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==UVC treated Human apoferritin==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=7PF1 OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=7PF1 FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">Electron Microscopy, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 2.1&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=CL:CHLORIDE+ION'>CL</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MG:MAGNESIUM+ION'>MG</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=7pf1 FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=7pf1 OCA], [https://pdbe.org/7pf1 PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=7pf1 RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/7pf1 PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=7pf1 ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Cryo-electron microscopy has become an essential tool to understand structure and function of biological samples. Especially for pathogens, such as disease-causing bacteria and viruses, insights gained by cryo-EM can aid in developing cures. However, due to the biosafety restrictions of pathogens, samples are often treated by chemical fixation to render the pathogen inert, affecting the ultrastructure of the sample. Alternatively, researchers use in vitro or ex vivo models, which are non-pathogenic but lack the complexity of the pathogen of interest. Here we show that ultraviolet-C (UVC) radiation applied at cryogenic temperatures can be used to eliminate or dramatically reduce the infectivity of Vibrio cholerae and the bacterial virus, the ICP1 bacteriophage. We show no discernable structural impact of this treatment of either sample using two cryo-EM methods: cryo-electron tomography followed by sub-tomogram averaging, and single particle analysis (SPA). Additionally, we applied the UVC irradiation to the protein apoferritin (ApoF), which is a widely used test sample for high-resolution SPA studies. The UVC-treated ApoF sample resulted in a 2.1 A structure indistinguishable from an untreated published map. This research demonstrates that UVC treatment is an effective and inexpensive addition to the cryo-EM sample preparation toolbox.

UVC inactivation of pathogenic samples suitable for cryo-EM analysis.,Depelteau JS, Renault L, Althof N, Cassidy CK, Mendonca LM, Jensen GJ, Resch GP, Briegel A Commun Biol. 2022 Jan 11;5(1):29. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02962-w. PMID:35017666<ref>PMID:35017666</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Ferritin 3D structures|Ferritin 3D structures]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Briegel A]]
[[Category: Depelteau JS]]
[[Category: Renault L]]