Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Macromolecular Assemblies: Visualization of Biological Molecules in Their Native State - Hardcover

Frank, Joachim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195150961 ISBN 13: 9780195150964

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Cryoelectron microscopy of biological molecules is among the hottest growth areas in biophysics and structural biology at present, and Frank is arguably the most distinguished practitioner of this art. CryoEM is likely over the next few years to take over much of the structural approaches currently requiring X-ray crystallography, because one can now get good and finely detailed images of single molecules down to as little as 200,000 MW, covering a substantial share of the molecules of greatest biomedical research interest. This book, the successor to an earlier work published in 1996 with Academic Press, is a natural companion work to our forthcoming book on electron crystallography by Robert Glaeser, with contributions by six others, including Frank. A growing number of workers will employ CryoEM for structural studies in their own research, and a large proportion of biomedical researchers will have a growing interest in understanding what the capabilities and limits of this approach are.

About this title

About the Author

Joachim Frank is at Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Review

"Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Macromolecular Assemblies is the first systematic introduction to single-particle methods of reconstruction... The book gives an excellent review on all methodological developments in the field.. It will be an indispensable resource for newcomers to the field and for all using or adopting these methods."
--OPTIK

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195150961
• ISBN 13: 9780195150964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432