Graphene-Assisted Electron-Based Imaging of Individual Organic and Biological Macromolecules: Structure and Transient Dynamics

DY Zhang, Z Xu, JY Li, S Mao, H Wang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Characterizing the structures, interactions, and dynamics of molecules in their native liquid
state is a long-existing challenge in chemistry, molecular science, and biophysics with …

Graphene sandwich–based biological specimen preparation for cryo-EM analysis

J Xu, X Gao, L Zheng, X Jia, K Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
High-quality specimen preparation plays a crucial role in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-
EM) structural analysis. In this study, we have developed a reliable and convenient …

Applications of microscopy and small angle scattering techniques for the characterisation of supramolecular gels

CRM MacDonald, ER Draper - Beilstein Journal of Organic …, 2024 - beilstein-journals.org
When evaluating soft self-assembling materials for use in any application, the structural or
morphological characterisation is highly important. We know that the hierarchal molecular …

Small LEA proteins mitigate air-water interface damage to fragile cryo-EM samples during plunge freezing

KM Abe, G Li, Q He, T Grant, CJ Lim - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Air-water interface (AWI) interactions during cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) sample
preparation cause significant sample loss, hindering structural biology research. Organisms …

Self-assembled superstructure alleviates air-water interface effect in cryo-EM

L Zheng, J Xu, W Wang, X Gao, C Zhao, W Guo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has been widely used to reveal the structures of
proteins at atomic resolution. One key challenge is that almost all proteins are predominantly …

Functionalized graphene-oxide grids enable high-resolution cryo-EM structures of the SNF2h-nucleosome complex without crosslinking

US Chio, E Palovcak, AAA Smith, H Autzen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-particle cryo-EM is widely used to determine enzyme-nucleosome complex
structures. However, cryo-EM sample preparation remains challenging and inconsistent due …

Fabrication of Monolayer Graphene-Coated Grids for Cryoelectron Microscopy

B Basanta, W Chen, DE Pride, GC Lander - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2023 - jove.com
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) has emerged as a powerful technique for probing
the atomic structure of macromolecular complexes. Sample preparation for cryoEM requires …

[HTML][HTML] Graphene in cryo-EM specimen optimization

N Liu, HW Wang - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Specimen preparation is a critical but challenging step in high-resolution cryogenic electron
microscopy (cryo-EM) structural analysis of macromolecules. In the past decade, graphene …

[HTML][HTML] Lipids and proteins: Insights into the dynamics of assembly, recognition, condensate formation. What is still missing?

PG Argudo - Biointerphases, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Lipid membranes and proteins, which are part of us throughout our lives, have been studied
for decades. However, every year, new discoveries show how little we know about them. In a …

CryoEM grid preparation: a closer look at advancements and impact of preparation mode and new approaches

IJ Hirst, WJR Thomas, RA Davies… - Biochemical Society …, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Sample preparation can present a significant hurdle within single particle cryo-electron
microscopy (cryoEM), resulting in issues with reproducibility, data quality or an inability to …