Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Acta Crystallographica Section D-Structural Biology is 2. 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
Comparison of two crystal polymorphs of NowGFP reveals a new conformational state trapped by crystal packing824
Crystallographic fragment screening against SARS-CoV-2 nonstructural protein 1 using the F2X-Entry Screen and a newly developed fragment library97
Structure of the Fab fragment of a humanized 5E5 antibody to a cancer-specific Tn-MUC1 epitope81
Structural visualization of transient interactions between the cis-acting acyltransferase and acyl carrier protein of the salinomycin modular polyketide synthase71
Cryo-EM single-particle analysis expanding towards increasingly native samples63
Limiting the effects of radiation damage in MicroED through dose selection during data processing60
Completion of partial structures using Patterson maps with the CrysFormer machine-learning model57
EMhub: a web platform for data management and on-the-fly processing in scientific facilities53
Using graphlet degree vectors to predict atomic displacement parameters in protein structures46
Structural flexibility of Toscana virus nucleoprotein in the presence of a single-chain camelid antibody42
Structures of α-galactosaminidases from the CAZy GH114 family and homologs defining a new GH191 family of glycosidases37
Structural characterization of the ACDC domain from ApiAP2 proteins, a potential molecular target against apicomplexan parasites31
Cryo2RT: a high-throughput method for room-temperature macromolecular crystallography from cryo-cooled crystals31
Data collection from crystals grown in microfluidic droplets30
Structural studies of NAD + -dependent methanol dehydrogenase 1 from Bacillus methanolicus MGA323
Critical evaluation of three cryo-EM structures of particulate methane monooxygenase by quantum refinement23
Structures of permuted halves of a modern ribose-binding protein23
Crystal structure of DNA polymerase I from Thermus phage G20c21
The crystal structure of CbpD clarifies substrate-specificity motifs in chitin-active lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases21
Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography20
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)19
Validation of helical symmetry parameters in the EMDB19
Raw diffraction data are our ground truth from which all subsequent workflows develop19
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 ruminis19
Analysis and validation of overall N-glycan conformation in Privateer18
Statistical analyses of the oxidized P-clusters in MoFe proteins using the bond-valence method: towards their electron transfer in nitrogenases18
Overall protein structure quality assessment using hydrogen-bonding parameters18
An alternative conformation of the N-terminal loop of human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase drives binding to a potent antiproliferative agent18
Training undergraduate research assistants with an outcome-oriented and skill-based mentoring strategy18
A cryo-EM processing pipeline for microtubules using CryoSPARC18
Deciphering the crystal structure of a novel nanobody against the NEIL1 DNA glycosylase17
3D structures of the Plasmodium vivax subtilisin-like drug target SUB1 reveal conformational changes to accommodate a substrate-derived α-ketoamide inhibitor16
Medical contrast agents as promising tools for biomacromolecular SAXS experiments15
Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1–515
Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on fatty-acid photodecarboxylase: lessons learned15
Structural studies of β-glucosidase from the thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus14
Alexei Vagin (1944–2023)14
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. 14
Radiation damage in sub-Ångström resolution macromolecular crystallography: a low-dose study14
Michael James (1940–2023)14
A high-resolution data set of fatty acid-binding protein structures. III. Unexpectedly high occurrence of wrong ligands14
Pillar data-acquisition strategies for cryo-electron tomography of beam-sensitive biological samples14
Structural study of Nicotiana benthamiana NADPH-dependent thioredoxin reductase C and its molecular mechanism of interaction with 2-Cys peroxiredoxin13
Crystal structures of the molecular class A β-lactamase TEM-171 and its complexes with tazobactam13
Probabilistic single-particle cryo-EM ab initio 3D reconstruction in SIMPLE12
The T2 structure of polycrystalline cubic human insulin12
Biochemical and structural insights into an unusual, alkali-metal-independent S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase from Synechocystis sp. PCC 680312
Preparation and characterization of inactivated tick-borne encephalitis virus samples for single-particle imaging at the European XFEL12
Direct phasing algorithm for protein crystals with high solvent content using low-resolution diffraction data12
Fragment-based screening targeting an open form of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease binding pocket12
