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International Union of Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances, a1(77), p. a263-a263, 2021

DOI: 10.1107/s0108767321097361

International Union of Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances, a2(77), p. C771-C771, 2021

DOI: 10.1107/s0108767321089261

International Union of Crystallography, Acta Crystallographica. Section d, Structural Biology, 3(78), p. 268-277, 2022

DOI: 10.1107/s2059798321013425

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A simple technique to classify diffraction data from dynamic proteins according to individual polymorphs

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Abstract

One often observes small but measurable differences in the diffraction data measured from different crystals of a single protein. These differences might reflect structural differences in the protein and may reveal the natural dynamism of the molecule in solution. Partitioning these mixed-state data into single-state clusters is a critical step that could extract information about the dynamic behavior of proteins from hundreds or thousands of single-crystal data sets. Mixed-state data can be obtained deliberately (through intentional perturbation) or inadvertently (while attempting to measure highly redundant single-crystal data). To the extent that different states adopt different molecular structures, one expects to observe differences in the crystals; each of the polystates will create a polymorph of the crystals. After mixed-state diffraction data have been measured, deliberately or inadvertently, the challenge is to sort the data into clusters that may represent relevant biological polystates. Here, this problem is addressed using a simple multi-factor clustering approach that classifies each data set using independent observables, thereby assigning each data set to the correct location in conformational space. This procedure is illustrated using two independent observables, unit-cell parameters and intensities, to cluster mixed-state data from chymotrypsinogen (ChTg) crystals. It is observed that the data populate an arc of the reaction trajectory as ChTg is converted into chymotrypsin.