The blood-sucking reduviid bug Triatoma infestans, one of the most important vector of American human trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) is infected by the Triatoma virus (TrV). TrV has been classified as a member of the Cripavirus genus (type cricket paralysis virus) in the Dicistroviridae family. This work presents the three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reconstruction of the TrV capsid at about 25 A resolution and its use as a template for phasing the available crystallographic data by the molecular replacement method. The main structural differences between the cryo-EM reconstruction of TrV and other two viruses, one from the same family, the cricket paralysis virus (CrPV) and the human rhinovirus 16 from the Picornaviridae family are presented and discussed.

Cryo electron microscopy and electron tomography will play a crucial role in the future of drug development.. The completion of the human genome project has focused tremendous interest in determining the structure and function of the tens of thousands of proteins that the genome encodes. Current structural determination techniques are difficult, time-consuming and not generally applicable to all proteins.. Cryo Electron Tomography (ET) is, by comparison, relatively straightforward and fast. While it does not achieve atomic scale resolution, it can resolve tertiary and quaternary structure - the level at which much of the critical interaction between proteins occurs. Because it does not require crystallisation, it is applicable to most proteins, including large proteins and protein complexes, flexible proteins and membrane proteins. Because it operates on a single protein molecule, it can provide information that is critical to drug development and unavailable from other techniques, for example, ...

Author: Lucic, V. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Published in Print: 2008-08; Keywords: cryo-electron tomography; correlative light microscopy; electron microscopy; Title: Cryo-electron tomography of cells: connecting structure and function

Combined Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Spin Resonance Studies of Egg Phosphatidylchloline Liposomes Loaded with a Carboranyl Compound Intended for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy ...

Foamy viruses (FV) belong to the genus Spumavirus, which forms a distinct lineage in the Retroviridae family. Although the infection in natural hosts and zoonotic transmission to humans is asymptomatic, FVs can replicate well in human cells making it an attractive gene therapy vector candidate. Here we present cryo-electron microscopy and (cryo-)electron tomography ultrastructural data on purified prototype FV (PFV) and PFV infected cells. Mature PFV particles have a distinct morphology with a capsid of constant dimension as well as a less ordered shell of density between the capsid and the membrane likely formed by the Gag N-terminal domain and the cytoplasmic part of the Env leader peptide gp18LP. The viral membrane contains trimeric Env glycoproteins partly arranged in interlocked hexagonal assemblies. In situ 3D reconstruction by subtomogram averaging of wild type Env and of a Env gp48TM- gp80SU cleavage site mutant showed a similar spike architecture as well as stabilization of the hexagonal

The Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to the three scientists for developing a technique to produce images of the molecules of life frozen in time. The technique, called cryo-electron microscopy, allows biomolecules to be visualised in their natural configuration for the first time, triggering a revolution in biochemistry, according to the Nobel committee. The latest versions of the technology mean scientists can record biochemical processes as they unfold in film-like sequences.. Richard Henderson, a Scottish scientist and professor at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, was the first to successfully modify the electron microscope to image a protein involved in photosynthesis, by using a weaker beam and taking pictures from many angles. Joachim Frank, a German-born professor at Columbia University in New York, developed mathematical algorithms that allowed the method to be applied to a wider array of molecules. Jacques Dubochet, who is Swiss and an honorary professor at the ...

Bunyaviridae is a large family of viruses that have gained attention as emerging viruses because many members cause serious disease in humans, with an increasing number of outbreaks. These negative-strand RNA viruses possess a membrane envelope covered by glycoproteins. The virions are pleiomorphic and thus have not been amenable to structural characterization using common techniques that involve averaging of electron microscopic images. Here, we determined the three-dimensional structure of a member of the Bunyaviridae family by using electron cryotomography. The genome, incorporated as a complex with the nucleoprotein inside the virions, was seen as a thread-like structure partially interacting with the viral membrane. Although no ordered nucleocapsid was observed, lateral interactions between the two membrane glycoproteins determine the structure of the viral particles. In the most regular particles, the glycoprotein protrusions, or spikes, were seen to be arranged on an icosahedral ...

Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) allows the visualization of cellular structures under close-to-life conditions and at molecular resolution. While it is inherently a static approach, yielding struct

cryo-electron tomography | This blog addresses the various applications and techniques to be discovered in the fields of cathodoluminescence and correlative light and electron microscopy.

We and others recently developed rapid tilt-series acquisition methods for cryo-electron tomography on a Titan Krios G3i equipped with a single axis holder and a K-series direct electron detector and showed that one of these, the fast-incremental single exposure (FISE) method, significantly accelerates tilt-series acquisition when compared to traditional methods while preserving the quality of the images. Here, we characterize the behavior of our single axis holder in detail during a FISE experiment to optimally balance data quality with speed. We explain our methodology in detail so others can characterize their own stages, and conclude with recommendations for projects with different resolution goals. ...

Cryo-electron tomography is an important tool to study structures of macromolecular complexes in close to native states. A whole cell cryo electron tomogram contains structural information of all its macromolecular complexes. However, extracting this information remains challenging, and relies on sophisticated image processing, in particular for template-free particle extraction, classification and averaging. To develop these methods it is crucial to realistically simulate tomograms of crowded cellular environments, which can then serve as ground truth models for assessing and optimizing methods for detection of complexes in cell tomograms. We present a framework to generate crowded mixtures of macromolecular complexes for realistically simulating cryo electron tomograms including noise and image distortions due to the missing-wedge effects. Simulated tomograms are then used for assessing the template-free Difference-of-Gaussian (DoG) particle-picking method to detect complexes of different shapes and

Now we can see the intricate details of the biomolecules in every corner of our cells, in every drop of our body fluids, says Sara Snogerup Linse, a Swedish scientist who chairs the Nobel committee for chemistry. Frank, who was born in Germany during World War II, received degrees from the Universities of Freiburg and Munich before earning a doctorate in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1970. Over the next few decades, he held positions at a number of academic institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, all the while researching the computational-imaging methods that eventually made cryo-electron microscopy possible. He joined Columbia as a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and the Department of Biological Sciences in 2008. In his own research, Frank has used cryo-electron microscopy to investigate the interactions between ribosomes - which serve as the protein factories of the cell - and other molecules. In a 2013 ...

Gag, the major structural component of the type 1 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), comprises the matrix (MA), capsid (CA), nucleocapsid (NC), and p6 proteins, as well as the SP1 and SP2 spacer peptides. In the immature HIV-1 virion, the domains of Gag are arranged radially with the amino-terminus of MA at the membrane. Mature viral particles are formed when Gag is proteolytically cleaved, allowing CA to reassemble into the viral core, which contains NC bound to genomic RNA. While the structures of nearly every HIV-1 protein are known in atomic detail from X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy, many questions remain about the intermolecular interactions in both the immature and mature particles. We have obtained three-dimensional structures of individual immature and mature HIV-1 virus-like particles by cryoelectron tomography. Reconstructions of the mature particles revealed diverse core morphologies with a preference for conical shapes consistent with 5,7 fullerene cones. Uniform ...