Structural and functional characterization of a multi-domain GH92 α-1,2-mannosidase from Neobacillus novalis11
Structural basis of the amidase ClbL central to the biosynthesis of the genotoxin colibactin11
Raynals , an online tool for the analysis of dynamic light scattering11
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
The LH–DH module of bacterial replicative helicases is the common binding site for DciA and other helicase loaders11
Atomic resolution studies of S1 nuclease complexes reveal details of RNA interaction with the enzyme despite multiple lattice-translocation defects11
Cryo-EM reveals binding of linoleic acid to SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, suggesting an antiviral treatment strategy11
Structural mechanism of Escherichia coli cyanase11
Crystal structure of the monocupin ring-cleaving dioxygenase 5-nitrosalicylate 1,2-dioxygenase fromBradyrhizobiumsp.11
Structures of variants of Escherichia coli flavodiiron-type nitric oxide reductase reveal changes in the di-iron site11
Breaking barriers: transitioning from X-ray crystallography to cryo-EM for structural studies10
A short story of the long road to cryo-EM in Portugal10
Dependence of crystallographic atomic displacement parameters on temperature (25–150 K) for complexes of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase10
Protonation states of hen egg-white lysozyme observed using D/H contrast neutron crystallography10
Alphafuser : a parsimonious approach to predicting higher-order protein complexes10
Native glycosylation and binding of the antidepressant paroxetine in a low-resolution crystal structure of human myeloperoxidase10
Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction10
Glycoside hydrolase subfamily GH5_57 features a highly redesigned catalytic interface to process complex hetero-β-mannans10
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
VitroJet: new features and case studies9
Buccaneer model building with neural network fragment selection9
Tomo Live : an on-the-fly reconstruction pipeline to judge data quality for cryo-electron tomography workflows9
Errors in structural biology are not the exception9
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 978-1-1199
Polyelectrolyte coating of cryo-EM grids improves lateral distribution and prevents aggregation of macromolecules9
Restoration of the 3D structure of insect flight muscle from a rotationally averaged 2D X-ray diffraction pattern9
The High-Pressure Freezing Laboratory for Macromolecular Crystallography (HPMX), an ancillary tool for the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the ESRF9
Structural and biophysical studies of new L-asparaginase variants: lessons from random mutagenesis of the prototypic Escherichia coli Ntn-amidohydrolase9
Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein α binds microcolins in its open conformation8
Post-translational modifications in the Protein Data Bank8
Structural analysis of wild-type and Val120Thr mutant Candida boidinii formate dehydrogenase by X-ray crystallography8
XFEL structure of carbonic anhydrase II: a comparative study of XFEL, NMR, X-ray and neutron structures8
Deep-learning methods for contrast enhancement and artifact reduction in cryo-electron tomography: a systematic analysis of the state of the art and proposed improvements8
The impact of molecular variants, crystallization conditions and the space group on ligand–protein complexes: a case study on bacterial phosphotriesterase8
Structural features of chloroplast trigger factor determined at 2.6 Å resolution8
Drosophila melanogaster frataxin: protein crystal and predicted solution structure with identification of the iron-binding regions8
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
X-ray beam effects on metallo-peptides reflect redox events: insights from X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements on metal complexes of truncated amyloid-β peptides8
Coupled on-line in crystallo UV–Vis absorption spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography to compare specific radiation damage in metal-containing proteins a8
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 limits8
Protein–macrocycle polymorphism: crystal form IV of the Ralstonia solanacearum lectin–sulfonato-calix[8]arene complex8
Strategies for mitigating radiation damage and improving data completeness in 3D electron diffraction of protein crystals8
Crystal structures of 40- and 71-substitution variants of hydroxynitrile lyase from rubber tree7
Thermostable homologues of the periplasmic siderophore-binding protein CeuE from Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius7
Crystal structure of Schistosoma mansoni cathepsin D1 in complex with a nanobody reveals the conformation of the propeptide-bound state7
Probing ligand binding of endothiapepsin by `temperature-resolved' macromolecular crystallography7
Automated workflows for strategy computation and data collection at synchrotron beamlines7
Evaluating the impact of X-ray damage on conformational heterogeneity in room-temperature (277 K) and cryo-cooled protein crystals7
