Eva Nogales1,2,3, Julia Mahamid4,5

  • 1Molecular and Cell Biology Department, Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. enogales@lbl.gov.

Nature
|April 3, 2024
PubMed
まとめ

構造生物学と細胞生物学は 細胞過程の補完的な見解を提示しています 低温電子顕微鏡 (cryo-EM) と低温電子トモグラフィ (cryo-ET) を組み合わせることで,構造と細胞の洞察を橋渡しして,マクロモレキュールを現場で視覚化できます.

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