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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Using graphlet degree vectors to predict atomic displacement parameters in protein structures667
Structure of the Fab fragment of a humanized 5E5 antibody to a cancer-specific Tn-MUC1 epitope90
EMhub: a web platform for data management and on-the-fly processing in scientific facilities69
Cryo-EM single-particle analysis expanding towards increasingly native samples63
Crystallographic fragment screening against SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 1 using the F2X-Entry Screen and a newly developed fragment library62
Structural visualization of transient interactions between the cis-acting acyltransferase and acyl carrier protein of the salinomycin modular polyketide synthase59
Completion of partial structures using Patterson maps with the CrysFormer machine-learning model50
Limiting the effects of radiation damage in MicroED through dose selection during data processing47
Comparison of two crystal polymorphs of NowGFP reveals a new conformational state trapped by crystal packing45
Structural flexibility of Toscana virus nucleoprotein in the presence of a single-chain camelid antibody44
Updated restraint dictionaries for carbohydrates in the pyranose form39
Crystal structure of DNA polymerase I from Thermus phage G20c34
Structures of α-galactosaminidases from the CAZy GH114 family and homologs defining a new GH191 family of glycosidases33
X-ray diffraction and in vivo studies reveal the quinary structure of Trypanosoma cruzi nucleoside diphosphate kinase 1: a novel helical oligomer structure33
Data collection from crystals grown in microfluidic droplets30
A scalable strategy to solve structures of PDZ domains and their complexes25
Critical evaluation of three cryo-EM structures of particulate methane monooxygenase by quantum refinement23
Structures of permuted halves of a modern ribose-binding protein23
Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography23
Structural studies of NAD + -dependent methanol dehydrogenase 1 from Bacillus methanolicus MGA322
Cryo2RT: a high-throughput method for room-temperature macromolecular crystallography from cryo-cooled crystals19
On bias, variance, overfitting, gold standard and consensus in single-particle analysis by cryo-electron microscopy19
A recurring packing contact in crystals of InlB pinpoints functional binding sites in the internalin domain and the B repeat18
The crystal structure of CbpD clarifies substrate-specificity motifs in chitin-active lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases18
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
A radical approach to radicals18
Raw diffraction data are our ground truth from which all subsequent workflows develop18
Structural characterization of the ACDC domain from ApiAP2 proteins, a potential molecular target against apicomplexan parasites18
Training undergraduate research assistants with an outcome-oriented and skill-based mentoring strategy17
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)16
Analysis and validation of overall N-glycan conformation in Privateer16
Validation of helical symmetry parameters in the EMDB16
An alternative conformation of the N-terminal loop of human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase drives binding to a potent antiproliferative agent16
Overall protein structure quality assessment using hydrogen-bonding parameters16
Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1–515
Deciphering the crystal structure of a novel nanobody against the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase15
Statistical analyses of the oxidized P-clusters in MoFe proteins using the bond-valence method: towards their electron transfer in nitrogenases15
Medical contrast agents as promising tools for biomacromolecular SAXS experiments14
A high-resolution data set of fatty acid-binding protein structures. III. Unexpectedly high occurrence of wrong ligands14
Notes of a protein crystallographer: the advantages of combining new integrated methods of structure solution with traditional data visuals14
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
Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on fatty-acid photodecarboxylase: lessons learned14
3D structures of the Plasmodium vivax subtilisin-like drug target SUB1 reveal conformational changes to accommodate a substrate-derived α-ketoamide inhibitor14
Michael James (1940–2023)13
Pillar data-acquisition strategies for cryo-electron tomography of beam-sensitive biological samples13
Alexei Vagin (1944–2023)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
The T2 structure of polycrystalline cubic human insulin13
Structural mechanism of Escherichia coli cyanase12
Fragment-based screening targeting an open form of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease binding pocket12
Molecular basis of transcriptional repression of anti-CRISPR by anti-CRISPR-associated 212
