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ArticleCommunications biology2025

Rapid structural analysis of bacterial ribosomes in situ.

Barrett M Powell, Tyler S Brant, Joseph H Davis, Shyamal Mosalaganti

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Article in Communications biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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4 authors.

Barrett M PowellDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4228-2977
Tyler S BrantLife Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9609-8273
Joseph H DavisDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. jhdavis@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8858-8907
Shyamal MosalagantiLife Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. mosalaga@umich.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5934-687X

Funding

PRE-DOCTORAL TRAINING IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCEST32GM007287 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BELL, STEPHEN P., KEATING, AMY E · 1985 to 2019
$40.8M
In-situ architecture of membrane contact sites mediating organelle fissionDP2GM150019 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MOSALAGANTI, SHYAMAL · 2022 to 2025
$2.3M
Tools to determine and analyze the structures of molecular machines in motionR01GM144542 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Joseph Davis · 2022 to 2026
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM150019NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM144542NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007287
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid structural analysis of purified proteins and their complexes has become increasingly common thanks to key methodological advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and associated data processing software packages. In contrast, analogous structural analysis in cells via cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) remains challenging due to critical technical bottlenecks, including low-throughput sample preparation and imaging, and laborious data processing methods. Here, we describe a rapid in situ cryo-ET sample preparation and data analysis workflow that results in the routine determination of sub-nm resolution ribosomal structures. We apply this workflow to E. coli, producing a 5.8 Å structure of the 70S ribosome from cells in less than 10 days and facilitating the discovery of a minor population of 100S-like disomes. We envision our approach to be widely applicable to related bacterial samples.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyEscherichia coliRibosomesElectron Microscope Tomography

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PMID39875527
PMCPMC11775198

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