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SPTN1_CHICK Morphologically, spectrin-like proteins appear to be related to spectrin, showing a flexible rod-like structure. They can bind actin but seem to differ in their calmodulin-binding activity. In nonerythroid tissues, spectrins, in association with some other proteins, may play an important role in membrane organization.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
The increase in successful adaptations of serial crystallography at synchrotron radiation sources continues. To date, the number of serial synchrotron crystallography (SSX) experiments has grown exponentially, with over 40 experiments reported so far. In this work, we report the first SSX experiments with viscous jets conducted at ALBA beamline BL13-XALOC. Small crystals (15-30 microm) of five soluble proteins (lysozyme, proteinase K, phycocyanin, insulin and alpha-spectrin-SH3 domain) were suspended in lipidic cubic phase (LCP) and delivered to the X-ray beam with a high-viscosity injector developed at Arizona State University. Complete data sets were collected from all proteins and their high-resolution structures determined. The high quality of the diffraction data collected from all five samples, and the lack of specific radiation damage in the structures obtained in this study, confirm that the current capabilities at the beamline enables atomic resolution determination of protein structures from microcrystals as small as 15 microm using viscous jets at room temperature. Thus, BL13-XALOC can provide a feasible alternative to X-ray free-electron lasers when determining snapshots of macromolecular structures.
Serial macromolecular crystallography at ALBA Synchrotron Light Source.,Martin-Garcia JM, Botha S, Hu H, Jernigan R, Castellvi A, Lisova S, Gil F, Calisto B, Crespo I, Roy-Chowdhury S, Grieco A, Ketawala G, Weierstall U, Spence J, Fromme P, Zatsepin N, Boer DR, Carpena X J Synchrotron Radiat. 2022 May 1;29(Pt 3):896-907. doi:, 10.1107/S1600577522002508. Epub 2022 Apr 4. PMID:35511023[1]
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- ↑ Martin-Garcia JM, Botha S, Hu H, Jernigan R, Castellvi A, Lisova S, Gil F, Calisto B, Crespo I, Roy-Chowdhury S, Grieco A, Ketawala G, Weierstall U, Spence J, Fromme P, Zatsepin N, Boer DR, Carpena X. Serial macromolecular crystallography at ALBA Synchrotron Light Source. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2022 May 1;29(Pt 3):896-907. doi:, 10.1107/S1600577522002508. Epub 2022 Apr 4. PMID:35511023 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600577522002508
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