Preparation and characterization of inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus samples for single-particle imaging at the European XFEL12
Submission of structural biology data for review purposes12
Crystal structures of the molecular class A β-lactamase TEM-171 and its complexes with tazobactam12
Cryo-EM reveals binding of linoleic acid to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, suggesting an antiviral treatment strategy11
Elucidating polymorphs of crystal structures by intensity-based hierarchical clustering analysis of multiple diffraction data sets11
Knowledge-based prediction of DNA hydration using hydrated dinucleotides as building blocks11
Direct phasing algorithm for protein crystals with high solvent content using low-resolution diffraction data11
Comparative study of the effects of high hydrostatic pressure per se and high argon pressure on urate oxidase ligand stabilization11
A new inactive conformation of SARS-CoV-2 main protease11
Biochemical and structural insights into an unusual, alkali-metal-independent S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 680311
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study report11
Best practices for time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography11
Structural and functional characterization of a multi-domain GH92 α-1,2-mannosidase from Neobacillus novalis11
Probabilistic single-particle cryo-EM ab initio 3D reconstruction in SIMPLE11
Structural basis of the amidase ClbL central to the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin11
Crystal structure of the monocupin ring-cleaving dioxygenase 5-nitrosalicylate 1,2-dioxygenase fromBradyrhizobiumsp.11
The LH–DH module of bacterial replicative helicases is the common binding site for DciA and other helicase loaders10
Raynals , an online tool for the analysis of dynamic light scattering10
Native glycosylation and binding of the antidepressant paroxetine in a low-resolution crystal structure of human myeloperoxidase10
Atomic resolution studies of S1 nuclease complexes reveal details of RNA interaction with the enzyme despite multiple lattice-translocation defects10
Dependence of crystallographic atomic displacement parameters on temperature (25–150 K) for complexes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase10
Structural and biophysical studies of new L-asparaginase variants: lessons from random mutagenesis of the prototypic Escherichia coli Ntn-amidohydrolase9
Restoration of the 3D structure of insect flight muscle from a rotationally averaged 2D X-ray diffraction pattern9
Polyelectrolyte coating of cryo-EM grids improves lateral distribution and prevents aggregation of macromolecules9
Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction9
Protonation states of hen egg-white lysozyme observed using D/H contrast neutron crystallography9
Atypical homodimerization revealed by the structure of the (S)-enantioselective haloalkane dehalogenase DmmarA from Mycobacterium marinum9
Correcting systematic errors in diffraction data with modern scaling algorithms9
Buccaneer model building with neural network fragment selection9
Glycoside hydrolase subfamily GH5_57 features a highly redesigned catalytic interface to process complex hetero-β-mannans9
Errors in structural biology are not the exception9
The High-Pressure Freezing Laboratory for Macromolecular Crystallography (HPMX), an ancillary tool for the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the ESRF9
Tomo Live : an on-the-fly reconstruction pipeline to judge data quality for cryo-electron tomography workflows9
Structural insights into choline-O-sulfatase reveal the molecular determinants for ligand binding9
Structural basis for substrate recognition in the Phytolacca americana glycosyltransferase PaGT39
Drosophila melanogaster frataxin: protein crystal and predicted solution structure with identification of the iron-binding regions8
XFEL structure of carbonic anhydrase II: a comparative study of XFEL, NMR, X-ray and neutron structures8
Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank8
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
Structural features of chloroplast trigger factor determined at 2.6 Å resolution8
The impact of molecular variants, crystallization conditions and the space group on ligand–protein complexes: a case study on bacterial phosphotriesterase8
Protein–macrocycle polymorphism: crystal form IV of the Ralstonia solanacearum lectin–sulfonato-calix[8]arene complex8
High-resolution structures of the bound effectors avadomide (CC-122) and iberdomide (CC-220) highlight advantages and limitations of the MsCI4 soaking system8
Atomic model validation using the CCP-EM software suite8
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 978-1-1198
VitroJet: new features and case studies8
Inhibition of Schistosoma mansoni carbonic anhydrase by the antiparasitic drug clorsulon: X-ray crystallographic and in vitro studies7
Thermostable homologues of the periplasmic siderophore-binding protein CeuE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius7
