Journal
STRUCTURE
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 88-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2020.09.003
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- NIH [P41GM136508]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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By soaking ligands into protein microcrystals on TEM grids simultaneously, a high-resolution structure with high occupancy of four ligands was successfully determined, demonstrating efficient uptake of ligands into protein microcrystals. The number of ligands bound and their occupancy was higher compared to larger crystals treated similarly and investigated by X-ray crystallography.
A high throughout method for soaking ligands into protein microcrystals on TEM grids is presented. Every crystal on the grid is soaked simultaneously using only standard cryoelectron microscopy vitrification equipment. The method is demonstrated using proteinase K microcrystals soaked with the 5-amino-2,4,6-triodoisophthalic acid (I3C) magic triangle. A soaked microcrystal is milled to a thickness of approximately 200 nm using a focused ion beam, and MicroED data are collected. A high-resolution structure of the protein with four ligands at high occupancy is determined. Both the number of ligands bound and their occupancy is higher using on-grid soaking of microcrystals compared with much larger crystals treated similarly and investigated by X-ray crystallography. These results indicate that on-grid soaking ligands into microcrystals results in efficient uptake of ligands into protein microcrystals.
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