A strategy for electron tomographic data collection and crystallographic reconstruction of biological bundles

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-256

  Sherman, Michael B ^a   Jakana, Joanita ^a   Sun, Shujun ^b   Matsudaira, Paul ^b   Chiu, Wah ^a   Schmid, Michael F ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosomal bundles; Actin; Electron cryomicroscopy; Electron crystallography; Profile fitting; Scruin; Tilt series imaging; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME; ACTIN FILAMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031413406     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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