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1 Opportunity and Challenge: the new era of cryo-em Ning Gao School of Life Sciences Tsinghua University

2 Education and Research Experience Principal Investigator present Postdoc, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and HHMI (Advisor: Joachim Frank) Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences (Advisor: Joachim Frank) B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

3 Research Interest Ribosome biogenesis In vivo assembly pathways and quality control of ribosome maturation Molecular roles of biogenesis factors Translation regulation Ribosomes from human pathogens Understanding Pathogen-specific translation mechanisms Screening for small molecules with preventive and therapeutic potentials. Large RNA/DNA-protein complexes DNA replication initiation Mechano-sensitive channels

4 Representative Structural Snapshots Ribosome MCM2-7 Piezo1

5 Near atomic structure of a ribosomal complex Resolution 4.5 Å From 300,000 particles, CCD data

6 Nature Methods 11, 30 (2014)

7 CCD vs EDD CCD Electron Direct Detector From Gatan website

8 Counting mode and Super-resolution From Gatan website

9 Movie Mode and Motion Correction

10 Bronze Age Iron Age Better detective quantum efficiency (signal-to-noise ratio) Faster speed High Sensitivity Kühlbrandt, 2014, Science

11 Unpublished data

12 Small membrane channel Unpublished data

13

14 800 micrographs and 180,000 particles in 17 hours

15 70S ribosome (3.0 Å) Unpublished data

16 Opportunities Challenges

17 YnaI : a small-conductance mechanosensitive channel (MscS) Yoo et al., Biophys, 2009 Sense mechanical deformation to regulate osmotic pressure. A heptamer with ~ 250 kda in size.

18 Negative staining of YnaI Aggregate in 1 hr Preferred orientation

19 Elusive Side-views

20 1.2/1.3 grid no carbon coated 350 micrographs (K2 camera) 130,000 particles >93% top views

21 1500 micrographs 600,000 particles

22 Atomic model of YnaI (3.6 Å) Trans-membrane a b region c Cytoplasmic region Atomic model + Density map Atomic Model Unpublished data

23 Sample preparation (traditional) Liquid ethane 3-5 l -172 C Liquid N C Ethane: (boiling point), -172 (melting point), cooling speed very fast

24 Traditional EM grids Holey carbon grid Standardized cryo-sample preparation Smaller sample volume Better particle distribution Reproducibility and manipulability Microfluidics + fast screening by LM

25 Piezo: mechano-transduction in eukaryotes Coste et al., 2010, Science

26 Putative topology of Piezo1 Nilius, 2010, EMBO Reports

27 Negative Staining of mpiezo1 2D class averages

28 Cryo-EM of mpiezo1 3 Å FFT 100 nm

29 Mapping the extracellular CAP domain Nilius, 2010, EMBO Reports

30 3D structure of Piezo1 channel CAP Top Bottom Side

31 Sub-region Refinement

32 Fitting of crystal structure of the CAP

33 Flexible Refinement Original Particles Modified Particles

34 TM-helices resolved by FlexRef Original Map Map from modified particles

35 Transmembrane Wings

36 Pore Module of mpiezo1 PH PH PH PH PH1 Anchor OH CED IH CTD

37 Gating Mechanism of mpiezo1 Out Blade CED PH OH IH In Anchor CTD Beam Ge et al., 2015, Nature, accepted

38 A major challenge: heterogeneous data sorting Defined number of conformations Highly dynamic system Multiple (independent) moving parts Divide, conquer, and stitch

39 Projection Theorem p( x, y) z 2 o( x, y, z) dz o(x,y,z) : 3D density distribution of the object z 1 From Frank, Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 31:303-19

40 Mathematical Description of molecular flexibility Multiple conformers of a molecular structure can be expressed by modulation of the original density map by deformation functions, D1, D2, D3 Dn, which normally can be expressed by a rotation matrix and a pair of translational parameters (x, y) describing the conformational changes of individual rigid (relatively) domains. During refinement for each particle, in addition to orientation parameters (x, y,,, ), parameters of Dn could also be estimated.

41 Collaborators: THU: Jianlin Lei Maojun Yang Bailong Xiao Jijie Chai Bik Tye (HKUST & Cornell) Suparna Sanyal (Uppsala) John Woolford (CMU) Hyouta Himeno (Hirosaki) Yan Qin (IBP) Acknowledgments Ministry of Science and Technology, China National Natural Sciences Foundation of China Ministry of Education, China EM Facility Setup and Maintainance: Senfang Sui, Hongwei Wang, Xueming Li Jianlin Lei, Yanji Xu

42 Thank you!

43 Structural Snapshots of Actively Translating Human Ribosomes Behrmann et al., 2015, Cell

44 Behrmann et al., 2015, Cell

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