SAD phasing using iodide ions in a high-throughput structural genomics environment.

ABSTRACT: The Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) focuses on the structure elucidation of potential drug targets from class A, B, and C infectious disease organisms. Many SSGCID targets are selected because they have homologs in other organisms that are validated drug targets with known structures. Thus, many SSGCID targets are expected to be solved by molecular replacement (MR), and reflective of this, all proteins are expressed in native form. However, many community request targets do not have homologs with known structures and not all internally selected targets readily solve by MR, necessitating experimental phase determination. We have adopted the use of iodide ion soaks and single wavelength anomalous dispersion (SAD) experiments as our primary method for de nov

SUBMITTER: Abendroth J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3123459 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature