{"department":[{"_id":"FlSc"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of cellular specimens provides insights into biological processes and structures within a native context. However, a major challenge still lies in the efficient and reproducible preparation of adherent cells for subsequent cryo-EM analysis. This is due to the sensitivity of many cellular specimens to the varying seeding and culturing conditions required for EM experiments, the often limited amount of cellular material and also the fragility of EM grids and their substrate. Here, we present low-cost and reusable 3D printed grid holders, designed to improve specimen preparation when culturing challenging cellular samples directly on grids. The described grid holders increase cell culture reproducibility and throughput, and reduce the resources required for cell culturing. We show that grid holders can be integrated into various cryo-EM workflows, including micro-patterning approaches to control cell seeding on grids, and for generating samples for cryo-focused ion beam milling and cryo-electron tomography experiments. Their adaptable design allows for the generation of specialized grid holders customized to a large variety of applications."}],"date_published":"2020-12-01T00:00:00Z","publication_status":"published","issue":"3","month":"12","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","date_updated":"2024-03-25T23:30:04Z","tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"type":"journal_article","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","file":[{"content_type":"application/pdf","file_name":"2020_JourStrucBiology_Faessler.pdf","creator":"dernst","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","checksum":"c48cbf594e84fc2f91966ffaafc0918c","file_id":"8937","success":1,"file_size":7076870,"date_created":"2020-12-10T14:01:10Z","date_updated":"2020-12-10T14:01:10Z"}],"day":"01","quality_controlled":"1","title":"3D printed cell culture grid holders for improved cellular specimen preparation in cryo-electron microscopy","status":"public","related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","relation":"used_in_publication","id":"14592"},{"relation":"dissertation_contains","id":"12491","status":"public"}]},"publisher":"Elsevier","scopus_import":"1","oa_version":"Published Version","oa":1,"user_id":"4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8","date_created":"2020-09-29T13:24:06Z","_id":"8586","article_number":"107633","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"citation":{"mla":"Fäßler, Florian, et al. “3D Printed Cell Culture Grid Holders for Improved Cellular Specimen Preparation in Cryo-Electron Microscopy.” <i>Journal of Structural Biology</i>, vol. 212, no. 3, 107633, Elsevier, 2020, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633\">10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633</a>.","ieee":"F. Fäßler, B. Zens, R. Hauschild, and F. K. Schur, “3D printed cell culture grid holders for improved cellular specimen preparation in cryo-electron microscopy,” <i>Journal of Structural Biology</i>, vol. 212, no. 3. Elsevier, 2020.","ama":"Fäßler F, Zens B, Hauschild R, Schur FK. 3D printed cell culture grid holders for improved cellular specimen preparation in cryo-electron microscopy. <i>Journal of Structural Biology</i>. 2020;212(3). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633\">10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633</a>","ista":"Fäßler F, Zens B, Hauschild R, Schur FK. 2020. 3D printed cell culture grid holders for improved cellular specimen preparation in cryo-electron microscopy. Journal of Structural Biology. 212(3), 107633.","chicago":"Fäßler, Florian, Bettina Zens, Robert Hauschild, and Florian KM Schur. “3D Printed Cell Culture Grid Holders for Improved Cellular Specimen Preparation in Cryo-Electron Microscopy.” <i>Journal of Structural Biology</i>. Elsevier, 2020. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633</a>.","apa":"Fäßler, F., Zens, B., Hauschild, R., &#38; Schur, F. K. (2020). 3D printed cell culture grid holders for improved cellular specimen preparation in cryo-electron microscopy. <i>Journal of Structural Biology</i>. Elsevier. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633</a>","short":"F. Fäßler, B. Zens, R. Hauschild, F.K. Schur, Journal of Structural Biology 212 (2020)."},"article_type":"original","external_id":{"isi":["000600997800008"]},"publication_identifier":{"issn":["1047-8477"]},"publication":"Journal of Structural Biology","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0001-7149-769X","last_name":"Fäßler","first_name":"Florian","full_name":"Fäßler, Florian","id":"404F5528-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"first_name":"Bettina","last_name":"Zens","full_name":"Zens, Bettina","id":"45FD126C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"last_name":"Hauschild","first_name":"Robert","id":"4E01D6B4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Hauschild, Robert","orcid":"0000-0001-9843-3522"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-4790-8078","id":"48AD8942-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Schur, Florian KM","last_name":"Schur","first_name":"Florian KM"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","doi":"10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107633","project":[{"grant_number":"P33367","name":"Structure and isoform diversity of the Arp2/3 complex","_id":"9B954C5C-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"},{"_id":"059B463C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E","name":"NÖ-Fonds Preis für die Jungforscherin des Jahres am IST Austria"}],"ddc":["570"],"keyword":["electron microscopy","cryo-EM","EM sample preparation","3D printing","cell culture"],"isi":1,"file_date_updated":"2020-12-10T14:01:10Z","acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, P33367) to FKMS. BZ acknowledges support by the Niederösterreich Fond. This research was also supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of IST Austria through resources provided by Scientific Computing (SciComp), the Life Science Facility (LSF), the BioImaging Facility (BIF) and the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF). We thank Georgi Dimchev (IST Austria) and Sonja Jacob (Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities) for testing our grid holders in different experimental setups and Daniel Gütl and the Kondrashov group (IST Austria) for granting us repeated access to their 3D printers. We also thank Jonna Alanko and the Sixt lab (IST Austria) for providing us HeLa cells, primary BL6 mouse tail fibroblasts, NIH 3T3 fibroblasts and human telomerase immortalised foreskin fibroblasts for our experiments. We are thankful to Ori Avinoam and William Wan for helpful comments on the manuscript and also thank Dorotea Fracchiolla (Art&Science) for illustrating the graphical abstract.","year":"2020","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"ScienComp"},{"_id":"LifeSc"},{"_id":"Bio"},{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"intvolume":"       212","volume":212}