Applying 3D ED/MicroED workflows toward the next frontiers

M Aragon, SEJ Bowman, CH Chen… - … Section C: Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
We report on the latest advancements in Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (3D ED/MicroED),
as discussed during a symposium at the National Center for CryoEM Access and Training …

Systematic enhancement of protein crystallization efficiency by bulk lysine‐to‐arginine (KR) substitution

NE Banayan, BJ Loughlin, S Singh, F Forouhar… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Structural genomics consortia established that protein crystallization is the primary obstacle
to structure determination using x‐ray crystallography. We previously demonstrated that …

Reaching the potential of electron diffraction

D Acehan, KA Spoth, GR Budziszewski… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2024 - cell.com
Microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) is an emerging structural technique in which
submicron crystals are used to generate diffraction data for structural studies. Structures …

[HTML][HTML] The structure of the monobactam-producing thioesterase domain of SulM forms a unique complex with the upstream carrier protein domain

KD Patel, RA Oliver, MS Lichstrahl, R Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) are responsible for the production of important
biologically active peptides. The large, multidomain NRPSs operate through an assembly …

High-throughput screening to obtain crystal hits for protein crystallography

GR Budziszewski, ME Snell, TR Wright… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2023 - app.jove.com
X-ray crystallography is the most commonly employed technique to discern macromolecular
structures, but the crucial step of crystallizing a protein into an ordered lattice amenable to …

X‐ray crystal structure of a designed rigidified imaging scaffold in the ligand‐free conformation

MP Agdanowski, R Castells-Graells… - … Section F: Structural …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Imaging scaffolds composed of designed protein cages fused to designed ankyrin repeat
proteins (DARPins) have enabled the structure determination of small proteins by cryogenic …

Managing macromolecular crystallographic data with a laboratory information management system

E Daniel, RK Wierenga, L Lehtiö - Biological Crystallography, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Protein crystallography is an established method to study the atomic structures of
macromolecules and their complexes. A prerequisite for successful structure determination …

Crystallization and In Situ Room Temperature Data Collection Using the Crystallization Facility at Harwell and Beamline VMXi, Diamond Light Source

J Sandy, H Mikolajek, AJ Thompson… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2024 - app.jove.com
Protocols for robotic protein crystallization using the Crystallization Facility at Harwell and in
situ room temperature data collection from crystallization plates at Diamond Light Source …

X-Ray Crystallography for Macromolecular Complexes

FJ Fernández, J Querol-García, S Navas-Yuste… - … Technologies for Protein …, 2024 - Springer
X-ray crystallography has for most of the last century been the standard technique to
determine the high-resolution structure of biological macromolecules, including multi …

Identification and characterization of substrate-and product-selective nylon hydrolases

E Drufva, JF Cahill, P Saint-Vincent, A Williams… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Enzymes have evolved to rapidly and selectively hydrolyze diverse natural and
anthropogenic polymers, but only a limited group of related enzymes have been shown to …