Preservation of high resolution protein structure by cryo-electron microscopy of vitreous sections

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-47

  Sader, Kasim ^a,b   Studer, Daniel ^c   Zuber, Benoît ^d   Gnaegi, Helmut ^e   Trinick, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e Diatome Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cryo section; Section resolution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYO-SECTION; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH RESOLUTION; NANOMETRES; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; SECTION RESOLUTION;

DAMAGE DETECTION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; GLUCOSE; HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFEROMETRY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DEXTRAN; LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FROZEN SECTION; PRESSURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE SECTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EGG WHITE; FEMALE; MURAMIDASE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 70449127057     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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