Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Structural Biology is 16. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Simultaneous codon usage, the origin of the proteome, and the emergence of de-novo proteins212
Editorial overview: Artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies in structural biology129
Centrosomes in disease: how the same music can sound so different?110
Deep learning techniques have significantly impacted protein structure prediction and protein design104
Computational strategies for protein conformational ensemble detection104
Protein structure-based evaluation of missense variants: Resources, challenges and future directions98
TADs: Dynamic structures to create stable regulatory functions88
Reweighting methods for elucidation of conformation ensembles of proteins86
In-cell NMR: From target structure and dynamics to drug screening86
Single-particle Cryo-EM and molecular dynamics simulations: A perfect match81
Understanding the structure and function of Plasmodium aminopeptidases to facilitate drug discovery72
Multiscale kinetic analysis of proteins71
Mechanistic insights into fungal mitochondrial outer membrane protein biogenesis68
Pump-like channelrhodopsins: Not just bridging the gap between ion pumps and ion channels68
Editorial overview: Catalysis and regulation: The beating heart of biology66
Visualizing everything, everywhere, all at once: Cryo-EM and the new field of structureomics65
The new epoch of structural insights into radical SAM enzymology64
Editorial Board64
Editorial overview: Folding and Binding (2024)63
Regulation of tau by peptidyl-prolyl isomerases61
Addressing high excitation conditions in time-resolved X-ray diffraction experiments and issues of biological relevance60
Structural biology and inhibition of the Mtb cell wall glycoconjugates biosynthesis on the membrane57
HATs meet structural biology56
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Mutational fitness landscape and drug resistance54
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Molecular tools for probing the microbiome53
Mechanistic similarities in recognition of histone tails and DNA by epigenetic readers49
RNA helicases are hubs that orchestrate exosome-dependent 3′–5′ decay49
Evolution of the centrosome, from the periphery to the center48
Centriole length control47
3D genome organization and beyond!46
Structural highlights of macromolecular complexes and assemblies46
Structural determinants of regulated proteolysis in pathogenic bacteria by ClpP and the proteasome45
Organization of transcription and 3D genome as revealed by live-cell imaging45
Editorial Board45
The material state of centrosomes: lattice, liquid, or gel?44
Generative artificial intelligence for de novo protein design43
Advancing biomolecular simulation through exascale HPC, AI and quantum computing42
Federated learning for molecular discovery42
Metamorphic proteins and how to find them41
Molecular models of bidirectional promoter regulation41
Glycosylation as a key parameter in the design of nucleic acid vaccines41
From disorder comes function: Regulation of small GTPase function by intrinsically disordered lipidated membrane anchor41
Structure-based virtual screening of vast chemical space as a starting point for drug discovery41
Long non-coding RNAs in the nucleolus: Biogenesis, regulation, and function41
Toward complete rational control over protein structure and function through computational design40
Anatomy of the fungal microtubule organizing center, the spindle pole body40
How much can physics do for protein design?39
Probing allosteric communication with combined molecular dynamics simulations and network analysis39
Single-cell mapping of cell-type specific chromatin architecture in the central nervous system39
Combining crystallography with quantum mechanics39
Bonds and bytes: The odyssey of structural biology38
The confluence of machine learning and multiscale simulations38
May the proton motive force be with you: A plant transporter review38
The role of local versus nonlocal physicochemical restraints in determining protein native structure38
Catalysis and structure of nitrogenases37
Centrosome organization and functions37
Constant pH molecular dynamics simulations: Current status and recent applications36
Charting the complex composite nature of centrosomes, primary cilia and centriolar satellites36
In silico reconstitution of DNA replication. Lessons from single-molecule imaging and cryo-tomography applied to single-particle cryo-EM36
Accessorizing the centrosome: new insights into centriolar appendages and satellites36
SOD1 oligomers in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis35
Finding functional motifs in protein sequences with deep learning and natural language models35
Connecting the dots: Computational network analysis for disease insight and drug repurposing35
Expansion microscopy: A chemical approach for super-resolution microscopy35
Artificial intelligence in the experimental determination and prediction of macromolecular structures35
Unifying coarse-grained force fields for folded and disordered proteins35
Recent advances and current trends in cryo-electron microscopy34
Multifaceted interactions mediated by intrinsically disordered regions play key roles in alpha synuclein aggregation34
Chromatin compaction by Polycomb group proteins revisited33
Graph neural network approaches for drug-target interactions33
Data-driven computational protein design33
Artificial intelligence challenges for predicting the impact of mutations on protein stability32
Artificial intelligence-driven antimicrobial peptide discovery32
Structural basis for DNA sequence recognition by pioneer factors in nucleosomes31
Miniature CRISPR-Cas12 endonucleases – Programmed DNA targeting in a smaller package31
PARP–nucleic acid interactions: Allosteric signaling, PARP inhibitor types, DNA bridges, and viral RNA surveillance31
Frontiers in the enzymology of thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzymes31
Harnessing the 14-3-3 protein–protein interaction network31
Apprehensions and emerging solutions in ML-based protein structure prediction31
How molecular modelling can better broaden the understanding of glycosylations30
Deep learning in modeling protein complex structures: From contact prediction to end-to-end approaches30
Untangling the pseudoknots of SARS-CoV-2: Insights into structural heterogeneity and plasticity29
The twisting elevator mechanism of glutamate transporters reveals the structural basis for the dual transport-channel functions29
Revealing bacterial cell biology using cryo-electron tomography29
The role of intrinsic protein disorder in regulation of cyclin-dependent kinases29
Advances in machine learning for directed evolution28
Access and utilization of long chain fatty acyl-CoA by zDHHC protein acyltransferases28
Heterotypic amyloid interactions: Clues to polymorphic bias and selective cellular vulnerability?28
Open data and algorithms for open science in AI-driven molecular informatics27
Genome modeling: From chromatin fibers to genes27
Advances and applications of microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED)27
Artificial intelligence based methods for hot spot prediction26
Computer-aided drug design, quantum-mechanical methods for biological problems26
Recent progress in general force fields of small molecules26
Towards an atomic model of a beating ciliary axoneme26
Serial synchrotron and XFEL crystallography for studies of metalloprotein catalysis25
Context-dependent, fuzzy protein interactions: Towards sequence-based insights25
Recent progress in membrane protein dynamics revealed by X-ray free electron lasers: Molecular movies of microbial rhodopsins25
Characterizing protein-protein interactions with thermal proteome profiling25
Functional and pathological amyloid structures in the eyes of 2020 cryo-EM25
Impact of ancestral sequence reconstruction on mechanistic and structural enzymology25
Transcriptional machinery as an architect of genome structure25
Solving the structural puzzle of bacterial glycome25
Catalysis by Nature's photoenzymes25
Editorial24
Editorial overview: Cryo-electron microscopy24
Editorial overview: Protein networks in health and disease24
Single particle cryo-EM map and model validation: It's not crystal clear24
Characterizing heterogeneity in amyloid formation processes24
Protein disaggregation machineries in the human cytosol23
AI-based methods for biomolecular structure modeling for Cryo-EM23
Protein binding and folding through an evolutionary lens23
Advances in structure-based allosteric drug design23
Systematic design of biomolecular force fields22
Covalent fragment-based drug discovery for target tractability22
Artificial intelligence for high content imaging in drug discovery22
Recent advances on the inhibition of human solute carriers: Therapeutic implications and mechanistic insights22
Enhancing sampling with free-energy calculations22
A structural framework for DNA replication and transcription through chromatin22
NMR of glycoproteins: profiling, structure, conformation and interactions21
Applications of cryo-EM in drug development for STING21
β-barrel membrane proteins fold via hybrid-barrel intermediate states21
Advancing structural biology through breakthroughs in AI21
