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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2026

Explicit correction of severely non-uniform distributions of cryo-EM views.

Charles Barchet, Ottilie von Loeffelholz, Roberto Bahena-Ceron, Bruno P Klaholz, Alexandre G Urzhumtsev

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Charles BarchetCentre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Department of Integrated Structural Biology, IGBMC (Institute of Genetics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 7104/Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) U964/Université de Strasbourg, 1 Rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France.ORCID 0009-0005-6208-243X
Ottilie von LoeffelholzCentre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Department of Integrated Structural Biology, IGBMC (Institute of Genetics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 7104/Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) U964/Université de Strasbourg, 1 Rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France.
Roberto Bahena-CeronCentre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Department of Integrated Structural Biology, IGBMC (Institute of Genetics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 7104/Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) U964/Université de Strasbourg, 1 Rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France.
Bruno P KlaholzCentre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Department of Integrated Structural Biology, IGBMC (Institute of Genetics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 7104/Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) U964/Université de Strasbourg, 1 Rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8674-8674
Alexandre G UrzhumtsevCentre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Department of Integrated Structural Biology, IGBMC (Institute of Genetics and of Molecular and Cellular Biology), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 7104/Institut National de la Santé de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm) U964/Université de Strasbourg, 1 Rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France.

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Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-10-IDEX-0002Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-10-INBS-0005Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-10-LABX-0036_NETRNAAgence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-17-EURE-0023Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR 20-SFRI-0012Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-21-ESRE-0046
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Abstract

The quality of three-dimensional macromolecular image reconstruction by cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM) strongly depends on the number and the quality of the respective two-dimensional projections and on their angular distribution in space. Distributions with one or a few strongly preferred particle orientations may result in maps that are deformed in certain directions. A simple removal of overrepresented views may improve the quality of the reconstructed maps when the level of noise in the two-dimensional (2D) projections is low and the data-set size can afford this removal, but is counterproductive otherwise. Complementarily, giving an increased weight to underrepresented views, or taking multiple copies of them during the reconstruction, may improve the results, naturally, depending on how non-uniform the view distribution is. This work describes the results of three-dimensional (3D) reconstructions using an explicit correction of the number of overrepresented and underrepresented projections for non-uniformly distributed sets. Such correction can be considered as a potential preprocessing, fast and simple, during 3D reconstruction in the image-processing and cryo-EM structure-determination workflow.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-DimensionalMacromolecular SubstancesAlgorithmsMacromolecular Substances3D reconstructioncryo-EMdistribution correctionexplicit distribution homogenizationimage improvementnon-uniform view distributionpreferred orientationsreconstruction improvementview frequency

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PMCPMC12865888

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