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ACA meeting July 2009

ACA meeting July 2009. Highlights. Small Angle Scattering (X-rays, Neutrons). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_small-angle_scattering Don’t need crystals Can study small proteins or HUGE complexes Maximum size Radius of gyration BUT, more is possible:

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ACA meeting July 2009

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  1. ACA meeting July 2009 Highlights

  2. Small Angle Scattering (X-rays, Neutrons) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_small-angle_scattering • Don’t need crystals • Can study small proteins or HUGE complexes • Maximum size • Radius of gyration • BUT, more is possible: • With medium resolution scattering curves, can generate models of possible SHAPES and then on using restraints such as compactness and -ab initio • Also can generate models of complexes when you have the component structures from X-ray or NMR, compare calculated & real scattering curves • http://www.embl-hamburg.de/ExternalInfo/Research/Sax/atsas-online/ • Two good refs: Svergun, J. Appl. Cryst. 2006, 40, s10 - s17 Hura et al., Nature Methods 2009, 6, 606 -,612

  3. Some examples of SAS • SARS polyproteins • Whole virus • 400 kD protein studied by combination of • SAXS, AUC, DLS • Making SDS into a non-denaturing detergent by adding cosolvents - like MPD; studied a b-barrel membrane protein MPD SDS OH OH

  4. Powder Diffraction from sub-micron crystals of PSI using a micro-jet • Mark Hunter (grad. Student) with others at ALS • Filter microcrystals to size of 500 nM (<1000 unit cells) • Shoot through an aperture serially, collect scattering using long wavelength so can get e.g. 28 Angstrom curves • Working on developing this method to higher resolution at ALS • Ref: Shapiro DA, Chapman HN, Deponte D, Doak RB, Fromme P, Hembree G, Hunter M, Marchesini S, Schmidt K, Spence J, Starodub D, Weierstall U. Powder diffraction from a continuous microjet of submicrometer protein crystals. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2008 Nov;15(Pt 6):593-9. Epub 2008 Oct 3.

  5. Irimpan Mathews - SSRL • Grow crystals directly in loops • Nextal plates

  6. Instrumentation Session • Pilates Detector - Swiss Light Source • http://pilatus.web.psi.ch/pilatus.htm • Single photon counter, solid state, not a multiwire • No “dark current” or read noise • Less point spread • 4 ms dead time • Can collect continuously; no shutter, reduces noise • Fine phi slicing - also better for noise • Commercialization of detector Dectris

  7. Data Collection Diagnostics • James Holton: • Discovering the Rules of Successful Protein Structure Determination with Simulated Diffraction Images • Only 2% data collected at beamlines become good structural models - why? • “MLSFOM” - tool to simulate diffraction while varying parameters such as: • Spot shape • Mosaic spread • Beam divergence • Spectral dispersion • Point spread function • Radiation damage • Crystal size • Detector & goniometer properties • Calculates a Correlation Coefficient with the actual data & if get >0.5, then (e.g. MAD) probably solvable • http://bl831.als.lbl.gov/ ~jamesh/powerpoint/ACA_2009.ppt

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  9. same total dose with high and low redundancy

  10. same total dose with high and low redundancy

  11. same total dose with high and low redundancy

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