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How cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography complement each other.


ABSTRACT: With the ability to resolve structures of macromolecules at atomic resolution, X-ray crystallography has been the most powerful tool in modern structural biology. At the same time, recent technical improvements have triggered a resolution revolution in the single particle cryo-EM method. While the two methods are different in many respects, from sample preparation to structure determination, they both have the power to solve macromolecular structures at atomic resolution. It is important to understand the unique advantages and caveats of the two methods in solving structures and to appreciate the complementary nature of the two methods in structural biology. In this review we provide some examples, and discuss how X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM can be combined in deciphering structures of macromolecules for our full understanding of their biological mechanisms.

SUBMITTER: Wang HW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5192981 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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How cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography complement each other.

Wang Hong-Wei HW   Wang Jia-Wei JW  

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20160907 1


With the ability to resolve structures of macromolecules at atomic resolution, X-ray crystallography has been the most powerful tool in modern structural biology. At the same time, recent technical improvements have triggered a resolution revolution in the single particle cryo-EM method. While the two methods are different in many respects, from sample preparation to structure determination, they both have the power to solve macromolecular structures at atomic resolution. It is important to unde  ...[more]

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