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© The Rockefeller University Press,
0021-9525/2001//f25 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 153, Number 6,
, 2001 f25-f32
Mini-Review |
Electron Microscopy of Cells
: A New Beginning for a New Century
Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Campus Box 347, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347.(303) 492-7744(303) 492-8533
richard.mcintosh{at}colorado.edu
© 2001 The Rockefeller University Press
It is widely acknowledged that EM of macromolecules is entering a new phase of productivity (for review see Nogales and Grigorieff 2001). It is less well known that comparable innovations are afoot in cellular EM. Studies of biological "ultra-structure" were of key importance in the early years of cell biology, but more recently their importance has waned significantly. This change has been largely because much of what could be seen by classical techniques for EM has long since been described; it has also derived from the cost of EM in both time and money and the innovations that have recently revolutionized light microscopy, making it ever more powerful for the study of living cells. However, recent improvements in both methods and instrumentation for EM are now allowing the structure of organelles and cellular subsystems to be characterized with unprecedented detail and reliability. Thanks to tomography, the three-dimensional (3-D) structure of cells can now be visualized with 5–8-nm resolution (Frank 1995; Baumeister et al. 1999). Thanks to high pressure freezing, cellular specimens of considerable size can now be well frozen, even without the addition of chemical cryoprotectants (Shimoni and Muller 1998). With this and other methods for rapid freezing, samples become solidified within milliseconds (Gilkey and Staehelin 1986), whereupon they are embedded in glass-like ice (Sartori et al. 1993). The cellular milieu is still aqueous, but rapid freezing has immobilized all the cell's constituents before significant rearrangement is possible. Under these conditions, biological structure is trapped in an essentially native state, and ice crystals, which would deform the physiological organization, have had little time to grow. More rapidly frozen specimens retain impressive preservation of intracellular detail (Heuser and Reese 1981).
Frozen-hydrated cells can be examined directly in the EM by using a low temperature specimen holder, or they can subsequently be fixed by "freeze-substitution," during which cellular water is replaced at –80°C to –90°C by an organic solvent that contains chemical fixatives to stabilize the biological structure before it is embedded in a matrix suitable for microtomy. Freeze-substituted samples appear similar to material prepared for EM by conventional methods, but they have a greater likelihood of displaying structures in their native state (for review see Steinbrecht and Muller 1987; McDonald and Morphew 1993). This review will describe recent progress in the 3-D imaging of both frozen-hydrated cells and those that have been preserved by freeze-substitution. We will then evaluate the impact of the resulting data on our understanding of cellular mechanisms.
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EM Images of Frozen-hydrated Specimens, Purified from Cells, Can Reveal Functionally Important Conformational Changes in Large Assemblies of Macromolecules |
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Much of this imaging has used isolated cellular subfractions that are small, stable, and symmetric enough to allow image averaging to facilitate high-resolution EM. The beam sensitivity of a frozen-hydrated sample requires that the total exposure to the electron beam be kept low (e.g., <10 electrons/A2 for a resolution of <1 nm). At this dose, the quality of a single image is severely limited by "shot noise," i.e., the poor statistics with which the electron-scattering properties of the specimen are sampled. Symmetry in the structure allows a simple image averaging to increase the image signal-to-noise ratio, even when the dose per unit area is kept low. Image quality improves with the square root of the number of areas averaged, and several thousand can be used. Alternatively, a large number of images of identical, individual particles can be collected, the images oriented relative to one another, and their averages computed to accomplish the same task with particles that possess no symmetry. Image averaging based on symmetry or on galleries of distinct but identical particles (or in the case of viruses and some other objects, on the use of both approaches together) has made it possible to improve signal-to-noise ratios to the point that resolution has become as good or better than 1 nm (e.g., Bottcher et al. 1997; Matadeen et al. 1999; Gabashvili et al. 2000). With this much image detail, it has been possible to integrate information from x-ray crystallography with images from cryo-EM and build up models for changes in the structure of complex molecular assemblies that accompany their biological function (Agrawal et al. 2000; Stark et al. 2000; for review see Nogales and Grigorieff 2001). This important field of structural biology is rapidly expanding our knowledge of complex molecular mechanisms.
