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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 314, Issue 2, Pages 253-262Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5133
Keywords
single-particle reconstruction; GroEL; structure; electron cryomicroscopy; X-ray scattering
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P41RR02250] Funding Source: Medline
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Single-particle analysis has become an increasingly important method for structural determination of large macromolecular assemblies. GroEL is an 800 kDa molecular chaperone, which, along with its co-chaperonin GroES, promotes protein folding both in vitro and in the bacterial cell. EMAN is a single-particle analysis software package, which was first publicly distributed in 2000. We present a three-dimensional reconstruction of native naked GroEL to similar to 11.5 Angstrom performed entirely with EMAN. We demonstrate that the single-particle reconstruction, X-ray scattering data and X-ray crystal structure all agree well at this resolution. These results validate the specific methods of image restoration, reconstruction and evaluation techniques implemented in EMAN. It also demonstrates that the single-particle reconstruction technique and X-ray crystallography will yield consistent structure factors, even at low resolution, when image restoration is performed correctly. A detailed comparison of the single-particle and X-ray structures exhibits some small variations in the equatorial domain of the molecule, likely due to the absence of crystal packing forces in the single-particle reconstruction. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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