January issue of
SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)
Oak Brook, IL - The January edition of
SLAS Discovery features the cover article, Cryo-EM: The Resolution Revolution and Drug Discovery by Taiana Maia de Oliveira, Ph.D., Lotte van Beek, Ph.D., Fiona Shilliday, Ph.D., Judit E. Debreczeni, Ph.D., and Chris Phillips, Ph.D., from AstraZeneca.
Cryo-EM, a fast-growing technique in the pharmaceutical industry, enables structure determination of sought-after targets such as large multiprotein complexes and membrane proteins that eluded other structural biology methods. The intricate interactions between compounds and proteins are crucial in accelerating the drug discovery process. The cover article reviews how the structural understanding gained through Cryo-EM is influencing drug discovery projects focused on TRP channels, GPCRs, ribosomes and other high value targets.