Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Retrieving functional pathways of biomolecules from single-particle snapshots

  • Ali Dashti,
  • Ghoncheh Mashayekhi,
  • Mrinal Shekhar,
  • Danya Ben Hail,
  • Salah Salah,
  • Peter Schwander,
  • Amedee des Georges,
  • Abhishek Singharoy,
  • Joachim Frank,
  • Abbas Ourmazd

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18403-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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There is a great interest in retrieving functional pathways from cryo-EM single-particle data. Here, the authors present an approach that combines cryo-EM with advanced data-analytical methods and molecular dynamics simulations to reveal the functional pathways traversed on experimentally derived energy landscapes using the ryanodine receptor type 1 as an example.