OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Structural Biology is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
3D variability analysis: Resolving continuous flexibility and discrete heterogeneity from single particle cryo-EM	612
A streamlined workflow for automated cryo focused ion beam milling	73
Protein-water hydrogen-bond networks of G protein-coupled receptors: Graph-based analyses of static structures and molecular dynamics	43
Practical considerations for using K3 cameras in CDS mode for high-resolution and high-throughput single particle cryo-EM	43
Crossfibrillar mineral tessellation in normal and Hyp mouse bone as revealed by 3D FIB-SEM microscopy	37
Comparison of carbonate precipitation induced by Curvibacter sp. HJ-1 and Arthrobacter sp. MF-2: Further insight into the biomineralization process	35
Structure of the Yersinia injectisome in intracellular host cell phagosomes revealed by cryo FIB electron tomography	31
Orientation patterns of aragonitic crossed-lamellar, fibrous prismatic and myostracal microstructures of modern Glycymeris shells	31
Ellipsoidal mesoscale mineralization pattern in human cortical bone revealed in 3D by plasma focused ion beam serial sectioning	30
Measuring collagen fibril diameter with differential interference contrast microscopy	29
CorRelator: Interactive software for real-time high precision cryo-correlative light and electron microscopy	29
ScipionTomo: Towards cryo-electron tomography software integration, reproducibility, and validation	27
Multishot tomography for high-resolution in situ subtomogram averaging	27
It’s noisy out there! A review of denoising techniques in cryo-electron tomography	26
Light-coupled cryo-plunger for time-resolved cryo-EM	26
Phosphatidylserine controls calcium phosphate nucleation and growth on lipid monolayers: A physicochemical understanding of matrix vesicle-driven biomineralization	25
Montage electron tomography of vitrified specimens	25
Algorithmic robustness to preferred orientations in single particle analysis by CryoEM	24
EMDA: A Python package for Electron Microscopy Data Analysis	23
A graph-based approach identifies dynamic H-bond communication networks in spike protein S of SARS-CoV-2	23
Effect of charge on protein preferred orientation at the air–water interface in cryo-electron microscopy	23
Computational toolbox for ultrastructural quantitative analysis of filament networks in cryo-ET data	22
A computer-simulated mechanism of familial Alzheimer’s disease: Mutations enhance thermal dynamics and favor looser substrate-binding to γ-secretase	21
High-resolution cryo-EM performance comparison of two latest-generation cryo electron microscopes on the human ribosome	20
Exploring high-resolution cryo-ET and subtomogram averaging capabilities of contemporary DEDs	20

Mineral tessellation in bone and the stenciling principle for extracellular matrix mineralization	20
Insight into human Miro1/2 domain organization based on the structure of its N-terminal GTPase	20
3D printed cell culture grid holders for improved cellular specimen preparation in cryo-electron microscopy	20
A genetic model for the secretory stage of dental enamel formation	20
The biological regulation of sea urchin larval skeletogenesis – From genes to biomineralized tissue	19
Cryo-EM analysis of the SctV cytosolic domain from the enteropathogenic E. coli T3SS injectisome	19
Dual-axis Volta phase plate cryo-electron tomography of Ebola virus-like particles reveals actin-VP40 interactions	19
Nanobeam X-ray fluorescence and diffraction computed tomography on human bone with a resolution better than 120 nm	19
Controls of nature: Secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure of the enamel protein amelogenin in solution and on hydroxyapatite	18
DeepAlign, a 3D alignment method based on regionalized deep learning for Cryo-EM	18
Structural insights into the NAD+-dependent formate dehydrogenase mechanism revealed from the NADH complex and the formate NAD+ ternary complex of the Chaetomium thermophilum enzyme	17
VHUT-cryo-FIB, a method to fabricate frozen hydrated lamellae from tissue specimens for in situ cryo-electron tomography	17
Markov state modeling of membrane transport proteins	17
