Cryo-electron tomography: The challenge of doing structural biology in situ

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-419

  Lučić, Vladan ^a   Rigort, Alexander ^a   Baumeister, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ACTIN FILAMENT; BACTERIAL CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNAPSE VESICLE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84884239080     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201304193     Document Type: Review

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