Journal
STRUCTURE
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 759-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2018.03.021
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- NSF [DMR 1548924]
- DOE [DE-FC02-02ER63421]
- QCB Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Micro-crystal electron diffraction (MicroED) combines the efficiency of electron scattering with diffraction to allow structure determination from nano-sized crystalline samples in cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM). It has been used to solve structures of a diverse set of biomolecules and materials, in some cases to sub-atomic resolution. However, little is known about the damaging effects of the electron beam on samples during such measurements. We assess global and site-specific damage from electron radiation on nanocrystals of proteinase K and of a prion hepta-peptide and find that the dynamics of electron-induced damage follow well-established trends observed in X-ray crystallography. Metal ions are perturbed, disulfide bonds are broken, and acidic side chains are decarboxylated while the diffracted intensities decay exponentially with increasing exposure. A better understanding of radiation damage in MicroED improves our assessment and processing of all types of cryo-EM data.
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