Compared with the purified protein in vitro, intracellular biological macromolecules present a more complete and physiological conformation. Therefore, studying the three-dimensional structure of protein directly in vivo is the next goal of structural biology and also the frontier of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) technology development.
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