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ArticleMethods (San Diego, Calif.)2019

Transcription with a laser: Radiation-damage-free diffraction of RNA Polymerase II crystals.

Guowu Lin, Simon C Weiss, Sandra Vergara, Carlos Camacho, Guillermo Calero

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Article in Methods (San Diego, Calif.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Structural basis of transcription: RNA polymerase II substrate binding and metal coordination using a free-electron laser.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  2. Detection of Microcrystals for CryoEM.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Guowu LinDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States.
Simon C WeissDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States.
Sandra VergaraDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States.
Carlos CamachoDepartment of Computanional and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States.
Guillermo CaleroDepartment of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, United States. Electronic address: guc9@pitt.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) pp.711-759P41GM103393 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HODGSON, KEITH O · 2012 to 2019
$30.6M
Structural Studies of RNA Polymerase II Transcription Initiation and ElongationR01GM112686 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CALERO, GUILLERMO ALBERTO · 2015 to 2024
$2.8M
Real-time discovery of inhibitors among billion compounds for preview and downloadR01GM097082 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CAMACHO, CARLOS J. · 2011 to 2020
$2.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103393NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM097082NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM112686
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Well-diffracting crystals are essential to obtain relevant structural data that will lead to understanding of RNA Polymerase II (Pol II) transcriptional processes at a molecular level. Here we present a strategy to study Pol II crystals using negative stain transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and a methodology to optimize radiation damage free data collection using free electron laser (FEL) at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The use of negative stain TEM allowed visualization and optimization of crystal diffraction by monitoring the lattice quality of crystallization conditions. Nano crystals bearing perfect lattices were seeded and used to grow larger crystals for FEL data collection. Moreover, the use of in house designed crystal loops together with ultra-violet (UV) microscopy for crystal detection facilitated data collection. Such strategy permitted collection of multiple crystals of radiation-free-damage data, resulting in the highest resolution of wild type (WT) Pol II crystals ever observed.

Indexed as

LasersCrystallographyHumansMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionModels, MolecularNanostructuresProtein ConformationRNA Polymerase IIRNA Polymerase IIFree electron laserNano-crystalsRadiation-damage-free data collectionRNA Polymerase II

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PMID31029767
PMCPMC7193734
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