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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
EMhub: a web platform for data management and on-the-fly processing in scientific facilities636
Using graphlet degree vectors to predict atomic displacement parameters in protein structures89
Structure of the Fab fragment of a humanized 5E5 antibody to a cancer-specific Tn-MUC1 epitope69
Structural visualization of transient interactions between the cis-acting acyltransferase and acyl carrier protein of the salinomycin modular polyketide synthase58
Comparison of two crystal polymorphs of NowGFP reveals a new conformational state trapped by crystal packing58
Cryo-EM single-particle analysis expanding towards increasingly native samples47
Crystallographic fragment screening against SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 1 using the F2X-Entry Screen and a newly developed fragment library46
Structural flexibility of Toscana virus nucleoprotein in the presence of a single-chain camelid antibody45
Updated restraint dictionaries for carbohydrates in the pyranose form43
Crystal structure of DNA polymerase I from Thermus phage G20c43
Structural characterization of the ACDC domain from ApiAP2 proteins, a potential molecular target against apicomplexan parasites38
Structures of permuted halves of a modern ribose-binding protein35
X-ray diffraction and in vivo studies reveal the quinary structure of Trypanosoma cruzi nucleoside diphosphate kinase 1: a novel helical oligomer structure33
The crystal structure of CbpD clarifies substrate-specificity motifs in chitin-active lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases32
Structures of α-galactosaminidases from the CAZy GH114 family and homologs defining a new GH191 family of glycosidases31
Data collection from crystals grown in microfluidic droplets30
A scalable strategy to solve structures of PDZ domains and their complexes25
Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography23
Cryo2RT: a high-throughput method for room-temperature macromolecular crystallography from cryo-cooled crystals23
On bias, variance, overfitting, gold standard and consensus in single-particle analysis by cryo-electron microscopy23
Critical evaluation of three cryo-EM structures of particulate methane monooxygenase by quantum refinement20
A recurring packing contact in crystals of InlB pinpoints functional binding sites in the internalin domain and the B repeat19
Structural studies of NAD + -dependent methanol dehydrogenase 1 from Bacillus methanolicus MGA319
Raw diffraction data are our ground truth from which all subsequent workflows develop18
A radical approach to radicals18
Training undergraduate research assistants with an outcome-oriented and skill-based mentoring strategy18
Analysis and validation of overall N-glycan conformation in Privateer17
Validation of helical symmetry parameters in the EMDB16
Overall protein structure quality assessment using hydrogen-bonding parameters16
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
An alternative conformation of the N-terminal loop of human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase drives binding to a potent antiproliferative agent15
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
Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1–515
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 ruminis15
Structural and functional analysis of the D-alanyl carrier protein ligase DltA from Staphylococcus aureus Mu5015
Notes of a protein crystallographer: the advantages of combining new integrated methods of structure solution with traditional data visuals14
Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on fatty-acid photodecarboxylase: lessons learned14
Medical contrast agents as promising tools for biomacromolecular SAXS experiments14
Preparation and characterization of inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus samples for single-particle imaging at the European XFEL14
Structural studies of β-glucosidase from the thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus14
3D structures of the Plasmodium vivax subtilisin-like drug target SUB1 reveal conformational changes to accommodate a substrate-derived α-ketoamide inhibitor14
Molecular basis of transcriptional repression of anti-CRISPR by anti-CRISPR-associated 214
A high-resolution data set of fatty acid-binding protein structures. III. Unexpectedly high occurrence of wrong ligands14
Michael James (1940–2023)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
Alexei Vagin (1944–2023)13
Pillar data-acquisition strategies for cryo-electron tomography of beam-sensitive biological samples13
Submission of structural biology data for review purposes12
Crystal structures of the molecular class A β-lactamase TEM-171 and its complexes with tazobactam12
Structural mechanism of Escherichia coli cyanase12
Biochemical and structural insights into an unusual, alkali-metal-independent S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 680312
