Transmission Electron Microscopy Tilt-Series Data from In-Situ Chondrocyte Primary Cilia

Abstract

The primary cilium has recently become the focus of intensive investigations into understanding the physical structure and processes of eukaryotic cells. This paper describes two tilt-series image datasets, acquired by transmission electron microscopy, of in situ chick-embryo sternal-cartilage primary cilia. These data have been released under an open-access licence, and are well suited to tomographic reconstruction and modelling of the cilium.

Keywords

• primary cilia
• electron tomography
• TEM
• chondrocyte
• 3D reconstruction