Nanocrystallography measurements of early stage synthetic malaria pigment
| Autor: | Sébastien Boutet, Keith A. Nugent, Brian Abbey, Marc Messerschmidt, Leann Tilley, Harry M. Quiney, Con Dogovski, Ruben A. Dilanian, Victor A Streltsov, Andrew V. Martin, Sophie Williams, Garth J. Williams, Nicholas W. Phillips, Hannah D. Coughlan, Nectarios Klonis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
Materials science Nanostructure Hemozoin malaria Nanotechnology Research Papers structural inhomogeniety General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Synchrotron law.invention serial femtosecond nanocrystallography 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Nanocrystal law Femtosecond crystallography crystalline disorder Malaria pigment |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Crystallography |
| Popis: | Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) at an X-ray free-electron laser enables crystllographic data to be collected from samples orders of magnitude smaller than at a synchrotron. Here SFX is used to investigate the nascent structure of β-hematin derived from nanocrystals and this is compared with the well known structure derived from macroscopic crystals of the same material. The recent availability of extremely intense, femtosecond X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) sources has spurred the development of serial femtosecond nanocrystallography (SFX). Here, SFX is used to analyze nanoscale crystals of β-hematin, the synthetic form of hemozoin which is a waste by-product of the malaria parasite. This analysis reveals significant differences in β-hematin data collected during SFX and synchrotron crystallography experiments. To interpret these differences two possibilities are considered: structural differences between the nanocrystal and larger crystalline forms of β-hematin, and radiation damage. Simulation studies show that structural inhomogeneity appears at present to provide a better fit to the experimental data. If confirmed, these observations will have implications for designing compounds that inhibit hemozoin formation and suggest that, for some systems at least, additional information may be gained by comparing structures obtained from nanocrystals and macroscopic crystals of the same molecule. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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