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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 581, Issue -, Pages 25-38Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2015.05.010
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Cryo electron microscopy; Cryo electron tomography; Direct electron detection; Energy filtered imaging; Aberration correction; Physical phase plates
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Macromolecular imaging and tomography of ice embedded samples has developed into a mature imaging technology, in structural biology today widely referred to simply as cryo electron microscopy.(1) While the pioneers of the technique struggled with ill-suited instruments, state-of-the-art cryo microscopes are now readily available and an increasing number of groups are producing excellent high-resolution structural data of macromolecular complexes, of cellular organelles, or the morphology of whole cells. Instrumentation developers, however, are offering yet more novel electron optical devices, such as energy filters and monochromators, aberration correctors or physical phase plates. Here we discuss how current instrumentation has already changed cryo EM, and how newly available instrumentation - often developed in other fields of electron microscopy - may further develop the use and applicability of cryo EM to the imaging of single isolated macromolecules of smaller size or molecules embedded in a crowded cellular environment. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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