AutoPX: a new software package to process X-ray diffraction data from biomacromolecular crystals7
Using deep-learning predictions of inter-residue distances for model validation7
Investigation of how gate residues in the main channel affect the catalytic activity of Scytalidium thermophilum catalase7
Crystal structures of 40- and 71-substitution variants of hydroxynitrile lyase from rubber tree7
Evaluating the impact of X-ray damage on conformational heterogeneity in room-temperature (277 K) and cryo-cooled protein crystals7
Structural analysis of wild-type and Val120Thr mutant Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase by X-ray crystallography7
Global fitting of multiple data frames from SEC–SAXS to investigate the structure of next-generation nanodiscs7
Towards the standardized presentation and publication of small-angle scattering data from biomolecules in solution7
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
The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography7
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 limits7
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study report. Corrigendum7
Structural snapshot of a glycoside hydrolase family 8 endo-β-1,4-glucanase capturing the state after cleavage of the scissile bond7
FLEXR: automated multi-conformer model building using electron-density map sampling7
Probing ligand binding of endothiapepsin by `temperature-resolved' macromolecular crystallography7
Efficient high-resolution refinement in cryo-EM with stochastic gradient descent6
Off-target structural insights: ArnA and AcrB in bacterial membrane-protein cryo-EM analysis6
xia2.multiplex: a multi-crystal data-analysis pipeline6
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
Conformational transition of the Ixodes ricinus salivary serpin Iripin-46
SCOMAP-XD: atomistic deuterium contrast matching for small-angle neutron scattering in biology6
Analysis of crystallographic phase retrieval using iterative projection algorithms6
Racemic crystal structures of A-DNA duplexes6
Neutron crystallographic refinement with REFMAC5 from the CCP4 suite6
Scipion Flexibility Hub: an integrative framework for advanced analysis of conformational heterogeneity in cryoEM6
Identification and characterization of two drug-like fragments that bind to the same cryptic binding pocket of Burkholderia pseudomallei DsbA6
Crystal structure of the putative cell-wall lipoglycan biosynthesis protein LmcA from Mycobacterium smegmatis6
Jan Drenth (1925–2025)6
CSSR: assignment of secondary structure to coarse-grained RNA tertiary structures6
MrParse : finding homologues in the PDB and the EBI AlphaFold database for molecular replacement and more6
Databases for intrinsically disordered proteins6
Substrate-induced dimerization of elaiophylin glycosyltransferase reveals a novel self-activating form of glycosyltransferase for symmetric glycosylation6
Unravelling the regulation pathway of photosynthetic AB-GAPDH6
Structure-based discovery of an antipsychotic drug, paliperidone, as a modulator of human superoxide dismutase 1: a potential therapeutic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis6
A user-friendly plug-and-play cyclic olefin copolymer-based microfluidic chip for room-temperature, fixed-target serial crystallography6
30 years of Acta D5
Pivotal role of a conserved histidine in Escherichia coli ribonuclease HI as proposed by X-ray crystallography5
Direct calculation of cryo-EM and crystallographic model maps for real-space refinement5
High-confidence placement of low-occupancy fragments into electron density using the anomalous signal of sulfur and halogen atoms5
Structural and functional characterization of a thermostable secretory phospholipase A2 from Sciscionella marina and its application in liposome biotransformation5
Crystal structure of a novel homodimericD-allulose 3-epimerase from a Clostridia bacterium5
Structural and functional investigation of the human snRNP assembly factor AAR2 in complex with the RNase H-like domain of PRPF85
Improving macromolecular structure refinement with metal-coordination restraints5
Two states of a light-sensitive membrane protein captured at room temperature using thin-film sample mounts5
HEIDI: an experiment-management platform enabling high-throughput fragment and compound screening5
The structure and molecular dynamics of prolyl oligopeptidase from Microbulbifer arenaceous provide insights into catalytic and regulatory mechanisms5
CryoLike : a Python package for cryo-electron microscopy image-to-structure likelihood calculations5
Perspective on structure predictions of disorder5
Module walking using an SH3-like cell-wall-binding domain leads to a new GH184 family of muramidases5
Photosystem II: light-dependent oscillation of ligand composition at its active site5
Kinetic and structural studies of the reaction of Escherichia coli dihydrodipicolinate synthase with (S)-2-bromopropionate5