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Images of Frozen-hydrated Cells Are Revealing New Aspects of Cell Structure but Pose Important Challenges to the Microscopist |
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0.5 µm thick for 300 KeV electrons). One approach for the preparation of such specimens has been direct thin sectioning of frozen cells or tissues (e.g., McDowell et al. 1989). However, it has been very difficult to cut useful sections of samples that have simply been frozen. The embedding ice tends to crack during sectioning (Richter et al. 1991), and sample compression is usually significant, though improvements may be on the horizon (Studer and Gnaegi 2000). When thinking about cryomicrotomy it is natural to recall the widespread success that has been achieved by cutting cryosections from samples that have first been chemically fixed and infiltrated with a cryoprotectant (usually sucrose) and then frozen (Tokuyasu 1980). This method is commonly used to prepare samples for immunolabeling, but it fails to take advantage of the power of rapid freezing to preserve cell structure with the greatest possible fidelity. Thus, in spite of its value for antigen localization, the approach is not an ideal way to study cell morphology. Its reliance on both chemical fixation and infiltration with an osmotically active cryoprotectant reduces the likelihood that the resulting images will reflect the condition in a living cell. Current work in the lab of Jan Slot (University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands) is directed at improving this situation (Malide et al. 2000), but much remains to be done.
Since sectioning frozen-hydrated samples has been difficult, several scientists have sought cellular samples that can be viewed without it. For example, the thin margin of a cell spread on an electron-transparent substrate has been imaged directly by high voltage electron microscopy using samples maintained at –165°C (O'Toole et al. 1993; Fig. 1). The resulting images show how much detail is preserved in a rapidly frozen cell, but with a single projection of so much 3-D structure, the images are hard to interpret (Fig. 1 A). Even thin processes that extend from the cell's margin are complex, though in such a region microfilaments can readily be identified (Fig. 1 B).
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Technological Developments Have Opened New Possibilities, but There Are Still Many Challenges to Overcome |
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Although these technologies have led to significant progress in imaging frozen cells, there are still formidable problems to overcome before this approach will yield the most useful results. Both microscopes and cameras will have to be optimized, so every imaging electron is detected with high efficiency and negligible noise. This is a particular problem with higher electron energies (e.g., 300 KeV), where electron scattering and x-ray generation commonly reduce a camera's detector quantum efficiency (Downing and Hendrickson 1999). Even with improvements, though, the inherent radiation sensitivity of frozen hydrated samples will make it hard to push the resolution of cellular cryotomography as low as 2 nm. Specimen holders that maintain liquid helium temperatures and permit tilting about two orthogonal axes may provide improved data, but such big improvements in resolution are unlikely to be straight-forward. Nonetheless, this goal is worth significant effort, because at 2 nm one should be able to recognize the shape of many macromolecules, building on the pioneering work from the Baumeister laboratory (Max Plank Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsreid, Germany) (Fig. 2) to "dock" atomic resolution structures determined by crystallography or other methods into the lower resolution images available from EM (e.g., Wriggers et al. 2000). Such an advance might ultimately obviate labeling, e.g., by immuno-EM, because at least some large proteins could be recognized directly by their shapes. However, identifying small proteins will require improved imaging methods and probably novel ways of comparing cellular and molecular structures.
In another vein, cryotomography is now applicable only to cells that are small or thin. Cryomicrotomy of frozen hydrated cells will have to be improved, so specimen thickness can be controlled by the experimenter, not by the nature of the sample. Several laboratories are working on this and related issues (Studer and Gnaegi 2000; Dubochet and Sartori Blanc 2001), so progress can be expected. In addition, there are limitations to current methods for examining significant volumes from large frozen-hydrated cells. Even assuming that good cryosections can be cut, getting good SERIAL cryosections will present an additional hurdle. Moreover, the radiation sensitivity of frozen specimens, combined with current limitations on the size of the images that can practically be recorded, make it difficult to sample large areas from any one section. Thus, there will be serious difficulties in reconstructing volumes that correspond to a significant fraction of an entire frozen-hydrated, eukaryotic cell.
