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Title | Retrieving high-resolution information from disordered 2D crystals by single-particle cryo-EM. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Nat Commun, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Page 1722, Year 2019 |
Publish date | Apr 12, 2019 |
Authors | Ricardo D Righetto / Nikhil Biyani / Julia Kowal / Mohamed Chami / Henning Stahlberg / |
PubMed Abstract | Electron crystallography can reveal the structure of membrane proteins within 2D crystals under close-to-native conditions. High-resolution structural information can only be reached if crystals are ...Electron crystallography can reveal the structure of membrane proteins within 2D crystals under close-to-native conditions. High-resolution structural information can only be reached if crystals are perfectly flat and highly ordered. In practice, such crystals are difficult to obtain. Available image unbending algorithms correct for disorder, but only perform well on images of non-tilted, flat crystals, while out-of-plane distortions are not addressed. Here, we present an approach that employs single-particle refinement procedures to locally unbend crystals in 3D. With this method, density maps of the MloK1 potassium channel with a resolution of 4 Å were obtained from images of 2D crystals that do not diffract beyond 10 Å. Furthermore, 3D classification allowed multiple structures to be resolved, revealing a series of MloK1 conformations within a single 2D crystal. This conformational heterogeneity explains the poor diffraction observed and is related to channel function. The approach is implemented in the FOCUS package. |
External links | Nat Commun / PubMed:30979902 / PubMed Central |
Methods | EM (single particle) |
Resolution | 4.0 - 6.0 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-4432: MloK1 consensus map from single particle analysis of 2D crystals EMDB-4439: EMDB-4441: MloK1 map from single particle analysis of 2D crystals, class 1 (extended conformation) EMDB-4513: MloK1 map from single particle analysis of 2D crystals, class 2 (intermediate conformation) EMDB-4514: MloK1 map from single particle analysis of 2D crystals, class 3 (intermediate extended conformation) EMDB-4515: MloK1 map from single particle analysis of 2D crystals, class 4 (compact/open conformation) EMDB-4516: MloK1 map from single particle analysis of 2D crystals, class 5 (intermediate compact conformation) EMDB-4517: MloK1 map from single particle analysis of 2D crystals, class 6 (intermediate compact conformation) |
Chemicals | ChemComp-K: |
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Keywords | MEMBRANE PROTEIN / Voltage-gated potassium channel / Cyclic nucleotide-binding domain / ion channel / ion transport |