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@ARTICLE{Vercellino:1030701,
author = {Vercellino, Irene and Sottatipreedawong, Muratha and Kazmi,
Ahad Ali},
title = {{H}ow cryo-{EM} revolutionized the field of bioenergetics},
journal = {Microscopy and microanalysis},
volume = {31},
number = {1},
issn = {1079-8501},
address = {Oxford},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2024-05412},
pages = {ozae089},
year = {2025},
abstract = {Ten years ago, the term “resolution revolution” was
used for the first time to describe how cryogenic electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) marked the beginning of a new era in
the field of structural biology, enabling the investigation
of previously unsolvable protein targets. The success of
cryo-EM was recognized with the 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize
and has become a widely used method for the structural
characterization of biological macromolecules, quickly
catching up to x-ray crystallography. Bioenergetics is the
division of biochemistry that studies the mechanisms of
energy conversion in living organisms, strongly focused on
the molecular machines (enzymes) that carry out these
processes in cells. As bioenergetic enzymes can be arranged
in complexes characterized by conformational
heterogeneity/flexibility, they represent challenging
targets for structural investigation by crystallography.
Over the last decade, cryo-EM has therefore become a
powerful tool to investigate the structure and function of
bioenergetic complexes; here, we provide an overview of the
main achievements enabled by the technique. We first
summarize the features of cryo-EM and compare them to x-ray
crystallography, and then, we present the exciting
discoveries brought about by cryo-EM, particularly but not
exclusively focusing on the oxidative phosphorylation
system, which is a crucial energy-converting mechanism in
humans.},
cin = {ER-C-3},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ER-C-3-20170113},
pnm = {5352 - Understanding the Functionality of Soft Matter and
Biomolecular Systems (POF4-535) / 5241 - Molecular
Information Processing in Cellular Systems (POF4-524)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5352 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5241},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {39298136},
UT = {WOS:001315352100001},
doi = {10.1093/mam/ozae089},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1030701},
}