Synchrotron White-Beam X-Ray Topography of Ribonuclease S Crystals

Published

April 1, 2002

Author(s)

W M. Vetter, David Travis Gallagher, M Dudley

Abstract

With careful experimental design indexed synchrotron white-beam X-ray topographs of ribonuclease S crystals at ambient temperature could be recorded with a definition and contrast comparable to that of monochromatic beam topographs of other proteins reported in the literature. By excluding wavelengths longer than 1 from the white beam with a filter, a radiation dose equivalent to that required to record about 18 topographs could be tolerated without appreciable radiation damage to the samples. Bragg angles of 0.5 or less were required to select low-index harmonically pure reflections with high intensities and extinction lengths only several times the sample's thickness. The resulting X-ray topographs in some cases showed topographic detail and in others showed the even featureless background that has been considered characteristic of a protein crystal of low mosaicity. The ribonuclease S crystals were well ordered single crystals of a quality comparable to other protein crystals that have beenstudied by X-ray topography.

Citation

ACTA Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography

Volume

58

Issue

Part 4

Pub Type

Journals

Keywords

protein crystal growth, ribonuclease, topography, white beam, x-ray diffraction

Citation

Vetter, W. , Gallagher, D. and Dudley, M. (2002), Synchrotron White-Beam X-Ray Topography of Ribonuclease S Crystals, ACTA Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography (Accessed May 10, 2025)