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 …

Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

W Wan, JAG Briggs - Methods in enzymology, 2016 - Elsevier
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows 3D volumes to be reconstructed from a set of 2D
projection images of a tilted biological sample. It allows densities to be resolved in 3D that …

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 …

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 **, 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 …

emClarity: software for high-resolution cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

BA Himes, P Zhang - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Macromolecular complexes are intrinsically flexible and often challenging to purify for
structure determination by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Such …

Critical differences in 3D atomic structure of individual ligand-protected nanocrystals in solution

BH Kim, J Heo, S Kim, CF Reboul, H Chun, D Kang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Precise three-dimensional (3D) atomic structure determination of individual nanocrystals is a
prerequisite for understanding and predicting their physical properties. Nanocrystals from …

MiLoPYP: self-supervised molecular pattern mining and particle localization in situ

Q Huang, Y Zhou, A Bartesaghi - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
Cryo-electron tomography allows the routine visualization of cellular landscapes in three
dimensions at nanometer-range resolutions. When combined with single-particle …

High-throughput cryo-ET structural pattern mining by unsupervised deep iterative subtomogram clustering

X Zeng, A Kahng, L Xue, J Mahamid… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Cryoelectron tomography directly visualizes heterogeneous macromolecular structures in
their native and complex cellular environments. However, existing computer-assisted …

Dynamo: a flexible, user-friendly development tool for subtomogram averaging of cryo-EM data in high-performance computing environments

D Castaño-Díez, M Kudryashev, M Arheit… - Journal of structural …, 2012 - Elsevier
Dynamo is a new software package for subtomogram averaging of cryo Electron
Tomography (cryo-ET) data with three main goals: first, Dynamo allows user-transparent …

Molecular architecture of native HIV-1 gp120 trimers

J Liu, A Bartesaghi, MJ Borgnia, G Sapiro… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
The envelope glycoproteins (Env) of human and simian immunodeficiency viruses (HIV and
SIV, respectively) mediate virus binding to the cell surface receptor CD4 on target cells to …