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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)
TypeSourceAccession CodeDetails
experimental modelPDB 3JBH 
Sample
MYOSIN THICK FILAMENTS TARANTULA STRIATED MUSCLE
Specimen Preparation
Sample Aggregation StateFILAMENT
Vitrification InstrumentHOMEMADE PLUNGER
Cryogen NameETHANE
Sample Vitrification DetailsPLUNGING 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 ...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. 42 FILTER PAPER, THEN THE GRID WAS IMMEDIATELY PLUNGED UNDER GRAVITY INTO LIQUID ETHANE COOLED BY LIQUID NITROGEN. GRIDS WERE STORED UNDER LIQUID NITROGEN.
3D Reconstruction
Reconstruction MethodSINGLE PARTICLE
Number of Particles10700
Reported Resolution (Å)20
Resolution MethodFSC 0.5 CUT-OFF
Other DetailsFor projection matching, giving a total of 4,095 projections (13 tilted projections plus-minus 12 deg. every 2deg., 45 reference rotated projections ( ...For projection matching, giving a total of 4,095 projections (13 tilted projections plus-minus 12 deg. every 2deg., 45 reference rotated projections (0-90 degrees, 2deg. rotation angle), and 7 image axial shifts of 2.2 nm. The resulting 3D-map combines about 10,700 out of 15,504 filament segments, a yield of 69 percent of included segments. There are 4 helices of myosin heads, rotated 30 degrees, every 145 Angstroms. The filament segments were selected based on visual judgement of good helical order.
Refinement Type
Symmetry TypePOINT
Point SymmetryC4
Map-Model Fitting and Refinement
Id1 (3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH, 3JBH)
Refinement SpaceREAL
Refinement ProtocolRIGID BODY FIT
Refinement TargetCORRELATION COEFFICIENT
Overall B Value
Fitting Procedure
Details
Data Acquisition
Detector TypeKODAK SO-163 FILM
Electron Dose (electrons/Å**2)9
Imaging Experiment1
Date of Experiment
Temperature (Kelvin)
Microscope ModelFEI/PHILIPS CM120T
Minimum Defocus (nm)1950
Maximum Defocus (nm)1950
Minimum Tilt Angle (degrees)
Maximum Tilt Angle (degrees)
Nominal CS2
Imaging ModeBRIGHT FIELD
Specimen Holder ModelGATAN LIQUID NITROGEN
Nominal Magnification35000
Calibrated Magnification35000
SourceLAB6
Acceleration Voltage (kV)120
Imaging DetailsHoley 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
TaskSoftware PackageVersion
PARTICLE SELECTIONEMAN2
MODEL FITTINGUCSF Chimera10
RECONSTRUCTIONITERATIVE HELICAL REAL SPACE RECONSTRUCTION (EGELMAN, 2000)SPIDER 14
Image Processing
CTF Correction TypeCTF Correction DetailsNumber of Particles SelectedParticle Selection Details
NONE15504A 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.