Journal: Elife / Year: 2020 Title: Fully automated, sequential focused ion beam milling for cryo-electron tomography. Authors: Tobias Zachs / Andreas Schertel / João Medeiros / Gregor L Weiss / Jannik Hugener / Joao Matos / Martin Pilhofer / Abstract: Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) has become a powerful technique at the interface of structural biology and cell biology, due to its unique ability for imaging cells in their native state and ...Cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) has become a powerful technique at the interface of structural biology and cell biology, due to its unique ability for imaging cells in their native state and determining structures of macromolecular complexes in their cellular context. A limitation of cryoET is its restriction to relatively thin samples. Sample thinning by cryo-focused ion beam (cryoFIB) milling has significantly expanded the range of samples that can be analyzed by cryoET. Unfortunately, cryoFIB milling is low-throughput, time-consuming and manual. Here, we report a method for fully automated sequential cryoFIB preparation of high-quality lamellae, including rough milling and polishing. We reproducibly applied this method to eukaryotic and bacterial model organisms, and show that the resulting lamellae are suitable for cryoET imaging and subtomogram averaging. Since our method reduces the time required for lamella preparation and minimizes the need for user input, we envision the technique will render previously inaccessible projects feasible.
EMPIAR-10376 (Title: Yeast Tilt Series Collected on Lamella Generated by Fully Automated FIB Milling Data size: 2.6 Data #1: Yeast Tilt Series Collected on Lamella Generated by Fully Automated FIB Milling [tilt series])
Focused ion beam - Instrument: OTHER / Focused ion beam - Ion: OTHER / Focused ion beam - Voltage: 30 kV / Focused ion beam - Current: 0.005 nA / Focused ion beam - Duration: 1545 sec. / Focused ion beam - Temperature: 121 K / Focused ion beam - Initial thickness: 2000 nm / Focused ion beam - Final thickness: 243 nm Focused ion beam - Details: The value given for _emd_sectioning_focused_ion_beam.instrument is Zeiss CrossBeam 550. This is not in a list of allowed values set(['DB235', 'OTHER']) so OTHER is written into the XML file.
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Electron microscopy
Microscope
FEI TITAN KRIOS
Image recording
Film or detector model: GATAN K3 BIOQUANTUM (6k x 4k) / Average electron dose: 1.96 e/Å2
Electron beam
Acceleration voltage: 300 kV / Electron source: FIELD EMISSION GUN
Electron optics
Illumination mode: FLOOD BEAM / Imaging mode: BRIGHT FIELD
Experimental equipment
Model: Titan Krios / Image courtesy: FEI Company
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Image processing
Final reconstruction
Number images used: 61
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