Yifan Cheng

University of Science and Technology of China

Also affiliated with Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Yanshan University, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital, Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, University of Sunderland, Nanjing University

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMaterials ScienceNeuroscience

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Papers

Driven by 64 papers. Top paper: “Structure of the Sec23p/24p and Sec13p/31p complexes of COPII”.

Structure of the Sec23p/24p and Sec13p/31p complexes of COPII

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2001)10.1073/pnas.191359398

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7.0DataRank · unranked

143 citations

Yifan Cheng, Benjamin M. Petre, Erik Vogan, Sebastian Springer, Randy Schekman +3 more

MotionCor2: anisotropic correction of beam-induced motion for improved cryo-electron microscopy

Nature Methods(2017)10.1038/nmeth.4193

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1.4DataRank · unranked

8787 citations

Eugene Palovcak, Jean-Paul Armache, Kliment A. Verba, Yifan Cheng, David A. Agard +3 more

Interactions between mTORC2 core subunits Rictor and mSin1 dictate selective and context-dependent phosphorylation of substrate kinases SGK1 and Akt

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2022)10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102288

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1.1DataRank · unranked

35 citations

Junliang Chen, Enzo Takagi, Feng Wang, Bidisha Saha, Xi Liu +9 more

CryoEM and AI reveal a structure of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp2, a multifunctional protein involved in key host processes

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-515215/v1

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0.796DataRank · unranked

17 citations

Meghna Gupta, Caleigh M. Azumaya, Michelle Moritz, Sergei Pourmal, Amy Diallo +75 more

CryoEM and AI reveal a structure of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp2, a multifunctional protein involved in key host processes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.05.10.443524

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0.666DataRank · unranked

84 citations

Caleigh M. Azumaya, Michelle Moritz, Sergei Pourmal, Amy Diallo, Gregory E. Merz +75 more

Practical considerations for using K3 cameras in CDS mode for high-resolution and high-throughput single particle cryo-EM

Journal of Structural Biology(2021)10.1016/j.jsb.2021.107745

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0.648DataRank · unranked

74 citations

Caleigh M. Azumaya, Eric Tse, David Bulkley, Matthew B. Harrington, Glenn G. Gilbèrt +6 more

The structural basis for HIV-1 Vif antagonism of human APOBEC3G

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-05779-1

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0.646DataRank · unranked

73 citations

Caroline Langley, Caleigh M. Azumaya, Ignacia Echeverria, Nicholas M. Chesarino, Michael Emerman +3 more

Structural basis of TRPV1 modulation by endogenous bioactive lipids

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology(2024)10.1038/s41594-024-01299-2

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0.604DataRank · unranked

55 citations

Adamo Mancino, Frank R. Moss, Adam Frost, David Julius, Yifan Cheng +1 more

Dynamic allostery drives autocrine and paracrine TGF-β signaling

Cell(2024)10.1016/j.cell.2024.08.036

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0.584DataRank · unranked

48 citations

Robert Seed, Guoqing Cai, Tiffany Shing, Liping Wang, Saburo Ito +15 more

Hedgehog pathway activation through nanobody-mediated conformational blockade of the Patched sterol conduit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.2011560117

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0.550DataRank · unranked

38 citations

Wan-Jin Lu, David Bulkley, Jiahao Liang, Arthur Ralko, S. Han +7 more

Systematic Evaluation of Affinity Enrichment Methods for O-GlcNAc Proteomics

Journal of Proteome Research(2024)10.1021/acs.jproteome.4c00388

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0.360DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Ci Wu, Zichun Wu, Yifan Cheng, Weiyu Li, Hui Sun +2 more

HMGB1 deforms nucleosomal DNA to generate a dynamic chromatin environment counteracting the effects of linker histone

Science Advances(2025)10.1126/sciadv.ads4473

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0.241DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Un Seng Chio, Camille Moore, Vijay Ramani, Yifan Cheng, Geeta J. Narlikar +1 more

Molecular goniometers for single-particle cryo-EM of DNA-binding proteins

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.02.27.968883

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0.241DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Zanlin Yu, Yifan Cheng, Shawn M. Douglas, Tural Aksel

Identification of recombinant Fabs for structural and functional characterization of HIV-host factor complexes

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0250318

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0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Evan M. Green, Jörg Votteler, Dong Young Kim, Xuefeng Ren, Bei Yang +8 more

