Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1): 15-32.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2021-1562

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Application of cryo-Electron Microscopy in Molecular Botany Research

YIN Guo-liang1,2(), SUN Wen-hao1,2, PANG Xiao-yun1, SUN Fei1,2()   

  1. 1. National Key Laboratory of Biomacromolecules,Institute of Biophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101
    2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049
  • Received:2021-12-16 Online:2022-01-26 Published:2022-02-22
  • Contact: SUN Fei E-mail:yinguoliang19@mails.ucas.ac.cn;feisun@ibp.ac.cn

Abstract:

Various physiological activities of plants depend on the interaction and dynamic changes of many plant proteins/protein complexes at the molecular level. Understanding their structure and function is very important to study the molecular mechanism of plant physiological activities. With the recent technology advances,including the development of direct electron detectors and sophisticated image processing algorithms,cryo-electron microscopy(cryo-EM)has gradually become an important technique for studying proteins/protein complexes,which provides an efficient research tool to study the molecular mechanism of plant physiological activities. At present,the application of cryo-EM in molecular botany is still in the early stage,and researches on the structure and function of important plant protein complexes are not sufficient. Starting from a brief introduction of the history of cryo-EM development,this review summarizes the recent applications of cryo-EM in studying photosynthesis and plant stress response,aiming to promote the cooperation in the study field of molecular botany and cryo-EM.

Key words: cryo-EM, molecular botany, photosynthesis, stress response