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Automating crystallographic structure solution and refinement of protein–ligand complexes

Journal Article · · Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography
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  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720-8235 (United States)
  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge CB2 0XY (United Kingdom)
  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545-0001 (United States)

A software system for automated protein–ligand crystallography has been implemented in the Phenix suite. This significantly reduces the manual effort required in high-throughput crystallographic studies. High-throughput drug-discovery and mechanistic studies often require the determination of multiple related crystal structures that only differ in the bound ligands, point mutations in the protein sequence and minor conformational changes. If performed manually, solution and refinement requires extensive repetition of the same tasks for each structure. To accelerate this process and minimize manual effort, a pipeline encompassing all stages of ligand building and refinement, starting from integrated and scaled diffraction intensities, has been implemented in Phenix. The resulting system is able to successfully solve and refine large collections of structures in parallel without extensive user intervention prior to the final stages of model completion and validation.

OSTI ID:
22347811
Journal Information:
Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography, Journal Name: Acta Crystallographica. Section D: Biological Crystallography Journal Issue: Pt 1 Vol. 70; ISSN ABCRE6; ISSN 0907-4449
Country of Publication:
Denmark
Language:
English

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