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ReviewQuarterly reviews of biophysics2009

Single-particle reconstruction of biological macromolecules in electron microscopy--30 years.

Joachim Frank

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Review in Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Joachim FrankThe Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. jf2192@columbia.edu

Funding

STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF MACROMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIESR01GM029169 · NIGMS · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI FRANK, JOACHIM · 1985 to 2019
$6.1M
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF MACROMOLECULAR ASSEMBLYR37GM029169 · NIGMS · WADSWORTH CENTER · PI FRANK, JOACHIM · 1997 to 2006
$2.8M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM029169NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM029169NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM29169
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This essay gives the autho's personal account on the development of concepts underlying single-particle reconstruction, a technique in electron microscopy of macromolecular assemblies with a remarkable record of achievements as of late. The ribosome proved to be an ideal testing ground for the development of specimen preparation methods, cryo-EM techniques, and algorithms, with discoveries along the way as a rich reward. Increasingly, cryo-EM and single-particle reconstruction, in combination with classification techniques, is revealing dynamic information on functional molecular machines uninhibited by molecular contacts.

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Image Processing, Computer-AssistedMacromolecular SubstancesMicroscopy, ElectronMacromolecular Substances

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PMID20025794
PMCPMC2844734

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