Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Completion of partial structures using Patterson maps with the CrysFormer machine-learning model933
Cryo-EM single-particle analysis expanding towards increasingly native samples91
Using graphlet degree vectors to predict atomic displacement parameters in protein structures73
Structure of the Fab fragment of a humanized 5E5 antibody to a cancer-specific Tn-MUC1 epitope68
EMhub: a web platform for data management and on-the-fly processing in scientific facilities57
Comparison of two crystal polymorphs of NowGFP reveals a new conformational state trapped by crystal packing54
Limiting the effects of radiation damage in MicroED through dose selection during data processing47
Crystallographic fragment screening against SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 1 using the F2X-Entry Screen and a newly developed fragment library40
Scotty : lattice coincidences in the Protein Data Bank36
PETIMOT : a novel framework for inferring protein motions from sparse data using SE(3)-equivariant graph neural networks36
Structural flexibility of Toscana virus nucleoprotein in the presence of a single-chain camelid antibody31
Structures of α-galactosaminidases from the CAZy GH114 family and homologs defining a new GH191 family of glycosidases30
Structural studies of NAD + -dependent methanol dehydrogenase 1 from Bacillus methanolicus MGA323
Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography23
Critical evaluation of three cryo-EM structures of particulate methane monooxygenase by quantum refinement22
Cryo2RT: a high-throughput method for room-temperature macromolecular crystallography from cryo-cooled crystals21
Crystal structure of DNA polymerase I from Thermus phage G20c21
Structures of permuted halves of a modern ribose-binding protein20
Structural characterization of the ACDC domain from ApiAP2 proteins, a potential molecular target against apicomplexan parasites20
Interactive segmentation of membrane and membrane-mimic densities in cryo-EM maps20
Biochemical and structural characterization of a tail-spike protein with depolymerase activity identified in a marine podovirus20
Analysis and validation of overall N -glycan conformation in Privateer19
Optimal 1TEL–target protein linker character is target protein-dependent. Corrigendum19
An alternative conformation of the N-terminal loop of human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase drives binding to a potent antiproliferative agent18
A cryo-EM processing pipeline for microtubules using CryoSPARC18
Validation of helical symmetry parameters in the EMDB18
The crystal structure of the N-terminal domain of the backbone pilin LrpA reveals a new closure-and-twist motion for assembling dynamic pili in Ligilactobacillus ruminis17
Biophysical Chemistry, Second Edition. By Dagmar Klostermeier and Markus G. Rudolph. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2025, pp. 944. ISBN 9781032060835. Price GBP 57.39 (hardback)17
Overall protein structure quality assessment using hydrogen-bonding parameters16
Experimental estimation of copper-site geometry reproducibility in biologically relevant redox and saccharide-bound states of a model lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase16
Structure of the Arabidopsis receptor kinase SRF6 ectodomain determined from crystals obtained using the LRR crystallization screen15
Structural basis for the fast maturation of pcStar, a photoconvertible fluorescent protein. Erratum15
Miroslav Z. Papiz (1955–2026)15
Structural basis for a p21-activated kinase 4 and nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase dual inhibitor15
Structural studies of β-glucosidase from the thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus14
Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1–514
Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on fatty-acid photodecarboxylase: lessons learned14
Radiation damage in sub-Ångström resolution macromolecular crystallography: a low-dose study13
Deciphering the crystal structure of a novel nanobody against the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase13
A high-resolution data set of fatty acid-binding protein structures. III. Unexpectedly high occurrence of wrong ligands13
3D structures of the Plasmodium vivax subtilisin-like drug target SUB1 reveal conformational changes to accommodate a substrate-derived α-ketoamide inhib13
Statistical analyses of the oxidized P-clusters in MoFe proteins using the bond-valence method: towards their electron transfer in nitrogenases13
Medical contrast agents as promising tools for biomacromolecular SAXS experiments13
The T 2 structure of polycrystalline cubic human insulin12
Fragment-based screening targeting an open form of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease binding pocket12
Pillar data-acquisition strategies for cryo-electron tomography of beam-sensitive biological samples12
Alexei Vagin (1944–2023)12
Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA's Double Helix . By Howard Markel. W. W. Norton & Co., 2021. Hardback, pp. 608. 12
Michael James (1940–2023)12
Structural study of Nicotiana benthamiana NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C and its molecular mechanism of interaction with 2-Cys peroxiredoxin11
Structural and functional characterization of a multi-domain GH92 α-1,2-mannosidase from Neobacillus novalis11
