition	39
The role of RNA structure in 3’ end processing in eukaryotes	39
Structural host immune-microbiota interactions	38
Table of contents	38
Cryo-EM diversifies	37
The CMG DNA helicase and the core replisome	36
Reading the glyco-code: New approaches to studying protein–carbohydrate interactions	35
Integrating AI in fighting advancing Alzheimer: diagnosis, prevention, treatment, monitoring, mechanisms, and clinical trials	35
Navigating the complexities of multi-domain protein folding	35
Integrative modeling meets deep learning: Recent advances in modeling protein assemblies	35
Nuclear periphery and its mechanical regulation in cell fate transitions	35
Influence of membrane on the antigen presentation of the HIV-1 envelope membrane proximal external region (MPER)	35
Structural biology in the age of X-ray free-electron lasers and exascale computing	35
Insights in bacterial genome folding	34
A review of computational methods for predicting cancer drug response at the single-cell level through integration with bulk RNAseq data	34
Template matching and machine learning for cryo-electron tomography	34
Are N-linked glycans intrinsically disordered?	34
Integrating cellular and molecular structures and dynamics into whole-cell models	34
Machine learning approaches in predicting allosteric sites	34

Mass spectrometry-based shotgun glycomics for discovery of natural ligands of glycan-binding proteins	33
Protein diversification through post-translational modifications, alternative splicing, and gene duplication	33
Interplay of thermodynamics and evolution within the ternary ligand-GPCR-G protein complex	33
Modeling biomolecular kinetics with large-scale simulation	33
Editorial Board	33
Advancing cryo-electron microscopy data analysis through accelerated simulation-based flexible fitting approaches	33
Nexus between RNA conformational dynamics and functional versatility	33
Measuring change in glycoprotein structure	32
Cryo-EM: A window into the dynamic world of RNA molecules	31
Structure-based approaches in synthetic lethality strategies	31
Teaching AI to speak protein	30
Nucleosomes unwrapped: Structural perspectives on transcription through chromatin	30
ACE2, B0AT1, and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: Structural and functional implications	29
Mass spectrometry informs the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins involved in lipid and drug transport	29
RETRACTED: Liquid-EM goes viral – visualizing structure and dynamics	29
The estrogen receptor/GATA3/FOXA1 transcriptional network: lessons learned from breast cancer	29
In-cell chromatin structure by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET	29
Greater than the sum of parts: Mechanisms of metabolic regulation by enzyme filaments	29
Structural basis of mRNA maturation: Time to put it together	29
Computational design of novel protein–protein interactions – An overview on methodological approaches and applications	28
New insights into Raf regulation from structural analyses	28
Machine learning for evolutionary-based and physics-inspired protein design: Current and future synergies	27
Absolute quantification of protein number and dynamics in single cells	27
Deep learning methods for 3D structural proteome and interactome modeling	27
Post-translational modification of RAS proteins	27
Unlocking the secrets of cell boundaries: Exploring assemblies, machineries, and supercomplexes in membranes	27
Editorial overview: 3D Genome Chromatin organization and regulation	27
Multiscale simulations of large complexes in conjunction with cryo-EM analysis	27
Editorial Board	27
Automated pipelines for rapid evaluation during cryoEM data acquisition	27
Editorial overview - New Concepts in Drug Discovery (2025)	27
The conformationally dynamic structural biology of lanthipeptide biosynthesis	27
Table of contents	27
Histone deacetylase 10: A polyamine deacetylase from the crystal structure to the first inhibitors	26
Toward the equilibrium and kinetics of amyloid peptide self-assembly	26
Protein structure prediction in the deep learning era	26
Interplay among transacting factors around promoter in the initial phases of transcription	26
Molecular insights into the catalysis and regulation of mammalian NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenases	26
Adaptive machine learning for protein engineering	26
Sculpting therapeutic monoclonal antibody N-glycans using endoglycosidases	26
Multiscale biomolecular simulations in the exascale era	26
Application of AI in biological age prediction	26
Commonly asked questions about transcriptional activation domains	25
Editorial overview: Folding and Binding (2024)	25
Advances and applications of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED)	25
The material properties of mitotic chromosomes	25
Recent advances and current trends in cryo-electron microscopy	25
Editorial overview: Catalysis and regulation: The beating heart of biology	25
