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 …

High-resolution in situ structure determination by cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging using emClarity

T Ni, T Frosio, L Mendonça, Y Sheng, D Clare… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging (STA) has developed rapidly in
recent years. It provides structures of macromolecular complexes in situ and in cellular …

A Bayesian approach to single-particle electron cryo-tomography in RELION-4.0

J Zivanov, J Otón, Z Ke, A von Kügelgen, E Pyle, K Qu… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
We present a new approach for macromolecular structure determination from multiple
particles in electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET) data sets. Whereas existing subtomogram …

nextPYP: a comprehensive and scalable platform for characterizing protein variability in situ using single-particle cryo-electron tomography

HF Liu, Y Zhou, Q Huang, J Piland, W Jin, J Mandel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-particle cryo-electron tomography is an emerging technique capable of determining
the structure of proteins imaged within the native context of cells at molecular resolution …

The eukaryotic CO2-concentrating organelle is liquid-like and exhibits dynamic reorganization

ESF Rosenzweig, B Xu, LK Cuellar… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Approximately 30%–40% of global CO 2 fixation occurs inside a non-membrane-
bound organelle called the pyrenoid, which is found within the chloroplasts of most …

Cryo-electron microscopy methodology: current aspects and future directions

R Danev, H Yanagisawa, M Kikkawa - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has emerged as a powerful structure determination
technique. Its most prolific branch is single particle analysis (SPA), a method being used in a …

emClarity: software for high-resolution cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

BA Himes, P Zhang - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Macromolecular complexes are intrinsically flexible and often challenging to purify for
structure determination by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Such …

Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

W Wan, JAG Briggs - Methods in enzymology, 2016 - Elsevier
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows 3D volumes to be reconstructed from a set of 2D
projection images of a tilted biological sample. It allows densities to be resolved in 3D that …

Structural basis for coupling protein transport and N-glycosylation at the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum

K Braunger, S Pfeffer, S Shrimal, R Gilmore… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Protein synthesis, transport, and N-glycosylation are coupled at the mammalian
endoplasmic reticulum by complex formation of a ribosome, the Sec61 protein-conducting …

Cryo-electron tomography: the challenge of doing structural biology in situ

V Lučić, A Rigort, W Baumeister - Journal of Cell Biology, 2013 - rupress.org
Electron microscopy played a key role in establishing cell biology as a discipline, by
producing fundamental insights into cellular organization and ultrastructure. Many seminal …