Dearborn AD, Wall JS, Cheng N, Heymann JB, Kajava AV, Varkey J, Langen R, Steven AC (2016) Alpha-synuclein amyloid fibrils with two entwined, asymmetrically associated protofibrils. J Biol Chem. 291(5): 2310 - 2318.. DiMattia MA, Watts NR, Cheng N, Huang R, Heymann JB, Grimes JM, Wingfield PT, Stuart DI, Steven AC (2016) The structure of hiv-1 rev filaments suggests a bilateral model for rev-rre assembly. Structure. 24(7): 1068 - 1080.. Fontana J, Cardone G, Heymann JB, Winkler DC and Steven AC (2012) Structural Changes in Influenza Virus at Low pH Characterized by Cryo-Electron Tomography. Journal of Virology, 86(6): 2919 - 2929.. Grünewald K, Desai P, Winkler DC, Heymann JB, Belnap DM, Baumeister W and Steven AC (2003). Three-dimensional structure of herpes simplex virus from cryo-electron tomography. Science 302(5649): 1396 - 1398.. Harris A, Cardone G, Winkler DC, Heymann JB, Brecher M, White JM, Steven AC (2006) Influenza virus pleiomorphy characterized by cryoelectron tomography. ...

The basic principle of electron crystallography is to calculate a 3D density map by combining the amplitudes obtained from electron diffraction patterns with the experimental phases calculated from images of two-dimensional crystals of membrane or soluble proteins. This technology is very well developed and has produced a number of atomic models of membrane proteins in a lipid environment. Focused on comprehensive experimental protocols, Electron Crystallography of Soluble and Membrane Proteins: Methods and Protocols covers the entire range of techniques used in electron crystallography, including protein sample preparation, 2D crystallization, and screening in negative stain over electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) and data processing, as well as modeling of conformational changes. Additional chapters provide perspective on past, present, and future challenges as well as complementary methods. Written for the popular Methods in Molecular Biology™ series, the work contains the kind of detailed ...

Oda and Yanagisawa report 3D cryo-electron tomography structures of Z-disc from porcine cardiac myofibrils in relaxed and activated states. They show that α-actinin dimers exhibit contraction dependent swinging and sliding motions in response to a global twist in the F-actin lattice. These findings provide insights into conformational changes of the Z-disc in the context of active myofibrils.. ...

The 5-untranslated region of the hepatitis C virus genome contains an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) that initiates cap-independent translation of the viral RNA. Until now, the structural characterization of the entire (IRES) remained limited to cryo-electron microscopy reconstructions of the (IRES) bound to different cellular partners. Here we report an atomic model of free full-length hepatitis C virus (IRES) refined by selection against small-angle X-ray scattering data that incorporates the known structures of different fragments. We found that an ensemble of conformers reproduces small-angle X-ray scattering data better than a single structure suggesting in combination with molecular dynamics simulations that the hepatitis C virus (IRES) is an articulated molecule made of rigid parts that move relative to each other. Principal component analysis on an ensemble of physically accessible conformers of hepatitis C virus (IRES) revealed dominant collective motions in the molecule, which may

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the chemical energy currency of biology, is synthesized in eukaryotic cells primarily by the mitochondrial ATP synthase. ATP synthases operate by a rotary catalytic mechanism where proton translocation through the membrane-inserted FO region is coupled to ATP synthesis in the catalytic F1 region via rotation of a central rotor subcomplex. We report here single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) analysis of the bovine mitochondrial ATP synthase. Combining cryo-EM data with bioinformatic analysis allowed us to determine the fold of the a subunit, suggesting a proton translocation path through the FO region that involves both the a and b subunits. 3D classification of images revealed seven distinct states of the enzyme that show different modes of bending and twisting in the intact ATP synthase. Rotational fluctuations of the c8-ring within the FO region support a Brownian ratchet mechanism for proton-translocation-driven rotation in ATP synthases.. ...

The structure of a TMEM16 scramblase, which functions as a lipid transporter and plays an important role in blood coagulation, was already known from previous work. Researchers of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich have now also succeeded in decrypting the structure of the chloride channel TMEM16A. To do so, the team led by Professor Raimund Dutzler used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a technique whose pioneers were recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The molecular architecture of this membrane protein is crucial for the targeted development of drugs for treating cystic fibrosis, emphasizes Dutzler.. Discovery of a novel activation mechanism. The chloride channel TMEM16A can be found in different organs of the body and plays a key role in the secretion of chloride in the lung, the contraction of smooth muscles, and the perception of pain. How its structure differs from closely related scramblases of the same family and how the protein is activated by ...

Author: Walz, J. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Published in Print: 1999; Keywords: Electron microscopy; Icosahedral capsids; Image analysis; Thermoplasma.; Degradation; Microscopy; Resolution; Products.; Biochemistry & Biophysics in Current Contents(R)/Life Sciences.; Title: Capsids of tricorn protease studied by electron cryomicroscopy

The investigation of the coacervation (self-aggregation) behavior of biomicrogels which can potentially be used as drug carriers is an important topic, because self-aggregation can not only cause loss of activity, but also toxicity and immunogenicity. To study this effect microgels from elastin-like recombinamer are synthesized using miniemulsion technique. The existence of coacervation for such microgels, at different concentrations and temperatures, is studied and proved by cryo-field emission scanning clectron microscopy (cryo-FESEM), cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM), and by a novel 1H high-resolution magic angle sample spinning (HRMAS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and relaxometry methods. The findings by 1H HRMAS NMR spectroscopy and relaxometry show simultaneous processes of volume phase temperature transition and coacervation with different sensitivity for hydrophobic and hydrophilic amino acid side-chains in the microgel. The coacervation process is more ...

Related Articles Cryo-EM structure of the small subunit of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 May 20;111(20):7284-9 Authors: Kaushal PS, Sharma MR, Booth TM, Haque EM, Tung CS, Sanbonmatsu KY, Spremulli LL, Agrawal RK Abstract The mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) are responsible for synthesizing 13 membrane proteins that form…

High axial aspect crystalline nanomaterials have emerged as polymeric building blocks for the construction of supermaterials. In contrast to this form, amorphous nanospheres have remained largely untapped. This is especially peculiar in the context of material assembly, due to the wide range of opportunities they offer by virtue of their soft particle characteristics, high volume ratio at low solid content and their highly swollen and accessible structure. In the context of cellulose, these colloids represent a new field in the family of nanocelluloses. We report an organic solvent-free, heterogeneous and simple synthesis of spherical carboxylated nanoparticles bearing a distinctive, amorphous outer shell structure. The particle shape is evaluated by atomic force microscopy, cryo-transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering and small-angle X-ray scattering. The soft shell structure of the particles and their responsiveness to ionic strength and pH are quantified by the combination ...

