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Serial Lift-Out: sampling the molecular anatomy of whole organisms
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Stockholm University, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4693-3220
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Number of Authors: 102024 (English)In: Nature Methods, ISSN 1548-7091, E-ISSN 1548-7105, Vol. 21, no 9, p. 1684-1692Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Cryo-focused ion beam milling of frozen-hydrated cells and subsequent cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has enabled the structural elucidation of macromolecular complexes directly inside cells. Application of the technique to multicellular organisms and tissues, however, is still limited by sample preparation. While high-pressure freezing enables the vitrification of thicker samples, it prolongs subsequent preparation due to increased thinning times and the need for extraction procedures. Additionally, thinning removes large portions of the specimen, restricting the imageable volume to the thickness of the final lamella, typically <300 nm. Here we introduce Serial Lift-Out, an enhanced lift-out technique that increases throughput and obtainable contextual information by preparing multiple sections from single transfers. We apply Serial Lift-Out to Caenorhabditis elegans L1 larvae, yielding a cryo-ET dataset sampling the worm’s anterior–posterior axis, and resolve its ribosome structure to 7 Å and a subregion of the 11-protofilament microtubule to 13 Å, illustrating how Serial Lift-Out enables the study of multicellular molecular anatomy.

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2024. Vol. 21, no 9, p. 1684-1692
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-234360DOI: 10.1038/s41592-023-02113-5ISI: 001126471800002PubMedID: 38110637Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85180209412OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-234360DiVA, id: diva2:1905854
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