Chiu Po-Lin, Li Xueming, Li Zongli, Beckett Brian, Brilot Axel F, Grigorieff Nikolaus, Agard David A, Cheng Yifan, Walz Thomas
Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
The Keck Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
J Struct Biol. 2015 Nov;192(2):163-73. doi: 10.1016/j.jsb.2015.08.015. Epub 2015 Aug 28.
The K2 Summit camera was initially the only commercially available direct electron detection camera that was optimized for high-speed counting of primary electrons and was also the only one that implemented centroiding so that the resolution of the camera can be extended beyond the Nyquist limit set by the physical pixel size. In this study, we used well-characterized two-dimensional crystals of the membrane protein aquaporin-0 to characterize the performance of the camera below and beyond the physical Nyquist limit and to measure the influence of electron dose rate on image amplitudes and phases.
K2 Summit相机最初是唯一一款市售的直接电子检测相机,它针对一次电子的高速计数进行了优化,也是唯一一款采用重心法的相机,这样相机的分辨率就能扩展到超出由物理像素大小设定的奈奎斯特极限。在本研究中,我们使用了特征明确的膜蛋白水通道蛋白-0的二维晶体,以表征该相机在物理奈奎斯特极限以下和以上的性能,并测量电子剂量率对图像幅度和相位的影响。