Chang Yi-Wei, Chen Songye, Tocheva Elitza I, Treuner-Lange Anke, Löbach Stephanie, Søgaard-Andersen Lotte, Jensen Grant J
1] Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. [2] Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Pasadena, California, USA.
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
Nat Methods. 2014 Jul;11(7):737-9. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2961. Epub 2014 May 11.
Cryo-electron tomography (CET) produces three-dimensional images of cells in a near-native state at macromolecular resolution, but identifying structures of interest can be challenging. Here we describe a correlated cryo-PALM (photoactivated localization microscopy)-CET method for localizing objects within cryo-tomograms to beyond the diffraction limit of the light microscope. Using cryo-PALM-CET, we identified multiple and new conformations of the dynamic type VI secretion system in the crowded interior of Myxococcus xanthus.
冷冻电子断层扫描(CET)能够在接近天然状态下以大分子分辨率生成细胞的三维图像,但识别感兴趣的结构可能具有挑战性。在此,我们描述了一种相关的冷冻光激活定位显微镜(cryo-PALM)-CET方法,用于在冷冻断层图像中定位物体,分辨率超越了光学显微镜的衍射极限。使用冷冻光激活定位显微镜-冷冻电子断层扫描(cryo-PALM-CET),我们在粘球菌拥挤的内部识别出了动态VI型分泌系统的多种新构象。