The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography7
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
AutoPX: a new software package to process X-ray diffraction data from biomacromolecular crystals7
The X-ray crystallography phase problem solved thanks to AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold models: a case-study re7
Towards the standardized presentation and publication of small-angle scattering data from biomolecules in solution7
Unravelling the regulation pathway of photosynthetic AB-GAPDH7
The human TIMP-1 unbound structure provides a platform for fragment screening6
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
FLEXR: automated multi-conformer model building using electron-density map sampling6
Structure-based discovery of an antipsychotic drug, paliperidone, as a modulator of human superoxide dismutase 1: a potential therapeutic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis6
Racemic crystal structures of A-DNA duplexes6
Substrate-induced dimerization of elaiophylin glycosyltransferase reveals a novel self-activating form of glycosyltransferase for symmetric glycosylation6
Bayesian perspective for orientation determination in cryo-EM with application to structural heterogeneity analysis6
Jan Drenth (1925–2025)6
SCOMAP-XD: atomistic deuterium contrast matching for small-angle neutron scattering in biology6
Associating protein residues in the literature with structural data6
Analysis of crystallographic phase retrieval using iterative projection algorithms5
xia2.multiplex: a multi-crystal data-analysis pipeline5
Neutron crystallographic refinement with REFMAC5 from the CCP4 suite5
Kinetic and structural studies of the reaction of Escherichia coli dihydrodipicolinate synthase with (S)-2-bromopropionate5
Quantifying distributions of cryo-EM projections5
Scipion Flexibility Hub: an integrative framework for advanced analysis of conformational heterogeneity in cryoEM5
Crystal structures of Fsc1, a novel autophagy factor that mediates autophagosome–vacuole fusion in fission yeast5
Off-target structural insights: ArnA and AcrB in bacterial membrane-protein cryo-EM analysis5
30 years of Acta D5
Improving macromolecular structure refinement with metal-coordination restraints5
Efficient high-resolution refinement in cryo-EM with stochastic gradient descent5
A user-friendly plug-and-play cyclic olefin copolymer-based microfluidic chip for room-temperature, fixed-target serial crystallography5
HEIDI: an experiment-management platform enabling high-throughput fragment and compound screening5
High-confidence placement of low-occupancy fragments into electron density using the anomalous signal of sulfur and halogen atoms5
Structure of reverse gyrase with a minimal latch that supports ATP-dependent positive supercoiling without specific interactions with the topoisomerase domain5
Reminiscences of Phil Bourne (1953–2026) and the IUCr4
Verification: model-free phasing with enhanced predicted models in ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER4
Useful experimental aspects of small-wedge synchrotron crystallography for accurate structure analysis of protein molecules4
Structural bases for the higher adherence to ACE2 conferred by the SARS-CoV-2 spike Q498Y substitution4
From femtoseconds to minutes: time-resolved macromolecular crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons4
Crystal structure of a novel homodimericD-allulose 3-epimerase from a Clostridia bacterium4
The 1.3 Å resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P14
Photosystem II: light-dependent oscillation of ligand composition at its active site4
Structural and functional characterization of a thermostable secretory phospholipase A2 from Sciscionella marina and its application in liposome biotransformation4
A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done and will do for us4
Crystal structure of a polyglycine hydrolase determined using a RoseTTAFold model4
Characterization of novel mevalonate kinases from the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and the psychrophilic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii4
Structural and functional characterization of the novel endo-α(1,4)-fucoidanase Mef1 from the marine bacterium Muricauda eckloniae4
Introduction to the virtual thematic issue on room-temperature biological crystallography4
CryoLike : a Python package for cryo-electron microscopy image-to-structure likelihood calculations4
Optimal 1TEL–target protein linker character is target protein-dependent4
Module walking using an SH3-like cell-wall-binding domain leads to a new GH184 family of muramidases4
Perspective on structure predictions of disorder4
CCP4 Cloud for structure determination and project management in macromolecular crystallography4
Crystal structure of glycerol kinase from Trypanosoma cruzi, a potential molecular target in Chagas disease4
Correction of rhodopsin serial crystallography diffraction intensities for a lattice-translocation defect4
Crystal structure of dihydrofolate reductase from the emerging pathogenic fungus Candida auris4
