Molecular replacement and high-throughput structure determination

2002 ◽  
Vol 217 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Navaza ◽  
P. M. Alzari
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Structure Determination ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Molecular Replacement ◽  
Fast Rotation ◽  
The Way

AbstractWe describe the philosophy of the MR method as implemented in the AMoRe package. Fast rotation and translation functions are first used to obtain a meaningful sampling of solution space, whose elements are subsequently assessed by using more robust criteria. The introduction of fast and accurate algorithms for screening a large number of possible solutions opened the way to automation, thus bringing MR methods to the realm of high-throughput structure determination. Selected examples are discussed to illustrate specific aspects of the method.

New Imidazole Inhibitors of Mycobacterial FtsZ: the Way from High-Throughput Molecular Screening in Grid up to in vitro Verification

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.A. Karpov ◽  
◽  
O.M. Demchuk ◽  
V.M. Britsun ◽  
D.I. Lytvyn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Molecular Screening ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Structure determination of Murine Norovirus NS6 proteases with C-terminal extensions designed to probe protease-substrate interactions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humberto Fernandes ◽  
Eoin N Leen ◽  
Hamlet Cromwell Jnr ◽  
Marc-Philipp Pfeil ◽  
Stephen Curry
Keyword(s):  
Structure Determination ◽  
Crystal Form ◽  
Molecular Replacement ◽  
Murine Norovirus ◽  
Substrate Interactions ◽  
C Terminus ◽  
Peptide Binding Site ◽  
Specific Protease ◽  
Protease Substrate

Noroviruses are positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses. They encode an NS6 protease that cleaves a viral polyprotein at specific sites to produce mature viral proteins. In an earlier study we obtained crystals of murine norovirus (MNV) NS6 protease in which crystal contacts were mediated by specific insertion of the C-terminus of one protein (which contains residues P5-P1 of the NS6-7 cleavage junction) into the peptide binding site of an adjacent molecule, forming an adventitious protease-product complex. We sought to reproduce this crystal form to investigate protease-substrate complexes by extending the C-terminus of NS6 construct to include residues on the C-terminal (P´) side of the cleavage junction. We report the crystallization and crystal structure determination of inactive mutants of murine norovirus NS6 protease with C-terminal extensions of one, two and four residues from the N-terminus of the adjacent NS7 protein (NS6 1´, NS6 2´, NS6 4´). We also determined the structure of a chimeric extended NS6 protease in which the P4 P4′ sequence of the NS6-7 cleavage site was replaced with the corresponding sequence from the NS2-3 cleavage junction (NS6 4´ 2|3). The constructs NS6 1′ and NS6 2′ yielded crystals that diffracted anisotropically. We found that, although the uncorrected data could be phased by molecular replacement, refinement of the structures stalled unless the data were ellipsoidally truncated and corrected with anisotropic B-factors. These corrections significantly improved phasing by molecular replacement and subsequent refinement. The refined structures of all four extended NS6 proteases are very similar in structure to the mature MNV NS6 — and in one case reveal additional details of a surface loop. Although the packing arrangement observed showed some similarities to those observed in the adventitious protease-product crystals reported previously, in no case were specific protease-substrate interactions observed.

scholarly journals Combining experimental data for structure determination of flexible multimeric macromolecules by molecular replacement

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Trapani ◽  
Chantal Abergel ◽  
Irina Gutsche ◽  
Cristina Horcajada ◽  
Ignacio Fita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Structure Determination ◽  
Molecular Replacement

Structure determination using poorly diffracting membrane-protein crystals: the H+-ATPase and Na+,K+-ATPase case history

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjørn P. Pedersen ◽  
J. Preben Morth ◽  
Poul Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Structure Determination ◽  
Heavy Atom ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Search Model ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Molecular Replacement ◽  
Maximum Resolution ◽  
Phase Combination ◽  
Site Identification

An approach is presented for the structure determination of membrane proteins on the basis of poorly diffracting crystals which exploits molecular replacement for heavy-atom site identification at 6–9 Å maximum resolution and improvement of the heavy-atom-derived phases by multi-crystal averaging using quasi-isomorphous data sets. The multi-crystal averaging procedure allows real-space density averaging followed by phase combination between non-isomorphous native data sets to exploit crystal-to-crystal nonisomorphism despite the crystals belonging to the same space group. This approach has been used in the structure determination of H+-ATPase and Na+,K+-ATPase using Ca2+-ATPase models and its successful application to the Mhp1 symporter using LeuT as a search model is demonstrated.

scholarly journals Parameter-space screening: a powerful tool for high-throughput crystal structure determination. Corrigendum

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 1311-1311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Jie Liu ◽  
Dawei Lin ◽  
Wolfram Tempel ◽  
Jeremy L. Praissman ◽  
John P. Rose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Structure Determination ◽  
Crystal Structure Determination

Molecular-replacement structure determination of two different antibody:antigen complexes

1990 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sheriff ◽  
E. A. Padlan ◽  
G. H. Cohen ◽  
D. R. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Structure Determination ◽  
Molecular Replacement
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