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==Photosynthetic Reaction Center from R. sphaeroides Analyzed at Room Temperature on an X-ray Transparent Microfluidic Chip==
<StructureSection load='4tqq' size='340' side='right'caption='[[4tqq]], [[Resolution|resolution]] 2.50&Aring;' scene=''>
== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[4tqq]] is a 3 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereibacter_sphaeroides Cereibacter sphaeroides]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=4TQQ OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=4TQQ FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 2.499&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=BPH:BACTERIOPHEOPHYTIN+A'>BPH</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=FE2:FE+(II)+ION'>FE2</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=U10:UBIQUINONE-10'>U10</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=UQ1:UBIQUINONE-1'>UQ1</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=4tqq FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=4tqq OCA], [https://pdbe.org/4tqq PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=4tqq RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/4tqq PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=4tqq ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/RCEH_CERSP RCEH_CERSP] The reaction center is a membrane-bound complex that mediates the initial photochemical event in the electron transfer process of photosynthesis.
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Crystallization from lipidic mesophase matrices is a promising route to diffraction-quality crystals and structures of membrane proteins. The microfluidic approach reported here eliminates two bottlenecks of the standard mesophase-based crystallization protocols: (i) manual preparation of viscous mesophases and (ii) manual harvesting of often small and fragile protein crystals. In the approach reported here, protein-loaded mesophases are formulated in an X-ray transparent microfluidic chip using only 60 nL of the protein solution per crystallization trial. The X-ray transparency of the chip enables diffraction data collection from multiple crystals residing in microfluidic wells, eliminating the normally required manual harvesting and mounting of individual crystals. We validated our approach by on-chip crystallization of photosynthetic reaction center, a membrane protein from Rhodobacter sphaeroides, followed by solving its structure to a resolution of 2.5 A using X-ray diffraction data collected on-chip under ambient conditions. A moderate conformational change in hydrophilic chains of the protein was observed when comparing the on-chip, room temperature structure with known structures for which data were acquired under cryogenic conditions.

X-ray Transparent Microfluidic Chip for Mesophase-Based Crystallization of Membrane Proteins and On-Chip Structure Determination.,Khvostichenko DS, Schieferstein JM, Pawate AS, Laible PD, Kenis PJ Cryst Growth Des. 2014 Oct 1;14(10):4886-4890. Epub 2014 Aug 21. PMID:25285049<ref>PMID:25285049</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Cereibacter sphaeroides]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Kenis PJA]]
[[Category: Khvostichenko DS]]
[[Category: Pawate AS]]
[[Category: Schieferstein JM]]