7ASX

Fixed-target serial femtosecond crystallography using in cellulo grown Neurospora crassa HEX-1 microcrystals. (Chip 1)


Experimental Data Snapshot

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.80 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.273 
  • R-Value Work: 0.226 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.230 

Starting Model: experimental
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Literature

Fixed-target serial femtosecond crystallography using in cellulo grown microcrystals.

Lahey-Rudolph, J.M.Schonherr, R.Barthelmess, M.Fischer, P.Seuring, C.Wagner, A.Meents, A.Redecke, L.

(2021) IUCrJ 8: 665-677

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252521005297
  • Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
    7ASI, 7ASX

  • PubMed Abstract: 

    The crystallization of recombinant proteins in living cells is an exciting new approach in structural biology. Recent success has highlighted the need for fast and efficient diffraction data collection, optimally directly exposing intact crystal-containing cells to the X-ray beam, thus protecting the in cellulo crystals from environmental challenges. Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) at free-electron lasers (XFELs) allows the collection of detectable diffraction even from tiny protein crystals, but requires very fast sample exchange to utilize each XFEL pulse. Here, an efficient approach is presented for high-resolution structure elucidation using serial femtosecond in cellulo diffraction of micometre-sized crystals of the protein HEX-1 from the fungus Neurospora crassa on a fixed target. Employing the fast and highly accurate Roadrunner II translation-stage system allowed efficient raster scanning of the pores of micro-patterned, single-crystalline silicon chips loaded with living, crystal-containing insect cells. Compared with liquid-jet and LCP injection systems, the increased hit rates of up to 30% and reduced background scattering enabled elucidation of the HEX-1 structure. Using diffraction data from only a single chip collected within 12 min at the Linac Coherent Light Source, a 1.8 Å resolution structure was obtained with significantly reduced sample consumption compared with previous SFX experiments using liquid-jet injection. This HEX-1 structure is almost superimposable with that previously determined using synchrotron radiation from single HEX-1 crystals grown by sitting-drop vapour diffusion, validating the approach. This study demonstrates that fixed-target SFX using micro-patterned silicon chips is ideally suited for efficient in cellulo diffraction data collection using living, crystal-containing cells, and offers huge potential for the straightforward structure elucidation of proteins that form intracellular crystals at both XFELs and synchrotron sources.


  • Organizational Affiliation

    Institute of Biochemistry, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.


Macromolecules
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Entity ID: 1
MoleculeChains Sequence LengthOrganismDetailsImage
eIF-5a domain-containing protein177Neurospora crassaMutation(s): 0 
Gene Names: GE21DRAFT_1527
UniProt
Find proteins for P87252 (Neurospora crassa (strain ATCC 24698 / 74-OR23-1A / CBS 708.71 / DSM 1257 / FGSC 987))
Explore P87252 
Go to UniProtKB:  P87252
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UniProt GroupP87252
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Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

  • Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
  • Resolution: 1.80 Å
  • R-Value Free: 0.273 
  • R-Value Work: 0.226 
  • R-Value Observed: 0.230 
  • Space Group: P 65 2 2
Unit Cell:
Length ( Å )Angle ( ˚ )
a = 58.75α = 90
b = 58.75β = 90
c = 192.83γ = 120
Software Package:
Software NamePurpose
PHENIXrefinement
PHASERphasing
PDB_EXTRACTdata extraction
CrystFELdata scaling
CrystFELdata processing
Cheetahdata reduction

Structure Validation

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Entry History & Funding Information

Deposition Data


Funding OrganizationLocationGrant Number
German Federal Ministry for Education and ResearchGermany05K18FLA
German Research Foundation (DFG)GermanyEXC306
Joachim Herz StiftungGermanyPhD scholarship

Revision History  (Full details and data files)

  • Version 1.0: 2021-06-23
    Type: Initial release
  • Version 1.1: 2021-07-28
    Changes: Database references
  • Version 1.2: 2024-01-31
    Changes: Advisory, Data collection, Database references, Refinement description