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Introduction and overview / 1: |
Visualizing biological molecules to understand life's principles / 1.1: |
A brief historical perspective on scattering-based structural biology methods / 1.1.1: |
Unique capabilities of cryo-EM: polymers and viruses / 1.1.2: |
Unique capabilities of cryo-EM: integral membrane proteins / 1.1.3: |
Unique capabilities of cryo-EM: large assemblies / 1.1.4: |
Unique capabilities of cryo-EM: scarce samples / 1.1.5: |
Unique capabilities of cryo-EM: compositionally heterogeneous samples / 1.1.6: |
Unique capabilities of cryo-EM: conformationally complex samples / 1.1.7: |
Current limits of cryo-EM and things yet to come / 1.1.8: |
Recovery of 3D structures from images of weak-phase objects / 1.2: |
The signal that we care about is attributed to elastic scattering of electrons / 1.2.1: |
The electron accumulates information as it passes through a specimen / 1.2.2: |
The image wave function, and thus the image intensity, suffers from imperfections in the microscope optics / 1.2.3: |
Intermediate summary: the image intensity is linear in the projected Coulomb potential of the object / 1.2.4: |
Structure-factor phases, as well as amplitudes, are retained in the computed Fourier transforms of image intensities / 1.2.5: |
The projection theorem: the Fourier transform of an image corresponds to a 2D 'central' section within the 3D Fourier transform of the object / 1.2.6: |
The 3D object can be reconstructed from multiple projections / 1.2.7: |
Similarities and differences between sub-tomogram averaging and single-particle cryo-EM / 1.2.8: |
References |
Sample preparation / 2: |
Overview / 2.1: |
Initial screening of samples in negative stain / 2.2: |
Introduction / 2.2.1: |
Negative staining for TEM / 2.2.2: |
Purpose of negative staining when starting a project / 2.2.3: |
Techniques for the preparation of negatively stained samples / 2.2.4: |
Use of data processing to provide feedback to optimize samples for cryo-EM / 2.2.5: |
Standard method of making grids for cryo-EM / 2.3: |
Grids and support films / 2.3.1: |
Plasma cleaning or 'glow discharging' grids / 2.3.2: |
Types of apparatus used for plunge freezing / 2.3.3: |
Blotting and plunging the grid using plunge freezers / 2.3.4: |
Common issues faced in making grids for cryo-EM imaging / 2.3.5: |
Requirement to make very thin specimens for cryo-EM / 2.4: |
Inelastic electron scattering causes the image quality to deteriorate with increasing sample thickness values / 2.4.1: |
The projection approximation may fail if the sample is too thick / 2.4.2: |
Areas of a grid where the sample is obviously too thick can, and should be, avoided during data collection / 2.4.3: |
Areas where the sample is much too thin, perhaps even air-dried, can sometimes be avoided just on the basis of their subjective appearance / 2.4.4: |
Current strategies for optimizing preparation of cryo-grids / 2.5: |
Behavior of particles in the thin film environment / 2.5.1: |
Approaches to alter particle behavior in the thin film / 2.5.2: |
New technologies for sample preparation / 2.5.3: |
Data collection / 3: |
Radiation damage in cryo-EM / 3.1: |
Interaction cross sections, elastic, and inelastic interactions / 3.2.1: |
Cryoprotection and primary, secondary, and tertiary radiation damage / 3.2.3: |
Radiation damage dependence on electron energy / 3.2.4: |
Practical implications of radiation damage: image averaging in cryo-EM / 3.2.5: |
Resolution dependence and exposure weighting / 3.2.6: |
Radiation damage versus beam-induced motion and charging / 3.2.7: |
Low-dose protocols for recording images / 3.3: |
Automated low-dose imaging / 3.3.1: |
Improving throughput / 3.3.2: |
Electron exposure levels used during high-resolution data collection / 3.3.3: |
Practical considerations: defocus. stigmation, coma-free illumination, and phase plates / 3.4: |
Why do we need to defocus the microscope? / 3.4.1: |
Effects of defocus on the image and its information content / 3.4.2: |
Defocus variation is necessary to obtain uniform information coverage in reciprocal space / 3.4.3: |
Optical correction of astigmatism and coma aberrations / 3.4.4: |
Use of phase plates to improve image contrast and the expected benefits / 3.4.5: |
Practical considerations: movie-mode data acquisition / 3.5: |
Magnification and resolution / 3.5.1: |
Dose rate / 3.5.2: |
Strategies for motion correction / 3.5.3: |
Total dose or exposure time / 3.5.4: |
File size of movie datasets / 3.5.5: |
Summary / 3.5.6: |
Data processing / 4: |
