The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

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Biochemistry

High-resolution Single Particle Analysis from Electron Cryo-microscopy Images Using SPHIRE

Toshio Moriya¹, Michael Saur¹, Markus Stabrin¹, Felipe Merino¹, Horatiu Voicu², Zhong Huang², Pawel A. Penczek², Stefan Raunser¹, Christos Gatsogiannis¹

¹Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, ²Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston

This paper presents a protocol for processing cryo-EM images using the software suite SPHIRE. The present protocol can be applied for nearly all single particle EM projects that target near-atomic resolution.