Probabilistic single-particle cryo-EM ab initio 3D reconstruction in SIMPLE11
Structures of variants of Escherichia coli flavodiiron-type nitric oxide reductase reveal changes in the di-iron site11
Crystal structure of the monocupin ring-cleaving dioxygenase 5-nitrosalicylate 1,2-dioxygenase from Bradyrhizobium sp.11
Raynals , an online tool for the analysis of dynamic light scattering11
Preparation and characterization of inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus samples for single-particle imaging at the European XFEL11
Direct phasing algorithm for protein crystals with high solvent content using low-resolution diffraction data11
Elucidating polymorphs of crystal structures by intensity-based hierarchical clustering analysis of multiple diffraction data sets11
The LH–DH module of bacterial replicative helicases is the common binding site for DciA and other helicase loaders11
Structural basis of the amidase ClbL central to the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin10
Dose-dependent structural and electron-density features in the lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase Nc AA9D10
Structural mechanism of Escherichia coli cyanase10
Cryo-EM reveals binding of linoleic acid to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, suggesting an antiviral treatment strategy10
Glycoside hydrolase subfamily GH5_57 features a highly redesigned catalytic interface to process complex hetero-β-mannans9
Native glycosylation and binding of the antidepressant paroxetine in a low-resolution crystal structure of human myeloperoxidase9
Buccaneer model building with neural network fragment selection9
Atomic resolution studies of S1 nuclease complexes reveal details of RNA interaction with the enzyme despite multiple lattice-translocation defects9
A short story of the long road to cryo-EM in Portugal9
Breaking barriers: transitioning from X-ray crystallography to cryo-EM for structural studies9
The High-Pressure Freezing Laboratory for Macromolecular Crystallography (HPMX), an ancillary tool for the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the ESRF9
Cryo-EM structure of ALC1 in an open conformation bound to a PARylated nucleosome9
Alphafuser : a parsimonious approach to predicting higher-order protein complexes9
Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction9
Dependence of crystallographic atomic displacement parameters on temperature (25–150 K) for complexes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase9
Atypical homodimerization revealed by the structure of the ( S )-enantioselective haloalkane dehalogenase DmmarA from Mycobacteriu8
Errors in structural biology are not the exception8
Polyelectrolyte coating of cryo-EM grids improves lateral distribution and prevents aggregation of macromolecules8
Correcting systematic errors in diffraction data with modern scaling algorithms8
VitroJet: new features and case studies8
Restoration of the 3D structure of insect flight muscle from a rotationally averaged 2D X-ray diffraction pattern8
Simulating neutron protein crystallography experiments: applications to the development of the NMX instrument at ESS8
Tomo Live : an on-the-fly reconstruction pipeline to judge data quality for cryo-electron tomography workflows8
Strategies for mitigating radiation damage and improving data completeness in 3D electron diffraction of protein crystals7
Dynamics and Kinetics in Structural Biology: Unravelling Function Through Time-Resolved Structural Analysis. By Keith Moffat and Eaton E. Lattman. Wiley, New York, 2023, pp.7
X-ray beam effects on metallo-peptides reflect redox events: insights from X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements on metal complexes of truncated amyloid-β peptides7
The impact of molecular variants, crystallization conditions and the space group on ligand–protein complexes: a case study on bacterial phosphotriesterase7
Mechanistic insight into O=O bond formation upon model-independent visualization of the coordination geometry and ligand composition of Mn 4 Ca cofac7
Deep-learning methods for contrast enhancement and artifact reduction in cryo-electron tomography: a systematic analysis of the state of the art and proposed improvements7
Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein α binds microcolins in its open conformation7
Drosophila melanogaster frataxin: protein crystal and predicted solution structure with identification of the iron-binding regions7
Coupled on-line in crystallo UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography to compare specific radiation damage in metal-containing proteins a7
Protein–macrocycle polymorphism: crystal form IV of the Ralstonia solanacearum lectin–sulfonato-calix[8]arene complex7
An unattended image-processing pipeline for on-the-fly quality assessment and 3D exploration in cryo-EM7
Structural features of chloroplast trigger factor determined at 2.6 Å resolution6
Thermostable homologues of the periplasmic siderophore-binding protein CeuE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Parageobacillu6
Using deep-learning predictions of inter-residue distances for model validation6
Crystal structure of Schistosoma mansoni cathepsin D1 in complex with a nanobody reveals the conformation of the propeptide-bound state6
