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Título: | On the Quality of Protein Crystals Grown under Diffusion Mass-transport Controlled Regime (I) |
Autor: | Gavira Gallardo, J. A. CSIC ORCID ; Otálora, Fermín CSIC ORCID; González-Ramírez, Luis A.; Melero, Emilio; Van Driessche, Alexander E. S.; García Ruiz, Juan Manuel CSIC ORCID | Palabras clave: | Protein crystallization Counterdiffusion Agarose Microgravity |
Fecha de publicación: | 25-ene-2020 | Editor: | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Citación: | Crystals 10(2): 68 (2020) | Resumen: | It has been previously shown that the diffraction quality of protein crystals strongly depends on mass transport during their growth. In fact, several studies support the idea that the higher the contribution of the diffusion during mass transport, the better the diffraction quality of the crystals. In this work, we have compared the crystal quality of two model (thaumatin and insulin) and two target (HBII and HBII-III) proteins grown by two different methods to reduce/eliminate convective mass transport: crystal growth in agarose gels and crystal growth in solution under microgravity. In both cases, we used identical counterdiffusion crystallization setups and the same data collection protocols. Additionally, critical parameters such as reactor geometry, stock batches of proteins and other chemicals, temperature, and duration of the experiments were carefully monitored. The diffraction datasets have been analyzed using a principal component analysis (PCA) to determine possible trends in quality indicators. The relevant indicators show that, for the purpose of structural crystallography, there are no obvious differences between crystals grown under reduced convective flow in space and convection-free conditions in agarose gel, indicating that the key factor contributing to crystal quality is the reduced convection environment and not how this reduced convection is achieved. This means that the possible detrimental effect on crystal quality due to the incorporation of gel fibers into the protein crystals is insignificant compared to the positive impact of an optimal convection-free environment provided by gels. Moreover, our results confirm that the counterdiffusion technique optimizes protein crystal quality and validates both environments in order to deliver high quality protein crystals, although other considerations, such as protein/gel interactions, must be considered when defining the optimal crystallization setup | Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst10020068 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/211517 | DOI: | 10.3390/cryst10020068 | ISSN: | 2073-4352 |
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