National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
31930069 and 32150010
中国
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ジャーナル: Sci Adv / 年: 2024 タイトル: Correction of preferred orientation-induced distortion in cryo-electron microscopy maps. 著者: Dongjie Zhu / Weili Cao / Junxi Li / Chunling Wu / Duanfang Cao / Xinzheng Zhang / 要旨: Reconstruction maps of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) exhibit distortion when the cryo-EM dataset is incomplete, usually caused by unevenly distributed orientations. Prior efforts had been ...Reconstruction maps of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) exhibit distortion when the cryo-EM dataset is incomplete, usually caused by unevenly distributed orientations. Prior efforts had been attempted to address this preferred orientation problem using tilt-collection strategy and modifications to grids or to air-water interfaces. However, these approaches often require time-consuming experiments, and the effect was always protein dependent. Here, we developed a procedure containing removing misaligned particles and an iterative reconstruction method based on signal-to-noise ratio of Fourier component to correct this distortion by recovering missing data using a purely computational algorithm. This procedure called signal-to-noise ratio iterative reconstruction method (SIRM) was applied on incomplete datasets of various proteins to fix distortion in cryo-EM maps and to a more isotropic resolution. In addition, SIRM provides a better reference map for further reconstruction refinements, resulting in an improved alignment, which ultimately improves map quality and benefits model building.