Efficient 3D-CTF correction for cryo-electron tomography using NovaCTF improves subtomogram averaging resolution to 3.4 Å

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 187-195

  Turoňová, Beata ^a   Schur, Florian K M ^a   Wan, William ^a   Briggs, John A G ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast transfer function; Cryo electron microscopy; Defocus; Reconstruction; Subtomogram averaging; Tomography; Weighted back projection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOVA CONTRAST TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONTRAST TRANSFER FUNCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKFLOW; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CAPSID PROTEIN;

CAPSID PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIV-1; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 85026294137     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2017.07.007     Document Type: Article

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