Cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography as complementary methods for structure determination

Structure determination of a human virus by the combination of cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography

Virus 3D atomic structures provide insight into our understanding of viral life cycles and the development of antiviral drugs. X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM have been used to determine the atomic structure of viruses. However, limited availability of biological samples, biosafety issues due to virus infection, and sometimes inherent characteristics of viruses, pose difficulties on combining...

Albocycline: structure determination by x-ray crystallography.

The structure and absolute configuration of the macrolide antibiotic albocycline (1a) has been determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis on the derived p-bromobenzoate (1b). The absolute configuration of albocycline is 4R, 7S, 12S, 13R.

Capsid conformational sampling in HK97 maturation visualized by X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM.

Maturation of the bacteriophage HK97 capsid from a precursor (Prohead II) to the mature state (Head II) involves a 60 A radial expansion. The mature particle is formed by 420 copies of the major capsid protein organized on a T = 7 laevo lattice with each subunit covalently crosslinked to two neighbors. Well-characterized pH 4 expansion intermediates make HK97 valuable for investigating quaterna...

Multiple challenges in protein structure determination by x-ray crystallography

The X-ray Transform and its Application in Nano Crystallography

In this article a review on the definition of the X- ray transform and some ofits applications in Nano crystallography is presented. We shall show that the X- raytransform is a special case of the Radon transform on homogeneous spaces when thetopological group E(n)- the Euclidean group - acts on ℝ2 transitively. First someproperties of the Radon transform are investigated then the relationship ...