Beam image-shift accelerated data acquisition for near-atomic resolution single-particle cryo-electron tomography To overcome the inherent low-throughput characteristic of CET data collection, improve the resolution of SVA and extend its application to a wider set of samples including low molecular weight targets, here, we: (1) use beam-image shift navigation to multiply the number of regions of interest imaged at each…
Mathematical Theory, Computational Challenges, and Opportunities Structural biology studies the structure and dynamics of macromolecules to broaden our knowledge about the mechanisms of life and impact the drug-discovery process. Owing to recent groundbreaking developments, chiefly in hardware technologies and data processing techniques, many new molecular structures have been elucidated to near-atomic resolutions using cryo-EM. The main goal of this article…
Unsupervised particle sorting for high-resolution single-particle cryo-EM Single-particle cryo-Electron Microscopy (EM) has become a popular technique for determining the structure of challenging biomolecules that are inaccessible to other technologies. Recent advances in automation, both in data collection and data processing, have significantly lowered the barrier for non-expert users to successfully execute the structure determination workflow. Many critical data processing…
Atomic Resolution Cryo-EM Structure of B-galactosidase We report methods to account for radiation damage and local changes in defocus and image drift, enabling visualization of atomic resolution features in a cryo-EM density map of inhibitor-bound b-galactosidase, and measuring of local flexibility of the bound inhibitor using constrained molecular dynamics simulations. Structure, 26(6), 2018.
Protein Secondary Structure Determination by Constrained Single-Particle Cryo-Electron Tomography We propose a hybrid strategy, constrained single-particle tomography (CSPT), that combines the advantages of cryo-electron tomography and subvolume averaging with those of traditional single-particle reconstruction and projection matching refinement. Its key components are the effective manipulation of images from tomographic tilt series to successfully extract high-resolution information and correct for…
A collaborative framework for 3D alignment and classification of heterogeneous subvolumes in cryo-electron tomography Journal of Structural Biology 181(2):116-27, 2013.