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Journal: Nat Commun / Year: 2024 Title: Self-assembled superstructure alleviates air-water interface effect in cryo-EM. Authors: Liming Zheng / Jie Xu / Weihua Wang / Xiaoyin Gao / Chao Zhao / Weijun Guo / Luzhao Sun / Hang Cheng / Fanhao Meng / Buhang Chen / Weiyu Sun / Xia Jia / Xiong Zhou / Kai Wu / Zhongfan Liu / ...Authors: Liming Zheng / Jie Xu / Weihua Wang / Xiaoyin Gao / Chao Zhao / Weijun Guo / Luzhao Sun / Hang Cheng / Fanhao Meng / Buhang Chen / Weiyu Sun / Xia Jia / Xiong Zhou / Kai Wu / Zhongfan Liu / Feng Ding / Nan Liu / Hong-Wei Wang / Hailin Peng / Abstract: Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has been widely used to reveal the structures of proteins at atomic resolution. One key challenge is that almost all proteins are predominantly adsorbed to the air- ...Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has been widely used to reveal the structures of proteins at atomic resolution. One key challenge is that almost all proteins are predominantly adsorbed to the air-water interface during standard cryo-EM specimen preparation. The interaction of proteins with air-water interface will significantly impede the success of reconstruction and achievable resolution. Here, we highlight the critical role of impenetrable surfactant monolayers in passivating the air-water interface problems, and develop a robust effective method for high-resolution cryo-EM analysis, by using the superstructure GSAMs which comprises surfactant self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and graphene membrane. The GSAMs works well in enriching the orientations and improving particle utilization ratio of multiple proteins, facilitating the 3.3-Å resolution reconstruction of a 100-kDa protein complex (ACE2-RBD), which shows strong preferential orientation using traditional specimen preparation protocol. Additionally, we demonstrate that GSAMs enables the successful determinations of small proteins (<100 kDa) at near-atomic resolution. This study expands the understanding of SAMs and provides a key to better control the interaction of protein with air-water interface.
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