[HTML][HTML] Cryo-electron tomography on focused ion beam lamellae transforms structural cell biology

C Berger, N Premaraj, RBG Ravelli, K Knoops… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryogenic electron microscopy and data processing enable the determination of structures
of isolated macromolecules to near-atomic resolution. However, these data do not provide …

Bringing structure to cell biology with cryo-electron tomography

LN Young, E Villa - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy have marked only the beginning of the
potential of this technique. To bring structure into cell biology, the modality of cryo-electron …

[HTML][HTML] Serial Lift-Out: sampling the molecular anatomy of whole organisms

OH Schiøtz, CJO Kaiser, S Klumpe, DR Morado… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-focused ion beam milling of frozen-hydrated cells and subsequent cryo-electron
tomography (cryo-ET) has enabled the structural elucidation of macromolecular complexes …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances and current trends in cryo-electron microscopy

M Guaita, SC Watters, S Loerch - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
All steps of cryogenic electron-microscopy (cryo-EM) workflows have rapidly evolved over
the last decade. Advances in both single-particle analysis (SPA) cryo-EM and cryo-electron …

Bridging structural and cell biology with cryo-electron microscopy

E Nogales, J Mahamid - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Most life scientists would agree that understanding how cellular processes work requires
structural knowledge about the macromolecules involved. For example, deciphering the …

Quantification of gallium cryo-FIB milling damage in biological lamellae

BA Lucas, N Grigorieff - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can reveal the molecular details of biological
processes in their native, cellular environment at atomic resolution. However, few cells are …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of native chromatin fibres revealed by Cryo-ET in situ

Z Hou, F Nightingale, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The structure of chromatin plays pivotal roles in regulating gene transcription, DNA
replication and repair, and chromosome segregation. This structure, however, remains …

[HTML][HTML] Streamlined structure determination by cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging using TomoBEAR

N Balyschew, A Yushkevich, V Mikirtumov… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Structures of macromolecules in their native state provide unique unambiguous insights into
their functions. Cryo-electron tomography combined with subtomogram averaging …

Thinner is not always better: Optimizing cryo-lamellae for subtomogram averaging

MW Tuijtel, S Cruz-León, JP Kreysing, S Welsch… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Cryo–electron tomography (cryo-ET) is a powerful method to elucidate subcellular
architecture and to structurally analyze biomolecules in situ by subtomogram averaging, yet …

Cryo-plasma FIB/SEM volume imaging of biological specimens

M Dumoux, T Glen, JLR Smith, EML Ho, LMA Perdigão… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Serial focussed ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB/SEM) enables imaging and
assessment of subcellular structures on the mesoscale (10 nm to 10 µm). When applied to …