Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Structural Biology is 20. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
How molecular modelling can better broaden the understanding of glycosylations251
HIV-1 gp160 in nanodiscs: Unravelling structures and guiding vaccine design170
Editorial144
Next-generation predictors of protein phase behavior132
Optogenetic enzymes: A deep dive into design and impact102
Genome modeling: From chromatin fibers to genes99
Computer-aided drug design, quantum-mechanical methods for biological problems98
Advancing biomolecular simulation through exascale HPC, AI and quantum computing96
Access and utilization of long chain fatty acyl-CoA by zDHHC protein acyltransferases94
Mutational fitness landscape and drug resistance93
Single-particle Cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations: A perfect match88
May the proton motive force be with you: A plant transporter review86
Catalysis and structure of nitrogenases85
Harnessing the 14-3-3 protein–protein interaction network82
Recent advances in AI-driven pKa prediction for proteins and small molecules82
Single-point mutations in disordered proteins: Linking sequence, ensemble, and function78
Raman spectroscopy and imaging of protein droplet formation and aggregation71
Pump-like channelrhodopsins: Not just bridging the gap between ion pumps and ion channels71
Structure-based virtual screening of vast chemical space as a starting point for drug discovery70
Navigating protein–nucleic acid sequence-structure landscapes with deep learning67
Markov field models: Scaling molecular kinetics approaches to large molecular machines67
Editorial Board67
The mannose receptor ligands and the macrophage glycome64
Proteins with alternative folds reveal blind spots in AlphaFold-based protein structure prediction62
Advances in native cell membrane nanoparticles system61
Molecular dynamics simulations for the study of chromatin biology61
Advancing protein structure prediction beyond AlphaFold261
Deep learning for intrinsically disordered proteins: From improved predictions to deciphering conformational ensembles61
Protein dynamics underlying allosteric regulation60
Mutually beneficial confluence of structure-based modeling of protein dynamics and machine learning methods58
NMR tools to detect protein allostery57
Editorial overview: Biophysical methods: Exploring structures in motions, from biomolecules to cells, and how to drug them57
Mucin networks: Dynamic structural assemblies controlling mucus function57
Old and new tactics of CRISPR-centric competition between bacteria and bacteriophages56
Dynamics and interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins56
Modeling membranes in situ55
DDK promotes DNA replication initiation: Mechanistic and structural insights55
Conformational penalties: New insights into nucleic acid recognition55
The role of RNA structure in 3’ end processing in eukaryotes55
The opportunities and challenges posed by the new generation of deep learning-based protein structure predictors51
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Macromolecular assemblies: Molecular mechanisms abound50
Probing protein–DNA interactions and compaction in nanochannels48
Viral amyloids: New opportunities for antiviral therapeutic strategies46
Insight into the structural dynamics of light sensitive proteins from time-resolved crystallography and quantum chemical calculations46
NMR of RNA - Structure and interactions46
CryoEM of V-ATPases: Assembly, disassembly, and inhibition46
Editorial overview: Molecular determinants, mechanisms, and state-of-the-art approaches in allostery45
Structural insights into assembly of transcription preinitiation complex45
Biomolecular simulations at the exascale: From drug design to organelles and beyond44
Artificial intelligence in therapeutic antibody design: Advances and future prospects44
Challenges and compromises: Predicting unbound antibody structures with deep learning44
Dynamic interactions drive early spliceosome assembly43
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Photo-crosslinkers boost structural information from crosslinking mass spectrometry42
Microsecond time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy42
Structural host immune-microbiota interactions41
Ligand-like lipid interactions with membrane proteins: Simulations and machine learning41
Insights in bacterial genome folding41
Cryo-EM diversifies41
Integrative modeling meets deep learning: Recent advances in modeling protein assemblies41
Nuclear periphery and its mechanical regulation in cell fate transitions41
