Visualizing Virus Assembly Intermediates Inside Marine Cyanobacteria by Zernike Phase Contrast Electron Cryo-Tomography
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1. National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs Mclean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. 2. Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. 3. Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. 4. Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. 5. National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 5-1 Higashiyama, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan † Present address: FEI, 5350 Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, OR, USA
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