Cryogenic electron microscopy and single-particle analysis

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 84, Issue , 2015, Pages 499-517

  Elmlund, Dominika ^a   Elmlund, Hans ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Ab initio; Electron microscopy; Image processing; Near atomic resolution; Projection matching

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYOGENIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE PARTICLE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEVICES; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MACROMOLECULE; PROCEDURES; RIBOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MACROMOLECULE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RIBOSOMES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84930746197     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060614-034226     Document Type: Review

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