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Breaking the next Cryo-EM resolution barrier

已有 2426 次阅读 2020-6-5 08:48 |个人分类:科研笔记|系统分类:科研笔记

冷冻电镜领域的又一大技术突破。解析蛋白质大分子最高分辨率可以高达1.25Å,每个原子清晰可见。


Single particle cryo-EM is a powerful method to solve the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. The technological development of electron microscopes, detectors, automated procedures in combination with user friendly image processing software and ever-increasing computational power have made cryo-EM a successful and largely expanding technology over the last decade. At resolutions better than 4 Å, atomic model building starts becoming possible but the direct visualization of true atomic positions in protein structure determination requires significantly higher (< 1.5 Å) resolution, which so far could not be attained by cryo-EM. The direct visualization of atom positions is essential for understanding protein-catalyzed chemical reaction mechanisms and to study drug-binding and -interference with protein function. Here we report a 1.25 Å resolution structure of apoferritin obtained by cryo-EM with a newly developed electron microscope providing unprecedented structural details. Our apoferritin structure has almost twice the 3D information content of the current world record reconstruction (at 1.54 Å resolution 1). For the first time in cryo-EM we can visualize individual atoms in a protein, see density for hydrogen atoms and single atom chemical modifications. Beyond the nominal improvement in resolution we can also show a significant improvement in quality of the cryo-EM density map which is highly relevant for using cryo-EM in structure-based drug design.


https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.21.106740







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