The ΦPA3 Phage Nucleus is Enclosed by a Self-Assembling, 2D Crystalline Lattice

Research Square(2022)10.21203/rs.3.rs-1531074/v1

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0.127DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Axel F. Brilot, Melissa Mèndez-Moran, Minkyung Baek, Junrui Li, Claire Kokontis +5 more

Structural insight into SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies and modulation of syncytia

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.04.033

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0DataRank · unranked

83 citations

Bei Wang, Wen-Hsin Sandy Lee, Yuanyu Hu, Ching-Wen Huang, Bryan Faust +26 more

Dispatched uses Na+ flux to power release of lipid-modified Hedgehog

Nature(2021)10.1038/s41586-021-03996-0

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0DataRank · unranked

38 citations

Daniel Asarnow, Ke Ding, Randall K. Mann, Jason Hatakeyama, Yunxiao Zhang +4 more

A tumor-specific mechanism of T reg enrichment mediated by the integrin αvβ8

Science Immunology(2021)10.1126/sciimmunol.abf0558

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29 citations

Kenji Kobayashi, Saburo Ito, Naoki Takasaka, Anthony Cormier, Jillian M. Jespersen +12 more

Classifying liganded states in heterogeneous single-particle cryo-EM datasets

Microscopy(2021)10.1093/jmicro/dfab044

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4 citations

Daniel Asarnow, Yifan Cheng, William R. Arnold

Fusion protein strategies for cryo-EM study of G protein-coupled receptors

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.12.23.474049

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Hao Wu, Nicholas Hoppe, Aashish Manglik, Yifan Cheng, Kaihua Zhang

AreTomo: An integrated software package for automated marker-free, motion-corrected cryo-electron tomographic alignment and reconstruction

Journal of Structural Biology X(2022)10.1016/j.yjsbx.2022.100068

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0DataRank · unranked

290 citations

Georg Wolff, Garrett Greenan, Zhen Chen, Frank G. A. Faas, Montserrat Bárcena +4 more

Fusion protein strategies for cryo-EM study of G protein-coupled receptors

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-32125-2

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0DataRank · unranked

89 citations

Hao Wu, Nick Hoppe, Aashish Manglik, Yifan Cheng, Kaihua Zhang

Sensory TRP Channels in Three Dimensions

Annual Review of Biochemistry(2022)10.1146/annurev-biochem-032620-105738

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0DataRank · unranked

79 citations

John V. Lin King, David Julius, Yifan Cheng, Melinda M. Diver

Autoantibody mimicry of hormone action at the thyrotropin receptor

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-05159-1

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59 citations

Christian B. Billesbølle, Carl‐Mikael Suomivuori, Isha Singh, Kaihua Zhang, Nicholas Hoppe +9 more

Structural insights into the human PA28–20S proteasome enabled by efficient tagging and purification of endogenous proteins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2022)10.1073/pnas.2207200119

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40 citations

Suraj Makhija, Chenyu Zhou, Hanxiao Zhang, Yongqiang Wang, Monita Muralidharan +3 more

A step-by-step protocol for capturing conformational snapshots of ligand gated ion channels by single-particle cryo-EM

STAR Protocols(2022)10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101732

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7 citations

David Julius, Yifan Cheng, Kaihua Zhang

Identification of a conserved drug binding pocket in TMEM16 proteins

Research Square(2022)10.21203/rs.3.rs-1296933/v1

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10 citations

Shengjie Feng, Cristina Puchades, Juyeon Ko, Eric E. Figueroa, Yifei Chen +9 more

The ϕPA3 Phage Nucleus is Enclosed by a Self-Assembling, 2D Crystalline Lattice

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.04.06.487387

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7 citations

Axel F. Brilot, Melissa Mèndez-Moran, Minkyung Baek, Junrui Li, Claire Kokontis +5 more

Structural Basis of Prostaglandin Efflux by MRP4

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.12.22.521501

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Evan Green, Ruchika Bajaj, Ilan E. Chemmama, Giselle M. Knudsen, Meghna Gupta +6 more

Reorientation of INO80 on hexasomes reveals basis for mechanistic versatility

Science(2023)10.1126/science.adf4197

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44 citations

Elise N. Muñoz, Laura J Hsieh, Un Seng Chio, Muryam A. Gourdet, Geeta J. Narlikar +2 more

