Electron counting and beam-induced motion correction enable near-atomic-resolution single-particle cryo-EM

Nature Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 584-590

  Li, Xueming ^a   Mooney, Paul ^b   Zheng, Shawn ^a,c   Booth, Christopher R ^b   Braunfeld, Michael B ^a,c   Gubbens, Sander ^b   Agard, David A ^a,c   Cheng, Yifan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GATAN INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIATION INJURY; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRUS PARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; THERMOPLASMA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOTION; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; THERMOPLASMA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880848354     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2472     Document Type: Article

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