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One Crystal, Two Temperatures: Cryocooling Penalties Alter Ligand Binding to Transient Protein Sites.

ABSTRACT: Interrogating fragment libraries by X-ray crystallography is a powerful strategy for discovering allosteric ligands for protein targets. Cryocooling of crystals should theoretically increase the fraction of occupied binding sites and decrease radiation damage. However, it might also perturb protein conformations that can be accessed at room temperature. Using data from crystals measured consecutively at room temperature and at cryogenic temperature, we found that transient binding sites could be abolished at the cryogenic temperatures employed by standard approaches. Changing the temperature at which the crystallographic data was collected could provide a deliberate perturbation to the equilibrium of protein conformations and help to visualize hidden sites with great potential to allosterically modulate protein function.

SUBMITTER: Fischer M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4539595 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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One Crystal, Two Temperatures: Cryocooling Penalties Alter Ligand Binding to Transient Protein Sites.

Fischer Marcus M Shoichet Brian K BK Fraser James S JS

Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology 20150615 11

Interrogating fragment libraries by X-ray crystallography is a powerful strategy for discovering allosteric ligands for protein targets. Cryocooling of crystals should theoretically increase the fraction of occupied binding sites and decrease radiation damage. However, it might also perturb protein conformations that can be accessed at room temperature. Using data from crystals measured consecutively at room temperature and at cryogenic temperature, we found that transient binding sites could be ...[more]

PMID: 26032594

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One Crystal, Two Temperatures: Cryocooling Penalties Alter Ligand Binding to Transient Protein Sites.

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One Crystal, Two Temperatures: Cryocooling Penalties Alter Ligand Binding to Transient Protein Sites.

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