3D image reconstruction algorithms for cryo-electron-microscopy images of virus particles

Author(s):  
Peter C. Doerschuk ◽  
John E. Johnson
Author(s):  
Santosh Bhattacharyya

Three dimensional microscopic structures play an important role in the understanding of various biological and physiological phenomena. Structural details of neurons, such as the density, caliber and volumes of dendrites, are important in understanding physiological and pathological functioning of nervous systems. Even so, many of the widely used stains in biology and neurophysiology are absorbing stains, such as horseradish peroxidase (HRP), and yet most of the iterative, constrained 3D optical image reconstruction research has concentrated on fluorescence microscopy. It is clear that iterative, constrained 3D image reconstruction methodologies are needed for transmitted light brightfield (TLB) imaging as well. One of the difficulties in doing so, in the past, has been in determining the point spread function of the system.We have been developing several variations of iterative, constrained image reconstruction algorithms for TLB imaging. Some of our early testing with one of them was reported previously. These algorithms are based on a linearized model of TLB imaging.


2021 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 113234
Author(s):  
J.P.J. Chen ◽  
K.E. Schmidt ◽  
J.C.H. Spence ◽  
R.A. Kirian

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (S2) ◽  
pp. 948-949
Author(s):  
X. Yan ◽  
N. H. Olson ◽  
J. L. Van Etten ◽  
T. S. Baker

Paramecium bursaria Chlorella virus l(PBCV-l), the type species of the Pycodnaviridae family, is a large, plaque-forming virus that replicates in certain unicellular, exsymbiotic, Chlorella-like green algae. The virion (∼lxl09 daltons) has a 330,740 base pair dsDNA genome encapsulated within an icosahedral shell of ∼190nm diameter. Purified virions contain more than 50 different proteins, which account for 65% of the total virion mass and range in size from 10 to more than 200kDa. Vp54, the major capsid protein (40% of total virion protein) is a myristilated glycoprotein but it is not phosphorylated. Three other proteins are located on the virus surface. Virions contain 5-10% lipid, located inside the glycoprotein shell, which is required for virus infectivity. Little is known about the detailed ultrastructure of PBCV-1 virions, though some information has been obtained with sectioned, negatively-stained, and metal-shadowed specimens. We have used cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction methods to examine the native morphology of PBCV-1.


Viruses ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikéa Pittman ◽  
Adam Misseldine ◽  
Lorena Geilen ◽  
Sujata Halder ◽  
J. Smith ◽  
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