OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Cryo-EM single-particle analysis expanding towards increasingly native samples	696
Crystallographic fragment screening against SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 1 using the F2X-Entry Screen and a newly developed fragment library	92
Comparison of two crystal polymorphs of NowGFP reveals a new conformational state trapped by crystal packing	69
Completion of partial structures using Patterson maps with the CrysFormer machine-learning model	69
Limiting the effects of radiation damage in MicroED through dose selection during data processing	66
Structure of the Fab fragment of a humanized 5E5 antibody to a cancer-specific Tn-MUC1 epitope	61
EMhub: a web platform for data management and on-the-fly processing in scientific facilities	53
Using graphlet degree vectors to predict atomic displacement parameters in protein structures	48
Structural visualization of transient interactions between the cis-acting acyltransferase and acyl carrier protein of the salinomycin modular polyketide synthase	48
Structural flexibility of Toscana virus nucleoprotein in the presence of a single-chain camelid antibody	44
Updated restraint dictionaries for carbohydrates in the pyranose form	41
Structures of α-galactosaminidases from the CAZy GH114 family and homologs defining a new GH191 family of glycosidases	35
X-ray diffraction and in vivo studies reveal the quinary structure of Trypanosoma cruzi nucleoside diphosphate kinase 1: a novel helical oligomer structure	35
Crystal structure of DNA polymerase I from Thermus phage G20c	35
Data collection from crystals grown in microfluidic droplets	30
Structures of permuted halves of a modern ribose-binding protein	26
Critical evaluation of three cryo-EM structures of particulate methane monooxygenase by quantum refinement	25
Structural studies of NAD ⁺ -dependent methanol dehydrogenase 1 from Bacillus methanolicus MGA3	23
A scalable strategy to solve structures of PDZ domains and their complexes	23
Structural characterization of the ACDC domain from ApiAP2 proteins, a potential molecular target against apicomplexan parasites	22
On bias, variance, overfitting, gold standard and consensus in single-particle analysis by cryo-electron microscopy	22
The crystal structure of CbpD clarifies substrate-specificity motifs in chitin-active lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	21
Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography	20
Cryo2RT: a high-throughput method for room-temperature macromolecular crystallography from cryo-cooled crystals	19
A radical approach to radicals	19

Training undergraduate research assistants with an outcome-oriented and skill-based mentoring strategy	19
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 EMDB	18
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 ruminis	18
Overall protein structure quality assessment using hydrogen-bonding parameters	18
Analysis and validation of overall N-glycan conformation in Privateer	17
An alternative conformation of the N-terminal loop of human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase drives binding to a potent antiproliferative agent	17
Raw diffraction data are our ground truth from which all subsequent workflows develop	17
A recurring packing contact in crystals of InlB pinpoints functional binding sites in the internalin domain and the B repeat	16
3D structures of the Plasmodium vivax subtilisin-like drug target SUB1 reveal conformational changes to accommodate a substrate-derived α-ketoamide inhibitor	15
Deciphering the crystal structure of a novel nanobody against the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase	15
Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1–5	15
Statistical analyses of the oxidized P-clusters in MoFe proteins using the bond-valence method: towards their electron transfer in nitrogenases	15
A high-resolution data set of fatty acid-binding protein structures. III. Unexpectedly high occurrence of wrong ligands	15
Notes of a protein crystallographer: the advantages of combining new integrated methods of structure solution with traditional data visuals	14
Medical contrast agents as promising tools for biomacromolecular SAXS experiments	14
Structural and functional analysis of the D-alanyl carrier protein ligase DltA from Staphylococcus aureus Mu50	14
Structural studies of β-glucosidase from the thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus	14
Michael James (1940–2023)	14
Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on fatty-acid photodecarboxylase: lessons learned	14
Molecular basis of transcriptional repression of anti-CRISPR by anti-CRISPR-associated 2	13
The T₂ structure of polycrystalline cubic human insulin	13
Fragment-based screening targeting an open form of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease binding pocket	13
Alexei Vagin (1944–2023)	13
Pillar data-acquisition strategies for cryo-electron tomography of beam-sensitive biological samples	13
Preparation and characterization of inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus samples for single-particle imaging at the European XFEL	13
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 tazobactam	13