SASBDB reaches 5000 data sets: empowering open science and next-generation SAS analysis4
Novel starting points for fragment-based drug design against mycobacterial thioredoxin reductase identified using crystallographic fragment screening4
Structural and functional investigation of the human snRNP assembly factor AAR2 in complex with the RNase H-like domain of PRPF84
Direct calculation of cryo-EM and crystallographic model maps for real-space refinement4
The structure and molecular dynamics of prolyl oligopeptidase from Microbulbifer arenaceous provide insights into catalytic and regulatory mechanisms4
Using cryo-EM to understand the assembly pathway of respiratory complex I3
AlphaFold -guided molecular replacement for solving challenging crystal structures3
The crystal structure of mycothiol disulfide reductase (Mtr) provides mechanistic insight into the specific low-molecular-weight thiol reductase activity of Actinobacteria3
Decision-making in serial crystallography: a simple test to quickly determine whether sufficient data have been collected3
Q -score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid and small-molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM maps3
Likelihood-based docking of models into cryo-EM maps3
Structural insight into an anti-BRIL Fab as a G-protein-coupled receptor crystallization chaperone3
Damage-limited resolution for X-ray and electron microscopy of organic specimens3
Application of sulfur SAD to small crystals with a large asymmetric unit and anomalous substructure3
Rhizobium etli has two L-asparaginases with low sequence identity but similar structure and catalytic center3
Updating direct methods V. Phasing when triplet invariants are estimated via the Patterson map3
Structure of a hydrophobic leucinostatin derivative determined by host lattice display3
Protonation of histidine rings using quantum-mechanical methods3
Native SAD phasing at room temperature3
Radiation-induced peroxide rupture and its temperature-dependent repair probed by homogeneous X-ray irradiation3
Reconstructing biological molecules with help from video gamers3
Validation of electron-microscopy maps using solution small-angle X-ray scattering3
What shapes template-matching performance in cryogenic electron tomography in situ?3
Cryo-EM reveals ArnA contamination during purification of a ciliary protein complex2
Room-temperature serial synchrotron crystallography of Drosophila cryptochrome2
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-13 978-0442
Crystal-packing analysis of translation initiation factor 2 reveals new details of its function2
Structural basis of ligand recognition and transport by Sfh2, a yeast phosphatidylinositol transfer protein of the Sec14 superfamily2
Myricetin-bound crystal structure of the SARS-CoV-2 helicase NSP13 facilitates the discovery of novel natural inhibitors2
The crystal structure of an uncharacterized domain of P113 from Plasmodium falciparum2
Welcoming two new Co-editors2
Cryo-EM structure of adeno-associated virus 4 at 2.2 Å resolution2
Robust and automatic beamstop shadow outlier rejection: combining crystallographic statistics with modern clustering under a semi-supervised learning strategy2
Factors affecting macromolecule orientations in thin films formed in cryo-EM2
Enhanced capabilities for multi-crystal data collection based on double mesh scans2
Perspective on a large-scale ligand structure characterization2
The crystal structure of EpHTT, a hydroxycinnamoyl transferase from Echinacea purpurea2
The ManifoldEM method for cryo-EM: a step-by-step breakdown accompanied by a modern Python implementation2
Continuous development in macromolecular crystallography with CCP42
Expansion of the diversity of dispersin scaffolds2
Wolfram Saenger (1939–2026)2
Likelihood-based signal and noise analysis for docking of models into cryo-EM maps2
Structure–function studies of a novel laccase-like multicopper oxidase fromThermothelomyces thermophilaprovide insights into its biological role2
EMinsight : a tool to capture cryoEM microscope configuration and experimental outcomes for analysis and deposition2
Structural dynamics of IDR interactions in human SFPQ and implications for liquid–liquid phase separation2
Current trends in macromolecular model refinement and validation2
Structure and stability of an apo thermophilic esterase that hydrolyzes polyhydroxybutyrate2
Structural analysis of LpqY, a substrate-binding protein from the SugABC transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, provides insights into its trehalose specificity2
Polo-like kinase 1–inhibitor co-complex structures via the surface-entropy reduction approach and a DARPin-assisted approach2
Room-temperature X-ray data collection enabled the structural determination of statin-bound CYP105A12
Duplicate entries in the Protein Data Bank: how to detect and handle them2
Single-support serial isomorphous replacement phasing2
Structural basis of DNA binding by YdaT, a functional equivalent of the CII repressor in the cryptic prophage CP-933P from Escherichia coli O157:H72
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