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 …

Non-classical crystallization in soft and organic materials

JS Du, Y Bae, JJ De Yoreo - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Classical nucleation and crystal growth theories describe how nuclei form, become stable
after reaching a critical size and then enlarge through monomer attachment. More than two …

Cryo-EM structure of the respiratory I + III2 supercomplex from Arabidopsis thaliana at 2 Å resolution

N Klusch, M Dreimann, J Senkler, N Rugen… - Nature plants, 2023 - nature.com
Protein complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory chain assemble into respiratory
supercomplexes. Here we present the high-resolution electron cryo-microscopy structure of …

Understanding the invisible hands of sample preparation for cryo-EM

G Weissenberger, RJM Henderikx, PJ Peters - Nature Methods, 2021 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is rapidly becoming an attractive method in the field of
structural biology. With the exploding popularity of cryo-EM, sample preparation must evolve …

Jetting-based bioprinting: process, dispense physics, and applications

WL Ng, V Shkolnikov - Bio-Design and Manufacturing, 2024 - Springer
Jetting-based bioprinting facilitates contactless drop-on-demand deposition of subnanoliter
droplets at well-defined positions to control the spatial arrangement of cells, growth factors …

# COVIDisAirborne: AI-enabled multiscale computational microscopy of delta SARS-CoV-2 in a respiratory aerosol

A Dommer, L Casalino, F Kearns… - … journal of high …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We seek to completely revise current models of airborne transmission of respiratory viruses
by providing never-before-seen atomic-level views of the SARS-CoV-2 virus within a …

[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 …

Cryo-EM structures from sub-nl volumes using pin-printing and jet vitrification

RBG Ravelli, FJT Nijpels, RJM Henderikx… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The increasing demand for cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reveals drawbacks in current
sample preparation protocols, such as sample waste and lack of reproducibility. Here, we …

Cryo-EM with sub–1 Å specimen movement

K Naydenova, P Jia, CJ Russo - Science, 2020 - science.org
Most information loss in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) stems from particle
movement during imaging, which remains poorly understood. We show that this movement …

Correction of preferred orientation–induced distortion in cryo–electron microscopy maps

D Zhu, W Cao, J Li, C Wu, D Cao, X Zhang - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Reconstruction maps of cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) exhibit distortion when the cryo-
EM dataset is incomplete, usually caused by unevenly distributed orientations. Prior efforts …