期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2019
卷号:116
期号:22
页码:10819-10823
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1821513116
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:In the companion paper by Ufimtsev and Levitt [Ufimtsev IS, Levitt M (2019) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA , 10.1073/pnas.1821512116], we presented a method for unsupervised solution of protein crystal structures and demonstrated its utility by solving several test cases of known structure in the 2.9- to 3.45-Å resolution range. Here we apply this method to solve the crystal structure of a 966-amino acid construct of human lethal giant larvae protein (Lgl2) that resisted years of structure determination efforts, at 3.2-Å resolution. The structure was determined starting with a molecular replacement (MR) model identified by unsupervised refinement of a pool of 50 candidate MR models. This initial model had 2.8-Å RMSD from the solution. The solved structure was validated by comparison with a model subsequently derived from an alternative crystal form diffracting to higher resolution. This model could phase an anomalous difference Fourier map from an Hg derivative, and a single-wavelength anomalous dispersion phased density map made from these sites aligned with the refined structure.