Abstract We here present a method based on metallic platinum sputtering that can substantially enhance the quality of subtomogram averages from lamellas and thereby reduce the number of particles needed for high-resolution subtomogram averaging. We provide evidence for the physical background of this improvement and demonstrate its usefulness by producing sub-5Å ribosome averages from yeast.

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