Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Cryo-EM single-particle analysis expanding towards increasingly native samples696
Crystallographic fragment screening against SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 1 using the F2X-Entry Screen and a newly developed fragment library92
Comparison of two crystal polymorphs of NowGFP reveals a new conformational state trapped by crystal packing69
Completion of partial structures using Patterson maps with the CrysFormer machine-learning model69
Limiting the effects of radiation damage in MicroED through dose selection during data processing66
Structure of the Fab fragment of a humanized 5E5 antibody to a cancer-specific Tn-MUC1 epitope61
EMhub: a web platform for data management and on-the-fly processing in scientific facilities53
Using graphlet degree vectors to predict atomic displacement parameters in protein structures48
Structural visualization of transient interactions between the cis-acting acyltransferase and acyl carrier protein of the salinomycin modular polyketide synthase48
Structural flexibility of Toscana virus nucleoprotein in the presence of a single-chain camelid antibody44
Updated restraint dictionaries for carbohydrates in the pyranose form41
Structures of α-galactosaminidases from the CAZy GH114 family and homologs defining a new GH191 family of glycosidases35
X-ray diffraction and in vivo studies reveal the quinary structure of Trypanosoma cruzi nucleoside diphosphate kinase 1: a novel helical oligomer structure35
Crystal structure of DNA polymerase I from Thermus phage G20c35
Data collection from crystals grown in microfluidic droplets30
Structures of permuted halves of a modern ribose-binding protein26
Critical evaluation of three cryo-EM structures of particulate methane monooxygenase by quantum refinement25
A scalable strategy to solve structures of PDZ domains and their complexes23
Structural studies of NAD + -dependent methanol dehydrogenase 1 from Bacillus methanolicus MGA323
On bias, variance, overfitting, gold standard and consensus in single-particle analysis by cryo-electron microscopy22
Structural characterization of the ACDC domain from ApiAP2 proteins, a potential molecular target against apicomplexan parasites22
The crystal structure of CbpD clarifies substrate-specificity motifs in chitin-active lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases21
Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography20
Cryo2RT: a high-throughput method for room-temperature macromolecular crystallography from cryo-cooled crystals19
A radical approach to radicals19
Training undergraduate research assistants with an outcome-oriented and skill-based mentoring strategy19
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)18
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 ruminis18
Overall protein structure quality assessment using hydrogen-bonding parameters18
Analysis and validation of overall N-glycan conformation in Privateer17
An alternative conformation of the N-terminal loop of human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase drives binding to a potent antiproliferative agent17
Raw diffraction data are our ground truth from which all subsequent workflows develop17
A recurring packing contact in crystals of InlB pinpoints functional binding sites in the internalin domain and the B repeat16
3D structures of the Plasmodium vivax subtilisin-like drug target SUB1 reveal conformational changes to accommodate a substrate-derived α-ketoamide inhibitor15
Deciphering the crystal structure of a novel nanobody against the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase15
Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1–515
Statistical analyses of the oxidized P-clusters in MoFe proteins using the bond-valence method: towards their electron transfer in nitrogenases15
A high-resolution data set of fatty acid-binding protein structures. III. Unexpectedly high occurrence of wrong ligands15
Notes of a protein crystallographer: the advantages of combining new integrated methods of structure solution with traditional data visuals14
Medical contrast agents as promising tools for biomacromolecular SAXS experiments14
Structural and functional analysis of the D-alanyl carrier protein ligase DltA from Staphylococcus aureus Mu5014
Structural studies of β-glucosidase from the thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus14
Michael James (1940–2023)14
Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on fatty-acid photodecarboxylase: lessons learned14
Fragment-based screening targeting an open form of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease binding pocket13
Alexei Vagin (1944–2023)13
Pillar data-acquisition strategies for cryo-electron tomography of beam-sensitive biological samples13
Preparation and characterization of inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus samples for single-particle imaging at the European XFEL13
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. ISBN 978-1324002239. 13
Crystal structures of the molecular class A β-lactamase TEM-171 and its complexes with tazobactam13
Molecular basis of transcriptional repression of anti-CRISPR by anti-CRISPR-associated 213
The T2 structure of polycrystalline cubic human insulin13
