High-throughput structures of protein-ligand complexes at room temperature using serial femtosecond crystallography

© Tadeo Moreno-Chicano et al. 2019..

High-throughput X-ray crystal structures of protein-ligand complexes are critical to pharmaceutical drug development. However, cryocooling of crystals and X-ray radiation damage may distort the observed ligand binding. Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) can produce radiation-damage-free room-temperature structures. Ligand-binding studies using SFX have received only modest attention, partly owing to limited beamtime availability and the large quantity of sample that is required per structure determination. Here, a high-throughput approach to determine room-temperature damage-free structures with excellent sample and time efficiency is demonstrated, allowing complexes to be characterized rapidly and without prohibitive sample requirements. This yields high-quality difference density maps allowing unambiguous ligand placement. Crucially, it is demonstrated that ligands similar in size or smaller than those used in fragment-based drug design may be clearly identified in data sets obtained from <1000 diffraction images. This efficiency in both sample and XFEL beamtime opens the door to true high-throughput screening of protein-ligand complexes using SFX.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6

Enthalten in:

IUCrJ - 6(2019), Pt 6 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1074-1085

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moreno-Chicano, Tadeo [VerfasserIn]
Ebrahim, Ali [VerfasserIn]
Axford, Danny [VerfasserIn]
Appleby, Martin V [VerfasserIn]
Beale, John H [VerfasserIn]
Chaplin, Amanda K [VerfasserIn]
Duyvesteyn, Helen M E [VerfasserIn]
Ghiladi, Reza A [VerfasserIn]
Owada, Shigeki [VerfasserIn]
Sherrell, Darren A [VerfasserIn]
Strange, Richard W [VerfasserIn]
Sugimoto, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Tono, Kensuke [VerfasserIn]
Worrall, Jonathan A R [VerfasserIn]
Owen, Robin L [VerfasserIn]
Hough, Michael A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Damage-free structures
High throughput
Journal Article
Ligand binding
Serial femtosecond crystallography
X-ray crystallography
X-ray free-electron lasers

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Date Revised 19.10.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1107/S2052252519011655

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM303128240