Application of message passing neural networks for molecular property prediction	25
How much can physics do for protein design?	25
Apprehensions and emerging solutions in ML-based protein structure prediction	25
Recent advances in AI-driven protein-ligand interaction predictions	24
Frontiers in metalloprotein crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy	24
β-barrel membrane proteins fold via hybrid-barrel intermediate states	24
Structural basis for DNA sequence recognition by pioneer factors in nucleosomes	24
Generative artificial intelligence for de novo protein design	24
The role of intrinsic protein disorder in regulation of cyclin-dependent kinases	24
View from the PEAKs: Insights from structural studies on the PEAK family of pseudokinases	24
Recent developments in multiscale free energy simulations	24
Super-resolving chromatin in its own terms: Recent approaches to portray genomic organization	24
PARP–nucleic acid interactions: Allosteric signaling, PARP inhibitor types, DNA bridges, and viral RNA surveillance	24
Editorial overview: ‘The amazing power of physics to provide chemical insight into catalysis and regulation’ … something better …	24
Context-dependent, fuzzy protein interactions: Towards sequence-based insights	24
All-atom virus simulations to tackle airborne disease	24
Organization of transcription and 3D genome as revealed by live-cell imaging	24
Recent progress in membrane protein dynamics revealed by X-ray free electron lasers: Molecular movies of microbial rhodopsins	24
AlphaFold2 protein structure prediction: Implications for drug discovery	23
Segmenting cryo-electron tomography data: Extracting models from cellular landscapes	23
Mechanical forces and the 3D genome	23
Cryo-EM insights into tail-anchored membrane protein biogenesis in eukaryotes	23
The evolution and mechanism of bacterial and archaeal ESCRT-III-like systems	23
Solution NMR goes big: Atomic resolution studies of protein components of molecular machines and phase-separated condensates	23
Conformational heterogeneity and probability distributions from single-particle cryo-electron microscopy	23
Innovations in targeting RNA by fragment-based ligand discovery	22
Exascale simulations and beyond	22
Structures, dynamics, complexes, and functions: From classic computation to artificial intelligence	22
Future prospects for human genetics and genomics in drug discovery	22
Cryo-EM of the injectisome and type III secretion systems	22
Minimal models for RNA simulations	22
A practical look at cryo-electron tomography image processing: Key considerations for new biological discoveries	22

Table of contents	22
Combining on-line spectroscopy with synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser crystallography	22
Industrializing AI/ML during the end-to-end drug discovery process	22
Graphene in cryo-EM specimen optimization	22
Table of contents	22
Emerging structure-based computational methods to screen the exploding accessible chemical space	21
Understanding glycoprotein structural heterogeneity and interactions: Insights from native mass spectrometry	21
Visualizing RNA structure ensembles by single-molecule correlated chemical probing	21
Protein dynamics by the combination of high-speed AFM and computational modeling	21
Single-molecule fluorescence imaging of DNA maintenance protein binding dynamics and activities on extended DNA	21
Making the cut: Multiscale simulation of membrane remodeling	21
Engineering the T cell receptor for fun and profit: Uncovering complex biology, interrogating the immune system, and targeting disease	21
Distinguishing between concerted, sequential and barrierless conformational changes: Folding versus allostery	20
Conformational inhibitors of protein aggregation	20
Editorial Board	20
Structural enzymology of cholesterol biosynthesis and storage	20
Table of contents	20
AI for targeted polypharmacology: The next frontier in drug discovery	20
Neutron crystallography for the elucidation of enzyme catalysis	20
Mechanism of primer synthesis by Primase-Polymerases	20
Time resolved applications for Cryo-EM; approaches, challenges and future directions	20
Helical reconstruction, again	20
A structural perspective on enzymes and their catalytic mechanisms	20
Repair and tolerance of DNA damage at the replication fork: A structural perspective	20
Editorial Board	20
Chromosome and protein folding: In search for unified principles	19
Dynamic Protein-RNA recognition in primary MicroRNA processing	19
Mapping the binding sites of challenging drug targets	19
Diversity of structure and function in Cullin E3 ligases	19
Protein motions visualized by femtosecond time-resolved crystallography: The case of photosensory vs photosynthetic proteins	19
Editorial overview–Artificial intelligence methodologies in structural biology: Bridging the gap to medical applications	19
Molecular simulations integrated with experiments for probing the interaction dynamics and binding mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins	19