Communications Biology (Apr 2022)

An electron counting algorithm improves imaging of proteins with low-acceleration-voltage cryo-electron microscope

  • Dongjie Zhu,
  • Huigang Shi,
  • Chunling Wu,
  • Xinzheng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03284-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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To fulfil the need to make single particle cryoEM more affordable by using lower voltage for biological imaging, a new counting algorithm can be used at lower voltages with existing direct electron detectors to obtain high-resolution reconstructions of small proteins.