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ReviewJournal of microscopy2025

Scanning transmission electron tomography to study virus assembly: Review for the retirement of Paul Walther.

Susanne Wieczorek, Jacomina Krijnse Locker

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Review in Journal of microscopy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Susanne WieczorekDepartment of Microscopy of Pathogens, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany.
Jacomina Krijnse LockerDepartment of Microscopy of Pathogens, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8658-2977

Funding

university clinic Cologneuniversity of Heidelberg
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this short and popular review, we summarise some of our findings analysing the replication cycles of large DNA viruses using scanning transmission electron tomography (STEM tomography) that we applied in the laboratory of Paul Walther. It is also a tribute to a very kind and expert scientist, who recently retired. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), in particular cryo-EM, has benefited tremendously from recent developments in instrumentation. However, TEM imaging remains limited by the thickness of the specimen and classical thin-section TEM typically generates 2D representations of 3D volumes. Although TEM tomography can partly overcome this limitation, the thickness of the sample, the volume that can be analysed in 3D, remains limiting. STEM tomography can partly overcome this problem, as it allows for the analysis of thicker samples, up to 1 µm in thickness. As such, it is an interesting imaging technique to analyse large DNA viruses, some of which measure 1 µm or more, and which is the focus of our research interest.

Indexed as

DNA VirusesElectron Microscope TomographyMicroscopy, Electron, Scanning TransmissionVirus AssemblyImaging, Three-Dimensional3D electron microscopycellular membraneslarge DNA virusesscanning transmission electron tomography

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PMID39600117
PMCPMC12352017

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