Knowledge-based prediction of DNA hydration using hydrated dinucleotides as building blocks12
Biochemical and structural insights into an unusual, alkali-metal-independent S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 680312
Structural and functional characterization of a multi-domain GH92 α-1,2-mannosidase from Neobacillus novalis12
Structural mechanism of Escherichia coli cyanase12
Direct phasing algorithm for protein crystals with high solvent content using low-resolution diffraction data12
Probabilistic single-particle cryo-EM ab initio 3D reconstruction in SIMPLE12
Elucidating polymorphs of crystal structures by intensity-based hierarchical clustering analysis of multiple diffraction data sets11
Cryo-EM reveals binding of linoleic acid to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, suggesting an antiviral treatment strategy11
A new inactive conformation of SARS-CoV-2 main protease11
Atomic resolution studies of S1 nuclease complexes reveal details of RNA interaction with the enzyme despite multiple lattice-translocation defects11
Structural basis of the amidase ClbL central to the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin11
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study report11
Raynals , an online tool for the analysis of dynamic light scattering11
The LH–DH module of bacterial replicative helicases is the common binding site for DciA and other helicase loaders11
Comparative study of the effects of high hydrostatic pressure per se and high argon pressure on urate oxidase ligand stabilization11
Crystal structure of the monocupin ring-cleaving dioxygenase 5-nitrosalicylate 1,2-dioxygenase fromBradyrhizobiumsp.11
Best practices for time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography11
Dependence of crystallographic atomic displacement parameters on temperature (25–150 K) for complexes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase10
Structural basis for substrate recognition in the Phytolacca americana glycosyltransferase PaGT310
Buccaneer model building with neural network fragment selection10
Protonation states of hen egg-white lysozyme observed using D/H contrast neutron crystallography10
Native glycosylation and binding of the antidepressant paroxetine in a low-resolution crystal structure of human myeloperoxidase10
Errors in structural biology are not the exception10
Glycoside hydrolase subfamily GH5_57 features a highly redesigned catalytic interface to process complex hetero-β-mannans10
Structural insights into choline-O-sulfatase reveal the molecular determinants for ligand binding10
Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction10
Restoration of the 3D structure of insect flight muscle from a rotationally averaged 2D X-ray diffraction pattern9
Atypical homodimerization revealed by the structure of the (S)-enantioselective haloalkane dehalogenase DmmarA from Mycobacterium marinum9
Structural and biophysical studies of new L-asparaginase variants: lessons from random mutagenesis of the prototypic Escherichia coli Ntn-amidohydrolase9
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. 288. ISBN 978-1-1199
Polyelectrolyte coating of cryo-EM grids improves lateral distribution and prevents aggregation of macromolecules9
Tomo Live : an on-the-fly reconstruction pipeline to judge data quality for cryo-electron tomography workflows9
The impact of molecular variants, crystallization conditions and the space group on ligand–protein complexes: a case study on bacterial phosphotriesterase9
Correcting systematic errors in diffraction data with modern scaling algorithms9
The High-Pressure Freezing Laboratory for Macromolecular Crystallography (HPMX), an ancillary tool for the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the ESRF9
VitroJet: new features and case studies9
High-resolution structures of the bound effectors avadomide (CC-122) and iberdomide (CC-220) highlight advantages and limitations of the MsCI4 soaking system8
Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank8
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 limits8
Evaluating the impact of X-ray damage on conformational heterogeneity in room-temperature (277 K) and cryo-cooled protein crystals8
Drosophila melanogaster frataxin: protein crystal and predicted solution structure with identification of the iron-binding regions8
Mechanistic insight into O=O bond formation upon model-independent visualization of the coordination geometry and ligand composition of Mn4Ca cofactor in dark-adapted photosystem II structu8
Strategies for mitigating radiation damage and improving data completeness in 3D electron diffraction of protein crystals8
Structural analysis of wild-type and Val120Thr mutant Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase by X-ray crystallography8
Structural features of chloroplast trigger factor determined at 2.6 Å resolution8
XFEL structure of carbonic anhydrase II: a comparative study of XFEL, NMR, X-ray and neutron structures8
Protein–macrocycle polymorphism: crystal form IV of the Ralstonia solanacearum lectin–sulfonato-calix[8]arene complex8
Atomic model validation using the CCP-EM software suite8
Thermostable homologues of the periplasmic siderophore-binding protein CeuE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius8
