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 …

Better Cryo-EM specimen preparation: how to deal with the air–water Interface?

N Liu, HW Wang - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is now one of the most powerful and widely used
methods to determine high-resolution structures of macromolecules. A major bottleneck of …

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 …

Small LEA proteins mitigate air-water interface damage to fragile cryo-EM samples during plunge freezing

KM Abe, G Li, Q He, T Grant, CJ Lim - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Air-water interface (AWI) interactions during cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) sample
preparation cause significant sample loss, hindering structural biology research. Organisms …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring the effects of ice thickness on resolution in single particle cryo-EM

K Neselu, B Wang, WJ Rice, CS Potter… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ice thickness is a critical parameter in single particle cryo-EM–too thin ice can break during
imaging or exclude the sample of interest, while ice that is too thick contributes to more …

Capturing a methanogenic carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase complex via cryogenic electron microscopy

A Biester, DA Grahame, CL Drennan - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Approximately two-thirds of the estimated one-billion metric tons of methane produced
annually by methanogens is derived from the cleavage of acetate. Acetate is broken down …

High-throughput cryo-EM enabled by user-free preprocessing routines

Y Li, JN Cash, JJG Tesmer, MA Cianfrocco - Structure, 2020 - cell.com
Single-particle cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) continues to grow into a mainstream
structural biology technique. Recent developments in data collection strategies alongside …

Recent technical advances in sample preparation for single-particle cryo-EM

Y Xu, S Dang - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cryo-sample preparation is a vital step in the process of obtaining high-resolution structures
of macromolecules by using the single-particle cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) method; …

Overview of membrane protein sample preparation for single-particle cryo-electron microscopy analysis

C Vénien-Bryan, CAH Fernandes - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM SPA) has recently emerged as an
exceptionally well-suited technique for determining the structure of membrane proteins …

Approaches to using the chameleon: robust, automated, fast-plunge cryoEM specimen preparation

TS Levitz, M Weckener, I Fong, JH Naismith… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The specimen preparation process is a key determinant in the success of any cryo electron
microscopy (cryoEM) structural study and until recently had remained largely unchanged …