ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2024
Innovative Strategies in X-ray Crystallography for Exploring Structural Dynamics and Reaction Mechanisms in Metabolic Disorders.
Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Structural pharmacology of Chinese medicine: technological breakthroughs in decoding multi-target synergy and precision mechanisms.Advanced biotechnology · 2026Review
- Sample delivery methods for protein X-ray crystallography with a special focus on sample consumption.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Structural and Pharmacological Insights into Propranolol: An Integrated Crystallographic Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
Enzymes are crucial in metabolic processes, and their dysfunction can lead to severe metabolic disorders. Structural biology, particularly X-ray crystallography, has advanced our understanding of these diseases by providing 3D structures of pathological enzymes. However, traditional X-ray crystallography faces limitations, such as difficulties in obtaining suitable protein crystals and studying protein dynamics. X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have revolutionized this field with their bright and brief X-ray pulses, providing high-resolution structures of radiation-sensitive and hard-to-crystallize proteins. XFELs also enable the study of protein dynamics through room temperature structures and time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography, offering comprehensive insights into the molecular mechanisms of metabolic diseases. Understanding these dynamics is vital for developing effective therapies. This review highlights the contributions of protein dynamics studies using XFELs and synchrotrons to metabolic disorder research and their application in designing better therapies. It also discusses G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which, though not enzymes, play key roles in regulating physiological systems and are implicated in many metabolic disorders.
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