Performance of the new biological small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering beamline 13A at the Taiwan Photon Source.
J Appl Crystallogr
; 55(Pt 2): 340-352, 2022 Apr 01.
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| ID: mdl-35497659
ABSTRACT
Recent developments in the instrumentation and data analysis of synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) on biomolecules in solution have made biological SAXS (BioSAXS) a mature and popular tool in structural biology. This article reports on an advanced endstation developed at beamline 13A of the 3.0â
GeV Taiwan Photon Source for biological small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS-WAXS or SWAXS). The endstation features an in-vacuum SWAXS detection system comprising two mobile area detectors (Eiger X 9M/1M) and an online size-exclusion chromatography system incorporating several optical probes including a UV-Vis absorption spectrometer and refractometer. The instrumentation and automation allow simultaneous SAXS-WAXS data collection and data reduction for high-throughput biomolecular conformation and composition determinations. The performance of the endstation is illustrated with the SWAXS data collected for several model proteins in solution, covering a scattering vector magnitude q across three orders of magnitude. The crystal-model fittings to the data in the q range â¼0.005-2.0â
Å-1 indicate high similarity of the solution structures of the proteins to their crystalline forms, except for some subtle hydration-dependent local details. These results open up new horizons of SWAXS in studying correlated local and global structures of biomolecules in solution.
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J Appl Crystallogr
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2022
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Article
Affiliation country:
Taiwan