XFEL structure of carbonic anhydrase II: a comparative study of XFEL, NMR, X-ray and neutron structures6
Structural analysis of wild-type and Val120Thr mutant Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase by X-ray crystallography6
Automated workflows for strategy computation and data collection at synchrotron beamlines6
Crystal structures of 40- and 71-substitution variants of hydroxynitrile lyase from rubber tree6
Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank6
Increasing the bulk of the 1TEL–target linker and retaining the 10×His tag in a 1TEL–CMG2-vWa construct improves crystal order and diffraction limits6
The CCP 4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography6
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study re6
Structural basis of regioselective double halogenation of the β-carboline tryptoline by the single-component halogenase AetF5
Scipion Flexibility Hub: an integrative framework for advanced analysis of conformational heterogeneity in cryoEM5
Conformational transition of the Ixodes ricinus salivary serpin Iripin-45
FLEXR : automated multi-conformer model building using electron-density map sampling5
Bayesian perspective for orientation determination in cryo-EM with application to structural heterogeneity analysis5
Efficient high-resolution refinement in cryo-EM with stochastic gradient descent5
Off-target structural insights: ArnA and AcrB in bacterial membrane-protein cryo-EM analysis5
The human TIMP-1 unbound structure provides a platform for fragment screening5
Towards the standardized presentation and publication of small-angle scattering data from biomolecules in solution5
Unravelling the regulation pathway of photosynthetic AB-GAPDH5
A user-friendly plug-and-play cyclic olefin copolymer-based microfluidic chip for room-temperature, fixed-target serial crystallography5
Analysis of crystallographic phase retrieval using iterative projection algorithms5
Associating protein residues in the literature with structural data5
Substrate-induced dimerization of elaiophylin glycosyltransferase reveals a novel self-activating form of glycosyltransferase for symmetric glycosylation5
Investigation of how gate residues in the main channel affect the catalytic activity of Scytalidium thermophilum catalase5
Structure-based discovery of an antipsychotic drug, paliperidone, as a modulator of human superoxide dismutase 1: a potential therapeutic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis4
Neutron crystallographic refinement with REFMAC 5 from the CCP 4 suite4
Structural and biochemical insights into purine-based drug molecules in hBRD2 delineate a unique binding mode opening new vistas in the design of inhibitors of the BET family4
Structure of reverse gyrase with a minimal latch that supports ATP-dependent positive supercoiling without specific interactions with the topoisomerase domain4
Module walking using an SH3-like cell-wall-binding domain leads to a new GH184 family of muramidases4
Optimal 1TEL–target protein linker character is target protein-dependent4
The 1.3 Å resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P14
Direct calculation of cryo-EM and crystallographic model maps for real-space refinement4
Photosystem II: light-dependent oscillation of ligand composition at its active site4
Jan Drenth (1925–2025)4
Crystal structures of Fsc1, a novel autophagy factor that mediates autophagosome–vacuole fusion in fission yeast4
HEIDI: an experiment-management platform enabling high-throughput fragment and compound screening4
High-confidence placement of low-occupancy fragments into electron density using the anomalous signal of sulfur and halogen atoms4
From femtoseconds to minutes: time-resolved macromolecular crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons4
CryoLike : a Python package for cryo-electron microscopy image-to-structure likelihood calculations4
SASBDB reaches 5000 data sets: empowering open science and next-generation SAS analysis4
Improving macromolecular structure refinement with metal-coordination restraints4
Definition of the catalytic cleft and product profile of a GH5_5 cellulase from Thermoascus aurantiacus4
SCOMAP-XD : atomistic deuterium contrast matching for small-angle neutron scattering in biology4
30 years of Acta D4
Crystal structure of a novel homodimeric D -allulose 3-epimerase from a Clostridia bacterium4
Crystal structure of pilus-specific sortase from Enterococcus faecalis reveals both open and closed conformations: insights into loop dynamics and substr4
Introduction to the virtual thematic issue on room-temperature biological crystallography4
Structural and functional investigation of the human snRNP assembly factor AAR2 in complex with the RNase H-like domain of PRPF84
Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against mycobacterial thioredoxin reductase identified using crystallographic fragment screening4
Quantifying distributions of cryo-EM projections4
Crystal structure of dihydrofolate reductase from the emerging pathogenic fungus Candida auris3
Structural and functional characterization of a thermostable secretory phospholipase A 2 from Sciscionella marina 3
Crystal structure of glycerol kinase from Trypanosoma cruzi , a potential molecular target in Chagas disease3
Using cryo-EM to understand the assembly pathway of respiratory complex I3