Cryo-Electron Three-Dimensional Imaging of Soft Materials. Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (Cryo-TEM) is used to characterize labile systems that are not allowed in room temperature electron microscopy due to a high vapor pressure. Although soft materials are characterized with cryo-TEM, the original structure of the sample is lost. This is because a three-dimensional (3D) structure is projected to a two-dimensional (2D) image. These researchers used a single-particle construction method to visualize conventional 2D images to 3D microstructures with a high resolution. They are exploring an electron tomography method to construct 3D images. This method combines a series of 2D images that are collected at different angles and constructs a 3D image. To do this, mathematical algorithms of cross-correlation and an image alignment must be combined and solved simultaneously. Computer calculations are indispensable in structure characterization study and allow researchers to understand the ...

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I am professor in electron cryotomography and bacterial chemotaxis. I am interested in understanding how microbes sense and respond to their environment. In order to gain insight into the structure and function of the molecular complexes involved in these behaviors, my lab uses electron cryotomography (ECT). This technique allows us to directly study microbes in their native state at resolutions capable of visualizing individual proteins.

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Sindbis virus (SINV) is an enveloped, mosquito-borne alphavirus. Here we generated and characterized a fluorescent protein-tagged (FP-tagged) SINV and found that the presence of the FP-tag (mCherry) affected glycoprotein transport to the plasma membrane whereas the specific infectivity of the virus was not affected. We examined the virions by transmission electron cryo-microscopy and determined the arrangement of the FP-tag on the surface of the virion. The fluorescent proteins are arranged icosahedrally on the virus surface in a stable manner that did not adversely affect receptor binding or fusion functions of E2 and E1, respectively. The delay in surface expression of the viral glycoproteins, as demonstrated by flow cytometry analysis, contributed to a 10-fold reduction in mCherry-E2 virus titer. There is a 1:1 ratio of mCherry to E2 incorporated into the virion, which leads to a strong fluorescence signal and thus facilitates single-particle tracking experiments. We used the FP-tagged virus for high

ATP, the universal energy currency of cells, is produced by F-type ATP synthases, which are ancient, membrane-bound nanomachines. F-type ATP synthases use the energy of a transmembrane electrochemical gradient to generate ATP by rotary catalysis. Protons moving across the membrane drive a rotor ring composed of 8-15 c-subunits. A central stalk transmits the rotation of the c-ring to the catalytic F1 head, where a series of conformational changes results in ATP synthesis. A key unresolved question in this fundamental process is how protons pass through the membrane to drive ATP production. Mitochondrial ATP synthases form V-shaped homodimers in cristae membranes. Here we report the structure of a native and active mitochondrial ATP synthase dimer, determined by single-particle electron cryomicroscopy at 6.2 Å resolution. Our structure shows four long, horizontal membrane-intrinsic α-helices in the a-subunit, arranged in two hairpins at an angle of approximately 70° relative to the c-ring ...

Telomeres are large nucleoproteins structures that cap the ends of chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. When a cell divides, a small portion of the telomere is lost due to the inherently incomplete process of genome replication. If left unchecked, over time the telomeres will reach a critically short length and the cell will face genomic instability, deterioration or death. To offset this shortening, an essential enzyme called telomerase rebuilds the telomeres by synthesizing new telomeric DNA repeats at chromosome ends. Kelly Nguyens group, in the LMBs Structural Studies Division, has solved the first complete atomic model of this enzyme and discovered a histone dimer as novel telomerase subunits.

December 9th, 2019 by Dirksen E. Bussiere. Nature Chemical Biology, Published online: 09 December 2019; doi:10.1038/s41589-019-0411-6. The crystal and cryo-electron microscopy structure analysis of the DCAF15-DDB1-DDA1-indisulam-RBM39 complex revealed the detailed mechanism of action of indisulam-induced RBM39 degradation and defined an α-helical degron motif in RBM39 ...

Miller, A. N.*, Vaisey, G.*, & Long, S. B. (2019). Molecular mechanisms of gating in the calcium-activated chloride channel bestrophin. eLife (Abstract , open state Cryo-EM map , Atomic Coordinates). *A. N. Miller and G. Vaisey are co-first authors.. Vaisey, G., & Long, S. B. (2018). An allosteric mechanism of inactivation in the calcium-dependent chloride channel BEST1. The Journal of General Physiology, jgp.201812190. (Abstract). Hou, X., Burstein, S. R., & Long, S. B. (2018). Structures reveal opening of the store-operated calcium channel Orai. eLife, 7. (Manuscript , Atomic Coordinates). Baradaran, R., Wang, C., Siliciano, A. F., & Long, S. B. (2018). Cryo-EM structures of fungal and metazoan mitochondrial calcium uniporters. Nature, 559(7715), 580-584. (Abstract , Atomic Coordinates , Cryo-EM map). Melinda Diver, Leanne Pedi, Akiko Koide, Shohei Koide, Stephen B. Long (2018). Atomic structure of the eukaryotic intramembrane RAS methyltransferase ICMT. Nature. Jan 25; 553(7689):526-529. ...

The issue of protein dynamics and its implications in the biological function of proteins are arousing greater and greater interest in different fields of molecular biology. In cryo-electron tomography experiments one may take several snapshots of a given biological macromolecule. In principle, a large enough collection of snapshots of the molecule may then be used to calculate its equilibrium configuration in terms of the experimentally accessible degrees of freedom and, hence, to estimate its potential energy. This information would be crucial in order to analyze the biological functions of biomolecules by directly accessing the relevant dynamical indicators. In this article, we analyze the results of cryo-electron tomography experiments performed on monoclonal murine IgG2a antibodies. We measure the equilibrium distribution of the molecule in terms of the relevant angular coordinates and build a mechanical model of the antibody dynamics. This approach enables us to derive an explicit ...

For example, the researchers now know that most of the fibers are usually bound to the virus head rather than extended, as was previously thought. That those fibers are in a dynamic equilibrium between bound and extended states is also new. Molineux said that the idea that phages walk over the cell surface was previously proposed, but their paper provides the first experimental evidence that this is the case. This is also the first time that scientists have made actual images showing how the viruss tail extends into the host - the very action that allows it to infect a cell with its DNA.. I first hypothesized that T7 made an extended tail more than 10 years ago, said Molineux, but this is the first irrefutable experimental evidence for the idea and provides the first images of what it looks like.. The researchers used a combination of genetics and cryo-electron tomography to image the infection process. Cryo-electron tomography is a process similar to a CT scan, but it is scaled to study ...

