Search Results - "Ginn, Helen M."
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Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by Destruction of the Prefusion Spike
Published in Cell host & microbe (09-09-2020)“…There are as yet no licensed therapeutics for the COVID-19 pandemic. The causal coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) binds host cells via a trimeric spike whose receptor…”
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Potent cross-reactive antibodies following Omicron breakthrough in vaccinees
Published in Cell (09-06-2022)“…Highly transmissible Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2 currently dominate globally. Here, we compare neutralization of Omicron BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2. BA.2 RBD…”
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Machining protein microcrystals for structure determination by electron diffraction
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-09-2018)“…We demonstrate that ion-beam milling of frozen, hydrated protein crystals to thin lamella preserves the crystal lattice to near-atomic resolution. This…”
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The antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 Beta underscores the antigenic distance to other variants
Published in Cell host & microbe (12-01-2022)“…Alpha-B.1.1.7, Beta-B.1.351, Gamma-P.1, and Delta-B.1.617.2 variants of SARS-CoV-2 express multiple mutations in the spike protein (S). These may alter the…”
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Where is crystallography going?
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography. (01-02-2018)“…Macromolecular crystallography (MX) has been a motor for biology for over half a century and this continues apace. A series of revolutions, including the…”
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Structure of CPV17 polyhedrin determined by the improved analysis of serial femtosecond crystallographic data
Published in Nature communications (09-03-2015)“…The X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) allows the analysis of small weakly diffracting protein crystals, but has required very many crystals to obtain good data…”
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Femtosecond X-ray coherent diffraction of aligned amyloid fibrils on low background graphene
Published in Nature communications (09-05-2018)“…Here we present a new approach to diffraction imaging of amyloid fibrils, combining a free-standing graphene support and single nanofocused X-ray pulses of…”
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Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by Destruction of the Prefusion Spike
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Pre‐clustering data sets using cluster4x improves the signal‐to‐noise ratio of high‐throughput crystallography drug‐screening analysis
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography. (01-11-2020)“…Drug and fragment screening at X‐ray crystallography beamlines has been a huge success. However, it is inevitable that more high‐profile biological drug…”
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An ultraviolet-driven rescue pathway for oxidative stress to eye lens protein human gamma-D crystallin
Published in Communications chemistry (10-04-2024)“…Human gamma-D crystallin (HGD) is a major constituent of the eye lens. Aggregation of HGD contributes to cataract formation, the leading cause of blindness…”
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Vagabond: bond‐based parametrization reduces overfitting for refinement of proteins
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography. (01-04-2021)“…Structural biology methods have delivered over 150 000 high‐resolution structures of macromolecules, which have fundamentally altered our understanding of…”
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Robust and automatic beamstop shadow outlier rejection: combining crystallographic statistics with modern clustering under a semi‐supervised learning strategy
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography. (01-10-2024)“…During the automatic processing of crystallographic diffraction experiments, beamstop shadows are often unaccounted for or only partially masked. As a result…”
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Antibody evasion by the P.1 strain of SARS-CoV-2
Published in Cell (27-05-2021)“…Terminating the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic relies upon pan-global vaccination. Current vaccines elicit neutralizing antibody responses to the virus spike derived from…”
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Assembly of Differently Sized Supercharged Protein Nanocages into Superlattices for Construction of Binary Nanoparticle–Protein Materials
Published in ACS nano (10-09-2024)“…This study focuses on the design and characterization of binary nanoparticle superlattices: Two differently sized, supercharged protein nanocages are used to…”
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Proteins' Knotty Problems
Published in Journal of molecular biology (18-01-2019)“…Knots in proteins are increasingly being recognized as an important structural concept, and the folding of these peculiar structures still poses considerable…”
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High-speed fixed-target serial virus crystallography
Published in Nature methods (01-08-2017)“…A new sample-delivery method for serial X-ray crystallography exploits the full repetition rate of the X-ray free-electron laser at the LCLS facility, thus…”
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Structure-based energetics of protein interfaces guides foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine design
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-10-2015)“…Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) capsids are often unstable, thus limiting their use as vaccines. A computational method was used to strengthen…”
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A delicate balance between antibody evasion and ACE2 affinity for Omicron BA.2.75
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (31-01-2023)“…Variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have caused successive global waves of infection. These variants, with multiple…”
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Fixed target combined with spectral mapping: approaching 100% hit rates for serial crystallography
Published in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology (01-08-2016)“…The advent of ultrafast highly brilliant coherent X‐ray free‐electron laser sources has driven the development of novel structure‐determination approaches for…”
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Polyhedra structures and the evolution of the insect viruses
Published in Journal of structural biology (01-10-2015)“…Polyhedra represent an ancient system used by a number of insect viruses to protect virions during long periods of environmental exposure. We present high…”
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