Protonation of histidine rings using quantum-mechanical methods3
LowDoseWizard : rapid and standardized setup of low-dose cryo-TEM imaging in SerialEM3
Useful experimental aspects of small-wedge synchrotron crystallography for accurate structure analysis of protein molecules3
It started off as a Cys, how did it end up like this? Identifying the extent of unmodelled oxidatively modified cysteines within the Protein Data Bank3
Perspective on structure predictions of disorder3
A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done and will do for us3
Correction of rhodopsin serial crystallography diffraction intensities for a lattice-translocation defect3
CCP 4 Cloud for structure determination and project management in macromolecular crystallography3
Structural bases for the higher adherence to ACE2 conferred by the SARS-CoV-2 spike Q498Y substitution3
Structural and functional characterization of the novel endo-α(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1 from the marine bacterium Muricauda eckloniae3
Structural insight into an anti-BRIL Fab as a G-protein-coupled receptor crystallization chaperone3
Rational acquisition of laboratory equipment: an accurate mathematical model to estimate the trade-offs in shared and nonshared equipment3
Characterization of novel mevalonate kinases from the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and the psychrophilic archaeon Methanoc3
Reminiscences of Phil Bourne (1953–2026) and the IUCr3
Crystal structure of a polyglycine hydrolase determined using a RoseTTAFold model2
Updating direct methods VI. The extended use of the information contained in the Patterson map2
Structural basis of DNA binding by YdaT, a functional equivalent of the CII repressor in the cryptic prophage CP-933P from Escherichia coli O157:H72
Damage-limited resolution for X-ray and electron microscopy of organic specimens2
The crystal structure of EpHTT, a hydroxycinnamoyl transferase from Echinacea purpurea2
Structure of a hydrophobic leucinostatin derivative determined by host lattice display2
Replacement soaking for human tankyrase 2 enables studies on substrate analogues and inhibitors2
Duplicate entries in the Protein Data Bank: how to detect and handle them2
Validation of electron-microscopy maps using solution small-angle X-ray scattering2
Structural basis for high-affinity inhibitor binding to lipid kinases PIP4K2A and PIP4K2B2
What shapes template-matching performance in cryogenic electron tomography in situ?2
Likelihood-based docking of models into cryo-EM maps2
Robust and automatic beamstop shadow outlier rejection: combining crystallographic statistics with modern clustering under a semi-supervised learning strategy2
AlphaFold -guided molecular replacement for solving challenging crystal structures2
Structure and stability of an apo thermophilic esterase that hydrolyzes polyhydroxybutyrate2
Structural dynamics of IDR interactions in human SFPQ and implications for liquid–liquid phase separation2
Time-Resolved Methods in Structural Biology, Methods in Enzymology Volume 709. Edited by Peter Moody and Hanna Kwon. Academic Press, New York, 2024, pp. 412. ISBN-10 04433142
Cryo-EM reveals ArnA contamination during purification of a ciliary protein complex2
Current trends in macromolecular model refinement and validation2
Wolfram Saenger (1939–2026)2
The ManifoldEM method for cryo-EM: a step-by-step breakdown accompanied by a modern Python implementation2
Rhizobium etli has two L -asparaginases with low sequence identity but similar structure and catalytic center2
Perspective on a large-scale ligand structure characterization2
Q -score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid and small-molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM maps2
The crystal structure of mycothiol disulfide reductase (Mtr) provides mechanistic insight into the specific low-molecular-weight thiol reductase activity of Actinobacteria2
Likelihood-based signal and noise analysis for docking of models into cryo-EM maps2
Structure–function studies of a novel laccase-like multicopper oxidase from Thermothelomyces thermophila provide insights into its biological role2
Radiation-induced peroxide rupture and its temperature-dependent repair probed by homogeneous X-ray irradiation2
Enhanced capabilities for multi-crystal data collection based on double mesh scans2
Reconstructing biological molecules with help from video gamers2
Cryo-EM structure of adeno-associated virus 4 at 2.2 Å resolution2
Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM2
The evolving role of structural biology in pharma: integration of X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy and beyond2
Crystal-packing analysis of translation initiation factor 2 reveals new details of its function2
Decision-making in serial crystallography: a simple test to quickly determine whether sufficient data have been collected2
EMinsight : a tool to capture cryoEM microscope configuration and experimental outcomes for analysis and deposition2
Updating direct methods V. Phasing when triplet invariants are estimated via the Patterson map2
Verification: model-free phasing with enhanced predicted models in ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER2
Room-temperature X-ray data collection enabled the structural determination of statin-bound CYP105A12
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