Fragment-based screening targeting an open form of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease binding pocket12
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
Comparative study of the effects of high hydrostatic pressure per se and high argon pressure on urate oxidase ligand stabilization11
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
Crystal structure of the monocupin ring-cleaving dioxygenase 5-nitrosalicylate 1,2-dioxygenase fromBradyrhizobiumsp.11
Raynals, an online tool for the analysis of dynamic light scattering11
Cryo-EM reveals binding of linoleic acid to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, suggesting an antiviral treatment strategy11
A new inactive conformation of SARS-CoV-2 main protease11
Structural and functional characterization of a multi-domain GH92 α-1,2-mannosidase from Neobacillus novalis11
Elucidating polymorphs of crystal structures by intensity-based hierarchical clustering analysis of multiple diffraction data sets10
Atomic resolution studies of S1 nuclease complexes reveal details of RNA interaction with the enzyme despite multiple lattice-translocation defects10
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study report10
Dependence of crystallographic atomic displacement parameters on temperature (25–150 K) for complexes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase10
Best practices for time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography10
The LH–DH module of bacterial replicative helicases is the common binding site for DciA and other helicase loaders10
Structural insights into choline-O-sulfatase reveal the molecular determinants for ligand binding9
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
Protonation states of hen egg-white lysozyme observed using D/H contrast neutron crystallography9
Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction9
Buccaneer model building with neural network fragment selection9
Structural and biophysical studies of new L-asparaginase variants: lessons from random mutagenesis of the prototypic Escherichia coli Ntn-amidohydrolase9
Tomo Live : an on-the-fly reconstruction pipeline to judge data quality for cryo-electron tomography workflows9
Glycoside hydrolase subfamily GH5_57 features a highly redesigned catalytic interface to process complex hetero-β-mannans9
New system for archiving integrative structures9
Correcting systematic errors in diffraction data with modern scaling algorithms9
Atypical homodimerization revealed by the structure of the (S)-enantioselective haloalkane dehalogenase DmmarA from Mycobacterium marinum9
VitroJet: new features and case studies9
Native glycosylation and binding of the antidepressant paroxetine in a low-resolution crystal structure of human myeloperoxidase9
Structural basis for substrate recognition in the Phytolacca americana glycosyltransferase PaGT39
The impact of molecular variants, crystallization conditions and the space group on ligand–protein complexes: a case study on bacterial phosphotriesterase8
Drosophila melanogaster frataxin: protein crystal and predicted solution structure with identification of the iron-binding regions8
Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank8
Protein–macrocycle polymorphism: crystal form IV of the Ralstonia solanacearum lectin–sulfonato-calix[8]arene complex8
The High-Pressure Freezing Laboratory for Macromolecular Crystallography (HPMX), an ancillary tool for the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the ESRF8
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
Atomic model validation using the CCP-EM software suite8
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
Errors in structural biology are not the exception8
XFEL structure of carbonic anhydrase II: a comparative study of XFEL, NMR, X-ray and neutron structures8
High-resolution structures of the bound effectors avadomide (CC-122) and iberdomide (CC-220) highlight advantages and limitations of the MsCI4 soaking system8
Crystal structures of 40- and 71-substitution variants of hydroxynitrile lyase from rubber tree7
Towards the standardized presentation and publication of small-angle scattering data from biomolecules in solution7
Probing ligand binding of endothiapepsin by `temperature-resolved' macromolecular crystallography7
Evaluating the impact of X-ray damage on conformational heterogeneity in room-temperature (277 K) and cryo-cooled protein crystals7
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
Thermostable homologues of the periplasmic siderophore-binding protein CeuE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius7
Global fitting of multiple data frames from SEC–SAXS to investigate the structure of next-generation nanodiscs7
Conformational transition of the Ixodes ricinus salivary serpin Iripin-47
Investigation of how gate residues in the main channel affect the catalytic activity of Scytalidium thermophilum catalase7
