Chapter title |
Use of Cryo-EM to Study the Structure of Chemoreceptor Arrays In Vivo
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Chapter number | 16 |
Book title |
Bacterial Chemosensing
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7577-8_16 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7576-1, 978-1-4939-7577-8
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Authors |
Wen Yang, Ariane Briegel, Yang, Wen, Briegel, Ariane |
Abstract |
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) allows the imaging of intact macromolecular complexes in the context of whole cells. The biological samples for cryo-EM are kept in a near-native state by flash freezing, without the need for any additional sample preparation or fixation steps. Since transmission electron microscopy only generates 2D projections of the samples, the specimen has to be tilted in order to recover its 3D structural information. This is done by collecting images of the sample with various tilt angles in respect to the electron beam. The acquired tilt series can then be computationally back-projected. This technique is called electron cryotomography (ECT), and has been instrumental in unraveling the architecture of chemoreceptor arrays. Here we describe the method of visualizing in vivo bacterial chemoreceptor arrays in three main steps: immobilization of bacterial cells on EM grids by plunge-freezing; 2D image acquisition in tilt series; and 3D tomogram reconstruction. |
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