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 …

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 …

A cryo-FIB lift-out technique enables molecular-resolution cryo-ET within native Caenorhabditis elegans tissue

M Schaffer, S Pfeffer, J Mahamid, S Kleindiek… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cryo-focused ion beam milling of frozen-hydrated cells has recently provided
unprecedented insights into the inner space of cells. In combination with cryo-electron …

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 …

Integrated multimodality microscope for accurate and efficient target-guided cryo-lamellae preparation

W Li, J Lu, K Xiao, M Zhou, Y Li, X Zhang, Z Li, L Gu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is a revolutionary technique for resolving the structure
of subcellular organelles and macromolecular complexes in their cellular context. However …

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 …

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 …

Cryo-focused ion beam sample preparation for imaging vitreous cells by cryo-electron tomography

M Schaffer, BD Engel, T Laugks, J Mahamid… - Bio …, 2015 - bio-protocol.org
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) is a well-established technique for imaging cellular and
molecular structures at sub-nanometer resolution. As the method is limited to samples that …

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 …

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 …