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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Machining protein microcrystals for structure determination by electron diffraction.

Helen M E Duyvesteyn, Abhay Kotecha, Helen M Ginn, Corey W Hecksel, Emma V Beale, Felix de Haas, Gwyndaf Evans, Peijun Zhang, Wah Chiu, David I Stuart

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Structure determination of a DNA crystal by MicroED.Structure (London, England : 1993) · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Helen M E DuyvesteynDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4641-5442
Abhay KotechaDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-4480-5439
Helen M GinnDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom.
Corey W HeckselDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.
Emma V BealeDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.
Felix de HaasMaterials and Structural Analysis, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Achtseweg Noord 5, 5651 GG, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Gwyndaf EvansDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, United Kingdom.
Peijun ZhangDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom.
Wah ChiuDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305; wahc@stanford.edu david.stuart@strubi.ox.ac.uk.
David I StuartDivision of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, United Kingdom; wahc@stanford.edu david.stuart@strubi.ox.ac.uk.

Funding

X-Ray Core P50GM082251 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ENGELMAN, ALAN N. · 2007 to 2018
$48.1M
3 D ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF MACROMOLECULES (5P41RR002250-27)P41GM103832 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHIU, WAH · 2012 to 2019
$15.1M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilMedical Research Council G1100525Medical Research Council MR/N00065X/1NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103832NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM082251Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 090532/Z/09/ZWellcome Trust 101122/Z/13/ZWellcome Trust 206422/Z/17/ZWellcome Trust ALR00040Wellcome Trust ALR00750-B500.1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We demonstrate that ion-beam milling of frozen, hydrated protein crystals to thin lamella preserves the crystal lattice to near-atomic resolution. This provides a vehicle for protein structure determination, bridging the crystal size gap between the nanometer scale of conventional electron diffraction and micron scale of synchrotron microfocus beamlines. The demonstration that atomic information can be retained suggests that milling could provide such detail on sections cut from vitrified cells.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayElectronsIonsMicrotechnologyMuramidaseSynchrotronsIonsMuramidasediffractionelectron crystallographyFIBprotein crystalstructure

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PMID30171169
PMCPMC6156647

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