7ZE1

Tribolium castaneum hexamerin 2

7ZE1 の概要

• エントリーDOI: 10.2210/pdb7ze1/pdb
• EMDBエントリー: 14679
• 分子名称: Larval serum protein 1 gamma chain-like Protein (1 entity in total)
• 機能のキーワード: hexamerin, tribolium castaneum, storage protein, unknown function
• 由来する生物種: Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle)
• タンパク質・核酸の鎖数: 1
• 化学式量合計: 84656.92

構造登録者

Valentova, L.,Fuzik, T.,Plevka, P. (登録日: 2022-03-30, 公開日: 2022-11-23, 最終更新日: 2024-07-24)

主引用文献

Hrebik, D.,Gondova, M.,Valentova, L.,Fuzik, T.,Pridal, A.,Novacek, J.,Plevka, P.
Polyelectrolyte coating of cryo-EM grids improves lateral distribution and prevents aggregation of macromolecules.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol, 78:1337-1346, 2022

PubMed Abstract: Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is one of the primary methods used to determine the structures of macromolecules and their complexes. With the increased availability of cryo-electron microscopes, the preparation of high-quality samples has become a bottleneck in the cryo-EM structure-determination pipeline. Macromolecules can be damaged during the purification or preparation of vitrified samples for cryo-EM, making them prone to binding to the grid support, to aggregation or to the adoption of preferential orientations at the air-water interface. Here, it is shown that coating cryo-EM grids with a negatively charged polyelectrolyte, such as single-stranded DNA, before applying the sample reduces the aggregation of macromolecules and improves their distribution. The single-stranded DNA-coated grids enabled the determination of high-resolution structures from samples that aggregated on conventional grids. The polyelectrolyte coating reduces the diffusion of macromolecules and thus may limit the negative effects of the contact of macromolecules with the grid support and blotting paper, as well as of the shear forces on macromolecules during grid blotting. Coating grids with polyelectrolytes can readily be employed in any laboratory dealing with cryo-EM sample preparation, since it is fast, simple, inexpensive and does not require specialized equipment.

PubMed: 36322417
DOI: 10.1107/S2059798322009299

実験手法

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (3.2 Å)