Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography Datasets

In macromolecular crystallography (MX), a complete diffraction dataset is essential for determining the three-dimensional structure. However, collecting a complete experimental dataset using a single crystal is frequently unsuccessful due to poor crystal quality or radiation damage, resulting in the...

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Main Author: Ki Hyun Nam
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Published: MDPI AG 2024-11-01
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description In macromolecular crystallography (MX), a complete diffraction dataset is essential for determining the three-dimensional structure. However, collecting a complete experimental dataset using a single crystal is frequently unsuccessful due to poor crystal quality or radiation damage, resulting in the collection of multiple incomplete datasets. This issue can be solved by merging incomplete diffraction datasets to generate a complete dataset. This study introduced a new approach for merging incomplete datasets from MX to generate a complete dataset using serial crystallography (SX). Six incomplete diffraction datasets of β-glucosidase from <i>Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum</i> (TsaBgl) were processed using CrystFEL, an SX program. The statistics of the merged data, such as completeness, CC, CC*, R<sub>split</sub>, R<sub>work</sub>, and R<sub>free</sub>, demonstrated a complete dataset, indicating improved quality compared with the incomplete datasets and enabling structural determination. Also, the merging of the incomplete datasets was processed using four different indexing algorithms, and their statistics were compared. In conclusion, this approach for generating a complete dataset using SX will provide a new opportunity for determining the crystal structure of macromolecules using multiple incomplete MX datasets.
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spelling doaj-art-ba0a1dfaaf474887adc85df5e3c7a0f22024-12-27T14:19:36ZengMDPI AGCrystals2073-43522024-11-011412101210.3390/cryst14121012Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography DatasetsKi Hyun Nam0College of General Education, Kookmin University, Seoul 02707, Republic of KoreaIn macromolecular crystallography (MX), a complete diffraction dataset is essential for determining the three-dimensional structure. However, collecting a complete experimental dataset using a single crystal is frequently unsuccessful due to poor crystal quality or radiation damage, resulting in the collection of multiple incomplete datasets. This issue can be solved by merging incomplete diffraction datasets to generate a complete dataset. This study introduced a new approach for merging incomplete datasets from MX to generate a complete dataset using serial crystallography (SX). Six incomplete diffraction datasets of β-glucosidase from <i>Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum</i> (TsaBgl) were processed using CrystFEL, an SX program. The statistics of the merged data, such as completeness, CC, CC*, R<sub>split</sub>, R<sub>work</sub>, and R<sub>free</sub>, demonstrated a complete dataset, indicating improved quality compared with the incomplete datasets and enabling structural determination. Also, the merging of the incomplete datasets was processed using four different indexing algorithms, and their statistics were compared. In conclusion, this approach for generating a complete dataset using SX will provide a new opportunity for determining the crystal structure of macromolecules using multiple incomplete MX datasets.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/14/12/1012macromolecular crystallographyincomplete datasetsmergingdata processingserial crystallographyCrystFEL
spellingShingle Ki Hyun Nam
Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography Datasets
Crystals
macromolecular crystallography
incomplete datasets
merging
data processing
serial crystallography
CrystFEL
title Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography Datasets
title_full Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography Datasets
title_fullStr Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography Datasets
title_full_unstemmed Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography Datasets
title_short Application of Serial Crystallography for Merging Incomplete Macromolecular Crystallography Datasets
title_sort application of serial crystallography for merging incomplete macromolecular crystallography datasets
topic macromolecular crystallography
incomplete datasets
merging
data processing
serial crystallography
CrystFEL
url https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/14/12/1012
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