Acta Crystallographica. Section D, Structural Biology
Overview
Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology is a renowned scientific journal that focuses on the field of structural biology. It publishes high-quality research articles, reviews, and communications related to the determination and analysis of biological macromolecules' three-dimensional structures. The journal serves as a valuable resource for researchers and professionals interested in understanding the molecular basis of biological processes.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
Start
2016
End
Continuing
Frequency
Monthly
e-ISSN
2059-7983
Country
United States
Language
English
Specialty
Biochemistry
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 1393
151
SJR / Ranks: 1827
1568
CiteScore / Ranks: 2534
7.50
JIF / Ranks: 4835
2.2
Recent Articles
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Wlodawer A, Dauter Z, Rubach P, Minor W, Jaskolski M, Jiang Z, et al.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40056147
A global analysis of protein crystal structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) using a newly developed computational approach reveals many pairs with (nearly) identical main-chain coordinates. Such cases are...
2.
Ojha A, Blackwell R, Cruz-Chu E, Dsouza R, Astore M, Schwander P, et al.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Feb;
81(Pt 3):89-104.
PMID: 40019002
Resolving continuous conformational heterogeneity in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a field in which new methods are now emerging regularly. Methods range from traditional statistical techniques to state-of-the-art neural network...
3.
Males A, Moroz O, Blagova E, Munch A, Hansen G, Johansen A, et al.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Feb;
81(Pt 3):130-146.
PMID: 40019001
Microorganisms are known to secrete copious amounts of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) that form complex matrices around the cells to shield them against external stresses, to maintain structural integrity and...
4.
Streeter O, Shi K, Vavra J, Aihara H, Ervasti J, Evans 3rd R, et al.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Feb;
81(Pt 3):122-129.
PMID: 40007458
The structure of the N-terminal actin-binding domain of human dystrophin was determined at 1.94 Å resolution. Each chain in the asymmetric unit exists in a `closed' conformation, with the first...
5.
Simpkin A, Elliot L, Joseph A, Burnley T, Stevenson K, Sanchez Rodriguez F, et al.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Feb;
81(Pt 3):105-121.
PMID: 39976565
With the advent of next-generation modelling methods, such as AlphaFold2, structural biologists are increasingly using predicted structures to obtain structure solutions via molecular replacement (MR) or model fitting in single-particle...
6.
TomoCPT: a generalizable model for 3D particle detection and localization in cryo-electron tomograms
Shah P, Sanchez-Garcia R, Stuart D
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Feb;
81(Pt 2):63-76.
PMID: 39902808
Cryo-electron tomography is a rapidly developing field for studying macromolecular complexes in their native environments and has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of protein function. However, fast and accurate...
7.
Bernard C, Postic G, Ghannay S, Tahi F
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Jan;
81(Pt 2):49-62.
PMID: 39868559
Predicting the 3D structure of RNA is a significant challenge despite ongoing advancements in the field. Although AlphaFold has successfully addressed this problem for proteins, RNA structure prediction raises difficulties...
8.
Xie Z, Jin W, Zhou Z
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Jan;
81(Pt 2):77-84.
PMID: 39841458
P-clusters have been statistically analysed using the bond-valence sum (BVS) method together with weighting schemes. The crystallographic data come from the VFe proteins deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB)...
9.
Le Berre M, Tubiana T, Reutersward Waldner P, Lazar N, Li de la Sierra-Gallay I, Santos J, et al.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2025 Jan;
81(Pt 1):38-48.
PMID: 39820027
The apicomplexan AP2 (ApiAP2) proteins are the best characterized family of DNA-binding proteins in Plasmodium spp. malaria parasites. Apart from the AP2 DNA-binding domain, there is little sequence similarity between...
10.
Hirata K
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol
. 2024 Dec;
81(Pt 1):22-37.
PMID: 39718396
Recent advances in low-emittance synchrotron X-ray technology and highly sensitive photon-counting detectors have revolutionized protein micro-crystallography in structural biology. These developments and improvements to sample-exchange robots and beamline control have...