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Images of Rapidly Frozen, Freeze-substituted Cells Reveal the Substructure of Extensive Cytoplasmic Volumes at 6-nm Resolution in 3-D
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3-D reconstruction of cellular samples has been accomplished for several years by tomography of chemically fixed, plastic-embedded samples stained with heavy metals (e.g., Olins et al. 1983; McEwen et al. 1986; Woodcock et al. 1991; Ladinsky et al. 1994; Moritz et al. 1995; Mannella et al. 1997; Martone et al. 1999; Harlow et al. 2001). However, the well-known limitations of chemical fixation for preserving cellular ultrastructure have limited the information that can be derived from such work. These problems have recently been addressed by combining the power of RFFSE with tomography to obtain 3-D views of cellular structures that should closely resemble the living state. The accuracy of these specimen preparation methods has been tested in three ways: (a) significant fractions (1/20–1/5) of rapidly frozen yeast cells are viable upon rewarming, showing that rapid freezing itself preserves the native structure of cells very well. (b) RFFSE samples have been compared with equivalent ones prepared by freeze-fracture EM, a method that visualizes replicas of fractured cellular surfaces formed by metal shadowing at very low temperatures. These studies have found no significant difference between the structures seen by the two methods (e.g., Linder and Staehelin 1979). (c) The images from samples prepared by RFFSE conform to expectations that are based on a broad range of knowledge about subcellular components: cytoskeletal fibers usually run straight; membrane profiles of the ER and of Golgi cisternae appear turgid and smooth; most vesicles are round; cytomatrix is even; even chromatin appears structured (McDonald and Morphew 1993; Ladinsky et al. 1999; Muller et al. 2000). Thus, studies that have melded RFFSE with tomography are likely to be showing us cellular structures that are essentially native, revealing organelle morphology in its normal context and in a situation where the parameters of cell physiology, like cell cycle stage, can be manipulated by the experimenter. Indeed, it is possible to freeze cells or parts of cells at well-defined times after a stimulus, allowing 3-D snapshots of cellular processes, even fast ones, like muscle contraction (Taylor et al. 1999).
This composite technology has been used to examine the architecture of mitotic kinetochores in mammalian cells (Mastronarde 1997; McEwen et al. 1998), the centrosomes of budding yeast (O'Toole et al. 1999), and the Golgi apparatus and associated organelles in mammalian cells (Ladinsky et al. 1999; Marsh et al. 2001). The results from mitotic systems show that the methods preserve not only spindle microtubules, but also the fine structure of microtubule ends and the organelles that initiate them (Fig. 3). These tomograms contain an impressive amount of 3-D detail. They even allow investigators to examine a given structure sliced computationally in several different orientations to get the most informative views for answering each specific question (Fig. 3 A). In addition, a highly asymmetric structure, like a spindle microtubule, can be sampled with a tomographic slice that exactly contains its axis, but that is only a fraction of the structure's thickness (Fig. 3, B–D). Such a feat is currently impossible by microtomy.
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Tomography of Cryofixed, Freeze-substituted, and Stained Specimens Is Currently Subject to Its Own Share of Limitations |
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6 nm, probably set by the granularity of the stain after exposure to so much radiation and by the accuracy with which stain represents the positions and structures of underlying macromolecules. One fact that supports this resolution claim is that one can see two layers in a cytoplasmic membrane that is oriented appropriately relative to a tomographic slice (Fig. 4 B). However, one cannot resolve subunits in a microtubule wall, which are separated by 4–5 nm (Fig. 3 B). Improving on current resolution may require real breakthroughs in techniques for fixation, embedding, staining, and imaging at low dose. Another current limitation of tomography is the difficulty of identifying particular macromolecules within the samples. When a protein assembles to form a characteristic shape, like tubulin or clathrin, it is easy to identify and localize in a tomogram. However, less idiosyncratic proteins are simply stain-binding regions of the sample. Postembedment antibody labeling of sections thick enough to merit tomography is unlikely to be useful, because immunoglobulins will not diffuse into the embedding plastic. Methods that remove the embedding resin tend to be harsh and therefore limit image resolution and reliability. Labeling before embedding usually requires cells to be "permeabilized" before antibody treatment, which results in some extraction of cytoplasm and the possibility of antigen movement. Therefore, such methods are intrinsically less reliable than ones that use optimal fixation (e.g., RFFSE). Developing methods that get identifying tags onto proteins or nucleic acids in samples suitable for tomography is a standing challenge.