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ALA is a plant-derived n-3 FA readily available in certain plant oils such as flaxseed, soybean and canola oil. Epidemiological studies have shown an inverse correlation between dietary ALA and cardiovascular events,11,30,31 although the molecular mechanisms of this protection are not completely known. Our group has investigated the molecular basis of several cardio-protective effects of ALA, showing that at least some of its effects are mediated by its action on endothelial cells, leukocytes and platelets.9,10,19 In this study, we have focused in particular on platelet adhesion to vWF under high-shear conditions, which represents the first step mediating platelet activation under arterial flow and is especially important in stenosed (atherosclerotic) arteries, where shear can reach extremely high values (,5,000 s−1).7,32,33. Here we show for the first time that ALA is able to partially inhibit platelet adhesion to vWF under a shear flow of 10,000 s−1, when whole blood is pre-incubated for 1 ...

Joachim Frank (Columbia University, New York, USA) is a pioneer of single particle reconstruction, which is the most used reconstruction method for 3DEM structures in EMDB and EM entries in PDB. And also, he is a develper of Spider, which is one of the most famous software in this field, and is used for some EM Navigor data (e.g. map projection/slice images ...

The new LSV laser-interferometric vibrometer is the ideal instrument for accurate, non-contact determination of temporal changes in the positions of objects or surfaces of arbitrary roughness

Biology is a challenging and complicated mess. Understanding this challenging complexity is the realm of the biological sciences: Trying to make sense of the massive, messy data in terms of discovering patterns and revealing its underlying general rules. Among the most powerful mathematical tools for organizing and helping to structure complex, heterogeneous and noisy data are the tools provided by multivariate statistical analysis (MSA) approaches. These eigenvector/eigenvalue data-compression approaches were first introduced to electron microscopy (EM) in 1980 to help sort out different views of macromolecules in a micrograph. After 35 years of continuous use and developments, new MSA applications are still being proposed regularly. The speed of computing has increased dramatically in the decades since their first use in electron microscopy. However, we have also seen a possibly even more rapid increase in the size and complexity of the EM data sets to be studied. MSA computations had thus become a

Heterotrimeric AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is crucial for energy homeostasis of eukaryotic cells and organisms. Here we report on (i) bacterial expression of untagged mammalian AMPK isoform combinations, all containing gamma(1), (ii) an automated four-dimensional purification protocol, and (iii) biophysical characterization of AMPK heterotrimers by small angle x-ray scattering in solution (SAXS), transmission and scanning transmission electron microscopy (TEM, STEM), and mass spectrometry (MS). AMPK in solution at low concentrations (~1 mg/ml) largely consisted of individual heterotrimers in TEM analysis, revealed a precise 1:1:1 stoichiometry of the three subunits in MS, and behaved as an ideal solution in SAXS. At higher AMPK concentrations, SAXS revealed concentration-dependent, reversible dimerization of AMPK heterotrimers and formation of higher oligomers, also confirmed by STEM mass measurements. Single particle reconstruction and averaging by SAXS and TEM, respectively, revealed similar

We demonstrate the use of a hole-free phase plate (HFPP) for magnetic imaging in transmission electron microscopy by mapping the domain structure in PrDyFeB samples. The HFPP, a Zernike-like imaging method, allows for detecting magnetic signals in-focus to correlate the sample crystal structure and defects with the local magnetization topography, and to evidence stray fields protruding from the sample. Experimental and simulated results are shown and are compared with conventional Fresnel (out-of-focus) images without a phase plate. A key advantage of HFPP imaging is that the technique is free from the reference wave distortion from long-range fields affecting electron holography ...

Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging technology that is revolutionizing structural biology; the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was recently awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.. Cryo-electron microscopes produce a large number of very noisy two-dimensional projection images of individual frozen molecules. Unlike related methods, such as computed tomography (CT), the viewing direction of each image is unknown. The unknown directions, together with extreme levels of noise and additional technical factors, make the determination of the structure of molecules challenging.. While other methods for structure determination, such as x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), measure ensembles of molecules, cryo-electron microscopes produce images of individual molecules. Therefore, cryo-EM could potentially be used to study ...

Ribosomes are large ribonucleoprotein complexes which incorporate amino acids into peptide chains during translational process in all types of living cells. The eukaryotic ribosome is larger compared to its prokaryotic counterpart. The size differences are due to a larger protein part and that the rRNA contains eukaryote specific expansion segments (ES). Cryo-EM reconstruction has visualized many ES on the ribosomal surface which have given clues about function and structural features. However, the secondary structures of most ES are unknown or ill defined. In this thesis, the secondary and also to a certain extent the tertiary structures of several ES are determined by using computational methods and biochemical experimental techniques. The juxtaposition of ES6 close to ES3 in the Cryo-EM image of the yeast ribosome suggested that ES3 and ES6 might interact. A computational analysis of more than 2900 sequences shows that a complementary helical region of seven to nine contiguous base pairs can ...

Title: Inverse Problems and Unsupervised Learning with applications to Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) Abstract: Cryo-EM is an imaging technology that is revolutionizing structural biology; the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was recently awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution. Cryo-electron microscopes produce a large number of very noisy two-dimensional projection images of individual frozen molecules. Unlike related methods, such as computed tomography (CT), the viewing direction of each image is unknown. The unknown directions, together with extreme levels of noise and additional technical factors, make the determination of the structure of molecules challenging. While other methods for structure determination, such as x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), measure ensembles of molecules together, cryo-EM produces measurements ...

Title: Inverse Problems and Unsupervised Learning with applications to Cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) Abstract: Cryo-EM is an imaging technology that is revolutionizing structural biology; the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was recently awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution. Cryo-electron microscopes produce a large number of very noisy two-dimensional projection images of individual frozen molecules. Unlike related methods, such as computed tomography (CT), the viewing direction of each image is unknown. The unknown directions, together with extreme levels of noise and additional technical factors, make the determination of the structure of molecules challenging. While other methods for structure determination, such as x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), measure ensembles of molecules together, cryo-EM produces measurements ...

Microtubules are dynamic cytoskeletal structures important for cell division, polarity, and motility and are therefore major targets for anticancer and antiparasite drugs. In the invasive forms of apicomplexan parasites, which are highly polarized and often motile cells, exceptionally stable subpellicular microtubules determine the shape of the parasite, and serve as tracks for vesicle transport. We used cryoelectron tomography to image cytoplasmic structures in three dimensions within intact, rapidly frozen Plasmodium sporozoites. This approach revealed microtubule walls that are extended at the luminal side by an additional 3 nm compared to microtubules of mammalian cells. Fourier analysis revealed an 8-nm longitudinal periodicity of the luminal constituent, suggesting the presence of a molecule interacting with tubulin dimers. In silico generation and analysis of microtubule models confirmed this unexpected topology. Microtubules from extracted sporozoites and Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites ...

