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Structural dynamics of IDR interactions in human SFPQ and implications for liquid-liquid phase separation. 人SFPQ中IDR相互作用的结构动力学及其对液-液相分离的意义。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325005303
Heidar J Koning, Valerie Lai, Ashish Sethi, Shatabdi Chakraborty, Ching Seng Ang, Archa H Fox, Anthony P Duff, Andrew E Whitten, Andrew C Marshall, Charles S Bond
{"title":"Structural dynamics of IDR interactions in human SFPQ and implications for liquid-liquid phase separation.","authors":"Heidar J Koning, Valerie Lai, Ashish Sethi, Shatabdi Chakraborty, Ching Seng Ang, Archa H Fox, Anthony P Duff, Andrew E Whitten, Andrew C Marshall, Charles S Bond","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325005303","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2059798325005303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The proteins SFPQ (splicing factor proline- and glutamine-rich) and NONO (non-POU domain-containing octamer-binding protein) are members of the Drosophila behaviour/human splicing (DBHS) protein family, sharing 76% sequence identity in their conserved DBHS domain. These proteins are critical for elements of pre- and post-transcriptional regulation in mammals and are primarily located in paraspeckles: ribonucleoprotein bodies templated by NEAT1 long noncoding RNA. Regions that are structured and predicted to be disordered (IDRs) in DBHS proteins facilitate various interactions, including dimerization, polymerization, nucleic acid binding and liquid-liquid phase separation, all of which have consequences for cell health, the pathology of some neurological diseases and cancer. To date, very limited structural work has been carried out on characterizing the IDRs of the DBHS proteins, largely due to their predicted disordered nature and the fact that this is often a bottleneck for conventional structural techniques. This is a problem worth addressing, as the IDRs have been shown to be critical to the material state of the protein as well as its function. In this study, we used small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), together with lysine cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS), to investigate the regions of SFPQ flanking the structured DBHS domain and the possibility of dimer partner exchange of full-length proteins. Our results demonstrate experimentally that the N- and C-terminal regions on either side of the folded DBHS domain are long, disordered and flexible in solution. Realistic modelling of disordered chains to fit the scattering data and the compaction of the different protein variants suggests that it is physically possible for the IDRs to be close enough to interact. The mass-spectrometry data additionally indicate that the C-terminal IDR can potentially interact with the folded DBHS domain and also shares some conformational space with the N-terminal IDR. Our small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments reveal that full-length SFPQ is capable of swapping dimer partners with itself, which has implications for our understanding of the combinatorial dimerization of DBHS proteins within cells. Our study provides insight into possible interactions between different IDRs either in cis or in trans and how these may relate to protein function, and the possible impact of mutations in these regions. The dynamic dimer partner exchange of a full-length protein inferred from this study is a phenomenon that is integral to the function of DBHS proteins, allowing changes in gene-regulatory activity by altering levels of the various heterodimers or homodimers.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"357-379"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12216677/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144504448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Efficient high-resolution refinement in cryo-EM with stochastic gradient descent. 低温电镜随机梯度下降的高效高分辨率细化。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1107/S205979832500511X
Bogdan Toader, Marcus A Brubaker, Roy R Lederman
