Cryo-electron tomography (CET) combined with 3D image classification and averaging becomes an increasingly powerful method aiming at the analysis of the structure and interactions of macromolecular complexes in their natural context. By means of the porin MspA from
Mycobacterium smegmatis this thesis evaluates to what extent cryopreparation, adapted data acquisition and further developed data analysis and reconstruction can be applied to the in situ analysis of medium sized membrane proteins. The porin could be resolved at ̴ 2 nm and the transmembrane region was clearly distinguishable from the lipid bilayer. The study presents a methodical extension of CET that can be adapted to the analysis of membrane proteins in general. Furthermore, besides the structural investigations, functional properties of MspA are assessed with electrophysiological methods.
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Cryo-electron tomography (CET) combined with 3D image classification and averaging becomes an increasingly powerful method aiming at the analysis of the structure and interactions of macromolecular complexes in their natural context. By means of the porin MspA from
Mycobacterium smegmatis this thesis evaluates to what extent cryopreparation, adapted data acquisition and further developed data analysis and reconstruction can be applied to the in situ analysis of medium sized membrane proteins. Th...
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