Exploring vitreous cryo-section-induced compression at the macromolecular level using electron cryo-tomography; 80S yeast ribosomes appear unaffected

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 345-349

  Pierson, Jason ^a   Ziese, Ulrike ^a   Sani, Musa ^a   Peters, Peter J ^a,b  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compression; Electron cryo tomography; Saccharomyces cerevisiae 80S ribosome; Vitreous cryo sectioning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; YEAST;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; RIBOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78751578968     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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