National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS)
P41GM136508
United States
Department of Defense (DOD, United States)
HDTRA1-21-1-0004
United States
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
United States
Citation
Journal: Struct Dyn / Year: 2025 Title: Recovering high-resolution information using energy filtering in MicroED. Authors: Max T B Clabbers / Tamir Gonen Abstract: Inelastic scattering poses a significant challenge in electron crystallography by elevating background noise and broadening Bragg peaks, thereby reducing the overall signal-to-noise ratio. This is ...Inelastic scattering poses a significant challenge in electron crystallography by elevating background noise and broadening Bragg peaks, thereby reducing the overall signal-to-noise ratio. This is particularly detrimental to data quality in structural biology, as the diffraction signal is relatively weak. These effects are aggravated even further by the decay of the diffracted intensities as a result of accumulated radiation damage, and rapidly fading high-resolution information can disappear beneath the noise. Loss of high-resolution reflections can partly be mitigated using energy filtering, which removes inelastically scattered electrons and improves data quality and resolution. Here, we systematically compared unfiltered and energy-filtered microcrystal electron diffraction data from proteinase K crystals, first collecting an unfiltered dataset followed directly by a second sweep using the same settings but with the energy filter inserted. Our results show that energy filtering consistently reduces noise, sharpens Bragg peaks, and extends high-resolution information, even though the absorbed dose was doubled for the second pass. Importantly, our results demonstrate that high-resolution information can be recovered by inserting the energy filter slit. Energy-filtered datasets showed improved intensity statistics and better internal consistency, highlighting the effectiveness of energy filtering for improving data quality. These findings underscore its potential to overcome limitations in macromolecular electron crystallography, enabling higher-resolution structures with greater reliability.
ProteinaseK / Endopeptidase K / Tritirachium alkaline proteinase
Mass: 28958.791 Da / Num. of mol.: 1 Source method: isolated from a genetically manipulated source Source: (gene. exp.) Parengyodontium album (fungus) / Gene: PROK / Production host: Parengyodontium album (fungus) / References: UniProt: P06873, peptidase K
Cryogen: NITROGEN / Specimen holder model: FEI TITAN KRIOS AUTOGRID HOLDER / Temperature (max): 90 K / Temperature (min): 77 K
Image recording
Average exposure time: 1 sec. / Electron dose: 0.002 e/Å2 / Film or detector model: FEI FALCON IV (4k x 4k) / Num. of diffraction images: 420 / Num. of grids imaged: 1 / Num. of real images: 1
EM imaging optics
Energyfilter name: TFS Selectris / Energyfilter slit width: 10 eV
Image scans
Sampling size: 14 µm / Width: 4096 / Height: 4096
EM diffraction
Camera length: 1402 mm
EM diffraction shell
Resolution: 1.09→56.82 Å / Fourier space coverage: 97.5 % / Multiplicity: 28.5 / Num. of structure factors: 98228 / Phase residual: 16.04 °
EM diffraction stats
Fourier space coverage: 97.5 % / High resolution: 1.09 Å / Num. of intensities measured: 2811895 / Num. of structure factors: 98228 / Phase error rejection criteria: None / Rmerge: 28.4
Reflection
Biso Wilson estimate: 10.26 Å2
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Processing
EM software
ID
Name
Version
Category
1
SerialEM
4.2.0
imageacquisition
6
Coot
0.9.8.93
modelfitting
8
PHENIX
1.21.1
modelrefinement
9
PHASER
2.8.3
molecularreplacement
11
XDS
BUILT=20230630
symmetrydetermination
12
XSCALE
BUILT=20230630
crystallographymerging
13
PHENIX
1.21.1
3Dreconstruction
EM 3D crystal entity
∠α: 90 ° / ∠β: 90 ° / ∠γ: 90 ° / A: 67.64 Å / B: 67.64 Å / C: 106.67 Å / Space group name: P43322 / Space group num: 96
CTF correction
Type: NONE
3D reconstruction
Resolution: 1.3 Å / Resolution method: DIFFRACTION PATTERN/LAYERLINES / Symmetry type: 3D CRYSTAL
Atomic model building
B value: 12.61 / Protocol: OTHER / Space: RECIPROCAL / Target criteria: Maximum likelihood
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