HUMAN BETA CARDIAC HEAVY MEROMYOSIN INTERACTING-HEADS MOTIF OBTAINED BY HOMOLOGY MODELING (USING SWISS-MODEL) OF HUMAN SEQUENCE FROM APHONOPELMA HOMOLOGY MODEL (PDB-3JBH), RIGIDLY FITTED TO HUMAN BETA-CARDIAC NEGATIVELY STAINED THICK FILAMENT 3D-RECONSTRUCTION (EMD-2240)
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Starting Model(s)
| Initial Refinement Model(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Source | Accession Code | Details |
| experimental model | PDB | 3JBH | |
| Sample |
|---|
| MYOSIN THICK FILAMENTS TARANTULA STRIATED MUSCLE |
| Specimen Preparation | |
|---|---|
| Sample Aggregation State | FILAMENT |
| Vitrification Instrument | HOMEMADE PLUNGER |
| Cryogen Name | ETHANE |
| Sample Vitrification Details | PLUNGING IN A LIQUID ETHANE COOLED BY LIQUID NITROGEN. BLOTTING WAS PERFORMED FROM ONE SIDE OF THE GRID TILL A THIN SAMPLE FILM ON IT USING WHATMAN NO ... |
| 3D Reconstruction | |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction Method | SINGLE PARTICLE |
| Number of Particles | 10700 |
| Reported Resolution (Å) | 20 |
| Resolution Method | FSC 0.5 CUT-OFF |
| Other Details | For projection matching, giving a total of 4,095 projections (13 tilted projections plus-minus 12 deg. every 2deg., 45 reference rotated projections ( ... |
| Refinement Type | |
| Symmetry Type | POINT |
| Point Symmetry | C4 |
| Map-Model Fitting and Refinement | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Id | 1 (3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH) | ||||
| Refinement Space | REAL | ||||
| Refinement Protocol | RIGID BODY FIT | ||||
| Refinement Target | CORRELATION COEFFICIENT | ||||
| Overall B Value | |||||
| Fitting Procedure | |||||
| Details | |||||
| Data Acquisition | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detector Type | KODAK SO-163 FILM | ||||||||
| Electron Dose (electrons/Å**2) | 9 | ||||||||
| Imaging Experiment | 1 |
|---|---|
| Date of Experiment | |
| Temperature (Kelvin) | |
| Microscope Model | FEI/PHILIPS CM120T |
| Minimum Defocus (nm) | 1950 |
| Maximum Defocus (nm) | 1950 |
| Minimum Tilt Angle (degrees) | |
| Maximum Tilt Angle (degrees) | |
| Nominal CS | 2 |
| Imaging Mode | BRIGHT FIELD |
| Specimen Holder Model | GATAN LIQUID NITROGEN |
| Nominal Magnification | 35000 |
| Calibrated Magnification | 35000 |
| Source | LAB6 |
| Acceleration Voltage (kV) | 120 |
| Imaging Details | Holey carbon grids Cryopreserved in Liquid ethane were observed in a Philips CM120 electron microscope under low dose conditions. Only filaments on thin carbon over holes were photographed |
| EM Software | ||
|---|---|---|
| Task | Software Package | Version |
| PARTICLE SELECTION | EMAN | 2 |
| MODEL FITTING | UCSF Chimera | 10 |
| RECONSTRUCTION | ITERATIVE HELICAL REAL SPACE RECONSTRUCTION (EGELMAN, 2000) | SPIDER 14 |
| Image Processing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTF Correction Type | CTF Correction Details | Number of Particles Selected | Particle Selection Details | |
| NONE | 15504 | A total of 15,504 segments, each 62 nm long, with an overlap of 55.8 nm, and containing aprox. 40,000 unique pairs of interacting myosin heads went into the reconstruction. | ||














