Cryo-electron tomography: An ideal method to study membrane-associated proteins

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1726, 2017, Pages

  Dunstone, Michelle A ^a   de Marco, Alex ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryo electron microscopy; Cryo electron tomography; Membraneassociated proteins; Structural biology; Sub tomogram averaging

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; PROTEIN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DEVICES; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

EID: 85021065069     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0210     Document Type: Review

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