HTT was diluted to 0.4 mg/mL in 20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 300 mM NaCl, 1 mM TCEP and adsorbed to glow-discharged holey carbon-coated grids (
Quantifoil 300 mesh, Au R1.2/1.3) for 10 s. Grids were then blotted with filter paper for 2 s at 100% humidity at 4 °C and frozen in liquid ethane using a
Vitrobot Mark IV (Thermo Fisher Scientific).
HTT-HAP40 was diluted to 0.2 mg/mL in 25 mM HEPES pH 7.4, 300 mM NaCl, 0.025% w/v CHAPS and 1 mM DTT and adsorbed onto gently glow-discharged suspended monolayer graphene grids (Graphenea) for 60 s. Grids were then blotted with filter paper for 1 s at 100% humidity, 4 °C and frozen in liquid ethane using a
Vitrobot Mark IV (Thermo Fisher Scientific).
Data were collected in counting mode on a
Titan Krios G3 (FEI) operating at 300 kV with a BioQuantum imaging filter (Gatan) and K2 direct detection camera (Gatan) at ×165,000 magnification, pixel size of 0.822 Å. Movies were collected over 32 fractions at a dose rate of 6.0 e
−/Å
2/s, exposure time of 8 s, resulting in a total dose of 48.0 e
−/Å
2.
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