The ϕPA3 phage nucleus is enclosed by a self-assembling 2D crystalline lattice

Nature Communications(2023)10.1038/s41467-023-36526-9

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0DataRank · unranked

41 citations

Axel F. Brilot, Melissa Mèndez-Moran, Claire Kokontis, Minkyung Baek, Junrui Li +5 more

Assembly of SARS-CoV-2 ribonucleosomes by truncated N∗ variant of the nucleocapsid protein

Journal of Biological Chemistry(2023)10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105362

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37 citations

Maxine Bi, Christopher R. Carlson, Abdullah M. Syed, Alison Ciling, Jennifer A. Doudna +3 more

Identification of a drug binding pocket in TMEM16F calcium-activated ion channel and lipid scramblase

Nature Communications(2023)10.1038/s41467-023-40410-x

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35 citations

Cristina Puchades, Juyeon Ko, Hao Wu, Yifei Chen, Eric E. Figueroa +10 more

Efficient tagging of endogenous proteins in human cell lines for structural studies by single-particle cryo-EM

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2023)10.1073/pnas.2302471120

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10 citations

Hao Wu, Klaus Yserentant, Bo Huang, Yifan Cheng, Woo-Young Choi

Structural basis of TRPV1 modulation by endogenous bioactive lipids

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.05.11.540281

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10 citations

Adamo Mancino, Frank R. Moss, Adam Frost, David Julius, Yifan Cheng +1 more

A systematic search for RNA structural switches across the human transcriptome

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.03.11.532161

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4 citations

Daniel Asarnow, Albertas Navickas, Aidan Winters, Johnny Yu, Simon K. Zhou +8 more

Structural basis of prostaglandin efflux by MRP4

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology(2024)10.1038/s41594-023-01176-4

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25 citations

Evan Green, Ruchika Bajaj, Ilan E. Chemmama, Giselle M. Knudsen, Meghna Gupta +6 more

Functionalized graphene-oxide grids enable high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the SNF2h-nucleosome complex without crosslinking

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-46178-y

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25 citations

Eugene Palovcak, Anton A. A. Smith, Henriette Elisabeth Autzen, Elise N. Muñoz, Zanlin Yu +6 more

A systematic search for RNA structural switches across the human transcriptome

Nature Methods(2024)10.1038/s41592-024-02335-1

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15 citations

Daniel Asarnow, Shaopu Zhou, Albertas Navickas, Aidan Winters, Jackson Goudreau +12 more

HMGB1 restores a dynamic chromatin environment in the presence of linker histone by deforming nucleosomal DNA

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.08.23.609244

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4 citations

Un Seng Chio, Camille M. Moore, Vijay Ramani, Yifan Cheng, Geeta J. Narlikar +1 more

Nonlinear compliance of NompC gating spring and its implication in mechanotransduction

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.06.20.599842

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Peng Jin, Avinash Kumar, Lily Yeh Jan, Yifan Cheng, Yuh Nung Jan +2 more

Latent-TGF-β has a domain swapped architecture

Research Square(2024)10.21203/rs.3.rs-5154292/v1

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Mingliang Jin, Robert Seed, Tiffany Shing, Yifan Cheng, Stephen L. Nishimura

Structural dynamics of human fatty acid synthase in the condensing cycle

Nature(2025)10.1038/s41586-025-08782-w

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21 citations

Chengmin Li, Yifei Chen, Yongqiang Wang, Yifan Cheng, Woo-Young Choi

Autoinhibition imposed by a large conformational switch of INO80 regulates nucleosome positioning

Science(2025)10.1126/science.adr3831

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19 citations

Hao Wu, Yifan Cheng, Geeta J. Narlikar, Upneet Kaur

Structure and function of a near fully-activated intermediate GPCR-Gαβγ complex

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-56434-4

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12 citations

Xudong Wang, Jinan Wang, Jun Xu, Sun Wenkai, Victor A. Adediwura +4 more

The HIV-1 nuclear export complex reveals the role of RNA in CRM1 cargo recognition

Molecular Cell(2025)10.1016/j.molcel.2025.07.015

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Yang Li, Arianna Velarde, Yifan Cheng, Alan D. Frankel, Amber M. Smith

Metabolic environment-driven remodeling of mitochondrial ribosomes regulates translation and biogenesis

Molecular Cell(2025)10.1016/j.molcel.2025.10.012

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Zanlin Yu, Junming Zhuang, Lingraj Vannur, William A. Nickols, Yongqiang Wang +6 more

