Three-dimensional electron microscopy at molecular resolution

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 33, Issue , 2004, Pages 141-155

  Subramaniam, Sriram ^a   Milne, Jacqueline L S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Cryo electron microscopy; Electron tomography; Three dimensional imaging; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 3042548142     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.33.110502.140339     Document Type: Review

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