skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Fragment-based determination of a proteinase K structure from MicroED data using ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER

Journal Article · · Acta Crystallographica. Section D. Structural Biology

Structure determination of novel biological macromolecules by X-ray crystallography can be facilitated by the use of small structural fragments, some of only a few residues in length, as effective search models for molecular replacement to overcome the phase problem. Independence from the need for a complete pre-existing model with sequence similarity to the crystallized molecule is the primary appeal of ARCIMBOLDO , a suite of programs which employs this ab initio algorithm for phase determination. Here, the use of ARCIMBOLDO is investigated to overcome the phase problem with the electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) method known as microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED). The results support the use of the ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER pipeline to provide phasing solutions for a structure of proteinase K from 1.6 Å resolution data using model fragments derived from the structures of proteins sharing a sequence identity of as low as 20%. ARCIMBOLDO_SHREDDER identified the most accurate polyalanine fragments from a set of distantly related sequence homologues. Alternatively, such templates were extracted in spherical volumes and given internal degrees of freedom to refine towards the target structure. Both modes relied on the rotation function in Phaser to identify or refine fragment models and its translation function to place them. Model completion from the placed fragments proceeded through phase combination of partial solutions and/or density modification and main-chain autotracing using SHELXE . The combined set of fragments was sufficient to arrive at a solution that resembled that determined by conventional molecular replacement using the known target structure as a search model. This approach obviates the need for a single, complete and highly accurate search model when phasing MicroED data, and permits the evaluation of large fragment libraries for this purpose.

Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); NIH–NIGMS
Grant/Contract Number:
FC02-02ER63421; R35 GM128867; P41GM136508
OSTI ID:
1643203
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1799621
Journal Information:
Acta Crystallographica. Section D. Structural Biology, Journal Name: Acta Crystallographica. Section D. Structural Biology Vol. 76 Journal Issue: 8; ISSN 2059-7983
Publisher:
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

References (78)

