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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Three-dimensional deconvolution processing for STEM cryotomography.

Barnali Waugh, Sharon G Wolf, Deborah Fass, Eric Branlund, Zvi Kam, John W Sedat, Michael Elbaum

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Deconvolution to restore cryo-EM maps with anisotropic resolution.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  4. Helical coiled nucleosome chromosome architectures during cell cycle progression.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  8. A proposed unified interphase nucleus chromosome structure: Preliminary preponderance of evidence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  9. A proposed unified mitotic chromosome architecture.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  11. Entropy-regularized deconvolution of cellular cryotransmission electron tomograms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Barnali WaughDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel.
Sharon G WolfChemical Research Support Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-5337-5063
Deborah FassDepartment of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9418-6069
Eric BranlundDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158.
Zvi KamDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel.
John W SedatDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158; sedat@msg.ucsf.edu michael.elbaum@weizmann.ac.il.
Michael ElbaumDepartment of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 Rehovot, Israel; sedat@msg.ucsf.edu michael.elbaum@weizmann.ac.il.ORCID 0000-0001-7915-5512

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complex environment of biological cells and tissues has motivated development of three-dimensional (3D) imaging in both light and electron microscopies. To this end, one of the primary tools in fluorescence microscopy is that of computational deconvolution. Wide-field fluorescence images are often corrupted by haze due to out-of-focus light, i.e., to cross-talk between different object planes as represented in the 3D image. Using prior understanding of the image formation mechanism, it is possible to suppress the cross-talk and reassign the unfocused light to its proper source post facto. Electron tomography based on tilted projections also exhibits a cross-talk between distant planes due to the discrete angular sampling and limited tilt range. By use of a suitably synthesized 3D point spread function, we show here that deconvolution leads to similar improvements in volume data reconstructed from cryoscanning transmission electron tomography (CSTET), namely a dramatic in-plane noise reduction and improved representation of features in the axial dimension. Contrast enhancement is demonstrated first with colloidal gold particles and then in representative cryotomograms of intact cells. Deconvolution of CSTET data collected from the periphery of an intact nucleus revealed partially condensed, extended structures in interphase chromatin.

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Imaging, Three-DimensionalAlgorithmsCell LineElectron Microscope TomographyFrozen SectionsGold ColloidHumansImage EnhancementMicroscopy, Electron, Scanning TransmissionGold Colloidchromatincryoelectron microscopytomography

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