A "flip-flop" rotation stage for routine dual-axis electron cryotomography

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 288-297

  Iancu, Cristina V ^a   Wright, Elizabeth R ^a   Benjamin, Jordan ^a   Tivol, William F ^a   Dias, D Prabha ^a   Murphy, Gavin E ^a   Morrison, Robert C ^b   Heymann, J Bernard ^c   Jensen, Grant J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GATAN INC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

cryoEM; Cryoholder; Dual axis; Electron microscopy; Missing wedge; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 25144519215     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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