Automated extraction of particles / 4.1: |
From micrographs to particles / 4.2.1: |
Manual selection / 4.2.2: |
Unbiased automated approaches / 4.2.3: |
Particle extraction / 4.2.4: |
Cleaning up the results through classification / 4.2.5: |
CTF estimation and image correction (restoration) / 4.3: |
CTF estimation / 4.3.1: |
Image correction / 4.3.2: |
Magnification distortion / 4.3.3: |
Concluding remarks / 4.3.4: |
Merging data from structurally homogeneous subsets / 4.4: |
How many particle images are needed for a 3D reconstruction? / 4.4.1: |
Obtaining a 3D reconstruction / 4.4.2: |
Acknowledgments |
3D classification of structurally heterogeneous particles / 4.5: |
Global 3D classification / 4.5.1: |
Masked 3D classification / 4.5.3: |
3D classification of particles with pseudo-symmetry / 4.5.4: |
Dealing with continuous motions / 4.5.5: |
Conclusion / 4.5.6: |
Preferred orientation: how to recognize and deal with adverse effects / 4.6: |
Protein interaction with the air-water interface / 4.6.1: |
Preferred orientation and its effects in cryo-EM / 4.6.2: |
Quantifying preferred orientation and its effects on cryo-EM reconstructions / 4.6.3: |
Overcoming the effects of preferred orientation / 4.6.4: |
Areas of research / 4.6.5: |
B factors and map sharpening / 4.7: |
An ideal 3D reconstruction has a predictable radial amplitude spectrum / 4.7.1: |
Actual 3D reconstructions feature dampened amplitudes at high frequencies / 4.7.2: |
Several factors contribute to signal decay at high frequencies / 4.7.3: |
Gaussian falloff, parametrized by a B factor, is a useful model of signal loss / 4.7.4: |
Estimating B factors / 4.7.5: |
Sharpening a map / 4.7.6: |
A single inverse Gaussian filter using a global B factor does not always lead to the optimal map / 4.7.7: |
Optical aberrations and Ewald sphere curvature / 4.8: |
Further considerations on the aberration function ¿(s) / 4.8.1: |
Common types of aberrations / 4.8.2: |
Practical considerations for aberration correction / 4.8.3: |
Thick objects and the Ewald sphere / 4.8.4: |
Ewald sphere correction / 4.8.5: |
Map validation / 5: |
Measures of resolution: FSC and local resolution / 5.1: |
The 'gold-standard' FSC / 5.2.1: |
Resolution thresholds / 5.2.2: |
FSC artifacts due to masking, filtration, and CTF / 5.2.3: |
Local resolution / 5.2.4: |
Resolution anisotropy / 5.2.5: |
Recognizing the effect of bias and over-fitting / 5.3: |
Introduction and nature of the problem arising from iterative refinement / 5.3.1: |
Assessing the consistency of maps with projection data / 5.3.2: |
Detecting over-fitting at high resolution in maps and effect on the FSC / 5.3.3: |
Local over-fitting / 5.3.4: |
Estimates of alignment accuracy / 5.3.5: |
Correlation and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) / 5.4.1: |
Analysis of alignment accuracy with synthetic data / 5.4.2: |
The relationship between alignment accuracy and resolution / 5.4.3: |
Estimating alignment accuracy from tilt pairs / 5.4.4: |
Estimating alignment accuracy from the reconstructed map / 5.4.5: |
Estimating alignment accuracy from projection-matching results / 5.4.6: |
Discussion / 5.5: |
Acknowledgements |
Model building and validation / 6: |
Using known components or homologs: model building / 6.1: |
Identifying known/modeled structures of individual subunits / 6.2.1: |
Rigid-body fitting / 6.2.2: |
Flexible fitting / 6.2.3: |
Building atomistic models in cryo-EM density maps / 6.3: |
Building models into cryo-EM density maps / 6.3.1: |
Model refinement / 6.3.3: |
Model validation / 6.3.4: |
Model uncertainty / 6.3.5: |
Model deposition / 6.3.6: |
Revisiting the cryo-EM model challenge / 6.3.7: |
Toward the future / 6.3.8: |
Conclusions / 6.3.9: |
Quality evaluation of cryo-EM map-derived models / 6.4: |
Map-model metrics / 6.4.1: |
Model-only metrics / 6.4.3: |
Summary and conclusions / 6.4.4: |
Acknowledgment |
How algorithms from crystallography are helping electron cryo-microscopy / 6.5: |
Map improvement / 6.5.1: |
Map interpretation and model building / 6.5.3: |
Model optimization / 6.5.4: |
Validation / 6.5.5: |
Validation-guided corrections / 6.5.6: |
Archiving structures and data / 6.5.7: |
Single-particle cryo-EM structure deposition / 6.6.1: |
Preparing files for deposition / 6.6.3: |
Data validation / 6.6.4: |
Sample sequence and ligands / 6.6.5: |
Deposition using OneDep / 6.6.6: |
Post-deposition: what happens next? / 6.6.7: |
Accessing cryo-EM structure data / 6.6.8: |
Editor biographies |
Section authors |
Introduction and overview / 1: |