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Benchmarking tomographic acquisition schemes for high-resolution structural biology

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  • Beata Turoňová

    (Structure and Computational Biology Unit)

  • Wim J. H. Hagen

    (Structure and Computational Biology Unit)

  • Martin Obr

    (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria)

  • Shyamal Mosalaganti

    (Structure and Computational Biology Unit)

  • J. Wouter Beugelink

    (Structure and Computational Biology Unit
    Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University
    Utrecht University)

  • Christian E. Zimmerli

    (Structure and Computational Biology Unit
    Collaboration for joint PhD degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences)

  • Hans-Georg Kräusslich

    (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg)

  • Martin Beck

    (Structure and Computational Biology Unit
    Max Planck Institute of Biophysics)

Abstract

Cryo electron tomography with subsequent subtomogram averaging is a powerful technique to structurally analyze macromolecular complexes in their native context. Although close to atomic resolution in principle can be obtained, it is not clear how individual experimental parameters contribute to the attainable resolution. Here, we have used immature HIV-1 lattice as a benchmarking sample to optimize the attainable resolution for subtomogram averaging. We systematically tested various experimental parameters such as the order of projections, different angular increments and the use of the Volta phase plate. We find that although any of the prominently used acquisition schemes is sufficient to obtain subnanometer resolution, dose-symmetric acquisition provides considerably better outcome. We discuss our findings in order to provide guidance for data acquisition. Our data is publicly available and might be used to further develop processing routines.

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  • Beata Turoňová & Wim J. H. Hagen & Martin Obr & Shyamal Mosalaganti & J. Wouter Beugelink & Christian E. Zimmerli & Hans-Georg Kräusslich & Martin Beck, 2020. "Benchmarking tomographic acquisition schemes for high-resolution structural biology," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-14535-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14535-2
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