Crystal structures of 40- and 71-substitution variants of hydroxynitrile lyase from rubber tree7
The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography7
Probing ligand binding of endothiapepsin by `temperature-resolved' macromolecular crystallography7
Substrate-induced dimerization of elaiophylin glycosyltransferase reveals a novel self-activating form of glycosyltransferase for symmetric glycosylation7
Crystal structure of the putative cell-wall lipoglycan biosynthesis protein LmcA from Mycobacterium smegmatis7
Investigation of how gate residues in the main channel affect the catalytic activity of Scytalidium thermophilum catalase7
Towards the standardized presentation and publication of small-angle scattering data from biomolecules in solution7
Global fitting of multiple data frames from SEC–SAXS to investigate the structure of next-generation nanodiscs7
AutoPX: a new software package to process X-ray diffraction data from biomacromolecular crystals7
Conformational transition of the Ixodes ricinus salivary serpin Iripin-47
FLEXR: automated multi-conformer model building using electron-density map sampling7
Unravelling the regulation pathway of photosynthetic AB-GAPDH7
Using deep-learning predictions of inter-residue distances for model validation7
Inhibition of Schistosoma mansoni carbonic anhydrase by the antiparasitic drug clorsulon: X-ray crystallographic and in vitro studies7
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study report. Corrigendum7
Identification and characterization of two drug-like fragments that bind to the same cryptic binding pocket of Burkholderia pseudomallei DsbA7
Crystal structure of the middle and C-terminal domains of Hsp90α labeled with a coumarin derivative reveals a potential allosteric binding site as a drug target7
Structural snapshot of a glycoside hydrolase family 8 endo-β-1,4-glucanase capturing the state after cleavage of the scissile bond7
A user-friendly plug-and-play cyclic olefin copolymer-based microfluidic chip for room-temperature, fixed-target serial crystallography6
Off-target structural insights: ArnA and AcrB in bacterial membrane-protein cryo-EM analysis6
Analysis of crystallographic phase retrieval using iterative projection algorithms6
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 family6
Neutron crystallographic refinement with REFMAC5 from the CCP4 suite6
Efficient high-resolution refinement in cryo-EM with stochastic gradient descent6
HEIDI: an experiment-management platform enabling high-throughput fragment and compound screening6
MrParse : finding homologues in the PDB and the EBI AlphaFold database for molecular replacement and more6
SCOMAP-XD: atomistic deuterium contrast matching for small-angle neutron scattering in biology6
Structure-based discovery of an antipsychotic drug, paliperidone, as a modulator of human superoxide dismutase 1: a potential therapeutic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis6
Databases for intrinsically disordered proteins6
Structure of reverse gyrase with a minimal latch that supports ATP-dependent positive supercoiling without specific interactions with the topoisomerase domain6
Kinetic and structural studies of the reaction of Escherichia coli dihydrodipicolinate synthase with (S)-2-bromopropionate6
Racemic crystal structures of A-DNA duplexes6
Scipion Flexibility Hub: an integrative framework for advanced analysis of conformational heterogeneity in cryoEM6
CSSR: assignment of secondary structure to coarse-grained RNA tertiary structures6
Jan Drenth (1925–2025)6
xia2.multiplex: a multi-crystal data-analysis pipeline6
Two states of a light-sensitive membrane protein captured at room temperature using thin-film sample mounts6
Structural and functional investigation of the human snRNP assembly factor AAR2 in complex with the RNase H-like domain of PRPF85
Pivotal role of a conserved histidine in Escherichia coli ribonuclease HI as proposed by X-ray crystallography5
From femtoseconds to minutes: time-resolved macromolecular crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons5
Perspective on structure predictions of disorder5
Correction of rhodopsin serial crystallography diffraction intensities for a lattice-translocation defect5
High-confidence placement of low-occupancy fragments into electron density using the anomalous signal of sulfur and halogen atoms5
30 years of Acta D5
Introduction to the virtual thematic issue on room-temperature biological crystallography5
Crystal structure of a novel homodimericD-allulose 3-epimerase from a Clostridia bacterium5
Structural and functional characterization of a thermostable secretory phospholipase A2 from Sciscionella marina and its application in liposome biotransformation5
Structural and functional characterization of the novel endo-α(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1 from the marine bacterium Muricauda eckloniae5
Module walking using an SH3-like cell-wall-binding domain leads to a new GH184 family of muramidases5
Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against mycobacterial thioredoxin reductase identified using crystallographic fragment screening5
Improving macromolecular structure refinement with metal-coordination restraints5