Structure of reverse gyrase with a minimal latch that supports ATP-dependent positive supercoiling without specific interactions with the topoisomerase domain5
Introduction to the virtual thematic issue on room-temperature biological crystallography5
Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against mycobacterial thioredoxin reductase identified using crystallographic fragment screening5
From femtoseconds to minutes: time-resolved macromolecular crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons5
The 1.3 Å resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P15
Using cryo-EM to understand the assembly pathway of respiratory complex I4
Correction of rhodopsin serial crystallography diffraction intensities for a lattice-translocation defect4
Structural bases for the higher adherence to ACE2 conferred by the SARS-CoV-2 spike Q498Y substitution4
A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done and will do for us4
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
Crystal structure of dihydrofolate reductase from the emerging pathogenic fungus Candida auris4
Verification: model-free phasing with enhanced predicted models in ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER4
AlphaFold-guided molecular replacement for solving challenging crystal structures4
Structural insight into an anti-BRIL Fab as a G-protein-coupled receptor crystallization chaperone4
Protonation of histidine rings using quantum-mechanical methods4
A case for glycerol as an acceptable additive for single-particle cryoEM samples4
Characterization of novel mevalonate kinases from the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and the psychrophilic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii4
Crystal structure of glycerol kinase from Trypanosoma cruzi, a potential molecular target in Chagas disease4
Monomodular Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage JG004 lysozyme (Pae87) contains a bacterial surface-active antimicrobial peptide-like region and a possible subs4
Structural and functional characterization of the novel endo-α(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1 from the marine bacterium Muricauda eckloniae4
Crystal structure of a polyglycine hydrolase determined using a RoseTTAFold model4
CCP4 Cloud for structure determination and project management in macromolecular crystallography4
What shapes template-matching performance in cryogenic electron tomography in situ?4
Enhanced capabilities for multi-crystal data collection based on double mesh scans3
Structure–function studies of a novel laccase-like multicopper oxidase fromThermothelomyces thermophilaprovide insights into its biological role3
EMinsight : a tool to capture cryoEM microscope configuration and experimental outcomes for analysis and deposition3
Perspective on a large-scale ligand structure characterization3
Current trends in macromolecular model refinement and validation3
Likelihood-based docking of models into cryo-EM maps3
Rhizobium etli has two L-asparaginases with low sequence identity but similar structure and catalytic center3
Room-temperature serial synchrotron crystallography of Drosophila cryptochrome3
Structural basis of ligand recognition and transport by Sfh2, a yeast phosphatidylinositol transfer protein of the Sec14 superfamily3
The ManifoldEM method for cryo-EM: a step-by-step breakdown accompanied by a modern Python implementation3
Structure of the plant growth-promoting factor YxaL from the rhizobacterium Bacillus velezensis and its application to protein engineering3
Crystal structure and initial characterization of a novel archaeal-like Holliday junction-resolving enzyme from Thermus thermophilus phage Tth15-63
Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM3
Structure of a hydrophobic leucinostatin derivative determined by host lattice display3
The parallel-stranded d(CGA) duplex is a highly predictable structural motif with two conformationally distinct strands3
The crystal structure of mycothiol disulfide reductase (Mtr) provides mechanistic insight into the specific low-molecular-weight thiol reductase activity of Actinobacteria3
Validation of electron-microscopy maps using solution small-angle X-ray scattering3
Crystal-packing analysis of translation initiation factor 2 reveals new details of its function3
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
Robust and automatic beamstop shadow outlier rejection: combining crystallographic statistics with modern clustering under a semi-supervised learning strategy3
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
Q -score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid and small-molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM maps3
Reconstructing biological molecules with help from video gamers3
Application of sulfur SAD to small crystals with a large asymmetric unit and anomalous substructure3
Structural dynamics of IDR interactions in human SFPQ and implications for liquid–liquid phase separation3
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