2015
DOI: 10.1107/s1600577515002349
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Indications of radiation damage in ferredoxin microcrystals using high-intensity X-FEL beams

Abstract: Proteins that contain metal cofactors are expected to be highly radiation sensitive since the degree of X-ray absorption correlates with the presence of high-atomic-number elements and X-ray energy. To explore the effects of local damage in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX), Clostridium ferredoxin was used as a model system. The protein contains two [4Fe-4S] clusters that serve as sensitive probes for radiation-induced electronic and structural changes. High-dose room-temperature SFX datasets were colle… Show more

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“…One of the applications for such capabilities is the understanding of molecular fragmentation induced by x rays, a process of fundamental interest and a relevant factor for the radiation damage induced during the structural imaging of biomolecules at XFELs [30][31][32]. Molecular ionization and fragmentation follow absorption of a single synchrotron x ray [33][34][35] or absorption of multiple x rays using XFEL radiation [36][37][38][39][40].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…One of the applications for such capabilities is the understanding of molecular fragmentation induced by x rays, a process of fundamental interest and a relevant factor for the radiation damage induced during the structural imaging of biomolecules at XFELs [30][31][32]. Molecular ionization and fragmentation follow absorption of a single synchrotron x ray [33][34][35] or absorption of multiple x rays using XFEL radiation [36][37][38][39][40].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Given the high dose per crystal used in the SFX measurements, we looked for evidence of predicted local radiation damage (13,14) in the vicinity of radiation-sensitive disulfide bonds. Fig.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Simulations (20,21) and experiments (12)(13)(14) suggest that it should be possible to outrun radiation damage with short enough pulses using much higher X-ray intensities. Calculations with pulse durations as short as 10 fs predict the possibility of high-resolution structure determination from nanocrystals at doses greater than 10 GGy, and 1-TGy doses should be tolerable with subfemtosecond pulses (22).…”
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“…Heavy atoms are of course critical to phasing by anomalous scattering, and their oxidation state and detailed stereochemistry within the complex metal centers at the active site of, for example, photosystem II are essential to overall function. There are indications that the Fe atoms in the two chemically identical 4Fe -4S clusters in ferredoxin from Clostridium differ in their extent of radiation damage from XFEL illumination (Nass et al, 2015). The molecules CH 3 I and C 6 H 5 I studied by Rudenko et al (2017) are very small by biological standards but it seems entirely likely that their general result will hold for heavy atoms in biological macromolecules: atoms that are chemically identical may not be identical in their propensity for radiation damage!…”
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