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Phytochromes are a family of photoreceptors that control light responses of plants, fungi and bacteria. A sequence of structural changes, which is not yet fully understood, leads to activation of an output domain. Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) can potentially shine light on these conformational changes. Here we report the room temperature crystal structure of the chromophore-binding domains of the Deinococcus radiodurans phytochrome at 2.1 Å resolution. The structure was obtained by serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography from microcrystals at an X-ray free electron laser. We find overall good agreement compared to a crystal structure at 1.35 Å resolution derived from conventional crystallography at cryogenic temperatures, which we also report here. The thioether linkage between chromophore and protein is subject to positional ambiguity at the synchrotron, but is fully resolved with SFX. The study paves the way for time-resolved structural investigations of the phytochrome photocycle with time-resolved SFX.
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Title
- The room temperature crystal structure of a bacterial phytochrome determined by serial femtosecond crystallography
Contributors
- Edlund, Petra (Author)
- Takala, Heikki (Author)
- Claesson, Elin (Author)
- Henry, Leocadie (Author)
- Dods, Robert (Author)
- Lehtivuori, Heli (Author)
- Panman, Matthijs (Author)
- Pande, Kanupriya (Author)
- White, Thomas (Author)
- Nakane, Takanori (Author)
- Berntsson, Oskar (Author)
- Gustavsson, Emil (Author)
- Bath, Petra (Author)
- Modi, Vaibhav (Author)
- Roy Chowdhury, Shatabdi (Author)
- Zook, James (Author)
- Berntsen, Peter (Author)
- Pandey, Suraj (Author)
- Poudyal, Ishwor (Author)
- Tenboer, Jason (Author)
- Kupitz, Christopher (Author)
- Barty, Anton (Author)
- Fromme, Petra (Author)
- Koralek, Jake D. (Author)
- Tanaka, Tomoyuki (Author)
- Spence, John (Author)
- Liang, Mengning (Author)
- Hunter, Mark S. (Author)
- Boutet, Sebastien (Author)
- Nango, Eriko (Author)
- Moffat, Keith (Author)
- Groenhof, Gerrit (Author)
- Ihalainen, Janne (Author)
- Stojkovic, Emina A. (Author)
- Schmidt, Marius (Author)
- Westenhoff, Sebastian (Author)
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Contributor)
- School of Molecular Sciences (Contributor)
- Biodesign Institute (Contributor)
- Applied Structural Discovery (Contributor)
- Department of Physics (Contributor)
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2016-10-19
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- Digital object identifier: 10.1038/srep35279
- Identifier TypeInternational standard serial numberIdentifier Value2045-2322
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- The final version of this article, as published in Scientific Reports, can be viewed online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35279
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Edlund, P., Takala, H., Claesson, E., Henry, L., Dods, R., Lehtivuori, H., . . . Westenhoff, S. (2016). The room temperature crystal structure of a bacterial phytochrome determined by serial femtosecond crystallography. Scientific Reports, 6(1). doi:10.1038/srep35279