Latent-TGF-β has a domain swapped architecture

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-65465-w

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0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Robert Seed, Tiffany Shing, Li Wang, Junrui Li, Yifan Cheng +2 more

The structural basis of cold sensitivity

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.06.06.658377

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2 citations

Xiaoxuan Lin, Yifan Cheng, David Julius, Kang-Hyouk Choi

Antibody Reveals Conformational Latch Controlling Herpesvirus Proteases

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.17.683123

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1 citations

Kaitlin R. Hulce, Markus‐Frederik Bohn, Jordan Norman, Peter J. Rohweder, Yifan Cheng +2 more

Irritant-evoked activation and calcium modulation of the TRPA1 receptor

Nature(2020)10.1038/s41586-020-2480-9

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0DataRank · unranked

195 citations

John V. Lin King, Candice E. Paulsen, Yifan Cheng, David Julius, Jianhua Zhao

Cryo-EM Reveals Integrin-Mediated TGF-β Activation without Release from Latent TGF-β

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2019.12.030

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0DataRank · unranked

188 citations

Anthony Cormier, Saburo Ito, Robert Seed, Andrew J. Bondesson, Jianlong Lou +5 more

Structure of hepcidin-bound ferroportin reveals iron homeostatic mechanisms

Nature(2020)10.1038/s41586-020-2668-z

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340 citations

Caleigh M. Azumaya, Rachael C. Kretsch, Alexander S. Powers, Shane Gonen, Simon Schneider +5 more

General and robust covalently linked graphene oxide affinity grids for high-resolution cryo-EM

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2020)10.1073/pnas.2009707117

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125 citations

Yanxin Liu, Zanlin Yu, Sam Li, Shengjie Feng, Yifan Cheng +2 more

Ion transport and regulation in a synaptic vesicle glutamate transporter

Science(2020)10.1126/science.aba9202

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91 citations

Jacob Eriksen, Janet Finer-Moore, Roger Chang, Phuong T. Nguyen, Alisa Bowen +7 more

Molecular goniometers for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy of DNA-binding proteins

Nature Biotechnology(2020)10.1038/s41587-020-0716-8

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49 citations

Zanlin Yu, Yifan Cheng, Shawn M. Douglas, Tural Aksel

High‐resolution structures of transient receptor potential vanilloid channels: Unveiling a functionally diverse group of ion channels

Protein Science(2020)10.1002/pro.3861

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25 citations

Leanne de Jager, Yifan Cheng, Jenny van der Wijst, Mark K. van Goor

Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio and generating contrast for cryo-EM images with convolutional neural networks

IUCrJ(2020)10.1107/s2052252520013184

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46 citations

Daniel Asarnow, Melody G. Campbell, Zanlin Yu, Yifan Cheng, Eugene Palovcak

Allosteric coupling between α-rings of the 20S proteasome

Nature Communications(2020)10.1038/s41467-020-18415-7

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30 citations

Yadong Yu, Feng Wang, Alexander G. Myasnikov, Philip Coffino, Yifan Cheng +1 more

Stoichiometry of Nucleotide Binding to Proteasome AAA+ ATPase Hexamer Established by Native Mass Spectrometry

Molecular & Cellular Proteomics(2020)10.1074/mcp.ra120.002067

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4 citations

Haichuan Liu, Zanlin Yu, H. Ewa Witkowska, Yifan Cheng, Yadong Yu

Bivalent binding of a fully human IgG to the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins reveals mechanisms of potent neutralization

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.07.14.203414

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24 citations

Daniel Asarnow, Wen-Hsin Sandy Lee, Ching-Wen Huang, Bryan Faust, Patricia Miang Lon Ng +22 more

Practical considerations for using K3 cameras in CDS mode for high-resolution and high-throughput single particle cryo-EM

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.11.08.372763

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0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Caleigh M. Azumaya, Eric Tse, Adam Frost, Daniel R. Southworth, Kliment A. Verba +3 more

Structural snapshots of TRPV1 reveal mechanism of polymodal functionality

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.012

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233 citations

David Julius, Yifan Cheng, Kaihua Zhang

Selective G protein signaling driven by substance P–neurokinin receptor dynamics

Nature Chemical Biology(2021)10.1038/s41589-021-00890-8

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97 citations

Bryan Faust, Arisbel B. Gondin, Marc A. Dämgen, Carl‐Mikael Suomivuori, Nicholas A. Veldhuis +5 more