ELECTRON MICROSCOPY


Sample

Myosin thick filaments from Schistosoma mansoni smooth muscle

Specimen Preperation
Sample Aggregation State FILAMENT
Vitrification Instrument
Cryogen Name
Sample Vitrification Details
3D Reconstruction
Reconstruction Method HELICAL
Number of Particles 9500
Reported Resolution (Å) 23.0
Resolution Method FSC 0.5 CUT-OFF
Other Details For each iteration of reconstruction (30 cycles), filament segment projections were compared with different projections of the reference reconstruction as follows: seven 2.3 nm axial shifts, 2 degree intervals of rotation about the filament axis up to 90 degrees, and 2 degree intervals of out-of-plane tilting from -10 degrees to +10 degrees. The total number of projections was 7 x 45 x 11 = 3465. For the final 19 cycles of the reconstruction, we used only the best-ordered 420 filament halves (those in which >30% of the segments were found good enough to be used by the reconstruction script in the back-projection in previous cycles). From ~17,000 segments, ~9,500 (56%) were included in the final reconstruction. This final 3D-reconstruction was the average of the last 19 reconstructions between cycles 12 - 30. Its resolution, according to the 0.5 Fourier Shell Correlation (FSC) criterion, was 2.3 nm.
Refinement Type
Symmetry Type HELICAL
Map-Model Fitting and Refinement
ID 1
Refinement Space REAL
Refinement Protocol RIGID BODY FIT
Refinement Target ?
Overall B Value ?
Fitting Procedure ?
Details METHOD--rigid docking REFINEMENT PROTOCOL--RIGID BODY DETAILS--3DTP was fitted as a rigid body using the Fit in Map tool of UCSF Chimera.
Data Acquisition
Detector Type TVIPS TEMCAM-F224 (2k x 2k)
Electron Dose (electrons/Å2) 10
Imaging Experiment
Date of Experiment 2013-02-15
Temprature (Kelvin)
Microscope Model FEI/PHILIPS CM120T
Minimum Defocus (nm) 600
Maximum Defocus (nm) 2400
Minimum Tilt Angle (degrees) ?
Maximum Tilt Angle (degrees) ?
Nominal CS 2.0
Imaging Mode BRIGHT FIELD
Specimen Holder Model SIDE ENTRY, EUCENTRIC
Nominal Magnification 42000
Calibrated Magnification 42000
Source LAB6
Acceleration Voltage (kV) 80
Imaging Details 1.5 post-magnification, low-dose conditions
Imaging Experiment
Task Software Package Version
MODEL FITTING UCSF Chimera ?
RECONSTRUCTION EMAN 2
RECONSTRUCTION SPIDER ?
Image Processing
CTF Correction Type CTF Correction Details Number of Particles Selected Particle Selection Details
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