Journal
CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages 6318-6326Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00950
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- DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [BR 5124/1-1]
- Canada Excellence Research Chair program
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In recent years, in situ data collection has been a major focus of progress in protein crystallography. Here, we introduce the Mylar in situ method using Mylar-based sandwich plates that are inexpensive, easy to make and handle, and show significantly less background scattering than other setups. A variety of cognate holders for patches of Mylar in situ sandwich films corresponding to one or more wells makes the method robust and versatile, allows for storage and shipping of entire wells, and enables automated crystal imaging, screening, and goniometer-based X-ray diffraction data-collection at room temperature and under cryogenic conditions for soluble and membrane-protein crystals grown in or transferred to these plates. We validated the Mylar in situ method using crystals of the water-soluble proteins hen egg-white lysozyme and sperm whale myoglobin as well as the 7-transmembrane protein bacteriorhodopsin from Haloquadratum walsbyi. In conjunction with current developments at synchrotrons, this approach promises high-resolution structural studies of membrane proteins to become faster and more routine.
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