{"title":"Efficient high-resolution refinement in cryo-EM with stochastic gradient descent.","authors":"Bogdan Toader, Marcus A Brubaker, Roy R Lederman","doi":"10.1107/S205979832500511X","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S205979832500511X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging technique that is widely used in structural biology to determine the three-dimensional structure of biological molecules from noisy two-dimensional projections with unknown orientations. As the typical pipeline involves processing large amounts of data, efficient algorithms are crucial for fast and reliable results. The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm has been used to improve the speed of ab initio reconstruction, which results in an initial, low-resolution estimation of the volume representing the molecule of interest, but has yet to be applied successfully in the high-resolution regime, where expectation-maximization algorithms achieve state-of-the-art results, at a high computational cost. In this article, we investigate the conditioning of the optimization problem and show that the large condition number prevents the successful application of gradient descent-based methods at high resolution. Our results include a theoretical analysis of the condition number of the optimization problem in a simplified setting where the individual projection directions are known, an algorithm based on computing a diagonal preconditioner using Hutchinson's diagonal estimator and numerical experiments showing the improvement in the convergence speed when using the estimated preconditioner with SGD. The preconditioned SGD approach can potentially enable a simple and unified approach to ab initio reconstruction and high-resolution refinement with faster convergence speed and higher flexibility, and our results are a promising step in this direction.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"327-343"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12216675/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144473730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1-5. 凝血因子XII n端结构域1-5的晶体结构。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325005297
Muhammad Saleem, Chan Li, Bubacarr G Kaira, Alexander K Brown, Monika Pathak, Shabir Najmudin, Nathan Cowieson, Ingrid Dreveny, Clare Wilson, Aleksandr Shamanaev, David Gailani, Stephanie A Smith, James H Morrissey, Helen Philippou, Jonas Emsley
{"title":"Crystal structure of coagulation factor XII N-terminal domains 1-5.","authors":"Muhammad Saleem, Chan Li, Bubacarr G Kaira, Alexander K Brown, Monika Pathak, Shabir Najmudin, Nathan Cowieson, Ingrid Dreveny, Clare Wilson, Aleksandr Shamanaev, David Gailani, Stephanie A Smith, James H Morrissey, Helen Philippou, Jonas Emsley","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325005297","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2059798325005297","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Factor XIIa (FXIIa) is generated from its zymogen factor XII (FXII) by contact with polyanions such as inorganic polyphosphates. FXIIa cleaves the substrates prekallikrein and factor XI, triggering inflammatory cascades and plasma coagulation. From the N-terminus, FXII has fibronectin type II (FnII), epidermal growth factor-1 (EGF1), fibronectin type I (FnI), EGF2 and kringle domains. The N-terminal domains of FXII mediate polyanion and Zn<sup>2+</sup> binding. To understand how ligand binding to polyanions and Zn<sup>2+</sup> is coordinated across multiple domains, we determined the crystal structure of recombinant FXII domains 1-5 (FXII<sup>HC5</sup>) to 3.4 Å resolution. A separate crystal structure of the isolated FXII FnII domain at 1.2 Å resolution revealed two bound Zn<sup>2+</sup> ions. In FXII<sup>HC5</sup> a head-to-tail interaction is formed between the FnII and kringle domains, co-localizing the lysine-binding sites of the kringle domain and the cation-binding site of the FnII domain. Two FXII<sup>HC5</sup> monomers interlock, burying a large surface area of 2067 Å<sup>2</sup>, such that two kringle domains point outwards separated by a distance of 20 Å. The polyanion-binding site in the EGF1 domain is localized onto a plane together with the FnII and FnI domains. Using native mass spectrometry, we detected a major FXII<sup>HC5</sup> monomer peak and a minor dimer peak. Small-angle X-ray scattering and gel-filtration chromatography revealed the presence of monomers and dimers in solution. These FXII N-terminal domain structures provide a holistic framework to understand how the mosaic domain structure of FXII assembles diverse ligand-binding sites in three dimensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"380-393"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12216678/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144504447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Enhanced intensity-based clustering of isomorphous multi-crystal data sets in the presence of subtle variations. 增强的基于强度的同构多晶数据集在存在细微变化的情况下聚类。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325004589
Amy J Thompson, James Beilsten-Edmands, Cicely Tam, Juan Sanchez-Weatherby, James Sandy, Halina Mikolajek, Danny Axford, Sofia Jaho, Michael A Hough, Graeme Winter
