Details: 12 mM Tris-HCl, 120 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA pH: 8
Vitrification
Cryogen Name
ETHANE
Instrument
HOMEMADE PLUNGER
Method
A small vial of ethane is placed inside a larger liquid nitrogen reservoir. The grid holding a few microliters of the sample is held in place at the bottom of a plunger by the means of fine tweezers. Once the ethane in the vial is completely frozen, it needs to be slightly melted. When the liquid ethane is ready, a piece of filter paper is then pressed against the sample to blot of excess buffer, sufficient to leave a thin layer on the grid. After a predetermined time, the filter paper is removed, and the plunger is allowed to drop into the liquid ethane. Once the grid enters the liquid ethane, the sample is rapidly frozen, and the grid is transferred under liquid nitrogen to a storage box immersed liquid nitrogen for later use in the microscope.
polar fourier transform, fourier space matching and reconstruction
Software
PFTSEARCH, PO2R, P3DR
CTF Correction
Each particle
Resolution By Author
14.5 A
Resolution Method
FSC at 0.5 cut-off
Euler Angles Details
theta 69 to 90 degrees phi -31 to 31 degrees omega 0 to 360 degrees
Details
final map includes data to 12.8 Ang resolution (fsc 0.3 cut-off); magnification of final map standardized to a map calculated from dengue virus model coordinates (PDB accession no 1THD)
Single Particle
Number of Projections
3567
Details
The particles were selected interactively at the computer terminal.