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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] AreTomo: An integrated software package for automated marker-free, motion-corrected cryo-electron tomographic alignment and reconstruction

S Zheng, G Wolff, G Greenan, Z Chen, FGA Faas… - Journal of Structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
AreTomo, an abbreviation for Alignment and Reconstruction for Electron Tomography, is a
GPU accelerated software package that fully automates motion-corrected marker-free …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive structure and functional adaptations of the yeast nuclear pore complex

CW Akey, D Singh, C Ouch, I Echeverria, I Nudelman… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) mediate the nucleocytoplasmic transport of
macromolecules. Here we provide a structure of the isolated yeast NPC in which the inner …

Plasma FIB milling for the determination of structures in situ

C Berger, M Dumoux, T Glen, NB Yee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Structural biology studies inside cells and tissues require methods to thin vitrified specimens
to electron transparency. Until now, focused ion beams based on gallium have been used …

Convolutional networks for supervised mining of molecular patterns within cellular context

I de Teresa-Trueba, SK Goetz, A Mattausch… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomograms capture a wealth of structural information on the molecular
constituents of cells and tissues. We present DeePiCt (deep picker in context), an open …