{"title":"Enhanced intensity-based clustering of isomorphous multi-crystal data sets in the presence of subtle variations.","authors":"Amy J Thompson, James Beilsten-Edmands, Cicely Tam, Juan Sanchez-Weatherby, James Sandy, Halina Mikolajek, Danny Axford, Sofia Jaho, Michael A Hough, Graeme Winter","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325004589","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2059798325004589","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multi-crystal processing of X-ray diffraction data has become highly automated to keep pace with the current high-throughput capabilities afforded by beamlines. A significant challenge, however, is the automated clustering of such data based on subtle differences such as ligand binding or conformational shifts. Intensity-based hierarchical clustering has been shown to be a viable method of identifying such subtle structural differences, but the interpretation of the resulting dendrograms is difficult to automate. Using isomorphous crystals of bovine, porcine and human insulin, the existing clustering methods in the multi-crystal processing software xia2.multiplex were validated and their limits were tested. It was determined that weighting the pairwise correlation coefficient calculations with the intensity uncertainties was required for accurate calculation of the pairwise correlation coefficient matrix (correlation clustering) and dimension optimization was required when expressing this matrix as a set of coordinates representing data sets (cosine-angle clustering). Finally, the introduction of the OPTICS spatial density-based clustering algorithm into DIALS allowed the automatic output of species-pure clusters of bovine, porcine and human insulin data sets.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"278-290"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12128884/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144172350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Robust error calibration for serial crystallography. 序列晶体学的鲁棒误差校准。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325002852
David W Mittan-Moreau, Vanessa Oklejas, Daniel W Paley, Asmit Bhowmick, Romie C Nguyen, Aimin Liu, Jan Kern, Nicholas K Sauter, Aaron S Brewster
{"title":"Robust error calibration for serial crystallography.","authors":"David W Mittan-Moreau, Vanessa Oklejas, Daniel W Paley, Asmit Bhowmick, Romie C Nguyen, Aimin Liu, Jan Kern, Nicholas K Sauter, Aaron S Brewster","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325002852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798325002852","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Serial crystallography is an important technique with unique abilities to resolve enzymatic transition states, minimize radiation damage to sensitive metalloenzymes and perform de novo structure determination from micrometre-sized crystals. This technique requires the merging of data from thousands of crystals, making manual identification of errant crystals unfeasible. cctbx.xfel.merge uses filtering to remove problematic data. However, this process is imperfect, and data reduction must be robust to outliers. We add robustness to cctbx.xfel.merge at the step of uncertainty determination for reflection intensities. This step is a critical point for robustness because it is the first step where the data sets are considered as a whole, as opposed to individual lattices. Robustness is conferred by reformulating the error-calibration procedure to have fewer and less stringent statistical assumptions and incorporating the ability to down-weight low-quality lattices. We then apply this method to five macromolecular XFEL data sets and observe the improvements to each. The appropriateness of the intensity uncertainties is demonstrated through internal consistency. This is performed through theoretical CC<sub>1/2</sub> and I/σ relationships and by weighted second moments, which use Wilson's prior to connect intensity uncertainties with their expected distribution. This work presents new mathematical tools to analyze intensity statistics and demonstrates their effectiveness through the often underappreciated process of uncertainty analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":"81 Pt 5","pages":"265-275"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12054365/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143955442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The crystal structure of an uncharacterized domain of P113 from Plasmodium falciparum. 恶性疟原虫P113的一个未知结构域的晶体结构。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-07 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325002748
Zhudi Yuan, Xiaofang Huang, Lianglei Wang, Zhijie Yin, Xianghui Fu, Shiqian Qi, Dan Tang
