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@article{1745959,
author = {Polovinkin, V. and Khakurel, K. and Babiak, Michal and Angelov, B. and Schneider, B. and Dohnalek, J. and Andreasson, J. and Hajdu, J.},
article_location = {Chester},
article_number = {DEC},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600576720013096},
keywords = {electron diffraction; membrane protein crystals grown in meso; lipidic cubic phases; focused ion beam milling; lamella preparation},
language = {eng},
issn = {0021-8898},
journal = {Journal of Applied Crystallography},
title = {Demonstration of electron diffraction from membrane protein crystals grown in a lipidic mesophase after lamella preparation by focused ion beam milling at cryogenic temperatures},
url = {https://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600576720013096},
volume = {53},
year = {2020}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1745959
AU - Polovinkin, V. - Khakurel, K. - Babiak, Michal - Angelov, B. - Schneider, B. - Dohnalek, J. - Andreasson, J. - Hajdu, J.
PY - 2020
TI - Demonstration of electron diffraction from membrane protein crystals grown in a lipidic mesophase after lamella preparation by focused ion beam milling at cryogenic temperatures
JF - Journal of Applied Crystallography
VL - 53
IS - DEC
SP - 1416-1424
EP - 1416-1424
PB - INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
SN - 00218898
KW - electron diffraction
KW - membrane protein crystals grown in meso
KW - lipidic cubic phases
KW - focused ion beam milling
KW - lamella preparation
UR - https://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S1600576720013096
N2 - Electron crystallography of sub-micrometre-sized 3D protein crystals has emerged recently as a valuable field of structural biology. In meso crystallization methods, utilizing lipidic mesophases, particularly lipidic cubic phases (LCPs), can produce high-quality 3D crystals of membrane proteins (MPs). A major step towards realizing 3D electron crystallography of MP crystals, grown in meso, is to demonstrate electron diffraction from such crystals. The first task is to remove the viscous and sticky lipidic matrix that surrounds the crystals without damaging the crystals. Additionally, the crystals have to be thin enough to let electrons traverse them without significant multiple scattering. In the present work, the concept that focused ion beam milling at cryogenic temperatures (cryo-FIB milling) can be used to remove excess host lipidic mesophase matrix is experimentally verified, and then the crystals are thinned to a thickness suitable for electron diffraction. In this study, bacteriorhodopsin (BR) crystals grown in a lipidic cubic mesophase of monoolein were used as a model system. LCP from a part of a hexagon-shaped plate-like BR crystal (similar to 10 mu m in thickness and similar to 70 mu m in the longest dimension), which was flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen, was milled away with a gallium FIB under cryogenic conditions, and a part of the crystal itself was thinned into a similar to 210 nm-thick lamella with the ion beam. The frozen sample was then transferred into an electron cryo-microscope, and a nanovolume of similar to 1400 x 1400 x 210 nm of the BR lamella was exposed to 200kV electrons at a fluence of similar to 0.06 e angstrom(-2). The resulting electron diffraction peaks were detected beyond 2.7 angstrom resolution (with an average peak height to background ratio of >2) by a CMOS-based Ceta 16M camera. The results demonstrate that cryo-FIB milling produces high-quality lamellae from crystals grown in lipidic mesophases and pave the way for 3D electron crystallography on crystals grown or embedded in highly viscous media.
ER -
POLOVINKIN, V., K. KHAKUREL, Michal BABIAK, B. ANGELOV, B. SCHNEIDER, J. DOHNALEK, J. ANDREASSON and J. HAJDU. Demonstration of electron diffraction from membrane protein crystals grown in a lipidic mesophase after lamella preparation by focused ion beam milling at cryogenic temperatures. \textit{Journal of Applied Crystallography}. Chester: INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 2020, vol.~53, DEC, p.~1416-1424. ISSN~0021-8898. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S1600576720013096.
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