Genetic labelling of viruses with a fluorophore allows to study their life cycle in real time, without the need for fixation or staining techniques. Within the family Flaviviridae, options for genetic labelling of non-structural proteins exist. Yet, no system to genetically label structural proteins has been put forward to date. Taking advantage of a previously described site within the structural protein E2, a fluorophore was introduced into a cytopathogenic (cpe) BVDV-1 virus (BVDVE2_fluo). This insertion was well tolerated, resulting in a 2-fold drop in titer compared to the parental virus, and remained stably integrated into the genome for more than 10 passages. The fluorophore E2 fusion protein was readily detectable in purified virus particles by Western blot and fluorescence microscopy and the particle integrity and morphology was confirmed by cryo electron microscopy. The same integration site could also be used to label the related Classical swine fever virus. Also, BVDVE2_fluo particles bound

Research in my laboratory is aimed at the structural characterization of a class of proteins called transport ATPases. Transport ATPases are membrane bound enzymes, which catalyze the active transport of inorganic and organic molecules across biological membranes, a process vital to all forms of life. Many transport ATPases are key players in some of the most devastating human diseases such as cancer and AIDS. If we want to be able to fight these diseases on a molecular level (for example by drug design) we have to first understand the structure and mechanism of the disease causing proteins. Currently, we are working on two members of the transport ATPase family, the vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase) and P-glycoprotein (Pgp; also called multi drug resistance protein). We are using cryo electron microscopy and protein NMR spectroscopy as well as biochemical and molecular biological techniques to obtain structural information for these two and related proteins ...

R-type bacteriocins are minimal contractile nanomachines that hold promise as precision antibiotics. Each bactericidal complex uses a collar to bridge a hollow tube with a contractile sheath loaded in a metastable state by a baseplate scaffold. Fine-tuning of such nucleic acid-free protein machines for precision medicine calls for an atomic description of the entire complex and contraction mechanism, which is not available from baseplate structures of the (DNA-containing) T4 bacteriophage. Here we report the atomic model of the complete R2 pyocin in its pre-contraction and post-contraction states, each containing 384 subunits of 11 unique atomic models of 10 gene products. Comparison of these structures suggests the following sequence of events during pyocin contraction: tail fibres trigger lateral dissociation of baseplate triplexes; the dissociation then initiates a cascade of events leading to sheath contraction; and this contraction converts chemical energy into mechanical force to drive the ...

The bacterial human pathogen Vibrio cholerae contains three sets of chemotaxis proteins (I, II, and III). Interestingly, both membrane anchored and cytoplasmic arrays are formed in V. cholerae. The main difference between membrane-bound and cytoplasmic arrays is that in cytoplasmic chemoreceptor arrays, two layers of receptors are stacked head-to-head, sandwiched between two layers of CheA and CheW chemotaxis proteins, whereas in the membrane anchored arrays, one layer of membrane anchored receptors associate with one layer of CheA and CheW chemotaxis proteins. Using fluorescence microscopy and electron cryotomography, the research groups of Simon Ringgaard and Grant Jensen were able to show that V. choleraes cytoplasmic chemoreceptor array only consists of the cluster I proteins and forms independently of cluster II and III proteins. Formation of this cytoplasmic array was also found to depend on DosM, the only cytoplasmic receptor in cluster I.. Using subvolume averaging within a ...

I work in the Division of Physical Biochemistry at NIMR, where I use cryo-electron tomography to image frozen-hydrated endothelial cells. In particular, I am interested in Weibel-Palade bodies, the secretory storage granule for von Willebrand factor.. Undertaking this research has given me experience in all aspects of cryo-electron microscopy, including automated data collection of tomographic series, using both FEI Spirit and Polara electron microscopes. I have continued to develop my image processing skills and have extended these skills to include tomographic reconstruction and segmentation.. Other aspects of the project have also involved gaining experience in some aspects of light microscopy, including confocal and wide-field fluorescence microscopy. More recently I have also been involved in training newer members of the lab in the use of the FEI Spirit and tomographic image processing.. ...

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The Acanthamoeba castellanii myosin-Is were the first unconventional myosins to be discovered, and the myosin-I class has since been found to be one of the more diverse and abundant classes of the myosin superfamily. We used two-dimensional (2D) crystallization on phospholipid monolayers and negative stain electron microscopy to calculate a projection map of a classical myosin-I, Acanthamoeba myosin-IB (MIB), at ∼18 Å resolution. Interpretation of the projection map suggests that the MIB molecules sit upright on the membrane. We also used cryoelectron microscopy and helical image analysis to determine the three-dimensional structure of actin filaments decorated with unphosphorylated (inactive) MIB. The catalytic domain is similar to that of other myosins, whereas the large carboxy-terminal tail domain differs greatly from brush border myosin-I (BBM-I), another member of the myosin-I class. These differences may be relevant to the distinct cellular functions of these two types of myosin-I. ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Stress response as implemented by hibernating ribosomes. T2 - a structural overview. AU - Matzov, Donna. AU - Bashan, Anat. AU - Yap, Mee Ngan F.. AU - Yonath, Ada. PY - 2019/9/1. Y1 - 2019/9/1. N2 - Protein synthesis is one of the most energy demanding cellular processes. The ability to regulate protein synthesis is essential for cells under normal as well as stress conditions, such as nutrient deficiencies. One mechanism for protein synthesis suppression is the dimerization of ribosomes into hibernation complexes. In most cells, this process is promoted by the hibernating promoting factor (HPF) and in a small group of Gram-negative bacteria (γ-proteobacteria), the dimer formation is induced by a shorter version of HPF (HPFshort) and by an additional protein, the ribosome modulation factor. In most bacteria, the product of this process is the 100S ribosome complex. Recent advances in cryogenic electron microscopy methods resulted in an abundance of detailed structures of near ...

Double hydrophilic block copolymers (DHBC) self-assemble to various structures in aqueous solutions due to a strong difference in hydrophilicity. This is in contrast to amphiphilic block copolymers that self-assemble due to the insolubility of the hydrophobic block in water. In their recent contribution, Schmidt and co-workers were able to extend the principle of double hydrophilic self-assembly to novel polysaccharide-polyacrylamide block copolymers namely pullulan-b-poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) (Pull-b-PDMA) and pullulan-b-poly(N-ethylacrylamide) (Pull-b-PEA). The bio-derived pullulan block was obtained via acid catalyzed depolymerisation, while the polyacrylamide homopolymer blocks were synthesized via reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Subsequently the blocks were conjugated via copper catalyzed azide alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). The presence of formed vesicular structures was investigated via cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo SEM), static light ...

