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  • Title: Structural determination of a partially hemihedrally twinned actin crystal.
    Author: Govindasamy L, Reutzel R, Agbandje-McKenna M, McKenna R.
    Journal: Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr; 2004 Jun; 60(Pt 6):1040-7. PubMed ID: 15159563.
    Abstract:
    An orthorhombic actin crystal (space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), unit-cell parameters a = 101.6, b = 103.0, c = 127.0 angstroms) was converted into a partially hemihedrally twinned tetragonal crystal (space group P4(3), unit-cell parameters a = b = 101.5, c = 104.2 angstroms) by induced condensation. This condensation (decrease in the c axis) was caused by the flash-freezing of the crystal, with 30% PEG 400 as a cryoprotectant, prior to data collection. Diffraction data for the twinned tetragonal crystal were collected at 100 K to 3.0 angstroms resolution (99.8% completeness with an Rsym of 8.1%) using synchrotron radiation. The hemihedral twinning of the data was observed by self-rotation function analysis and was determined to have a partial twin fraction of 0.376 from intensity statistics. The structure, with two actin molecules in the crystallographic asymmetric unit, was determined by molecular-replacement methods and refined to an R factor of 0.193. As a consequence of the crystal lattice transformation from the orthorhombic P2(1)2(1)2(1) to the tetragonal P4(3) space group, actin-actin contacts were rearranged and an inter-actin dimer disulfide bond (Cys374) observed in the orthorhombic crystal form was broken in the tetragonal crystal form.
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