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Cryo-electron microscopy analysis of structurally heterogeneous macromolecular complexes

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Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has for a long time been a technique of choice for determining structure of large and flexible macromolecular complexes that were difficult to study by other experimental techniques such as X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance. However, a fast development of instruments and software for cryo-EM in the last decade has allowed that a large range of complexes can be studied by cryo-EM, and that their structures can be obtained at near-atomic resolution, including the structures of small complexes (e.g., membrane proteins) whose size was earlier an obstacle to cryo-EM. Image analysis to identify multiple coexisting structures in the same specimen (multiconformation reconstruction) is now routinely done both to solve structures at near-atomic resolution and to study conformational dynamics. Methods for multiconformation reconstruction and latest examples of their applications are the focus of this review.
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hal-01383194 , version 1 (18-10-2016)

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Slavica Jonić. Cryo-electron microscopy analysis of structurally heterogeneous macromolecular complexes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2016, ⟨10.1016/j.csbj.2016.10.002⟩. ⟨hal-01383194⟩
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