Dengue virus infects approximately 100 million people annually, but there is no available therapeutic treatment. The mimetic peptide, DN59, consists of residues corresponding to the membrane interacting, amphipathic stem region of the dengue virus envelope (E) glycoprotein. This peptide is inhibitory to all four serotypes of dengue virus, as well as other flaviviruses. Cryo-electron microscopy image reconstruction of dengue virus particles incubated with DN59 showed that the virus particles were largely empty, concurrent with the formation of holes at the five-fold vertices. The release of RNA from the viral particle following incubation with DN59 was confirmed by increased sensitivity of the RNA genome to exogenous RNase and separation of the genome from the E protein in a tartrate density gradient. DN59 interacted strongly with synthetic lipid vesicles and caused membrane disruptions, but was found to be non-toxic to mammalian and insect cells. Thus DN59 inhibits flavivirus infectivity by interacting

Application: To obtain a 3D model for objects that are too thick for single particle electron microscopy (≥ 1 micrometer thick), e.g., small cells, cellular organelles, macromolecules and their complexes, viruses. Method: Samples are vitrified by plunge freezing or by high-pressure freezing, cut into thin slices if necessary, and imaged at various tilt angles in the microscope using the lowest possible electron dose. Imaging under low dose conditions minimizes physical damage of the sample during data acquisition, but leads to extremely low signal-to-noise conditions. Sub-tomogram averaging recovers the signal by an intensive computational procedure, yielding structural resolutions of up to ~1 nm.. ...

A sequence-specific modification of the human 5.8 S rRNA in isolated 60 S subunits, non-programmed 80 S ribosomes and ribosomes complexed with mRNA and tRNAs was studied with the use of a derivative of the nonaribonucleotide UCUGUGUUU bearing a perfluorophenylazide group on the C-5 atom of the 5′-terminal uridine. Part of the oligonucleotide moiety of the derivative was complementary to the 5.8 S rRNA sequence ACACA in positions 82-86 flanked by two guanines at the 5′-terminus. The target for the cross-linking was identified as nucleotide G89 on the 5.8 S RNA. In addition, several ribosomal proteins were modified by the oligonucleotide derivative bound to the 5.8 S rRNA and proteins L6 and L8 were among them. Application of these results to known cryo-electron microscopy images of eukaryotic 60 S subunits made it possible to suggest that the central part of the 5.8 S rRNA containing the sequence 82-86 and proteins L6 and L8 are located at the base of the L1 stalk of the 60 S subunit. The ...

The backprojected volume was obtained from image processing of 2D crystal images of the potassium channel MloK1, via a novel software suite implemented in the 2dx and FOCUS software packages (http://focus-em.org). The PCO refined volume was obtained by applying projective constraint optimization to the backprojected volume.

TY - JOUR. T1 - Electron tomography of viruses. AU - Subramaniam, Sriram. AU - Bartesaghi, Alberto. AU - Liu, Jun. AU - Bennett, Adam E.. AU - Sougrat, Rachid. PY - 2007/10/1. Y1 - 2007/10/1. N2 - Understanding the molecular architectures of enveloped and complex viruses is a challenging frontier in structural biology. In these viruses, the structural and compositional variation from one viral particle to another generally precludes the use of either crystallization or image averaging procedures that have been successfully implemented in the past for highly symmetric viruses. While advances in cryo electron tomography of unstained specimens provide new opportunities for identification and molecular averaging of individual subcomponents such as the surface glycoprotein spikes on purified viruses, electron tomography of stained and plunge-frozen cells is being used to visualize the cellular context of viral entry and replication. Here, we review recent developments in both areas as they relate to ...

Using both electron cryo-tomography and helical reconstruction, the first structure of the entire archaellum machinery with an assembled filament has been determined, providing the structural basis for our understanding of archaeal motility.

VP3 autoguanylylation activity was performed with purified VP3 by incubating increasing concentrations of VP3 with 1 μl of [α-32P] GTP in GTase buffer [20 mM tris-HCl (pH 7.4), 200 mM NaCl, 5 mM DTT, 2 mM MgCl2, and 5% glycerol] in a 20-μl reaction mixture at room temperature for 1 hour as previously described (9). The reaction mixture was resolved by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, followed by transfer onto a polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane. The autoguanylylation was observed by autoradiography of the PVDF membrane. RV NSP2 was used as a negative control, and the vaccinia virus capping system (New England Biolabs Inc.) was used as a positive control. For showing direct transfer of GMP on transcript (GTase assay), we followed a previously established protocol with slight modification (52). For this purpose, first we synthesized RV gene 10 transcript using an in vitro transcription kit (Ambion T7 MEGAscript). GTase reaction mixture (20 μl) was prepared by adding 2 μl of IVT ...

4D5Y: Cryo-Em Structures of Ribosomal 80S Complexes with Termination Factors and Cricket Paralysis Virus Ires Reveal the Ires in the Translocated State

In the era of nanoscience, the size of particles to be investigated gets smaller and smaller but the traditional techniques used for characterization of materials are becoming inadequate. Electron Crystallography (EC) is a powerful and sometimes the unique tool to study crystal structure and properties of nano sized materials. It is a broad branch of science comprising both academic research and industrial needs. Materials studied using EC methods vary in size and nature, ranging from inorganic nanoparticles to biological samples. Exciting developments such as aberration correctors, dedicated specimen-holders, highly sensitive cameras, new data acquisition techniques, automated routines for data collection and new data processing softwares allow electron crystallographers to solve crystal structures from nano particles at atomic resolution.. The Course intends to review the structure solution using electron crystallography methods as well as novel applications; it will be divided into three ...

Pack CG, Yukii H, Toh-e A, Kudo T, Tsuchiya H, Kaiho A, Sakata E, Murata S, Yokosawa H, Sako Y, Baumeister W, Tanaka K, Saeki Y, Quantitative live-cell imaging reveals spatio-temporal dynamics and cytoplasmic assembly of the 26S proteasome. Nat Commun. 5:3396 (2014). Bohn S, Sakata E, Beck F, Pathare GR, Schnitger J, Nágy I, Baumeister W, Förster F. Localization of the regulatory particle subunit Sem1 in the 26S proteasome. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 435(2):250-354 (2013). Fernández-Busnadiego R, Asano S, Oprisoreanu AM, Sakata E, Doengi M, Kochovski Z, Zürner M, Stein V, Schoch S, Baumeister W, Lucić V. Cryo-electron tomography reveals a critical role of RIM1a in synaptic vesicle tethering. J Cell Biol. 201(5):725-740, (2013). Sugiyama M, Sahashi H, Kurimoto E, Takata S, Yagi H, Kanai K, Sakata E, Minami Y, Tanaka K, Kato K. Spatial arrangement and functional role of α subunits of proteasome activator PA28 in hetero-oligomeric form. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 432(1):141-145, ...

