論文

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2022年5月2日

Data Collection for Dilute Protein Solutions via a Neutron Backscattering Spectrometer.

Life (Basel, Switzerland)
  • Taiki Tominaga
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Nakagawa
  • ,
  • Masae Sahara
  • ,
  • Takashi Oda
  • ,
  • Rintaro Inoue
  • ,
  • Masaaki Sugiyama

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.3390/life12050675

Understanding protein functions requires not only static but also dynamic structural information. Incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS), which utilizes the highly incoherent scattering ability of hydrogen, is a powerful technique for revealing the dynamics of proteins in deuterium oxide (D2O) buffer solutions. The background scattering of sample cells suitable for aqueous protein solution samples, conducted with a neutron backscattering spectrometer, was evaluated. It was found that the scattering intensity of an aluminum sample cell coated with boehmite using D2O was lower than that of a sample cell coated with regular water (H2O). The D2O-Boehmite coated cell was used for the QENS measurement of a 0.8 wt.% aqueous solution of an intrinsically disordered protein in an intrinsically disordered region of a helicase-associated endonuclease for a fork-structured type of DNA. The cell was inert against aqueous samples at 283-363 K. In addition, meticulous attention to cells with small individual weight differences and the positional reproducibility of the sample cell relative to the spectrometer neutron beam position enabled the accurate subtraction of the scattering profiles of the D2O buffer and the sample container. Consequently, high-quality information on protein dynamics could be extracted from dilute protein solutions.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/life12050675
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35629343
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9145923
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.3390/life12050675
  • PubMed ID : 35629343
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC9145923

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