Cryo-Electron Tomography of Bacterial Secretion Machinery: A Technical Note on Sample Vitrification

Authors

  • Gustav-M Ahlstedt Centre for Structural Biology, Aland Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Mariehamn, Finland Author
  • Diletta Cassinelli Centre for Structural Biology, Basilicata Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Potenza, Italy Author
  • Hinko Kokalj Department of Microbiology, Kozjansko Institute of Biological Sciences, Sevnica, Slovenia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22667170

Keywords:

Cryo-Electron Tomography of Bacterial Secretion Machinery; Biological sciences; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Cryo-Electron Tomography of Bacterial Secretion Machinery has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a
wider community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for cryo-electron tomography of bacterial secretion machinery, covering the methodological,
practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers
are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered
here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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2022-03-03