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ArticleJournal of structural biology: X2022

AreTomo: An integrated software package for automated marker-free, motion-corrected cryo-electron tomographic alignment and reconstruction.

Shawn Zheng, Georg Wolff, Garrett Greenan, Zhen Chen, Frank G A Faas, Montserrat Bárcena, Abraham J Koster, Yifan Cheng, David A Agard

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Article in Journal of structural biology: X, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 230 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Shawn ZhengDept. Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Georg WolffSection Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, Netherlands.
Garrett GreenanDept. Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Zhen ChenDept. Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Frank G A FaasSection Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, Netherlands.
Montserrat BárcenaSection Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, Netherlands.
Abraham J KosterSection Electron Microscopy, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden 2333 ZC, Netherlands.
Yifan ChengDept. Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
David A AgardDept. Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Leiden University Medical Center · NLUniversity of California, San Francisco · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Structure & Mechanism: microtubule nucleation, centrosomes, phage cytoskeletonR35GM118099 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI AGARD, DAVID A. · 2016 to 2022
$3.6M
Advancing cryo-EM technology to address difficult biological questionsR35GM140847 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Yifan Cheng · 2021 to 2026
$2.1M
Acquisition of an electron microscope for high-resolution single particle cryo-EMS10OD021741 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2016 to 2016
$2.0M
Glacios™ Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope with 200 kV XFEG opticsS10OD026881 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2019 to 2019
$1.8M
Linux cluster for near atomic resolution single particle cryo-EMS10OD020054 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHENG, YIFAN · 2015 to 2015
$456k
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118099NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM140847NIH HHS S10 OD020054NIH HHS S10 OD021741NIH HHS S10 OD026881
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

AreTomo, an abbreviation for Alignment and Reconstruction for Electron Tomography, is a GPU accelerated software package that fully automates motion-corrected marker-free tomographic alignment and reconstruction in a single package. By correcting in-plane rotation, translation, and importantly, the local motion resulting from beam-induced motion from tilt to tilt, AreTomo can produce tomograms with sufficient accuracy to be directly used for subtomogram averaging. Another major application is the on-the-fly reconstruction of tomograms in parallel with tilt series collection to provide users with real-time feedback of sample quality allowing users to make any necessary adjustments of collection parameters. Here, the multiple alignment algorithms implemented in AreTomo are described and the local motions measured on a typical tilt series are analyzed. The residual local motion after correction for global motion was found in the range of ± 80 Å, indicating that the accurate correction of local motion is critical for high-resolution cryo-electron tomography (cryoET).

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Electron tomographyGPU accelerationLocal beam-induced motionMarker-free alignmentTomographic alignmentTomographic reconstruction

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PMID35601683
PMCPMC9117686
OpenAlexW4229457981

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