Cryo-electron tomography on focused ion beam lamellae transforms structural cell biology

C Berger, N Premaraj, RBG Ravelli, K Knoops… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
lamellae enables structural and ultrastructural studies of the cell interior in a near-native
state… These studies were enabled by the development and incremental improvement of lamella

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

E Villa, M Schaffer, JM Plitzko, W Baumeister - … opinion in structural biology, 2013 - Elsevier
… capturing the structures without any targeting inside the lamellae is high. However, for smaller
transformed to the coordinate frame of reference of the focused ion beam to guide milling. …

Bringing structure to cell biology with cryo-electron tomography

LN Young, E Villa - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
… the complex cellular environment using focused ion beam (FIB) … created a new field of structural
cell biology studies in which … model of the lamella that accounts for the lamella pretilt and …

Cryo-electron tomography

J Plitzko, WP Baumeister - Springer handbook of microscopy, 2019 - Springer
… of features of interest, focused ion beam milling to make the … prevent ion beam erosion at the
front face of the lamella and … and the interaction with the ion beam transforms the condensed …

[HTML][HTML] Cryo-focused ion beam for in situ structural biology: State of the art, challenges, and perspectives

AJ Noble, A de Marco - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
… thick for cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). This allows visualizing cellular ultrastructures in
… limit for imaging biological samples, if cryo-ET is required, lamellae may be prepared with a …

Cryoelectron tomography—the cell biology that came in from the cold

J Wagner, M Schaffer, R Fernández‐Busnadiego - FEBS letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… phase plate and cryo-focused ion beam milling have dramatically … In these cameras, a
scintillator layer converts electrons into … Thin lamellas are then prepared at the cryo-FIB (ion beam: …

The promise and the challenges of cryoelectron tomography

M Turk, W Baumeister - FEBS letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Focused-ion beam (FIB)-milling has become the method of … Positioned at the diffraction
plane, a phase plate converts the … lamella, using the same imaging conditions as above. While …

Sample preparation by 3D-correlative focused ion beam milling for high-resolution cryo-electron tomography

A Bieber, C Capitanio, F Wilfling, J Plitzko… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2021 - jove.com
… ) localization of the targeted structures for cryo-ET data acquisition on the lamellas in the
cryo-… the biological features of interest (Figure 7A) were then predicted using the transformation

Focused ion beams in biology

K Narayan, S Subramaniam - Nature methods, 2015 - nature.com
… specimen shapes such as lamellae or needles that can be … for exploring 3D protein
structures at near-atomic resolution to … and running an affine transform to correct for minor …

[PDF][PDF] … macromolecular complexes within thick specimens using cryo-focused-ion-beam scanning electron microscopy (cryo-FIB-SEM) and cryo-electron-tomography  …

J Harapin - 2017 - zora.uzh.ch
… fundamental processes in molecular and structural biology. … markers onto the thin lamellae,
under cryogenic conditions, … The subtomograms are then transformed according to the …