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 …

[HTML][HTML] Cell death by cornification

L Eckhart, S Lippens, E Tschachler… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2013 - Elsevier
Epidermal keratinocytes undergo a unique form of terminal differentiation and programmed
cell death known as cornification. Cornification leads to the formation of the outermost skin …

Serial Lift-Out: sampling the molecular anatomy of whole organisms

OH Schiøtz, CJO Kaiser, S Klumpe, DR Morado… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cryo-focused ion beam milling of frozen-hydrated cells and subsequent cryo-electron
tomography (cryo-ET) has enabled the structural elucidation of macromolecular complexes …

Correlative three-dimensional super-resolution and block-face electron microscopy of whole vitreously frozen cells

DP Hoffman, G Shtengel, CS Xu, KR Campbell… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Our textbook understanding of the nanoscale organization of the cell and
its relationship to the thousands of proteins that drive cellular metabolism comes largely from …

Quantification of gallium cryo-FIB milling damage in biological lamellae

BA Lucas, N Grigorieff - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can reveal the molecular details of biological
processes in their native, cellular environment at atomic resolution. However, few cells are …

[HTML][HTML] An introduction to sample preparation and imaging by cryo-electron microscopy for structural biology

RF Thompson, M Walker, CA Siebert, SP Muench… - Methods, 2016 - Elsevier
Transmission electron microscopy (EM) is a versatile technique that can be used to image
biological specimens ranging from intact eukaryotic cells to individual proteins> 150 kDa …

A technical introduction to transmission electron microscopy for soft‐matter: Imaging, possibilities, choices, and technical developments

LE Franken, K Grünewald, EJ Boekema, MCA Stuart - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With a significant role in material sciences, physics,(soft matter) chemistry, and biology, the
transmission electron microscope is one of the most widely applied structural analysis tool to …

Preparing samples from whole cells using focused-ion-beam milling for cryo-electron tomography

FR Wagner, R Watanabe, R Schampers, D Singh… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Recent advances have made cryogenic (cryo) electron microscopy a key technique to
achieve near-atomic-resolution structures of biochemically isolated macromolecular …

Outcome of the first electron microscopy validation task force meeting

R Henderson, A Sali, ML Baker, B Carragher… - Structure, 2012 - cell.com
This Meeting Review describes the proceedings and conclusions from the inaugural
meeting of the Electron Microscopy Validation Task Force organized by the Unified Data …

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 …