Tandem-repeat proteins conformational mechanics are optimized to facilitate functional interactions and complexations21
Principles of nucleosome recognition by chromatin factors and enzymes21
Modeling membranes in situ21
Gut power: Modulation of human amyloid formation by amyloidogenic proteins in the gastrointestinal tract21
Structures, dynamics, complexes, and functions: From classic computation to artificial intelligence21
Emerging structural insights into C-type glycosyltransferases20
Advances in the study of GPCRs by 19F NMR20
Telomerase structural biology comes of age20
Role of aberrant phase separation in pathological protein aggregation20
Combining on-line spectroscopy with synchrotron and X-ray free electron laser crystallography20
Proteins with alternative folds reveal blind spots in AlphaFold-based protein structure prediction20
Protein N-glycosylation and O-mannosylation are catalyzed by two evolutionarily related GT-C glycosyltransferases20
All over or overall – Do we understand allostery?20
Constructing PCM with architecturally distinct higher-order assemblies19
Editorial overview: Restructuring drug design and development19
Editorial overview: Theory and simulation: Molecular modeling from atoms to complexes19
Recent developments in catalysis and inhibition of the Jumonji histone demethylases19
Structure-based drug design with geometric deep learning19
Systems biology approaches to macromolecules: the role of dynamic protein assemblies in information processing19
Editorial Overview: Protein-nucleic acid Interactions19
Mucin networks: Dynamic structural assemblies controlling mucus function19
Editorial overview: ‘The amazing power of physics to provide chemical insight into catalysis and regulation’ … something better …19
Markov field models: Scaling molecular kinetics approaches to large molecular machines19
Structure-based analyses of gut microbiome-related proteins by neural networks and molecular dynamics simulations19
Mutually beneficial confluence of structure-based modeling of protein dynamics and machine learning methods18
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Recent developments in multiscale free energy simulations18
Editorial overview: Biophysical methods: Exploring structures in motions, from biomolecules to cells, and how to drug them18
Editorial overview: New insights and complexities for chromatin interacting proteins18
Deciphering the dynamic codes: Advances in biomolecular modeling and simulation18
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Solution NMR investigations of integral membrane proteins: Challenges and innovations18
Editorial overview: Protein–carbohydrate complexes and glycosylation18
Mechanical forces and the 3D genome17
Insane in the membrane: developments in protein folding, protein transport, and signaling by GPCRs17
Editorial overview: Engineering, evolving, and designing proteins17
Structural dynamics bridge the gap between the genetic and functional levels of GPCRs17
Quantitative characterization of O-GalNAc glycosylation17
Editorial Board17
Minimalistic 3D chromatin models: Sparse interactions in single cells drive the chromatin fold and form many-body units17
Editorial overview: Theory and simulation and their new friends17
Dynamics, allostery, and stabilities of whole virus particles by amide hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDXMS)17
Design and discovery of metamorphic proteins17
Editorial overview: Sequences and topology: ‘paths from sequence to structure’17
Artificial intelligence approaches for molecular representation in drug response prediction17
Inner workings of RAG recombinase and its specialization for adaptive immunity17
Editorial Board17
Recent developments in empirical atomistic force fields for nucleic acids and applications to studies of folding and dynamics17
Generative deep learning for macromolecular structure and dynamics16
Structure of the nuclear pore complex goes atomic16
Conformational entropy in molecular recognition of intrinsically disordered proteins16
Modelling the assembly and flexibility of antibody structures16
The method in the madness: Transcriptional control from stochastic action at the single-molecule scale16
Design principles of protein switches16
Designing better enzymes: Insights from directed evolution16
Graphene in cryo-EM specimen optimization16
Cryo-EM of the injectisome and type III secretion systems16
Post-COVID highlights: Challenges and solutions of artificial intelligence techniques for swift identification of COVID-1916
Recent advances in the structural biology of tyrosine kinases16
Industrializing AI/ML during the end-to-end drug discovery process16
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