2023
A quantitative assessment of (bacterio)chlorophyll assignments in the cryo-EM structure of the Chloracidobacterium thermophilum reaction center
Gisriel C, Flesher D, Long Z, Liu J, Wang J, Bryant D, Batista V, Brudvig G. A quantitative assessment of (bacterio)chlorophyll assignments in the cryo-EM structure of the Chloracidobacterium thermophilum reaction center. Photosynthesis Research 2023, 1-10. PMID: 37749456, DOI: 10.1007/s11120-023-01047-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCryo-EM mapsCryogenic electron microscopy structureReaction centersHydrogen bond donorCryo-EM structureElectron microscopy structureReaction center complexBond donorPhotosynthetic organismsMicroscopy structureProtein complexesElectron transferMolecular structureFunctional insightsStructural biologyLight harvestingProtein environmentChemical environmentExperimental cryo-EM mapsDownstream investigationsCenter complexPrimary pigmentEnergy transferStructural dataAcetyl moiety
2017
Effects of aligned α‐helix peptide dipoles on experimental electrostatic potentials
Wang J, Videla PE, Batista VS. Effects of aligned α‐helix peptide dipoles on experimental electrostatic potentials. Protein Science 2017, 26: 1692-1697. PMID: 28556371, PMCID: PMC5563131, DOI: 10.1002/pro.3204.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsElectrostatic potentialEM mapsProtein αExperimental electrostatic potentialHelix dipoleDetailed molecular levelHigh-resolution electron microscopyDensity functional theory calculationsProtein functionStructural biologyFunctional theory calculationsElectron microscopyProtein α-helixPartial atomic chargesElectric fieldΑ-helixLong-range featuresMolecular levelNonlocal natureAtomic chargesTheory calculationsDipoleBackbone dipolesRecent breakthroughsProper calculation