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 …

The promise and the challenges of cryo‐electron tomography

M Turk, W Baumeister - FEBS letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Structural biologists have traditionally approached cellular complexity in a reductionist
manner in which the cellular molecular components are fractionated and purified before …

Correlative three-dimensional super-resolution and block-face electron microscopy of whole vitreously frozen cells

DP Hoffman, G Shtengel, CS Xu, KR Campbell… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our textbook understanding of the nanoscale organization of the cell and
its relationship to the thousands of proteins that drive cellular metabolism comes largely from …

Cryo-EM in molecular and cellular biology

HR Saibil - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
This review summarizes the current state of methods and results achievable by cryo-electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) imaging for molecular, cell, and structural biologists who wish to …

Visualizing the native cellular organization by coupling cryofixation with expansion microscopy (Cryo-ExM)

MH Laporte, N Klena, V Hamel, P Guichard - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
Cryofixation has proven to be the gold standard for efficient preservation of native cell
ultrastructure compared to chemical fixation, but this approach is not widely used in …

[HTML][HTML] Towards visual proteomics at high resolution

FJB Bäuerlein, W Baumeister - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditionally, structural biologists approach the complexity of cellular proteomes in a
reductionist manner. Proteomes are fractionated, their molecular components purified and …

The in situ structure of Parkinson's disease-linked LRRK2

R Watanabe, R Buschauer, J Böhning, M Audagnotto… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are the most frequent cause of familial
Parkinson's disease. LRRK2 is a multi-domain protein containing a kinase and GTPase …

PIE-scope, integrated cryo-correlative light and FIB/SEM microscopy

S Gorelick, G Buckley, G Gervinskas, TK Johnson… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is emerging as a revolutionary method for resolving the
structure of macromolecular complexes in situ. However, sample preparation for in situ Cryo …

Cryo-electron microscopy for the study of virus assembly

D Luque, JR Castón - Nature chemical biology, 2020 - nature.com
Although viruses are extremely diverse in shape and size, evolution has led to a limited
number of viral classes or lineages, which is probably linked to the assembly constraints of a …

CryoSIM: super-resolution 3D structured illumination cryogenic fluorescence microscopy for correlated ultrastructural imaging

MA Phillips, M Harkiolaki, DM Susano Pinto, RM Parton… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Rapid cryopreservation of biological specimens is the gold standard for visualizing cellular
structures in their true structural context. However, current commercial cryo-fluorescence …