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Chin. Phys. B, 2018, Vol. 27(5): 056802    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/5/056802
Special Issue: TOPICAL REVIEW — Electron microscopy methods for emergent materials and life sciences
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Computing methods for icosahedral and symmetry-mismatch reconstruction of viruses by cryo-electron microscopy

Bin Zhu(朱彬)1, Lingpeng Cheng(程凌鹏)2, Hongrong Liu(刘红荣)1
1 College of Physics and Information Science, Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications and Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China;
2 Technology Center for Protein Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Abstract  Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of icosahedral viruses has played a crucial role in the development of cryo-electron microscopy single-particle reconstruction, with many cryo-electron microscopy techniques first established for structural studies of icosahedral viruses, owing to their high symmetry and large mass. This review summarizes the computational methods for icosahedral and symmetry-mismatch reconstruction of viruses, as well as the likely challenges and bottlenecks in virus reconstruction, such as symmetry mismatch reconstruction, contrast transformation function (CTF) correction, and particle distortion.
Keywords:  cryo-electron microscopy      icosahedral virus      computational method      three-dimensional reconstruction      symmetry-mismatch reconstruction  
Received:  21 November 2017      Revised:  27 March 2018      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  68.37.Lp (Transmission electron microscopy (TEM))  
  68.37.Og (High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM))  
  02.20.-a (Group theory)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No.2016YFA0501100),the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.91530321,31570742,and 31570727),and Science and Technology Planning Project of Hunan Province,China (Grant No.2017RS3033).
Corresponding Authors:  Lingpeng Cheng, Hongrong Liu     E-mail:  lingpengcheng@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn;hrliu@hunnu.edu.cn

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Bin Zhu(朱彬), Lingpeng Cheng(程凌鹏), Hongrong Liu(刘红荣) Computing methods for icosahedral and symmetry-mismatch reconstruction of viruses by cryo-electron microscopy 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 056802

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