The structure and molecular dynamics of prolyl oligopeptidase from Microbulbifer arenaceous provide insights into catalytic and regulatory mechanisms5
The 1.3 Å resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P15
CryoLike : a Python package for cryo-electron microscopy image-to-structure likelihood calculations5
Structural bases for the higher adherence to ACE2 conferred by the SARS-CoV-2 spike Q498Y substitution5
Monomodular Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage JG004 lysozyme (Pae87) contains a bacterial surface-active antimicrobial peptide-like region and a possible subs5
Direct calculation of cryo-EM and crystallographic model maps for real-space refinement5
Photosystem II: light-dependent oscillation of ligand composition at its active site5
Crystal structure of dihydrofolate reductase from the emerging pathogenic fungus Candida auris4
Useful experimental aspects of small-wedge synchrotron crystallography for accurate structure analysis of protein molecules4
Native SAD phasing at room temperature4
Determining the oxidation state of elements by X-ray crystallography4
Reconstructing biological molecules with help from video gamers4
What shapes template-matching performance in cryogenic electron tomography in situ?4
Validation of electron-microscopy maps using solution small-angle X-ray scattering4
Characterization of novel mevalonate kinases from the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and the psychrophilic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii4
Verification: model-free phasing with enhanced predicted models in ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER4
Structural insight into an anti-BRIL Fab as a G-protein-coupled receptor crystallization chaperone4
AlphaFold-guided molecular replacement for solving challenging crystal structures4
The crystal structure of mycothiol disulfide reductase (Mtr) provides mechanistic insight into the specific low-molecular-weight thiol reductase activity of Actinobacteria4
Application of sulfur SAD to small crystals with a large asymmetric unit and anomalous substructure4
A case for glycerol as an acceptable additive for single-particle cryoEM samples4
Crystal structure of glycerol kinase from Trypanosoma cruzi, a potential molecular target in Chagas disease4
Crystal structure of a polyglycine hydrolase determined using a RoseTTAFold model4
Using cryo-EM to understand the assembly pathway of respiratory complex I4
CCP4 Cloud for structure determination and project management in macromolecular crystallography4
The parallel-stranded d(CGA) duplex is a highly predictable structural motif with two conformationally distinct strands4
Rhizobium etli has two L-asparaginases with low sequence identity but similar structure and catalytic center4
A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done and will do for us4
Protonation of histidine rings using quantum-mechanical methods4
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 044331456X, ISBN-13 978-0443
Crystal structure and initial characterization of a novel archaeal-like Holliday junction-resolving enzyme from Thermus thermophilus phage Tth15-63
Structure of a hydrophobic leucinostatin derivative determined by host lattice display3
Current trends in macromolecular model refinement and validation3
The crystal structure of EpHTT, a hydroxycinnamoyl transferase from Echinacea purpurea3
The BAM7 gene in Zea mays encodes a protein with similar structural and catalytic properties to Arabidopsis BAM23
Structure and stability of an apo thermophilic esterase that hydrolyzes polyhydroxybutyrate3
Structure of the plant growth-promoting factor YxaL from the rhizobacterium Bacillus velezensis and its application to protein engineering3
Perspective on a large-scale ligand structure characterization3
Room-temperature serial synchrotron crystallography of Drosophila cryptochrome3
Likelihood-based docking of models into cryo-EM maps3
Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM3
Likelihood-based signal and noise analysis for docking of models into cryo-EM maps3
Crystal-packing analysis of translation initiation factor 2 reveals new details of its function3
Structural dynamics of IDR interactions in human SFPQ and implications for liquid–liquid phase separation3
Robust and automatic beamstop shadow outlier rejection: combining crystallographic statistics with modern clustering under a semi-supervised learning strategy3
Structural basis of ligand recognition and transport by Sfh2, a yeast phosphatidylinositol transfer protein of the Sec14 superfamily3
Q -score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid and small-molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM maps3
EMinsight : a tool to capture cryoEM microscope configuration and experimental outcomes for analysis and deposition3
Enhanced capabilities for multi-crystal data collection based on double mesh scans3
Duplicate entries in the Protein Data Bank: how to detect and handle them3
Structural basis of DNA binding by YdaT, a functional equivalent of the CII repressor in the cryptic prophage CP-933P from Escherichia coli O157:H73
Structure–function studies of a novel laccase-like multicopper oxidase fromThermothelomyces thermophilaprovide insights into its biological role3
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