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 …

Using single-vesicle technologies to unravel the heterogeneity of extracellular vesicles

G Bordanaba-Florit, F Royo, SG Kruglik… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are heterogeneous lipid containers with a complex molecular
cargo comprising several populations with unique roles in biological processes. These …

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 …

Atomic force microscopy-based mechanobiology

M Krieg, G Fläschner, D Alsteens, BM Gaub… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Mechanobiology emerges at the crossroads of medicine, biology, biophysics and
engineering and describes how the responses of proteins, cells, tissues and organs to …

Cryo-STEM mapping of solid–liquid interfaces and dendrites in lithium-metal batteries

MJ Zachman, Z Tu, S Choudhury, LA Archer… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Solid–liquid interfaces are important in a range of chemical, physical and biological
processes,,–, but are often not fully understood owing to the lack of high-resolution …

Electron microscopy studies of soft nanomaterials

Z Lyu, L Yao, W Chen, FC Kalutantirige… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This review highlights recent efforts on applying electron microscopy (EM) to soft (including
biological) nanomaterials. We will show how developments of both the hardware and …

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 …

Single-particle cryo-EM—How did it get here and where will it go

Y Cheng - Science, 2018 - science.org
Cryo–electron microscopy, or simply cryo-EM, refers mainly to three very different yet closely
related techniques: electron crystallography, single-particle cryo-EM, and electron …

Challenges and opportunities in cryo-EM single-particle analysis

D Lyumkis - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables structure determination of
macromolecular objects and their assemblies. Although the techniques have been …

Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …