摘要
近年来,软件和硬件的突破性进展使得单颗粒冷冻电子显微镜技术实现了分辨率革命,成为结构生物学研究中最重要的手段之一。该技术不需要结晶,能够保证生物样品处于近生理状态下,并且所需样品量较少。在这篇文章中,我们将回顾单颗粒冷冻电镜技术的发展历程和近期的一些技术更新,并简略讨论该技术今后的发展趋势和应用前景。
Recent breakthroughs in software algorithms and hardware equipment,especially the detector technology,brought single-particle cryo-electron microscopy(cryo-EM)into the“resolution revolution”,enabling it to become one of the most popular and important tools in structural biology.This technique is capable of determining structures of macromolecules at atomic resolution without crystallization,thus maintaining these biological complexes in their close-to-native states.Herein,we review the evolution of cryo-EM in the past 40 years and recent advances,and briefly discuss its potential future perspectives.
作者
刘楠
王宏伟
Liu Nan;Wang Hongwei(Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology,School of Life Sciences,Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences,Tsinghua University,Beijing 100084)
出处
《中国基础科学》
2019年第5期1-7,共7页
China Basic Science
基金
国家重点研发计划项目(2016YFA0501100)。
关键词
冷冻电镜
结构生物学
分辨率
生物大分子
方法学
cryo-EM
structural biology
resolution
biological macromolecules
methodology