AutoPX: a new software package to process X-ray diffraction data from biomacromolecular crystals7
Structural analysis of wild-type and Val120Thr mutant Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase by X-ray crystallography7
Using deep-learning predictions of inter-residue distances for model validation7
Legionella effector LegA15/AnkH contains an unrecognized cysteine protease-like domain and displays structural similarity to LegA3/AnkD, but differs in host cell localization7
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 X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study report. Corrigendum7
The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography7
Inhibition of Schistosoma mansoni carbonic anhydrase by the antiparasitic drug clorsulon: X-ray crystallographic and in vitro studies7
Structural features of chloroplast trigger factor determined at 2.6 Å resolution7
Databases for intrinsically disordered proteins6
Identification and characterization of two drug-like fragments that bind to the same cryptic binding pocket of Burkholderia pseudomallei DsbA6
FLEXR: automated multi-conformer model building using electron-density map sampling6
Jan Drenth (1925–2025)6
Efficient high-resolution refinement in cryo-EM with stochastic gradient descent6
Racemic crystal structures of A-DNA duplexes6
Structural analysis of the sulfatase AmAS from Akkermansia muciniphila6
Unravelling the regulation pathway of photosynthetic AB-GAPDH6
SCOMAP-XD: atomistic deuterium contrast matching for small-angle neutron scattering in biology6
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
MrParse: finding homologues in the PDB and the EBI AlphaFold database for molecular replacement and more6
Analysis of crystallographic phase retrieval using iterative projection algorithms6
Structural snapshot of a glycoside hydrolase family 8 endo-β-1,4-glucanase capturing the state after cleavage of the scissile bond6
Crystal structure of the putative cell-wall lipoglycan biosynthesis protein LmcA from Mycobacterium smegmatis6
Substrate-induced dimerization of elaiophylin glycosyltransferase reveals a novel self-activating form of glycosyltransferase for symmetric glycosylation6
CSSR: assignment of secondary structure to coarse-grained RNA tertiary structures6
Scipion Flexibility Hub: an integrative framework for advanced analysis of conformational heterogeneity in cryoEM6
Structural and functional investigation of the human snRNP assembly factor AAR2 in complex with the RNase H-like domain of PRPF85
Introduction to the virtual thematic issue on room-temperature biological crystallography5
Pivotal role of a conserved histidine in Escherichia coli ribonuclease HI as proposed by X-ray crystallography5
HEIDI: an experiment-management platform enabling high-throughput fragment and compound screening5
A user-friendly plug-and-play cyclic olefin copolymer-based microfluidic chip for room-temperature, fixed-target serial crystallography5
Photosystem II: light-dependent oscillation of ligand composition at its active site5
High-confidence placement of low-occupancy fragments into electron density using the anomalous signal of sulfur and halogen atoms5
Improving macromolecular structure refinement with metal-coordination restraints5
The 1.3 Å resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P15
Crystal structure of a novel homodimericD-allulose 3-epimerase from a Clostridia bacterium5
Module walking using an SH3-like cell-wall-binding domain leads to a new GH184 family of muramidases5
Direct calculation of cryo-EM and crystallographic model maps for real-space refinement5
Two states of a light-sensitive membrane protein captured at room temperature using thin-film sample mounts5
xia2.multiplex: a multi-crystal data-analysis pipeline5
Structure-based discovery of an antipsychotic drug, paliperidone, as a modulator of human superoxide dismutase 1: a potential therapeutic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis5
Kinetic and structural studies of the reaction of Escherichia coli dihydrodipicolinate synthase with (S)-2-bromopropionate5
Structural and functional characterization of the novel endo-α(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1 from the marine bacterium Muricauda eckloniae5
From femtoseconds to minutes: time-resolved macromolecular crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons5
Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against mycobacterial thioredoxin reductase identified using crystallographic fragment screening5
The structure and molecular dynamics of prolyl oligopeptidase from Microbulbifer arenaceous provide insights into catalytic and regulatory mechanisms5
30 years of Acta D5
Structure of reverse gyrase with a minimal latch that supports ATP-dependent positive supercoiling without specific interactions with the topoisomerase domain5
