The promise and the challenges of cryo‐electron tomography

M Turk, W Baumeister - FEBS letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Structural biologists have traditionally approached cellular complexity in a reductionist
manner in which the cellular molecular components are fractionated and purified before …

Bringing structure to cell biology with cryo-electron tomography

LN Young, E Villa - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy have marked only the beginning of the
potential of this technique. To bring structure into cell biology, the modality of cryo-electron …

A Bayesian approach to single-particle electron cryo-tomography in RELION-4.0

J Zivanov, J Otón, Z Ke, A von Kügelgen, E Pyle, K Qu… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
We present a new approach for macromolecular structure determination from multiple
particles in electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET) data sets. Whereas existing subtomogram …

Parallel cryo electron tomography on in situ lamellae

F Eisenstein, H Yanagisawa, H Kashihara, M Kikkawa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In situ cryo electron tomography of cryo focused ion beam milled samples has emerged in
recent years as a powerful technique for structural studies of macromolecular complexes in …

nextPYP: a comprehensive and scalable platform for characterizing protein variability in situ using single-particle cryo-electron tomography

HF Liu, Y Zhou, Q Huang, J Piland, W Jin, J Mandel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-particle cryo-electron tomography is an emerging technique capable of determining
the structure of proteins imaged within the native context of cells at molecular resolution …

Isotropic reconstruction for electron tomography with deep learning

YT Liu, H Zhang, H Wang, CL Tao, GQ Bi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET) allows visualization of cellular structures in situ.
However, anisotropic resolution arising from the intrinsic “missing-wedge” problem has …

Multi-particle cryo-EM refinement with M visualizes ribosome-antibiotic complex at 3.5 Å in cells

D Tegunov, L Xue, C Dienemann, P Cramer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) enables macromolecular structure determination in vitro
and inside cells. In addition to aligning individual particles, accurate registration of sample …

Real-time cryo-electron microscopy data preprocessing with Warp

D Tegunov, P Cramer - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
The acquisition of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data from biological specimens must
be tightly coupled to data preprocessing to ensure the best data quality and microscope …

Correlative montage parallel array cryo-tomography for in situ structural cell biology

JE Yang, MR Larson, BS Sibert, JY Kim, D Parrell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Imaging large fields of view while preserving high-resolution structural information remains a
challenge in low-dose cryo-electron tomography. Here we present robust tools for montage …

[HTML][HTML] A structural view of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its assembly

NJ Hardenbrook, P Zhang - Current opinion in virology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Structural biology plays a vital role in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and treatment.•High-
resolution structures of SARS-CoV-2 proteins and complexes have been obtained.•In situ …