intro to cryo-electron microscopy
is a cryomicroscopy technique applied on samples cooled to cryogenic temperatures and embedded in an environment of vitreous water. An aqueous sample solution is applied to a grid-mesh and plunge-frozen in liquid ethane or a mixture of liquid ethane and propane.[2] While development of the technique began in the 1970s, recent advances in detector technology and software algorithms have allowed for the determination of biomolecular structures at near-atomic resolution.[3] This has attracted wide attention to the approach as an alternative to X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy for macromolecular structure determination without the need for crystallization.
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Stanford University
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Cryo-EM
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- February 22, 2022
- Number of pages
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- 2020/2021
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- Class notes
- Professor(s)
- Ron dror
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Subjects
- electron microscopy
- cryo em
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cryogenic electron microscopy