Abstract
Electron microscopy (EM) is a rapidly growing area of structural biology that permits us to decode biological assemblies at the nanoscale. To examine biological materials for single particle EM analysis, purified assemblies must be obtained using biochemical separation techniques. Here, we describe effective methodologies for isolating histidine (his)-tagged protein assemblies from the nucleus of disease-relevant cell lines. We further demonstrate how isolated assemblies are visualized using single particle EM techniques and provide representative results for each step in the process.
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This work was supported by NIH/NCI grant R01CA193578 to D.F.K.
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Cameron Varano, A., Harafuji, N., Dearnaley, W., Guay-Woodford, L., Kelly, D.F. (2017). Preparation of Disease-Related Protein Assemblies for Single Particle Electron Microscopy. In: Lazar, I., Kontoyianni, M., Lazar, A. (eds) Proteomics for Drug Discovery. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1647. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7201-2_12
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