Stefan Kochanek and his team have been working on the production and purification of huntingtin for a long time. What has prevented a detailed analysis of the protein in recent decades? Fernández-Busnadiego, an expert in cryo-electron microscopy, mentions two main factors: First of all, cryo-electron microscopy has only been optimized in recent years to look at protein structures with almost molecular resolution. The second reason is that the huntingtin protein is very flexible in its structure. Just now, we have found also a solution for this problem. During the analysis, pictures of the protein are being taken from different perspectives under the microscope. The three-dimensional molecular structure can be computed from the large number of resulting images. For this, the protein must always be in the same conformation. Fernández-Busnadiego explains: This would be similar to a person being photographed in the dark. If the person does not stand still for a while, the shot will be ...

Protein misfolding and aggregation cause serious degenerative conditions such as Alzheimers, Parkinson, and prion diseases. Damage to membranes is thought to be one of the mechanisms underlying cellular toxicity of a range of amyloid assemblies. Previous studies have indicated that amyloid fibrils can cause membrane leakage and elicit cellular damage, and these effects are enhanced by fragmentation of the fibrils. Here we report direct 3D visualization of membrane damage by specific interactions of a lipid bilayer with amyloid-like fibrils formed in vitro from β2-microglobulin (β2m). Using cryoelectron tomography, we demonstrate that fragmented β2m amyloid fibrils interact strongly with liposomes and cause distortions to the membranes. The normally spherical liposomes form pointed teardrop-like shapes with the fibril ends seen in proximity to the pointed regions on the membranes. Moreover, the tomograms indicated that the fibrils extract lipid from the membranes at these points of distortion ...

With the rapid growth in the number of solved protein structures stored in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB), it is essential to develop tools to perform real‐time structure similarity searches against the entire structure database

The Oryctes nudivirus (OrNV), a natural pathogen of the rhinoceros beetle, has been used successfully to control this pest and could become a sustainable and environmental-friendly tool to battle it if it is effectively produced, formulated, and applied in the field. However, this control strategy suffers from the difficulty to produce sufficient amounts of active virus and by the lack of an effective formulation which would maintain its biological activity when applied in the environment. The main objective of this project is to develop the basis for the stabilization and formulation of the OrNV on a clay-based nanoparticle, which will permit an efficient and practical use of OrNV as biocontrol agent on a large scale. We are using state of the art cryo-electron tomography and nanotechnology to untangle OrNV structure to better understand how it could interact with a clay-based nanoparticle formulation for its stabilization and delivery. This will place us in a much better position to use it ...

Miller S, Wang B, Lo J, DSouza V. A novel mechanism for tRNA and retroviral RNA remodeling during primer annealing. (submitted). Houck-Loomis, B., Durney, M. A., Salguero, C., Shankar, N., Nagle, J. M., Goff, S. P. & DSouza, V. M. (2011). An equilibrium-dependent retroviral mRNA switch regulates translational recoding. Nature 480, 561-4.. Durney, M. A. & DSouza, V. M. (2010). Preformed protein-binding motifs in 7SK snRNA: structural and thermodynamic comparisons with retroviral TAR. J Mol Biol 404, 555-67. [Cover article]. Miyazaki, Y., Irobalieva, R. N., Tolbert, B. S., Smalls-Mantey, A., Iyalla, K., Loeliger, K., DSouza, V., Khant, H., Schmid, M. F., Garcia, E. L., Telesnitsky, A., Chiu, W. & Summers, M. F. (2010). Structure of a conserved retroviral RNA packaging element by NMR spectroscopy and cryo-electron tomography. J Mol Biol 404, 751-72.. DSouza V, Summers MF. 2005. How retroviruses select their genomes. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 3:643-55. Review.. DSouza V, Summers MF. 2004. ...

Back in July, BioEssays had a slew of interesting papers on cellular evolution, and July had another, that I thought worth mentioning: Finding treasures in frozen cells: new centriole intermediates - recent findings from cryo-electron tomography give insights into centriole biogenesis. Evolution of size and pattern in the social amoebas - The fruiting bodies of…

Quantitatively mapping surface properties with nanometer or even subnanometer resolutions is critical for advanced scanning probe microscopy (SPM) characterization. However, the characterization performance often suffers from noises and artifacts due to instrumentation or environmental limitations. In this p

Mutations in Trk-fused gene (TFG) have been linked to numerous forms of neurodegenerative disease. Using a combination of single particle electron microscopy approaches, small angle x-ray scattering, x-ray crystallography, and human stem cell models, we have determined the direct impacts of several of these mutations. In particular, mutations within the TFG amino-terminus alter the conformation of TFG ring complexes, which play an important role in the kinetics of secretory protein export from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Consistent with this idea, we find that cells harboring TFG mutations exhibit constitutively elevated levels of ER stress. Moreover, we find that neurons expressing these mutants fail to display normal axon bundling, suggesting that a deficit in protein export from the ER plays an important role during neurite outgrowth. ...

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Microsporidia: pathogens of can i buy proscar proscan plt7650g review opportunity. In organisms operating under strict nutrient limitations, such as pathogenic microsporidia, conservation of SSU- and LSU-interacting residues suggests that Lso2 would adopt a similar binding mechanism in other eukaryotic organisms. C) Fourier can i buy proscar shell correlation coefficient of the translational machinery. SSU mRNA binding in the extracellular spore stage of microsporidia.. EM buffer, and absorption was measured between 240 and 300 nm. Larsen BB, Miller EC, Rhodes can i buy proscar MK, Wiens JJ. C) An isolated, close-up view of the earliest diverging microsporidian species, like M. Reductive evolution of highly reduced intracellular parasites. The improved resolution allowed for can i buy proscar model building and refinement into electron cryo-microscopy reconstructions.. PDF) Acknowledgments We thank M. Core Facility for Electron Microscopy, and all members of the distinct subdomains in State 2, a ...

Three publications of this cumulative dissertation use cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to dissect the assembly pathway of the eukaryotic large ribosomal subunit (LSU). This pathway commences with freshly transcribed and initially unfolded rRNA in the nucleolus, which folds and incorporates ribosomal proteins while traveling to the cytoplasm, ultimately culminating in the mature LSU. During this highly complex pathway, the yeast cell must assemble four rRNAs and 79 ribosomal proteins with the help of over 200 assembly factors (AFs). Using cryo-EM, structures of nucleo\-plasmic and cytoplasmic assembly intermediates of the LSU could be solved in recent years, thus shedding light on the later stages of LSU formation. Early assembly steps remain enigmatic, as nucleolar LSU assembly intermediates have been biochemically but not structurally characterized. Taken together, we solved the structure of seven nucleolar or early nucleoplasmic intermediates at resolutions ranging from 3.3 to 4.5 Å, ...

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Transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules play a crucial role in protein biosynthesis in all organisms. Their interactions with ribosomes mediate the translation of genetic messages into polypeptides. Three tRNAs bound to the Escherichia coli 70S ribosome were visualized directly with cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction. The detailed arrangement of A- and P-site tRNAs inferred from this study allows localization of the sites for anticodon interaction and peptide bond formation on the ribosome. ...

