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 …

Cryo-electron tomography: the resolution revolution and a surge of in situ virological discoveries

Y Hong, Y Song, Z Zhang, S Li - Annual Review of Biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The recent proliferation of cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) techniques has led to the cryo-
ET resolution revolution. Meanwhile, significant efforts have been made to improve the …

CryoET of β-amyloid and tau within postmortem Alzheimer's disease brain

MAG Gilbert, N Fatima, J Jenkins, TJ O'Sullivan… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
A defining pathological feature of most neurodegenerative diseases is the assembly of
proteins into amyloid that form disease-specific structures. In Alzheimer's disease, this is …

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 …

Structure of native chromatin fibres revealed by Cryo-ET in situ

Z Hou, F Nightingale, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The structure of chromatin plays pivotal roles in regulating gene transcription, DNA
replication and repair, and chromosome segregation. This structure, however, remains …

TomoTwin: generalized 3D localization of macromolecules in cryo-electron tomograms with structural data mining

G Rice, T Wagner, M Stabrin, O Sitsel, D Prumbaum… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cryogenic-electron tomography enables the visualization of cellular environments in
extreme detail, however, tools to analyze the full amount of information contained within …

Parkinson's disease kinase LRRK2 coordinates a cell-intrinsic itaconate-dependent defence pathway against intracellular Salmonella

H Lian, D Park, M Chen, F Schueder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell-intrinsic defences constitute the first line of defence against intracellular pathogens. The
guanosine triphosphatase RAB32 orchestrates one such defence response against the …

An image processing pipeline for electron cryo‐tomography in RELION‐5

A Burt, B Toader, R Warshamanage… - FEBS Open …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electron tomography of frozen, hydrated samples allows structure determination of
macromolecular complexes that are embedded in complex environments. Provided that the …

Helical superstructures between amyloid and collagen in cardiac fibrils from a patient with AL amyloidosis

T Schulte, A Chaves-Sanjuan, V Speranzini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Systemic light chain (LC) amyloidosis (AL) is a disease where organs are damaged by an
overload of a misfolded patient-specific antibody-derived LC, secreted by an abnormal B cell …

Streamlined structure determination by cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging using TomoBEAR

N Balyschew, A Yushkevich, V Mikirtumov… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Structures of macromolecules in their native state provide unique unambiguous insights into
their functions. Cryo-electron tomography combined with subtomogram averaging …