Determination of protein structure at 8.5Å resolution using cryo-electron tomography and sub-tomogram averaging

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 394-400

  Schur, Florian K M ^a   Hagen, Wim J H ^a   De Marco, Alex ^a,b   Briggs, John A G ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b FEI Munich ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Capsid; Contrast transfer function; Cryo electron tomography; Retrovirus; Sub tomogram averaging

Indexed keywords

GAG PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASON PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBTOMOGRAM AVERAGING;

MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; MIRIDAE;

CAPSID; CONTRAST TRANSFER FUNCTION; CRYO-ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; RETROVIRUS; SUB-TOMOGRAM AVERAGING;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MASON-PFIZER MONKEY VIRUS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84888074636     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.10.015     Document Type: Article

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