Off-target structural insights: ArnA and AcrB in bacterial membrane-protein cryo-EM analysis5
Neutron crystallographic refinement with REFMAC5 from the CCP4 suite5
John D. Westbrook Jr (1957–2021)5
Helical filament structure of the DREP3 CIDE domain reveals a unified mechanism of CIDE-domain assembly5
Characterization of novel mevalonate kinases from the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and the psychrophilic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii4
Crystal structure of dihydrofolate reductase from the emerging pathogenic fungus Candida auris4
AlphaFold-guided molecular replacement for solving challenging crystal structures4
CCP4 Cloud for structure determination and project management in macromolecular crystallography4
Perspective on structure predictions of disorder4
Structural insight into an anti-BRIL Fab as a G-protein-coupled receptor crystallization chaperone4
Native SAD phasing at room temperature4
A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done and will do for us4
Determining the oxidation state of elements by X-ray crystallography4
Useful experimental aspects of small-wedge synchrotron crystallography for accurate structure analysis of protein molecules4
Crystal structure of a polyglycine hydrolase determined using a RoseTTAFold model4
Structural bases for the higher adherence to ACE2 conferred by the SARS-CoV-2 spike Q498Y substitution4
Correction of rhodopsin serial crystallography diffraction intensities for a lattice-translocation defect4
Crystal structure of glycerol kinase from Trypanosoma cruzi, a potential molecular target in Chagas disease4
Using cryo-EM to understand the assembly pathway of respiratory complex I4
Verification: model-free phasing with enhanced predicted models in ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER4
A case for glycerol as an acceptable additive for single-particle cryoEM samples4
Structural and functional characterization of a thermostable secretory phospholipase A2 from Sciscionella marina and its application in liposome biotransformation4
Monomodular Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage JG004 lysozyme (Pae87) contains a bacterial surface-active antimicrobial peptide-like region and a possible substrate-binding subdomain4
Robust and automatic beamstop shadow outlier rejection: combining crystallographic statistics with modern clustering under a semi-supervised learning strategy3
Room-temperature serial synchrotron crystallography of Drosophila cryptochrome3
The impact of folding modes and deuteration on the atomic resolution structure of hen egg-white lysozyme3
Structural basis of ligand recognition and transport by Sfh2, a yeast phosphatidylinositol transfer protein of the Sec14 superfamily3
Structure of a hydrophobic leucinostatin derivative determined by host lattice display3
Rhizobium etli has two L-asparaginases with low sequence identity but similar structure and catalytic center3
The crystal structure of mycothiol disulfide reductase (Mtr) provides mechanistic insight into the specific low-molecular-weight thiol reductase activity of Actinobacteria3
Protonation of histidine rings using quantum-mechanical methods3
Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM3
Structure–function studies of a novel laccase-like multicopper oxidase fromThermothelomyces thermophilaprovide insights into its biological role3
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
Enhanced capabilities for multi-crystal data collection based on double mesh scans3
Perspective on a large-scale ligand structure characterization3
The parallel-stranded d(CGA) duplex is a highly predictable structural motif with two conformationally distinct strands3
Q-score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid and small-molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM maps3
Validation of electron-microscopy maps using solution small-angle X-ray scattering3
Application of sulfur SAD to small crystals with a large asymmetric unit and anomalous substructure3
Crystal structure and initial characterization of a novel archaeal-like Holliday junction-resolving enzyme from Thermus thermophilus phage Tth15-63
Structure of the plant growth-promoting factor YxaL from the rhizobacterium Bacillus velezensis and its application to protein engineering3
The BAM7 gene in Zea mays encodes a protein with similar structural and catalytic properties to Arabidopsis BAM23
Structural dynamics of IDR interactions in human SFPQ and implications for liquid–liquid phase separation3
Likelihood-based docking of models into cryo-EM maps3
Reconstructing biological molecules with help from video gamers3
Current trends in macromolecular model refinement and validation3
What shapes template-matching performance in cryogenic electron tomography in situ?3
EMinsight : a tool to capture cryoEM microscope configuration and experimental outcomes for analysis and deposition3
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