Opportunities for biomineralization research using multiscale computed X-ray tomography as exemplified by bone imaging	17
Effects of chameleon dispense-to-plunge speed on particle concentration, complex formation, and final resolution: A case study using the Neisseria gonorrhoeae ribonucleotide reductase inactive complex	16
Structural basis for inhibitory effects of Smad7 on TGF-β family signaling	16
The SIRAH force field: A suite for simulations of complex biological systems at the coarse-grained and multiscale levels	16
Protein-driven biomineralization: Comparing silica formation in grass silica cells to other biomineralization processes	16
Multi-scale alignment of respiratory cilia and its relation to mucociliary function	15
Imaging biological samples by integrated differential phase contrast (iDPC) STEM technique	15
Rapid tilt-series method for cryo-electron tomography: Characterizing stage behavior during FISE acquisition	15
Deep generative modeling for volume reconstruction in cryo-electron microscopy	15
New insight on spatial localization and microstructures of calcite-aragonite interfaces in adult shell of Haliotis tuberculata: Investigations of wild and farmed abalones by FTIR and Raman mapping	14
ContinuousFlex: Software package for analyzing continuous conformational variability of macromolecules in cryo electron microscopy and tomography data	14
Metallic support films reduce optical heating in cryogenic correlative light and electron tomography	14
Structure of the cytoplasmic domain of SctV (SsaV) from the Salmonella SPI-2 injectisome and implications for a pH sensing mechanism	14
Calcite crystal orientation patterns in the bilayers of laminated shells of benthic rotaliid foraminifera	14
Spike protein fusion loop controls SARS-CoV-2 fusogenicity and infectivity	14
Heterogeneity of the osteocyte lacuno-canalicular network architecture and material characteristics across different tissue types in healing bone	13
Cryo-EM structure of the cetacean morbillivirus nucleoprotein-RNA complex	13
Accurate, automatic determination of astigmatism and phase with Ctfplotter in IMOD	13
Evolution and biomineralization of pteropod shells	13
A disulfide-stabilised helical hairpin fold in acrorhagin I: An emerging structural motif in peptide toxins	13
Revisiting the Ramachandran plot based on statistical analysis of static and dynamic characteristics of protein structures	13
A set of common movements within GPCR-G-protein complexes from variability analysis of cryo-EM datasets	13
Small-angle neutron scattering solution structures of NADPH-dependent sulfite reductase	13
Structural and dynamic insights into the HNH nuclease of divergent Cas9 species	12
TomoAlign: A novel approach to correcting sample motion and 3D CTF in CryoET	12
Structure and heterogeneity of a highly cargo-loaded encapsulin shell	12
Integration of software tools for integrative modeling of biomolecular systems	12
Structural principles of CRISPR-Cas enzymes used in nucleic acid detection	12
Amelogenesis: Transformation of a protein-mineral matrix into tooth enamel	12
PickYOLO: Fast deep learning particle detector for annotation of cryo electron tomograms	11
Multi-curve fitting and tubulin-lattice signal removal for structure determination of large microtubule-based motors	11
Conformational switch that induces GDP release from Gi	11
External bone size identifies different strength-decline trajectories for the male human femora	11
Desmosomal protein structure and function and the impact of disease-causing mutations	11
TAPASS: Tool for annotation of protein amyloidogenicity in the context of other structural states	11
Insights into the dynamic interactions at chemokine-receptor interfaces and mechanistic models of chemokine binding	10
Cryo-EM structure of a eukaryotic zinc transporter at a low pH suggests its Zn2+-releasing mechanism	10

Recent advances in the application of atomic force microscopy to structural biology	10
Cryo soft X-ray tomography to explore Escherichia coli nucleoid remodeling by Hfq master regulator	10
Probing intracellular vesicle trafficking and membrane remodelling by cryo-EM	10
