The Phenix software for automated determination of macromolecular structures

…, PV Afonine, G Bunkóczi, VB Chen, N Echols… - Methods, 2011 - Elsevier
… phenix.refine uses REDUCE to identify mis-oriented N/Q/H residues before each … Restraints
are generated for χ values, ϕ, ψ, ω, and for the N–C–Cα–Cβ angle to preserve proper Cβ …

[HTML][HTML] Phaser. MRage: automated molecular replacement

G Bunkóczi, N Echols, AJ McCoy… - … Section D: Biological …, 2013 - scripts.iucr.org
Phaser.MRage is a molecular-replacement automation framework that implements a full
model-generation workflow and provides several layers of model exploration to the user. It is …

[HTML][HTML] PHENIX: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

…, G Bunkóczi, VB Chen, IW Davis, N Echols… - … Section D: Biological …, 2010 - scripts.iucr.org
Macromolecular X-ray crystallography is routinely applied to understand biological processes
at a molecular level. However, significant time and effort are still required to solve and …

[HTML][HTML] Towards automated crystallographic structure refinement with phenix. refine

…, RW Grosse-Kunstleve, N Echols… - … Section D: Biological …, 2012 - scripts.iucr.org
phenix.refine is a program within the PHENIX package that supports crystallographic structure
refinement against experimental data with a wide range of upper resolution limits using a …

EMRinger: side chain–directed model and map validation for 3D cryo-electron microscopy

BA Barad, N Echols, RYR Wang, Y Cheng, F DiMaio… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Advances in high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) require the development of
validation metrics to independently assess map quality and model geometry. We report …

Accessing protein conformational ensembles using room-temperature X-ray crystallography

…, PT Lang, JM Holton, N Echols… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Modern protein crystal structures are based nearly exclusively on X-ray data collected at
cryogenic temperatures (generally 100 K). The cooling process is thought to introduce little bias …

Simultaneous femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction of photosystem II at room temperature

…, R Alonso-Mori, R Tran, J Hattne, RJ Gildea, N Echols… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Intense femtosecond x-ray pulses produced at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) were
used for simultaneous x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) of …

Structure/Function Studies of Ser/Thr and Tyr Protein Phosphorylation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

AE Greenstein, C Grundner, N Echols… - Journal of molecular …, 2005 - karger.com
Many bacterial species express ‘eukaryotic-like’ Ser/Thr or Tyr protein kinases and
phosphatases that are candidate mediators of developmental changes and host/pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Use of knowledge-based restraints in phenix. refine to improve macromolecular refinement at low resolution

JJ Headd, N Echols, PV Afonine… - … Section D: Biological …, 2012 - scripts.iucr.org
Traditional methods for macromolecular refinement often have limited success at low
resolution (3.0–3.5 Å or worse), producing models that score poorly on crystallographic and …

[HTML][HTML] Taking snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation using femtosecond X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy

…, R Tran, R Alonso-Mori, S Koroidov, N Echols… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The dioxygen we breathe is formed by light-induced oxidation of water in photosystem II. O
2 formation takes place at a catalytic manganese cluster within milliseconds after the …