Room-temperature ultrahigh-resolution time-of-flight neutron and X-ray diffraction studies of H/D-exchanged crambin

Julian C.H. Chen, Zoë Fisher, Andrey Y. Kovalevsky, Marat Mustyakimov, B. Leif Hanson, Vladimir V. Zhurov, Paul Langan

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Abstract

The room-temperature (RT) X-ray structure of H/D-exchanged crambin is reported at 0.85 Å resolution. As one of the very few proteins refined with anisotropic atomic displacement parameters at two temperatures, the dynamics of atoms in the RT and 100 K structures are compared. Neutron diffraction data from an H/D-exchanged crambin crystal collected at the Protein Crystallo-graphy Station (PCS) showed diffraction beyond 1.1 Å resolution. This is the highest resolution neutron diffraction reported to date for a protein crystal and will reveal important details of the anisotropic motions of H and D atoms in protein structures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)119-123
Number of pages5
JournalActa Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Volume68
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2012

Keywords

  • H/D exchange
  • crambin
  • neutron diffraction
  • ultrahigh resolution

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