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  • Title: The reproducible observation of unstained embedded cellular material in thin sections: visualisation of an integral membrane protein by a new mode of imaging for STEM.
    Author: Carlemalm E, Kellenberger E.
    Journal: EMBO J; 1982; 1(1):63-7. PubMed ID: 6201354.
    Abstract:
    The contrast on micrographs obtained by conventional imaging in the conventional transmission electron microscope and in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) (brightfield and darkfield) reflects mainly the variations of the mass-density and of the thickness of the specimen. The density differences in resin-embedded, unstained materials are too small to give enough contrast when compared to that produced by the surface perturbations introduced by sectioning. By darkfield imaging, therefore, this variable surface relief does not lead reproducibly to interpretable micrographs of high quality. Imaging by the ratio of elastically over inelastically scattered electrons in the STEM (Z-contrast) depends primarily on the atomic composition of the material. We present here the first experimental tests of theoretical predictions with thin sections; Z-contrast micrographs of septate junctions reveal the transmembrane proteins which are not visible in uranyl acetate stained sections viewed by conventional brightfield imaging.
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