Fully automated, sequential focused ion beam milling for cryo-electron tomography

T Zachs, A Schertel, J Medeiros, GL Weiss, J Hugener… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) has become a powerful technique at the interface of
structural biology and cell biology, due to its unique ability for imaging cells in their native …

[HTML][HTML] A streamlined workflow for automated cryo focused ion beam milling

S Tacke, P Erdmann, Z Wang, S Klumpe… - Journal of Structural …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is an emerging technique to study the cellular
architecture and the structure of proteins at high resolution in situ. Most biological specimens …

Thinner is not always better: Optimizing cryo-lamellae for subtomogram averaging

MW Tuijtel, S Cruz-León, JP Kreysing, S Welsch… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Cryo–electron tomography (cryo-ET) is a powerful method to elucidate subcellular
architecture and to structurally analyze biomolecules in situ by subtomogram averaging, yet …

Robust workflow and instrumentation for cryo-focused ion beam milling of samples for electron cryotomography

JM Medeiros, D Böck, GL Weiss, R Kooger, RA Wepf… - Ultramicroscopy, 2018 - Elsevier
Electron cryotomography is able to visualize macromolecular complexes in their cellular
context, in a frozen-hydrated state, and in three dimensions. The method, however, is limited …

Practical approaches for cryo-FIB milling and applications for cellular cryo-electron tomography

V Lam, E Villa - cryoEM: Methods and Protocols, 2021 - Springer
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is a powerful technique to examine cellular structures
as they exist in situ. However, direct imaging by TEM for cryo-ET is limited to specimens up …

Integrated Cryo-Correlative Microscopy for Targeted Structural Investigation In Situ

M Smeets, A Bieber, C Capitanio, O Schioetz… - Microscopy …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of
the building blocks of life since it provides the unique opportunity to study molecules and …

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 …

Automated cryo-lamella preparation for high-throughput in-situ structural biology

G Buckley, G Gervinskas, C Taveneau… - Journal of structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cryo-transmission electron tomography (cryo-ET) in association with cryo-focused ion beam
(cryo-FIB) milling enables structural biology studies to be performed directly within the …

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

OH Schiøtz, CJO Kaiser, S Klumpe, DR Morado… - Nature …, 2023 - 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 …

Opening windows into the cell: focused-ion-beam milling for cryo-electron tomography

E Villa, M Schaffer, JM Plitzko, W Baumeister - Current opinion in structural …, 2013 - Elsevier
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) is ideally suited for bridging the resolution gap between
molecular and cellular structural studies. However, CET is limited to a sample thickness …