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Cellular Tomography Should Have Profound Effects on Future Directions of Cell Biology |
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In spite of its far-reaching value, EM tomography is no longer oppressively time consuming. Using a modern microscope equipped with a digital camera, a good eucentric tilting stage, and software to control data collection, a skilled operator can collect the 140 images required for a complete tilt series of 70°C in <2 h. If one uses montages of digital data to enlarge the area per image, the time increases somewhat, and dual axis tomography (Mastronarde 1997) essentially doubles the time investment. Nonetheless, in our laboratory we are routinely collecting data for two and more tomograms per day. Comparatively modest computers, like a UNIX workstation or a fast PC, can align these images and calculate a tomogram in another few hours, so the preparation of a tomogram is now surprisingly fast. Using montages and serial thick sections, it should be feasible to image the entirety of a small eukaryote, like a budding yeast, in 3-D at 6-nm resolution (3 x 1010 bytes of image data) in <1 wk. However, our lab has concentrated on organelles and cellular subsystems in order to retain a functional focus for structural work.
Analyzing tomographic data is more time consuming than tomogram construction. Models like the ones shown in Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 have taken months to prepare, so there is significant room for improvement in the ways that features of interest in 3-D images are abstracted from their backgrounds (a process called segmentation). The coordination of computer-assisted feature recognition (e.g., Boehm et al. 2000) with hand–eye efforts by a trained biologist (e.g., Marsh et al. 2001) offer many avenues for productive work, and we anticipate that this aspect of structural cell biology will soon move much faster. Of more concern is the issue of recognizing macromolecules of interest within cellular tomograms. There is great promise in the approach under development by Baumeister's group, but the utility of this approach for smaller proteins in real cytoplasm remains to be demonstrated. Our lab and others are working to develop labeling methods that will be suitable for thick section EM reconstruction, but this work is still in its infancy. The concept of 3-D maps of specific antigens, localized at 6 nm in 3-D, is certainly attractive when thinking about data that could discriminate between competing models for complex cellular events, like mitosis, secretion, and endocytosis.
It seems likely that EM tomography will provide an important complement to the beautiful and informative images that are now emerging from work on live cells based on a range of fluorescent stains, including protein chimeras with green or other fluorescent proteins (Griffiths 2001). The spatial resolution of EM tomography is 40-fold better than most confocal microscopy, allowing the visualization of detail that is otherwise vague. When such methods are applied to cytoplasmic mechanisms, like endocytosis, they should reveal the connectivity among all relevant structural compartments. Applied to chromatin, they may identify aspects of higher order DNA structure that help to control gene expression. When used to view nuclear pore complexes in situ, aspects of protein and RNA traffic that have previously escaped our notice may become obvious. Host–pathogen relationships may also appear in a new light, and some cellular subtleties of developmental processes may emerge from the morass of molecular detail in which they are currently buried. We see a brave new world emerging from the combination of modern EM with the rapidly advancing methods for light microscopy. The resulting data should help us to understand the context for functional genomics and elucidate the continuum of structural order that bridges from inanimate molecules to the order of the living cell.
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Work from our lab that is reviewed here was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (RR00592 and GM61306). J.R. McIntosh is a research professor of the American Cancer Society.
Submitted: 7 March 2001
Revised: 1 May 2001
Accepted: 7 May 2001
Abbreviations used in this paper: 3-D, three-dimensional; RFFSE, rapid freezing followed by freeze-substitution fixation and embedding in plastic.
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