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 …

Parallel cryo electron tomography on in situ lamellae

F Eisenstein, H Yanagisawa, H Kashihara, M Kikkawa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In situ cryo electron tomography of cryo focused ion beam milled samples has emerged in
recent years as a powerful technique for structural studies of macromolecular complexes in …

Multi-particle cryo-EM refinement with M visualizes ribosome-antibiotic complex at 3.5 Å in cells

D Tegunov, L Xue, C Dienemann, P Cramer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables macromolecular structure determination in vitro
and inside cells. In addition to aligning individual particles, accurate registration of sample …

High-throughput cryo-ET structural pattern mining by unsupervised deep iterative subtomogram clustering

X Zeng, A Kahng, L Xue, J Mahamid… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Cryoelectron tomography directly visualizes heterogeneous macromolecular structures in
their native and complex cellular environments. However, existing computer-assisted …

Cryo-electron tomography: the resolution revolution and a surge of in situ virological discoveries

Y Hong, Y Song, Z Zhang, S Li - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The recent proliferation of cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) techniques has led to the cryo-
ET resolution revolution. Meanwhile, significant efforts have been made to improve the …

ArtiaX: an electron tomography toolbox for the interactive handling of s ub‐tomograms in UCSF ChimeraX

UH Ermel, SM Arghittu, AS Frangakis - Protein science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cryo‐electron tomography analysis involves the selection of macromolecular complexes to
be used for subsequent sub‐tomogram averaging and structure determination. Here, we …

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 …

Molecular mechanism for rotational switching of the bacterial flagellar motor

Y Chang, K Zhang, BL Carroll, X Zhao… - Nature structural & …, 2020 - nature.com
The bacterial flagellar motor can rotate in counterclockwise (CCW) or clockwise (CW)
senses, and transitions are controlled by the phosphorylated form of the response regulator …

Beam image-shift accelerated data acquisition for near-atomic resolution single-particle cryo-electron tomography

J Bouvette, HF Liu, X Du, Y Zhou, AP Sikkema… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Tomographic reconstruction of cryopreserved specimens imaged in an electron microscope
followed by extraction and averaging of sub-volumes has been successfully used to derive …