{"title":"The crystal structure of an uncharacterized domain of P113 from Plasmodium falciparum.","authors":"Zhudi Yuan, Xiaofang Huang, Lianglei Wang, Zhijie Yin, Xianghui Fu, Shiqian Qi, Dan Tang","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325002748","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2059798325002748","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The surface protein P113 serves as a membrane-anchored protein that tethers the Plasmodium falciparum RH5 complex, including its associated partners CyRPA and RIPR, to the parasite surface. This anchoring mechanism ensures the proper localization and stabilization of RH5, facilitating its critical interaction with the host erythrocyte receptor basigin during erythrocyte invasion. Here, the helical-rich domain of P113 (residues 311-679) from a Plasmodium species was expressed, purified and crystallized to elucidate its structural and functional characteristics. The recombinant protein, with a molecular weight of approximately 44 kDa, was confirmed to be monomeric in solution. Crystallization in 0.5 mM MES pH 6.0, 22% PEG 3350 yielded high-quality crystals, enabling the determination of the structure of the apo form at 1.7 Å resolution. The structure revealed a predominant α-helical composition, with two distinct left-handed orthogonal four-helix bundles formed by helices α1-α4 and α6-α9 connected by a disordered region. Sequence analysis demonstrated high conservation of P113 across all human-infecting Plasmodium species, including P. vivax, P. malariae, P. falciparum and P. ovale, as well as in Plasmodium species infecting primates and rodents. Protein-protein interaction analysis using the STRING tool identified P113 as a hub protein that interacts with ten proteins, including small nuclear ribonucleoprotein, DNA polymerase delta small subunit and RIPR, which is part of the RH5-CyRPA-RIPR complex. AlphaFold predictions further elucidated the interaction patterns, revealing moderate to strong interaction scores (0.39-0.74) with key partners. Notably, the helical-rich domain of P113 was identified as the critical binding region for PF3D7_0308000, with key interaction sites mapped to residues Asp475, Arg381, Lys386, Asn390, Asp392 and Lys533. These findings provide critical insights into the structural and functional roles of P113 and its interaction network, advancing our understanding of its molecular mechanisms in Plasmodium biology.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"212-222"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143794453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Duplicate entries in the Protein Data Bank: how to detect and handle them. 蛋白质数据库中的重复条目:如何检测和处理它们。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325001883
Alexander Wlodawer, Zbigniew Dauter, Pawel Rubach, Wladek Minor, Mariusz Jaskolski, Ziqiu Jiang, William Jeffcott, Olga Anosova, Vitaliy Kurlin
{"title":"Duplicate entries in the Protein Data Bank: how to detect and handle them.","authors":"Alexander Wlodawer, Zbigniew Dauter, Pawel Rubach, Wladek Minor, Mariusz Jaskolski, Ziqiu Jiang, William Jeffcott, Olga Anosova, Vitaliy Kurlin","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325001883","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2059798325001883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A global analysis of protein crystal structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) using a newly developed computational approach reveals many pairs with (nearly) identical main-chain coordinates. Such cases are identified and analyzed, showing that duplication is possible since the PDB does not currently have tools or mechanisms that would detect potentially duplicate submissions. Some duplicated entries represent modeling efforts of ligand binding that masquerade as experimentally determined structures. We propose that duplicate entries should either be obsoleted by the PDB or, as a minimum, marked with a clear `CAVEAT' record that would alert potential users to the presence of such problems. We also suggest that using a tool for verifying the uniqueness of the deposited structure, such as that presented in this work, should become part of the routine validation procedure for new depositions.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"170-180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11966240/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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InstaMap: instant-NGP for cryo-EM density maps. InstaMap:冷冻电镜密度图的即时ngp。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325002025
Geoffrey Woollard, Wenda Zhou, Erik H Thiede, Chen Lin, Nikolaus Grigorieff, Pilar Cossio, Khanh Dao Duc, Sonya M Hanson