Influence of membrane on the antigen presentation of the HIV-1 envelope membrane proximal external region (MPER)40
Interplay of thermodynamics and evolution within the ternary ligand-GPCR-G protein complex40
Integrating AI in fighting advancing Alzheimer: diagnosis, prevention, treatment, monitoring, mechanisms, and clinical trials40
Solid-state NMR of membrane proteins in situ39
Navigating the complexities of multi-domain protein folding39
The CMG DNA helicase and the core replisome39
Entropy, enthalpy, and evolution: Adaptive trade-offs in protein binding thermodynamics38
Structural biology in the age of X-ray free-electron lasers and exascale computing38
Template matching and machine learning for cryo-electron tomography38
Integrating cellular and molecular structures and dynamics into whole-cell models38
Reading the glyco-code: New approaches to studying protein–carbohydrate interactions38
Are N-linked glycans intrinsically disordered?38
A review of computational methods for predicting cancer drug response at the single-cell level through integration with bulk RNAseq data38
Protein diversification through post-translational modifications, alternative splicing, and gene duplication37
In-cell chromatin structure by Cryo-FIB and Cryo-ET37
Decrypting cryptic pockets with physics-based simulations and artificial intelligence37
Frustration, dynamics, and catalysis37
Machine learning approaches in predicting allosteric sites37
Mass spectrometry-based shotgun glycomics for discovery of natural ligands of glycan-binding proteins37
Editorial overview: Protein-nucleic acid interactions: From origins to design37
Structure-based approaches in synthetic lethality strategies37
Measuring change in glycoprotein structure36
Nexus between RNA conformational dynamics and functional versatility36
Editorial Board35
Nucleosomes unwrapped: Structural perspectives on transcription through chromatin35
Advancing cryo-electron microscopy data analysis through accelerated simulation-based flexible fitting approaches35
Greater than the sum of parts: Mechanisms of metabolic regulation by enzyme filaments35
ACE2, B0AT1, and SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: Structural and functional implications35
Structural basis of mRNA maturation: Time to put it together34
Cryo-EM: A window into the dynamic world of RNA molecules34
Advances in Protein-RNA aptamer recognition and modeling: Current trends and future perspectives34
Computational design of novel protein–protein interactions – An overview on methodological approaches and applications33
Editorial overview: 3D Genome Chromatin organization and regulation33
RETRACTED: Liquid-EM goes viral – visualizing structure and dynamics33
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Teaching AI to speak protein33
The influence of lipids and biological membranes on the conformational equilibria of GPCRs: Insights from NMR spectroscopy32
Unlocking the secrets of cell boundaries: Exploring assemblies, machineries, and supercomplexes in membranes32
Interpreting chemical crosslinks: Score-based approaches and deep neural networks32
Editorial Board32
Absolute quantification of protein number and dynamics in single cells32
The conformationally dynamic structural biology of lanthipeptide biosynthesis31
Automated pipelines for rapid evaluation during cryoEM data acquisition31
The material properties of mitotic chromosomes30
Molecular insights into the catalysis and regulation of mammalian NAD-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenases30
Machine learning for evolutionary-based and physics-inspired protein design: Current and future synergies30
Protein structure prediction in the deep learning era30
Multiscale biomolecular simulations in the exascale era30
Large-scale protein clustering in the age of deep learning30
Lipid scrambling: New players, new questions, new opportunities30
Application of message passing neural networks for molecular property prediction29
Histone deacetylase 10: A polyamine deacetylase from the crystal structure to the first inhibitors29
Commonly asked questions about transcriptional activation domains29
Editorial overview - New Concepts in Drug Discovery (2025)28
Prediction of nucleic acid binding residues in protein sequences: Recent advances and future prospects28
Recent advances in machine learning predictions of protein-ligand binding affinities28
Application of AI in biological age prediction28
Advances and applications of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED)27
PARP–nucleic acid interactions: Allosteric signaling, PARP inhibitor types, DNA bridges, and viral RNA surveillance27
Editorial Board27
Super-resolving chromatin in its own terms: Recent approaches to portray genomic organization27