Structural basis of the partially open central gate in the human CNGA1/CNGB1 channel explained by additional density for calmodulin in cryo-EM map	10
Elastin calcification in in vitro models and its prevention by MGP’s N-terminal peptide	10
Structural modeling of two plant UDP-dependent sugar-sugar glycosyltransferases reveals a conserved glutamic acid residue that is a hallmark for sugar acceptor recognition	10
Structural organization of xanthine crystals in the median ocellus of a member of the ancestral insect group Archaeognatha	10
Shark centra microanatomy and mineral density variation studied with laboratory microComputed Tomography	9
Epitope-Analyzer: A structure-based webtool to analyze broadly neutralizing epitopes	9
Insights into the oligomeric structure of the HIV-1 Vpu protein	9
Porous assembly of an antifungal protein mediated by zinc and sulfonato-calix[8]arene	9
The ultrastructure of resurrection: Post-diapause development in an Antarctic freshwater copepod	9
Cryo-EM structure of AMP-PNP-bound human mitochondrial ATP-binding cassette transporter ABCB7	9
Movement analysis of primate molar teeth under load using synchrotron X-ray microtomography	9
Embedding cells within nanoscale, rapidly mineralizing hydrogels: A new paradigm to engineer cell-laden bone-like tissue	9
Cryo-EM density maps adjustment for subtraction, consensus and sharpening	9
Lattice micropatterning for cryo-electron tomography studies of cell-cell contacts	9
The calcifying interface in a stony coral primary polyp: An interplay between seawater and an extracellular calcifying space	9
Characterization of the growth plate-bone interphase region using cryo-FIB SEM 3D volume imaging	9
Unliganded and CMP-Neu5Ac bound structures of human α-2,6-sialyltransferase ST6Gal I at high resolution	9
Molecular basis for cysteine oxidation by plant cysteine oxidases from Arabidopsis thaliana	9
Genetic background dependent modifiers of craniosynostosis severity	9
Structural and biochemical insights into His-tag-induced higher-order oligomerization of membrane proteins by cryo-EM and size exclusion chromatography	8
A biophysical and structural analysis of the interaction of BLNK with 14-3-3 proteins	8
A novel approach to investigate the evolution of structured tandem repeat protein families by exon duplication	8
Substrate specificity and conformational flexibility properties of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis β-oxidation trifunctional enzyme	8
Globular structure of the hypermineralized tissue in human femoral neck	7
Structural insights of key enzymes into therapeutic intervention against SARS-CoV-2	7
OpenFIBSEM: A universal API for FIBSEM control	7
Structural basis for promoter DNA recognition by the response regulator OmpR	7
Measuring cryo-TEM sample thickness using reflected light microscopy and machine learning	7
NMR sample optimization and backbone assignment of a stabilized neurotensin receptor	7
Endocytosed nanogold fiducials for improved in-situ cryo–electron tomography tilt-series alignment	7
Determination of amino acids that favour the αL region using Ramachandran propensity plots. Implications for α-sheet as the possible amyloid intermediate	7
Structure and substrate recognition by the Ruminococcus bromii amylosome pullulanases	7
Crystal structure of the periplasmic sensor domain of histidine kinase VbrK suggests indirect sensing of β-lactam antibiotics	7
A review of the approaches used to solve sub-100 kDa membrane proteins by cryo-electron microscopy	7
Investigation of the human pineal gland 3D organization by X-ray phase contrast tomography	7
SAM1 domain of SASH1 harbors distinctive structural heterogeneity	7
Matrix/mineral ratio and domain size variation with bone tissue age: A photothermal infrared study	7
Genetic basis of stony coral biomineralization: History, trends and future prospects	7
Tying the knot in the tetrahydrofolate (THF) riboswitch: A molecular basis for gene regulation	7
The β-hairpin from the Thermus thermophilus HB27 laccase works as a pH-dependent switch to regulate laccase activity	7
Sequence dependent influence of an A…A mismatch in a DNA duplex: An insight into the recognition by hZαADAR1 protein	7
Crystal structure of the anti-CRISPR repressor Aca2	7