2007
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1118
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In situ proteolysis for protein crystallization and structure determination

Abstract: We tested the general applicability of in situ proteolysis to form protein crystals suitable for structure determination by adding a protease (chymotrypsin or trypsin) digestion step to crystallization trials of 55 bacterial and 14 human proteins that had proven recalcitrant to our best efforts at crystallization or structure determination. This is a work in progress; so far we determined structures of 9 bacterial proteins and the human aminoimidazole ribonucleotide synthetase (AIRS) domain.

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“…3a-3f; for crystal optimization data, see Table 2). This salvage rate compares favorably to published data from reductive methylation (Kim et al, 2008) and limited proteolysis (Dong et al, 2007). In two cases, high-quality diffraction was also generated from crystals grown from subsequent sittingdrop vapor-diffusion experiments (in one case, X-ray diffraction from the MPCS crystal was of slightly higher resolution and in one case diffraction from the MPCS crystal was of slightly lower resolution).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 76%
“…3a-3f; for crystal optimization data, see Table 2). This salvage rate compares favorably to published data from reductive methylation (Kim et al, 2008) and limited proteolysis (Dong et al, 2007). In two cases, high-quality diffraction was also generated from crystals grown from subsequent sittingdrop vapor-diffusion experiments (in one case, X-ray diffraction from the MPCS crystal was of slightly higher resolution and in one case diffraction from the MPCS crystal was of slightly lower resolution).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 76%
“…The limited resolution of data from the hexagonal crystal form resulted in difficulty in modeling of the ␤-strands and connecting loops, so in situ trypsin digestion/crystallization was performed to change the crystal packing (34). Trypsin was added to syringacin M (500 M) at a ratio of 1:200 on ice, immediately prior to the addition to the drop.…”
Section: Crystallization Of Syringacin M-initialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A potential benefit of more precisely defining the minimal folded core of protein domains is an improvement of the crystallizability of the target protein. [16][17][18][19] To demonstrate this, dsRBD-1A and 1B were subjected to a parallel crystallization assay using 576 solution conditions. The full-length dsRBD-1A construct showed crystal growth in only nine conditions whereas dsRBD-1B construct produced crystal leads in 56 conditions.…”
Section: Crystallizability Improvementmentioning
confidence: 99%