Dehydration converts DsbG crystal diffraction from low to high resolution

Begoña Heras; Melissa A. Edeling; Karl A. Byriel; Alun Jones; Satish Raina; Jennifer L. Martin

doi:10.1016/s0969-2126(03)00005-4

Dehydration converts DsbG crystal diffraction from low to high resolution

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Diffraction quality crystals are essential for crystallographic studies of protein structure, and the production of poorly diffracting crystals is often regarded as a dead end in the process. Here we show a dramatic improvement of poorly diffracting DsbG crystals allowing high-resolution diffraction data measurement. Before dehydration, the crystals are fragile and the diffraction pattern is streaky, extending to 10 Å resolution. After dehydration, there is a spectacular improvement, with the diffraction pattern extending to 2 Å resolution. This and other recent results show that dehydration is a simple, rapid, and inexpensive approach to convert poor quality crystals into diffraction quality crystals.

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Begoña Heras
Melissa A. Edeling
Karl A. Byriel
Alun Jones
Satish Raina prof. dr
Jennifer L. Martin

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:: STRUCTURE no. 11, pages 139 - 145,
ISSN: 0969-2126
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2003
Bibliographic description:: Heras B., Edeling M. A., Byriel K. A., Jones A., Raina S., Martin J. L.: Dehydration converts DsbG crystal diffraction from low to high resolution// STRUCTURE -Vol. 11,iss. 2 (2003), s.139-145
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/s0969-2126(03)00005-4
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