3TMU
X-Ray Radiation Damage to HEWL Crystals soaked in 100mM Sodium Nitrate (Undosed)
Summary for 3TMU
| Entry DOI | 10.2210/pdb3tmu/pdb |
| Related | 3TMV 3TMW 3TMX |
| Descriptor | Lysozyme C, CHLORIDE ION, SODIUM ION, ... (4 entities in total) |
| Functional Keywords | hydrolase |
| Biological source | Gallus gallus (bantam,chickens) |
| Total number of polymer chains | 1 |
| Total formula weight | 16564.27 |
| Authors | Kmetko, J.,Warkentin, M.A.,Englich, U.,Thorne, R.E. (deposition date: 2011-08-31, release date: 2012-08-22, Last modification date: 2019-07-17) |
| Primary citation | Kmetko, J.,Warkentin, M.,Englich, U.,Thorne, R.E. Can radiation damage to protein crystals be reduced using small-molecule compounds? Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.D, 67:881-893, 2011 Cited by PubMed Abstract: Recent studies have defined a data-collection protocol and a metric that provide a robust measure of global radiation damage to protein crystals. Using this protocol and metric, 19 small-molecule compounds (introduced either by cocrystallization or soaking) were evaluated for their ability to protect lysozyme crystals from radiation damage. The compounds were selected based upon their ability to interact with radiolytic products (e.g. hydrated electrons, hydrogen, hydroxyl and perhydroxyl radicals) and/or their efficacy in protecting biological molecules from radiation damage in dilute aqueous solutions. At room temperature, 12 compounds had no effect and six had a sensitizing effect on global damage. Only one compound, sodium nitrate, appeared to extend crystal lifetimes, but not in all proteins and only by a factor of two or less. No compound provided protection at T=100 K. Scavengers are ineffective in protecting protein crystals from global damage because a large fraction of primary X-ray-induced excitations are generated in and/or directly attack the protein and because the ratio of scavenger molecules to protein molecules is too small to provide appreciable competitive protection. The same reactivity that makes some scavengers effective radioprotectors in protein solutions may explain their sensitizing effect in the protein-dense environment of a crystal. A more productive focus for future efforts may be to identify and eliminate sensitizing compounds from crystallization solutions. PubMed: 21931220DOI: 10.1107/S0907444911032835 PDB entries with the same primary citation |
| Experimental method | X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.9 Å) |
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