Dehydration converts DsbG crystal diffraction from low to high resolution
Author(s)
Heras, B
Edeling, MA
Byriel, KA
Jones, A
Raina, S
Martin, JL
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2003
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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 ...
View more >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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View more >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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Journal Title
Structure
Volume
11
Issue
2
Subject
Chemical sciences
Biological sciences
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified
Information and computing sciences