Editorial overview: Folding and Binding (2024)27
Apprehensions and emerging solutions in ML-based protein structure prediction27
Modeling flexible RNA 3D structures and RNA-protein complexes26
Recent advances and current trends in cryo-electron microscopy26
Recent advances in AI-driven protein-ligand interaction predictions26
Generative artificial intelligence for de novo protein design26
Organization of transcription and 3D genome as revealed by live-cell imaging26
Recent progress in membrane protein dynamics revealed by X-ray free electron lasers: Molecular movies of microbial rhodopsins26
Structural biology of γδ T cell receptors26
Exascale simulations and beyond25
The role of intrinsic protein disorder in regulation of cyclin-dependent kinases25
Context-dependent, fuzzy protein interactions: Towards sequence-based insights25
β-barrel membrane proteins fold via hybrid-barrel intermediate states25
Frontiers in metalloprotein crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy24
Editorial overview: ‘The amazing power of physics to provide chemical insight into catalysis and regulation’ … something better …24
All-atom virus simulations to tackle airborne disease24
Cryo-EM of the injectisome and type III secretion systems24
Graphene in cryo-EM specimen optimization24
Conformational heterogeneity and probability distributions from single-particle cryo-electron microscopy24
Innovations in targeting RNA by fragment-based ligand discovery24
Mechanical forces and the 3D genome24
View from the PEAKs: Insights from structural studies on the PEAK family of pseudokinases24
Combining on-line spectroscopy with synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser crystallography24
A practical look at cryo-electron tomography image processing: Key considerations for new biological discoveries23
The evolution and mechanism of bacterial and archaeal ESCRT-III-like systems23
Industrializing AI/ML during the end-to-end drug discovery process23
Minimal models for RNA simulations23
Segmenting cryo-electron tomography data: Extracting models from cellular landscapes23
Databases and web-based tools for studying structures of protein-nucleic acid complexes23
Solution NMR goes big: Atomic resolution studies of protein components of molecular machines and phase-separated condensates23
Future prospects for human genetics and genomics in drug discovery23
Structures, dynamics, complexes, and functions: From classic computation to artificial intelligence23
Making the cut: Multiscale simulation of membrane remodeling22
Cryo-EM insights into tail-anchored membrane protein biogenesis in eukaryotes22
Distinguishing between concerted, sequential and barrierless conformational changes: Folding versus allostery22
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Single-molecule fluorescence imaging of DNA maintenance protein binding dynamics and activities on extended DNA22
AlphaFold2 protein structure prediction: Implications for drug discovery22
Structural enzymology of cholesterol biosynthesis and storage21
A structural perspective on enzymes and their catalytic mechanisms21
Membrane protein reconstitution : New possibilities for structural biology, biophysical methods, and antibody/drug discovery21
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Emerging structure-based computational methods to screen the exploding accessible chemical space21
Helical reconstruction, again21
Repair and tolerance of DNA damage at the replication fork: A structural perspective21
Understanding glycoprotein structural heterogeneity and interactions: Insights from native mass spectrometry21
Visualizing RNA structure ensembles by single-molecule correlated chemical probing21
Protein dynamics by the combination of high-speed AFM and computational modeling21
Global dynamics behind enzyme catalysis, evolution, and design21
Conformational inhibitors of protein aggregation21
Editorial overview–Artificial intelligence methodologies in structural biology: Bridging the gap to medical applications20
Engineering the T cell receptor for fun and profit: Uncovering complex biology, interrogating the immune system, and targeting disease20
Allo-targeting of the kinase domain: Insights from in silico studies and comparison with experiments20
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AI for targeted polypharmacology: The next frontier in drug discovery20
Deep learning–based postprocessing and model building for cryo-electron microscopy maps20
Chromosome and protein folding: In search for unified principles20
Editorial Board20
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