Cryo-electron microscopy of insect flight muscle thick filaments. An approach to dynamic electron microscope studies.
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Summary
It is demonstrated here the first successful application of this method to thick filaments, and it is shown that this is a possible approach to following dynamic processes by rapid freezing and electron microscopy.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1988-07-01
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 8
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Keywords
Electron microscope, Cryo-electron microscopy, Liquid nitrogen, Insect flight, Protein filament
References
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- Electron microscopy of frozen-hydrated biological material
- Cryo-electron microscopy of vitrified insect flight muscle.
- Electron microscopy of frozen, hydrated biological specimens.
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- Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopic study of the dissociation of actomyosin induced by photolysis of photolabile nucleotides.
- Zero-loss energy filtering as improved imaging mode in cryoelectronmicroscopy of frozen-hydrated specimens☆
- Cryo-electron microscopy of vitrified specimens: an approach to the study of bulk specimens.
- Cryo-electron microscopy of vitrified muscle samples.
- Cryo-electron microscopic studies of relaxed striated muscle thick filaments
- Helical reconstruction of frozen-hydrated scallop myosin filaments.
- Invertebrate muscles: thin and thick filament structure; molecular basis of contraction and its regulation, catch and asynchronous muscle.
- The proteolytic susceptibility of specific sites in myosin light chains is modulated by the filament conformation.
- Time‐resolved cryo‐electron microscopy of vitrified muscular components
- Helical order in tarantula thick filaments requires the "closed" conformation of the myosin head.
- Electron cryo‐microscopy of vitrified biological specimens: towards high spatial and temporal resolution
- The myosin interacting-heads motif is present in the relaxed thick filament of the striated muscle of scorpion.
- Structure of myosin filaments from relaxed Lethocerus flight muscle by cryo-EM at 6 Å resolution
- Myosin II sequences for Lethocerusindicus
- Lessons from a tarantula: new insights into muscle thick filament and myosin interacting-heads motif structure and function
- Photosome membranes merge and organize tending towards rhombohedral symmetry when light is emitted.
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