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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2026

Direct deposition on pre-cooled grids: a new approach to sub-millisecond cryoEM grid preparation.

David P Klebl, Robert W Kay, Sean McMillan, Frank Sobott, Nikil Kapur, Stephen P Muench

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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David P KleblSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Robert W KaySchool of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.
Sean McMillanSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6833-5523
Frank SobottSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9029-1865
Nikil KapurSchool of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1041-8390
Stephen P MuenchSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6869-4414

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council UKR11958Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 198466/Z/15/Z
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Abstract

There has been a rapid expansion in new approaches to sample preparation for single-particle cryoEM. One drive has been around speeding up the process both for the application of time-resolved studies and in outrunning some of the negative effects which may come from the sample interacting with the air-water interface, such as degradation and preferred orientation. Here, we set out to significantly improve the speed of grid preparation by removing the plunging stage and directly spraying onto pre-cooled grids which are situated in the cryogen, allowing us to produce grids where two samples are mixed and frozen on the grid in less than 1 ms. We have previously shown a preliminary proof of principle with this new approach and here we provide a detailed description of the approach taken and the methodology behind it. This approach allows us to move beyond the millisecond timescale to open up more systems to time-resolved EM and potentially improve samples.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopySpecimen HandlingcryoEMstructural biologytime-resolved cryoEM

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PMID42579337
PMCPMC13532694

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