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ArticleNature communications2026

Single-cell structural biology with intracellular electron crystallography.

Štěpánka Bílá, Dominik Pinkas, Krishna Khakurel, Juliane Boger, Tomáš Bílý, Janos Hajdu, Zdeněk Franta, Iñaki de Diego Martinez, Roman Tuma, Lars Redecke and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. 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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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Štěpánka Bílá *Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0009-0002-8689-1176
Dominik Pinkas *Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Institute of Molecular Genetics ASCR, Prague 4, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-6103-4314
Krishna Khakurel *ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.
Juliane BogerInstitute of Biochemistry, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2030-4370
Tomáš BílýFaculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-1450-1693
Janos HajduELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic.
Zdeněk FrantaFaculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-7709-0097
Iñaki de Diego MartinezEuropean XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6156-4032
Roman TumaFaculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-0047-0013
Lars RedeckeInstitute of Biochemistry, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany. lars.redecke@uni-luebeck.de.
Vitaly PolovinkinELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic. vitaly.polovinkin@eli-beams.eu.ORCID 0000-0002-3630-5565

Funding

European Union’s HORIZON EUROPE framework programme for research and innovationGerman Federal Ministry for Education and ResearchJohannes Amos Comenius Programme of the Ministry of Education
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular crystallization is an emerging approach in structural biology that bypasses the need for protein purification. In 2024, the InCellCryst pipeline was introduced for structural studies of intracellular crystals by serial X-ray crystallography. Serial crystallography requires the exposure of tens of thousands of cells containing intracellular crystals, precluding high-resolution studies on proteins that crystallize only in a few cells. Here we introduce IncelluloED, a method that combines intracellular crystallization with in situ 3D electron diffraction in cells and achieves high-resolution structures from just one crystal inside one cell. Experiments on a microcrystal of the HEX-1 protein from Magnaporthe grisea, grown inside an insect cell, give a structure at 1.9 Å resolution from a volume of ~1.6 µm

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyFungal ProteinsSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsCrystallizationCrystallographyCrystallography, X-RayMagnaportheFungal Proteins

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PMID41760608
PMCPMC12953629

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