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ArticleUltramicroscopy2020

Cryo-EM sample preparation method for extremely low concentration liposomes.

Lige Tonggu, Liguo Wang

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Article in Ultramicroscopy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lige TongguDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States.
Liguo WangDepartment of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States. Electronic address: lw32@uw.edu.
University of Washington · US

Funding

Structure of a membrane protein in a lipid membrane: cryo-EM study of the HCN chaR01GM096458 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, LIGUO · 2010 to 2014
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM096458
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liposomes are widely used as delivery systems in pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries, as well as a system for structural and functional study of membrane proteins. To accurately characterize liposomes, cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) has been employed as it is the most precise and direct method to determine liposome lamellarity, size, shape and ultrastructure. However, its use is limited by the number of liposomes that can be trapped in the thin layer of ice that spans holes in the perforated carbon film on EM grids. We report a long-incubation method for increasing the density of liposomes in holes. By increasing the incubation time, high liposome density was achieved even with extremely dilute (in the nanomolar range) liposome solutions. This long-incubation method has been successfully employed to study the structure of an ion channel reconstituted into liposomes.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyHEK293 CellsHumansLarge-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium ChannelsLiposomesProteolipidsSpecimen HandlingLarge-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium ChannelsLiposomesProteolipidsproteoliposomesCryo-EMLiposomesMembrane proteinsSample preparation

Identifiers

PMID31622807
PMCPMC7058178
OpenAlexW2978507836

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