Co-translational folding and maturation of proteins require an intricate network of folding chaperones and processing enzymes that act on the growing nascent protein in a co-translational manner. Structural information on ribosome-nascent chain-chaperone complexes is sparse, because the involved interactions are mostly transient, labile and possibly highly flexible. This renders the involved assemblies inaccessible to classical reductionist structural biology approaches that rely on extensive biochemical purification and require conformationally homogenous particle populations for averaging. We consequently pursue a different approach and image these processes using cryo electron tomography (cryo-ET)-based strategies, which can reveal the three-dimensional arrangement of individual macromolecules even in crowded native microenvironments at molecular resolution and therefore render extensive biochemical purification unnecessary. This approach allows us to analyze the three-dimensional spatial ...

Co-translational folding and maturation of proteins require an intricate network of folding chaperones and processing enzymes that act on the growing nascent protein in a co-translational manner. Structural information on ribosome-nascent chain-chaperone complexes is sparse, because the involved interactions are mostly transient, labile and possibly highly flexible. This renders the involved assemblies inaccessible to classical reductionist structural biology approaches that rely on extensive biochemical purification and require conformationally homogenous particle populations for averaging. We consequently pursue a different approach and image these processes using cryo electron tomography (cryo-ET)-based strategies, which can reveal the three-dimensional arrangement of individual macromolecules even in crowded native microenvironments at molecular resolution and therefore render extensive biochemical purification unnecessary. This approach allows us to analyze the three-dimensional spatial ...

Supplementary MaterialsSupplementary Details. inhibitors and specific antibodies Silmitasertib manufacturer to inhibit ZIKV E protein assembly and membrane fusion. and hence do not provide any direct link between the structural stability and infectivity. Silmitasertib manufacturer Though the increasing quantity of dengue infections indicates its adaptability to the human body heat (36.5 to 37.5?C), several studies have highlighted the effect of heat around the structure of DENV. However, the molecular basis of this greater stability of ZIKV over DENV2 is usually unknown. In this study, we attempt to understand the underlying molecular mechanism of the differential stability of ZIKV and DENV2 (NGC strain) at 37?C. Even though the cryo-EM studies have provided important information about the structures of different flavivirus E protein shells, the atomistic details pertaining to their differential stability is yet to be known. Here, we employ atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to explore the ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Ab initio nonequilibrium quantum transport and forces with the real-space projector augmented wave method. AU - Chen, Jingzhe. AU - Thygesen, Kristian S.. AU - Jacobsen, Karsten W.. N1 - ©2012 American Physical Society. PY - 2012. Y1 - 2012. N2 - We present an efficient implementation of a nonequilibrium Greens function method for self-consistent calculations of electron transport and forces in nanostructured materials. The electronic structure is described at the level of density functional theory using the projector augmented wave method to describe the ionic cores and an atomic orbital basis set for the valence electrons. External bias and gate voltages are treated in a self-consistent manner and the Poisson equation with appropriate boundary conditions is solved in real space. Contour integration of the Greens function and parallelization over k points and real space makes the code highly efficient and applicable to systems containing several hundreds of atoms. The method ...

True metal nanoparticle (NP) analysis directly in solid biomatrices, involving sizing and counting, using the recently introduced laser ablation-single particle-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-SP-ICPMS) technique, is prone to produce erratic results when the instrument is not set up correctly and n

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By mid-2020 two new cryogenic electron microscopes (cryo-EM) will be available to scientists at the Buch campus. The building is almost finished, and the first crates of equipment were delivered in December. Theres still a lot to do, however, before everything is up and running.

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A researcher at LUMC using the THMS600 to look at fluorescently labelled bacteria at liquid nitrogen temperature for correlative light electron microscopy. Professor A.J. Koster and his team at Leiden University Medical Centre are using the THMS600 in a correlative light and electron microscopy setup, to aid the cryo-study of biological specimens.. His group focuses on applications in cell biology, including the study of viral infections and viral replication where fluorescence may be used to pinpoint areas worthy of enhanced investigation. Also of particular interest is the field of vascular biology and the mechanism via which vascular endothelial cells initiate repair in response to injury and inflammation.. His goal is to localize molecular structures in cells using fluorescence microscopy and then transfer the sample to a cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) set up to image the corresponding macromolecular structures in 3D with nm-scale resolution.. The group wanted a cryo-FM sestup that was ...

A TITAN KRIOS cryo-electron microscope has been inaugurated at the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, in Grenoble, France. The inauguration took place in the presence of Ada Yonath, chemistry Nobel Prize laureate in 2009, Francesco Sette, Director General of the ESRF and all the partners that jointly run the facility with the ESRF: the European Molecular…

MRC is a file format that has become industry standard in cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) and electron tomography (ET), where the result of the technique is a three-dimensional grid of voxels each with a value corresponding to electron density or electric potential. It was developed by the MRC (Medical Research Council, UK) Laboratory of Molecular Biology.[1] In 2014, the format was standardised.[2] The format specification is available on the CCP-EM website. The MRC format is supported by many of the software packages listed in b:Software Tools For Molecular Microscopy. ...

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There is an ongoing revolution in the development of electron detector technology that has enabled modes of electron microscopy imaging that had only before been theorized. The age of electron microscopy as a tool for imaging is quickly giving way to a new frontier of multidimensional datasets to be mined. These improvements in electron detection have enabled cryo-electron microscopy to resolve the three-dimensional structures of non-crystalized proteins, revolutionizing structural biology. In the physical sciences direct electron detectors has enabled four-dimensional reciprocal space maps of materials at atomic resolution, providing all the structural information about nanoscale materials in one experiment. This talk will highlight the impact of direct electron detectors for materials science, including a new method of scanning nanobeam diffraction. With faster detectors we can take a series of 2D diffraction patterns at each position in a 2D STEM raster scan resulting in a four-dimensional ...

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The TRP domain with its invariant tryptophan is unique among cation channels (2, 3, 13). Although there is evidence for its role in gating (19, 20), it was difficult to define that role without clear structural knowledge. The recently demonstrated cryo-EM structure of TRPV1 (11) revealed that it is a five-turn helix and that the invariant tryptophan (W697) forms a hydrogen bond with a residue (F559) located at the elbow that begins the S4-S5 linker (Fig. S1). In Kv, this linker receives force from the voltage-sensor S4 domain and works as the handle that mechanically operates the S6 gate (10). Therefore it is highly likely that this bond from the TRP box to the linker is crucial in TRPV1 gating. Opening TRPV1 with spider toxin, capsaicin, or resiniferatoxin replaces the W697-F559 bond with a W697-G558 bond but does not rearrange the S1-S4 helices (12). Given the mechanics of the voltage-gated 6-TM channels, it seems likely that the S1-S4 domain (greatly exposed to lipids) and the S4-S5 linker ...