Peter W. Stephens, Rasika H. V. Dias, Andrey A. Yakovenko
{"title":"In situ studies of molecular copper compounds for highly selective purification of ethylene","authors":"Peter W. Stephens, Rasika H. V. Dias, Andrey A. Yakovenko","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323098881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323098881","url":null,"abstract":"Purification of ethylene from ethylene -ethane mixtures is an important and challenging industrial process, currently performed by highly energy-intensive cryogenic distillation. We have been studying the reversible reaction of C2H4 with various molecular pyrazolate complexes of copper, and fi nd that they are extremely selective for ethylene vs. ethane.1 -4 A typical gas-phase adsorption/desorption reaction, which occurs at 320 K – 343 K at atmospheric pressure, is illustrated in Fig. 1. We have performed in situ powder diffraction measurements of the repeated adsorption and desorption of ethylene from dense powders of several copper pyrazolate complexes at beamline 17 - BM of the Advanced Photon Source.2,3 We have determined previously unknown structures of several of the compounds and monitor the conversion between phases with and without adsorbed ethylene. It is truly remarkable that the subject molecules reversibly pass between trimer and dimer structures in the solid state upon reaction with ethylene.","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139362151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher J. Williams, Sushrit Pasumarthy, Jane S Richardson
{"title":"A disulfide bridge survey and library","authors":"Christopher J. Williams, Sushrit Pasumarthy, Jane S Richardson","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323096304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323096304","url":null,"abstract":"Disulfide bridges between cysteine sidechains are one of the more unusual features of protein macromolecules. They provide a strong, stabilizing, covalent connection between sequence - distant parts of a protein. Previous efforts by the Richardson Lab to compile a comprehensive library of disulfide conformations were frustrated by our datasets being in sufficiently large in the face of the huge conformational space afforded by disulfides’ 5 chi torsions (more than lysine!). Now, enabled by the Top2018 dataset, we present our survey of disulfide bridges. Disulfides have great conformational diversity. This diversity is matched by the diversity of proteins and structural contexts they appear in. Nevertheless, disulfide conformations are often conserved among proteins with similar functions. Some conformations are even unique to certain protein families. Others are conserved according to their position relative to secondary structure. This library will aid in selection of appropriate disulfides in model building and in MolProbity-style validation of experimental and predicted models.","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139362156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabrielle R. Budziszewski, Tiffany R. Wright, M. E. Snell, Miranda L. Lynch, Sarah E J Bowman
{"title":"Operations of the National Crystallization Center: two decades of high-throughput crystallization efforts fueled by structural genomics","authors":"Gabrielle R. Budziszewski, Tiffany R. Wright, M. E. Snell, Miranda L. Lynch, Sarah E J Bowman","doi":"10.1107/s205327332309928x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s205327332309928x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139362173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges and successes in determining the structure of arginyltransferase 1 (ATE1)","authors":"Aaron T. Smith","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323097917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323097917","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael R. Rankin, D. Khare, Estefanía Martínez Valdivia, David H. Sherman, W. Gerwick, A. Mapp, Janet L. Smith
{"title":"Structural and biochemical investigation of a novel natural product amination domain","authors":"Michael R. Rankin, D. Khare, Estefanía Martínez Valdivia, David H. Sherman, W. Gerwick, A. Mapp, Janet L. Smith","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323098054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323098054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time-resolved reciprocal-space mapping of ferroelectric perovskites under an alternating electric field","authors":"H. Choe","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323098960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323098960","url":null,"abstract":"Na 0.5Bi0.5TiO 3 (NBT) is interesting as a potential lead-free piezoelectric and intriguing as the model system for the crystallography of perovskites. The average / local structures of NBT are frequently debated, while their relationship to the physical properties is unclear. The previous reports [1] of the monoclinic (Cc) average symmetry of NBT structure motivate for the in-depth studies of the processes, which are triggered to the polarization rotation and its implication for the physical properties. It is therefore particularly interesting to investigate the response of NBT to such external influences as electric field, change of a temperature or high-pressure, where polarization rotation may be observed and described. The aim of this work is to probe the lattice response of NBT single crystal to an external electric field. We implemented stroboscopic time-resolved X -ray diffraction (descripted in [2]) to acquire high -resolution reciprocal space maps as a functi on of time and triangular-shaped 100 Hz cyclic electric field. We focused at the reciprocal space region around {004} reflection and carefully mapped it in -situ using state-of -the- art X - ray optics and synchrotron radiation source (P08 beamline at PETRA III and KMC-3 XPP at BESSY II). We observed that reciprocal space maps are separated into two peak components, where the separation magnitude follows electric field (see the figure). The similar radial separation of {00l} was used as the evidence of non - rhombohe dral (monoclinic) average symmetry in NBT [1]. We analysed this separation by fi tting the observed two -dimensional intensity maps with a pair of two -dimensional Pseudo-Voigt functions to track the individual peaks independently. The results are discussed in the framework of the proposed monoclinic symmetry and allowed polarization rotation.","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complex host structures and phase transitions in fast-charging lithium-ion battery anodes from diffraction and complementary techniques","authors":"Kent Griffith","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323099230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323099230","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hierarchical structures of polysaccharides","authors":"Yimin Mao","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323096730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323096730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"199 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Refinement of crystal structures at ultralow resolution with assistance from AlphaFold modeling and Rosetta optimization","authors":"Wen Wang, Wayne A. Hendrickson","doi":"10.1107/s2053273323099758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1107/s2053273323099758","url":null,"abstract":"Crystals of large macromolecular complexes often diffract quite poorly, typically having high solvent content, relatively feeb le lattice contacts, quite weak subunit associations, and somewhat fl exible interdomain linkages. Although resolution may be limited to dmin > 7-8 Å, the diffraction amplitudes should suffice, in principle, to specify conformational torsion angles; however, at such ultralow resolution, realizing and maintaining a suitable model within the radius of refinement convergence is a challenge. Important insights into biological processes may be obtained, but only if structural validity can be assured. Having successfully refined a four - copy structure of Hsp70 DnaK in the S-state at 7.7 Å resolution as rigid bodies (Wang et al. , Mol. Cell 81 , 3919, 2021), we set out to refine a crystal structure of ryanodine receptor RyR1 at 8.0 Å resolution by having multiple quasi - rigid bodies to comprise the 5037 residues in each protomer of the RyR1 -tetramer as complexed with calstabin. After molecular replacement from a 65% -complete cryo-EM model at 3.6 Å resolution (des Georges et al. , Cell 167 , 145, 2016), the structure was refined from a single rigid-body (R free = 0.53), through five linked rigid bodies (R free = 0.47), and fi nally as 18 linked domains (R free = 0.43) identified in the cryo-EM analysis and then sub-divided as dictated by (F o - F c ) difference map and the R free analysis. We then turned to AlphaFold, presuming that the process had stalled due to incompleteness and uncertainty in the initial model. Trials showed that AlphaFold - predicted domains reduced Rfree when fitted into crystal density. We then systematically identified such AlphaFold - modeled domains and obtained substantial improvement (Rfree = 0.38). Further improvement followed after Rosetta refinement using tight restraints in the phenix.rosetta_refine module (R free","PeriodicalId":6903,"journal":{"name":"Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances","volume":"373 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}