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Title: High-viscosity injector-based pink-beam serial crystallography of microcrystals at a synchrotron radiation source

Abstract

Since the first successful serial crystallography (SX) experiment at a synchrotron radiation source, the popularity of this approach has continued to grow showing that third-generation synchrotrons can be viable alternatives to scarce X-ray free-electron laser sources. Synchrotron radiation flux may be increased ~100 times by a moderate increase in the bandwidth (`pink beam' conditions) at some cost to data analysis complexity. Here, we report the first high-viscosity injector-based pink-beam SX experiments. The structures of proteinase K (PK) and A2Aadenosine receptor (A2AAR) were determined to resolutions of 1.8 and 4.2 Å using 4 and 24 consecutive 100 ps X-ray pulse exposures, respectively. Strong PK data were processed using existing Laue approaches, while weaker A2AAR data required an alternative data-processing strategy. This demonstration of the feasibility presents new opportunities for time-resolved experiments with microcrystals to study structural changes in real time at pink-beam synchrotron beamlines worldwide.

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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute; Mayo Clinic; Arizona State University; National Science Foundation (NSF), BioXFEL; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1617937
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1542189
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
IUCrJ
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: IUCrJ Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2052-2525
Publisher:
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; lipidic cubic phase; pink beam; protein dynamics; serial crystallography; time-resolved; third-generation synchrotrons; injector-based serial crystallography; structure determination; membrane proteins; protein structures; X-ray crystallography; structural biology

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Martin-Garcia, Jose M., Zhu, Lan, Mendez, Derek, Lee, Ming-Yue, Chun, Eugene, Li, Chufeng, Hu, Hao, Subramanian, Ganesh, Kissick, David, Ogata, Craig, Henning, Robert, Ishchenko, Andrii, Dobson, Zachary, Zhang, Shangji, Weierstall, Uwe, Spence, John C. H., Fromme, Petra, Zatsepin, Nadia A., Fischetti, Robert F., Cherezov, Vadim, and Liu, Wei. High-viscosity injector-based pink-beam serial crystallography of microcrystals at a synchrotron radiation source. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1107/S205225251900263X.
Martin-Garcia, Jose M., Zhu, Lan, Mendez, Derek, Lee, Ming-Yue, Chun, Eugene, Li, Chufeng, Hu, Hao, Subramanian, Ganesh, Kissick, David, Ogata, Craig, Henning, Robert, Ishchenko, Andrii, Dobson, Zachary, Zhang, Shangji, Weierstall, Uwe, Spence, John C. H., Fromme, Petra, Zatsepin, Nadia A., Fischetti, Robert F., Cherezov, Vadim, & Liu, Wei. High-viscosity injector-based pink-beam serial crystallography of microcrystals at a synchrotron radiation source. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1107/S205225251900263X
Martin-Garcia, Jose M., Zhu, Lan, Mendez, Derek, Lee, Ming-Yue, Chun, Eugene, Li, Chufeng, Hu, Hao, Subramanian, Ganesh, Kissick, David, Ogata, Craig, Henning, Robert, Ishchenko, Andrii, Dobson, Zachary, Zhang, Shangji, Weierstall, Uwe, Spence, John C. H., Fromme, Petra, Zatsepin, Nadia A., Fischetti, Robert F., Cherezov, Vadim, and Liu, Wei. Fri . "High-viscosity injector-based pink-beam serial crystallography of microcrystals at a synchrotron radiation source". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1107/S205225251900263X.
@article{osti_1617937,
title = {High-viscosity injector-based pink-beam serial crystallography of microcrystals at a synchrotron radiation source},
author = {Martin-Garcia, Jose M. and Zhu, Lan and Mendez, Derek and Lee, Ming-Yue and Chun, Eugene and Li, Chufeng and Hu, Hao and Subramanian, Ganesh and Kissick, David and Ogata, Craig and Henning, Robert and Ishchenko, Andrii and Dobson, Zachary and Zhang, Shangji and Weierstall, Uwe and Spence, John C. H. and Fromme, Petra and Zatsepin, Nadia A. and Fischetti, Robert F. and Cherezov, Vadim and Liu, Wei},
abstractNote = {Since the first successful serial crystallography (SX) experiment at a synchrotron radiation source, the popularity of this approach has continued to grow showing that third-generation synchrotrons can be viable alternatives to scarce X-ray free-electron laser sources. Synchrotron radiation flux may be increased ~100 times by a moderate increase in the bandwidth (`pink beam' conditions) at some cost to data analysis complexity. Here, we report the first high-viscosity injector-based pink-beam SX experiments. The structures of proteinase K (PK) and A2Aadenosine receptor (A2AAR) were determined to resolutions of 1.8 and 4.2 Å using 4 and 24 consecutive 100 ps X-ray pulse exposures, respectively. Strong PK data were processed using existing Laue approaches, while weaker A2AAR data required an alternative data-processing strategy. This demonstration of the feasibility presents new opportunities for time-resolved experiments with microcrystals to study structural changes in real time at pink-beam synchrotron beamlines worldwide.},
doi = {10.1107/S205225251900263X},
journal = {IUCrJ},
number = 3,
volume = 6,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Fri Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Experimental setup at the BioCARS beamline, 14-ID-B. (a) Schematic diagram of the setup. APS was operating in the 24-pulse mode. A Jülich chopper was used to choose the desired number of pulses. A Rayonix detector MX340HS was used to record crystal diffraction. (b) LCP injector (Weierstall et al.,more » 2014) mounted on translation stages. The catcher and beamstop are also shown. (c) Closer view of the red boxed area in (b) showing the LCP stream extruding out of a 50 μm glass capillary with a 50 μm internal diameter, inserted into a ceramic injection-molded gas aperture nozzle..« less

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