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ReviewJournal of synchrotron radiation2015

Identifying and quantifying radiation damage at the atomic level.

Markus Gerstel, Charlotte M Deane, Elspeth F Garman

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Review in Journal of synchrotron radiation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Separating the effects of temperature and absorbed X-ray dose on unit-cell volume.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2026
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  6. Identifying and avoiding radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2024
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  11. Uses and Abuses of the Atomic Displacement Parameters in Structural Biology.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  12. B-factor accuracy in protein crystal structures.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2022
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  13. Structure of Usutu virus SAAR-1776 displays fusion loop asymmetry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  15. Crystallization and structure of ebselen bound to Cys141 of human inositol monophosphatase.Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Markus GerstelLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.
Charlotte M DeaneDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK.
Elspeth F GarmanLaboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiation damage impedes macromolecular diffraction experiments. Alongside the well known effects of global radiation damage, site-specific radiation damage affects data quality and the veracity of biological conclusions on protein mechanism and function. Site-specific radiation damage follows a relatively predetermined pattern, in that different structural motifs are affected at different dose regimes: in metal-free proteins, disulfide bonds tend to break first followed by the decarboxylation of aspartic and glutamic acids. Even within these damage motifs the decay does not progress uniformly at equal rates. Within the same protein, radiation-induced electron density decay of a particular chemical group is faster than for the same group elsewhere in the protein: an effect known as preferential specific damage. Here, BDamage, a new atomic metric, is defined and validated to recognize protein regions susceptible to specific damage and to quantify the damage at these sites. By applying BDamage to a large set of known protein structures in a statistical survey, correlations between the rates of damage and various physicochemical parameters were identified. Results indicate that specific radiation damage is independent of secondary protein structure. Different disulfide bond groups (spiral, hook, and staple) show dissimilar radiation damage susceptibility. There is a consistent positive correlation between specific damage and solvent accessibility.

Indexed as

Radiation InjuriesCrystallography, X-RayDose-Response Relationship, RadiationHumansMacromolecular SubstancesModels, MolecularNuclear MedicineProtein Structure, SecondarySolventsMacromolecular SubstancesSolventsatomic B factorsatomic displacement parameterspreferential damageradiation damagespecific damage

Identifiers

PMID25723922
PMCPMC4344357

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