Knowledge-based prediction of DNA hydration using hydrated dinucleotides as building blocks	12
Biochemical and structural insights into an unusual, alkali-metal-independent S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803	12
Structural and functional characterization of a multi-domain GH92 α-1,2-mannosidase from Neobacillus novalis	12
Structural mechanism of Escherichia coli cyanase	12
Direct phasing algorithm for protein crystals with high solvent content using low-resolution diffraction data	12
Probabilistic single-particle cryo-EM ab initio 3D reconstruction in SIMPLE	12
Elucidating polymorphs of crystal structures by intensity-based hierarchical clustering analysis of multiple diffraction data sets	11
Cryo-EM reveals binding of linoleic acid to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, suggesting an antiviral treatment strategy	11
A new inactive conformation of SARS-CoV-2 main protease	11
Atomic resolution studies of S1 nuclease complexes reveal details of RNA interaction with the enzyme despite multiple lattice-translocation defects	11
Structural basis of the amidase ClbL central to the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin	11
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study report	11
Raynals , an online tool for the analysis of dynamic light scattering	11
The LH–DH module of bacterial replicative helicases is the common binding site for DciA and other helicase loaders	11
Comparative study of the effects of high hydrostatic pressure per se and high argon pressure on urate oxidase ligand stabilization	11
Crystal structure of the monocupin ring-cleaving dioxygenase 5-nitrosalicylate 1,2-dioxygenase fromBradyrhizobiumsp.	11
Best practices for time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography	11
Dependence of crystallographic atomic displacement parameters on temperature (25–150 K) for complexes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase	10
Structural basis for substrate recognition in the Phytolacca americana glycosyltransferase PaGT3	10
Buccaneer model building with neural network fragment selection	10
Protonation states of hen egg-white lysozyme observed using D/H contrast neutron crystallography	10
Native glycosylation and binding of the antidepressant paroxetine in a low-resolution crystal structure of human myeloperoxidase	10

Errors in structural biology are not the exception	10
Glycoside hydrolase subfamily GH5_57 features a highly redesigned catalytic interface to process complex hetero-β-mannans	10
Structural insights into choline-O-sulfatase reveal the molecular determinants for ligand binding	10
Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction	10
The High-Pressure Freezing Laboratory for Macromolecular Crystallography (HPMX), an ancillary tool for the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the ESRF	9
VitroJet: new features and case studies	9
Atypical homodimerization revealed by the structure of the (S)-enantioselective haloalkane dehalogenase DmmarA from Mycobacterium marinum	9
Structural and biophysical studies of new L-asparaginase variants: lessons from random mutagenesis of the prototypic Escherichia coli Ntn-amidohydrolase	9
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 978-1-119	9
Polyelectrolyte coating of cryo-EM grids improves lateral distribution and prevents aggregation of macromolecules	9
Tomo Live : an on-the-fly reconstruction pipeline to judge data quality for cryo-electron tomography workflows	9
The impact of molecular variants, crystallization conditions and the space group on ligand–protein complexes: a case study on bacterial phosphotriesterase	9
Restoration of the 3D structure of insect flight muscle from a rotationally averaged 2D X-ray diffraction pattern	9
Correcting systematic errors in diffraction data with modern scaling algorithms	9
High-resolution structures of the bound effectors avadomide (CC-122) and iberdomide (CC-220) highlight advantages and limitations of the MsCI4 soaking system	8
Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank	8
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 limits	8
Evaluating the impact of X-ray damage on conformational heterogeneity in room-temperature (277 K) and cryo-cooled protein crystals	8
Drosophila melanogaster frataxin: protein crystal and predicted solution structure with identification of the iron-binding regions	8
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 structu	8
Strategies for mitigating radiation damage and improving data completeness in 3D electron diffraction of protein crystals	8
Structural analysis of wild-type and Val120Thr mutant Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase by X-ray crystallography	8
Structural features of chloroplast trigger factor determined at 2.6 Å resolution	8
XFEL structure of carbonic anhydrase II: a comparative study of XFEL, NMR, X-ray and neutron structures	8
Protein–macrocycle polymorphism: crystal form IV of the Ralstonia solanacearum lectin–sulfonato-calix[8]arene complex	8
Atomic model validation using the CCP-EM software suite	8
Thermostable homologues of the periplasmic siderophore-binding protein CeuE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius	8