Cryo‐electron tomography—the cell biology that came in from the cold

J Wagner, M Schaffer, R Fernández‐Busnadiego - FEBS letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cryo‐electron tomography (cryo‐ET) provides high‐resolution 3D views into cells pristinely
preserved by vitrification. Recent technical advances such as direct electron detectors, the …

Cell wall synthesis and remodelling dynamics determine division site architecture and cell shape in Escherichia coli

PP Navarro, A Vettiger, VY Ananda, PM Llopis… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The bacterial division apparatus catalyses the synthesis and remodelling of septal
peptidoglycan (sPG) to build the cell wall layer that fortifies the daughter cell poles …

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 …

The integrative role of cryo electron microscopy in molecular and cellular structural biology

I Orlov, AG Myasnikov, L Andronov… - Biology of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
After gradually moving away from preparation methods prone to artefacts such as plastic
embedding and negative staining for cell sections and single particles, the field of cryo …

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 …

ELI trifocal microscope: a precise system to prepare target cryo-lamellae for in situ cryo-ET study

S Li, Z Wang, X Jia, T Niu, J Zhang, G Yin, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has become a powerful approach to study the high-
resolution structure of cellular macromolecular machines in situ. However, the current …

PIE-scope, integrated cryo-correlative light and FIB/SEM microscopy

S Gorelick, G Buckley, G Gervinskas, TK Johnson… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is emerging as a revolutionary method for resolving the
structure of macromolecular complexes in situ. However, sample preparation for in situ Cryo …

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 …

In situ structure of intestinal apical surface reveals nanobristles on microvilli

H Zhu, M Li, R Zhao, M Li, Y Chai… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Microvilli are actin-bundle-supported membrane protrusions essential for absorption,
secretion, and sensation. Microvilli defects cause gastrointestinal disorders; however …

An introduction to cryo‐FIB‐SEM cross‐sectioning of frozen, hydrated Life Science samples

MF Hayles, DAM De Winter - Journal of Microscopy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of cryo‐techniques to the focused ion‐beam scanning electron microscope
(FIB‐SEM) has brought new opportunities to study frozen, hydrated samples from the field of …