Dynamical scattering and electron crystallography - ab initio structure analysis of copper perbromophthalocyanine journal July 1992
Analysis of Global and Site-Specific Radiation Damage in Cryo-EM journal May 2018
Linking Crystallographic Model and Data Quality journal May 2012
Analysis of high-resolution electron diffraction patterns from purple membrane labelled with heavy-atoms journal June 1990
Macromolecular ab initio phasing enforcing secondary and tertiary structure journal January 2015
Structure determination of the O -methyltransferase NovP using the `free lunch algorithm' as implemented in SHELXE journal September 2007
Overview of the CCP 4 suite and current developments journal March 2011
The CryoEM Method MicroED as a Powerful Tool for Small Molecule Structure Determination journal November 2018
Combining phase information in reciprocal space for molecular replacement with partial models journal August 2015
Likelihood-enhanced fast rotation functions journal February 2004
Atomic-resolution structures from fragmented protein crystals with the cryoEM method MicroED journal February 2017
A Rare Lysozyme Crystal Form Solved Using Highly Redundant Multiple Electron Diffraction Datasets from Micron-Sized Crystals journal April 2018
Ab initio structure determination of nanocrystals of organic pharmaceutical compounds by electron diffraction at room temperature using a Timepix quantum area direct electron detector journal February 2016
ARCIMBOLDO_LITE : single-workstation implementation and use journal August 2015
Towards automated crystallographic structure refinement with phenix.refine journal March 2012
Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix journal October 2019
Secondary-structure matching (SSM), a new tool for fast protein structure alignment in three dimensions journal November 2004
3D-structured supports create complete data sets for electron crystallography journal July 2019
High-resolution structure prediction and the crystallographic phase problem journal October 2007
Structure solution with ARCIMBOLDO using fragments derived from distant homology models journal September 2014
A log-likelihood-gain intensity target for crystallographic phasing that accounts for experimental error journal March 2016
Overview of refinement procedures within REFMAC 5: utilizing data from different sources journal March 2018
Atomic structures of low-complexity protein segments reveal kinked β sheets that assemble networks journal February 2018
Exploring the speed and performance of molecular replacement with AMPLE using QUARK ab initio protein models journal January 2015
MicroED data collection and processing journal July 2015
The scattering of electrons by atoms and crystals. I. A new theoretical approach journal October 1957
High-resolution electron crystallography of protein molecules journal December 1993
Exploiting tertiary structure through local folds for crystallographic phasing journal September 2013
Experimental Phasing of MicroED Data Using Radiation Damage journal April 2020
XDS journal January 2010
SHELXT – Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination journal January 2015
SCEDS: protein fragments for molecular replacement in Phaser journal October 2013
Structure solution of DNA-binding proteins and complexes with ARCIMBOLDO libraries journal May 2014
Ab initio structure determination from prion nanocrystals at atomic resolution by MicroED journal September 2016
Likelihood-enhanced fast translation functions journal March 2005
Relativistic Hartree–Fock X-ray and electron scattering factors journal May 1968
The HHpred interactive server for protein homology detection and structure prediction journal July 2005
Electron crystallography of ultrathin 3D protein crystals: Atomic model with charges journal February 2015
Toward the structural genomics of complexes: Crystal structure of a PE/PPE protein complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosis journal May 2006
Solving a new R2lox protein structure by microcrystal electron diffraction journal August 2019
Practical structure solution with ARCIMBOLDO journal March 2012
3D Electron Diffraction: The Nanocrystallography Revolution journal July 2019
Measuring and using information gained by observing diffraction data journal February 2020
Prediction of protein conformational freedom from distance constraints journal October 1997
The collection of MicroED data for macromolecular crystallography journal April 2016
Structure of the toxic core of α-synuclein from invisible crystals journal September 2015
Crystallographic ab initio protein structure solution below atomic resolution journal August 2009
Precise Manipulation and Patterning of Protein Crystals for Macromolecular Crystallography Using Surface Acoustic Waves journal February 2015
Structure solution by iterative peaklist optimization and tangent expansion in space group P 1 journal August 1995
Fragment-Based Phase Extension for Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins by Electron Crystallography journal July 2011
Features and development of Coot journal March 2010
The Structure of the Diamond journal July 1913
ALIXE : a phase-combination tool for fragment-based molecular replacement journal February 2020
Crystal structure refinement with SHELXL journal January 2015
AMPLE : a cluster-and-truncate approach to solve the crystal structures of small proteins using rapidly computed ab initio models journal November 2012
Crystal structure of a cold-active protease (Pro21717) from the psychrophilic bacterium, Pseudoalteromonas arctica PAMC 21717, at 1.4 Å resolution: Structural adaptations to cold and functional analysis of a laundry detergent enzyme journal February 2018
Lipid–protein interactions in double-layered two-dimensional AQP0 crystals journal December 2005
MSLS, a Least-Squares Procedure for Accurate Crystal Structure Refinement from Dynamical Electron Diffraction Patterns journal January 1998
Review: Electron Crystallography: Present Excitement, a Nod to the Past, Anticipating the Future journal December 1999
A fragmentation and reassembly method for ab initio phasing journal January 2015
Experiences with a new translation-function program journal December 1987
On the application of the expected log-likelihood gain to decision making in molecular replacement journal April 2018
High-resolution structure determination by continuous-rotation data collection in MicroED journal August 2014
Solving protein nanocrystals by cryo-EM diffraction: Multiple scattering artifacts journal January 2015
An introduction to experimental phasing of macromolecules illustrated by SHELX ; new autotracing features journal February 2018
Experimental phasing with SHELXC / D / E : combining chain tracing with density modification journal March 2010
Structure of catalase determined by MicroED journal October 2014
MicroED structures of HIV-1 Gag CTD-SP1 reveal binding interactions with the maturation inhibitor bevirimat journal December 2018
Three-dimensional electron crystallography of protein microcrystals journal November 2013
Structure of the unliganded form of the proprotein convertase furin suggests activation by a substrate-induced mechanism journal September 2016
Fragon : rapid high-resolution structure determination from ideal protein fragments journal March 2018
The Direct Methods of X-ray Crystallography journal July 1986
ALEPH : a network-oriented approach for the generation of fragment-based libraries and for structure interpretation journal February 2020
Phaser crystallographic software journal July 2007
MicroED opens a new era for biological structure determination journal October 2016
The cryo-EM method microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) journal April 2019
Extending molecular-replacement solutions with SHELXE journal October 2013
Using focus ion beam to prepare crystal lamella for electron diffraction journal March 2019

Similar Records

Structure solution of DNA-binding proteins and complexes with ARCIMBOLDO libraries
Journal Article · Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography · OSTI ID:1643203

Fragment-Based Ab Initio Phasing of Peptidic Nanocrystals by MicroED
Journal Article · Thu Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2023 · ACS Bio & Med Chem Au · OSTI ID:1643203

Experimental phasing with SHELXC/D/E: combining chain tracing with density modification
Journal Article · Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography · OSTI ID:1643203