{"title":"InstaMap: instant-NGP for cryo-EM density maps.","authors":"Geoffrey Woollard, Wenda Zhou, Erik H Thiede, Chen Lin, Nikolaus Grigorieff, Pilar Cossio, Khanh Dao Duc, Sonya M Hanson","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325002025","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2059798325002025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the parallels between problems in computer vision and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), many state-of-the-art approaches from computer vision have yet to be adapted for cryo-EM. Within the computer-vision research community, implicits such as neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have enabled the detailed reconstruction of 3D objects from few images at different camera-viewing angles. While other neural implicits, specifically density fields, have been used to map conformational heterogeneity from noisy cryo-EM projection images, most approaches represent volume with an implicit function in Fourier space, which has disadvantages compared with solving the problem in real space, complicating, for instance, masking, constraining physics or geometry, and assessing local resolution. In this work, we build on a recent development in neural implicits, a multi-resolution hash-encoding framework called instant-NGP, that we use to represent the scalar volume directly in real space and apply it to the cryo-EM density-map reconstruction problem (InstaMap). We demonstrate that for both synthetic and real data, InstaMap for homogeneous reconstruction achieves higher resolution at shorter training stages than five other real-spaced representations. We propose a solution to noise overfitting, demonstrate that InstaMap is both lightweight and fast to train, implement masking from a user-provided input mask and extend it to molecular-shape heterogeneity via bending space using a per-image vector field.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"147-169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11966239/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Structural basis for the fast maturation of pcStar, a photoconvertible fluorescent protein. 光转化荧光蛋白pcStar快速成熟的结构基础。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325002141
Shuping Zheng, Xiangrui Shi, Junjin Lin, Yiwei Yang, Yiting Xin, Xinru Bai, Huachen Zhu, Hui Chen, Jiasen Wu, Xiaowei Zheng, Ling Lin, Zhihong Huang, Sheng Yang, Fen Hu, Wei Liu
{"title":"Structural basis for the fast maturation of pcStar, a photoconvertible fluorescent protein.","authors":"Shuping Zheng, Xiangrui Shi, Junjin Lin, Yiwei Yang, Yiting Xin, Xinru Bai, Huachen Zhu, Hui Chen, Jiasen Wu, Xiaowei Zheng, Ling Lin, Zhihong Huang, Sheng Yang, Fen Hu, Wei Liu","doi":"10.1107/S2059798325002141","DOIUrl":"10.1107/S2059798325002141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Green-to-red photoconvertible fluorescent proteins (PCFPs) serve as key players in single-molecule localization super-resolution imaging. As an early engineered variant, mEos3.2 has limited applications, mostly due to its slow maturation rate. The recent advent of a novel variant, pcStar, obtained by the simple mutation of only three amino acids (D28E/L93M/N166G) in mEos3.2, exhibits significantly accelerated maturation and enhanced fluorescent brightness. This improvement represents an important advance in the field of biofluorescence by enabling early detection with reliable signals, essential for labelling dynamic biological processes. However, the mechanism underlying the significant improvement in fluorescent performance from mEos3.2 to pcStar remains elusive, preventing the rational design of more robust variants through mutagenesis. In this study, we determined the crystal structures of mEos3.2 and pcStar in their green states at atomic resolution and performed molecular-dynamics simulations to reveal significant divergences between the two proteins. Our structural and computational analyses revealed crucial features that are distinctively present in pcStar, including the presence of an extra solvent molecule, high conformational stability and enhanced interactions of the chromophore with its surroundings, tighter tertiary-structure packing and dynamic central-helical deformation. Resulting from the triple mutations, all of these structural features are likely to establish a mechanistic link to the greatly improved fluorescent performance of pcStar. The data described here not only provide a good example illustrating how distant amino-acid substitutions can affect the structure and bioactivity of a protein, but also give rise to strategic considerations for the future engineering of more widely applicable PCFPs.</p>","PeriodicalId":7116,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology","volume":" ","pages":"181-195"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Restoration of the 3D structure of insect flight muscle from a rotationally averaged 2D X-ray diffraction pattern. 从旋转平均二维x射线衍射图恢复昆虫飞行肌肉的三维结构。
IF 2.6 4区 生物学
Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1107/S2059798325002190
Hiroyuki Iwamoto
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