38 results on '"Isabelle Martiel"'
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2. Micro-structured polymer fixed targets for serial crystallography at synchrotrons and XFELs
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Melissa Carrillo, Thomas J. Mason, Agnieszka Karpik, Isabelle Martiel, Michal W. Kepa, Katherine E. McAuley, John H. Beale, and Celestino Padeste
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fixed targets ,serial crystallography ,free-electron lasers ,micro-structured polymer chips ,apertures ,time-resolved studies ,sample delivery ,Crystallography ,QD901-999 - Abstract
Fixed targets are a popular form of sample-delivery system used in serial crystallography at synchrotron and X-ray free-electron laser sources. They offer a wide range of sample-preparation options and are generally easy to use. The supports are typically made from silicon, quartz or polymer. Of these, currently, only silicon offers the ability to perform an aperture-aligned data collection where crystals are loaded into cavities in precise locations and sequentially rastered through, in step with the X-ray pulses. The polymer-based fixed targets have lacked the precision fabrication to enable this data-collection strategy and have been limited to directed-raster scans with crystals randomly distributed across the polymer surface. Here, the fabrication and first results from a new polymer-based fixed target, the micro-structured polymer fixed targets (MISP chips), are presented. MISP chips, like those made from silicon, have a precise array of cavities and fiducial markers. They consist of a structured polymer membrane and a stabilization frame. Crystals can be loaded into the cavities and the excess crystallization solution removed through apertures at their base. The fiducial markers allow for a rapid calculation of the aperture locations. The chips have a low X-ray background and, since they are optically transparent, also allow for an a priori analysis of crystal locations. This location mapping could, ultimately, optimize hit rates towards 100%. A black version of the MISP chip was produced to reduce light contamination for optical-pump/X-ray probe experiments. A study of the loading properties of the chips reveals that these types of fixed targets are best optimized for crystals of the order of 25 µm, but quality data can be collected from crystals as small as 5 µm. With the development of these chips, it has been proved that polymer-based fixed targets can be made with the precision required for aperture-alignment-based data-collection strategies. Further work can now be directed towards more cost-effective mass fabrication to make their use more sustainable for serial crystallography facilities and users.
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- 2023
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3. Pink-beam serial femtosecond crystallography for accurate structure-factor determination at an X-ray free-electron laser
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Karol Nass, Camila Bacellar, Claudio Cirelli, Florian Dworkowski, Yaroslav Gevorkov, Daniel James, Philip J. M. Johnson, Demet Kekilli, Gregor Knopp, Isabelle Martiel, Dmitry Ozerov, Alexandra Tolstikova, Laura Vera, Tobias Weinert, Oleksandr Yefanov, Jörg Standfuss, Sven Reiche, and Christopher J. Milne
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pink beams ,serial femtosecond crystallography ,de novo protein structure determination ,single-wavelength anomalous diffraction ,xfels ,large bandwidths ,data-quality indicators ,Crystallography ,QD901-999 - Abstract
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) enables essentially radiation-damage-free macromolecular structure determination using microcrystals that are too small for synchrotron studies. However, SFX experiments often require large amounts of sample in order to collect highly redundant data where some of the many stochastic errors can be averaged out to determine accurate structure-factor amplitudes. In this work, the capability of the Swiss X-ray free-electron laser (SwissFEL) was used to generate large-bandwidth X-ray pulses [Δλ/λ = 2.2% full width at half-maximum (FWHM)], which were applied in SFX with the aim of improving the partiality of Bragg spots and thus decreasing sample consumption while maintaining the data quality. Sensitive data-quality indicators such as anomalous signal from native thaumatin micro-crystals and de novo phasing results were used to quantify the benefits of using pink X-ray pulses to obtain accurate structure-factor amplitudes. Compared with data measured using the same setup but using X-ray pulses with typical quasi-monochromatic XFEL bandwidth (Δλ/λ = 0.17% FWHM), up to fourfold reduction in the number of indexed diffraction patterns required to obtain similar data quality was achieved. This novel approach, pink-beam SFX, facilitates the yet underutilized de novo structure determination of challenging proteins at XFELs, thereby opening the door to more scientific breakthroughs.
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- 2021
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4. Low-dose in situ prelocation of protein microcrystals by 2D X-ray phase-contrast imaging for serial crystallography
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Isabelle Martiel, Chia-Ying Huang, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Ezequiel Panepucci, Shibom Basu, Martin Caffrey, Bill Pedrini, Oliver Bunk, Marco Stampanoni, and Meitian Wang
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serial crystallography ,x-ray imaging ,prelocation ,automated data collection ,structural biology ,membrane proteins ,macromolecular crystallography beamlines ,flat geometry ,Crystallography ,QD901-999 - Abstract
Serial protein crystallography has emerged as a powerful method of data collection on small crystals from challenging targets, such as membrane proteins. Multiple microcrystals need to be located on large and often flat mounts while exposing them to an X-ray dose that is as low as possible. A crystal-prelocation method is demonstrated here using low-dose 2D full-field propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging at the X-ray imaging beamline TOMCAT at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). This imaging step provides microcrystal coordinates for automated serial data collection at a microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline on samples with an essentially flat geometry. This prelocation method was applied to microcrystals of a soluble protein and a membrane protein, grown in a commonly used double-sandwich in situ crystallization plate. The inner sandwiches of thin plastic film enclosing the microcrystals in lipid cubic phase were flash cooled and imaged at TOMCAT. Based on the obtained crystal coordinates, both still and rotation wedge serial data were collected automatically at the SLS PXI beamline, yielding in both cases a high indexing rate. This workflow can be easily implemented at many synchrotron facilities using existing equipment, or potentially integrated as an online technique in the next-generation macromolecular crystallography beamline, and thus benefit a number of dose-sensitive challenging protein targets.
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- 2020
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5. Advances in long-wavelength native phasing at X-ray free-electron lasers
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Karol Nass, Robert Cheng, Laura Vera, Aldo Mozzanica, Sophie Redford, Dmitry Ozerov, Shibom Basu, Daniel James, Gregor Knopp, Claudio Cirelli, Isabelle Martiel, Cecilia Casadei, Tobias Weinert, Przemyslaw Nogly, Petr Skopintsev, Ivan Usov, Filip Leonarski, Tian Geng, Mathieu Rappas, Andrew S. Doré, Robert Cooke, Shahrooz Nasrollahi Shirazi, Florian Dworkowski, May Sharpe, Natacha Olieric, Camila Bacellar, Rok Bohinc, Michel O. Steinmetz, Gebhard Schertler, Rafael Abela, Luc Patthey, Bernd Schmitt, Michael Hennig, Jörg Standfuss, Meitian Wang, and Christopher J. Milne
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serial femtosecond crystallography ,x-ray free-electron lasers ,single-wavelength anomalous diffraction ,de novo protein structure determination ,anomalous data-quality indicators ,Crystallography ,QD901-999 - Abstract
Long-wavelength pulses from the Swiss X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) have been used for de novo protein structure determination by native single-wavelength anomalous diffraction (native-SAD) phasing of serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) data. In this work, sensitive anomalous data-quality indicators and model proteins were used to quantify improvements in native-SAD at XFELs such as utilization of longer wavelengths, careful experimental geometry optimization, and better post-refinement and partiality correction. Compared with studies using shorter wavelengths at other XFELs and older software versions, up to one order of magnitude reduction in the required number of indexed images for native-SAD was achieved, hence lowering sample consumption and beam-time requirements significantly. Improved data quality and higher anomalous signal facilitate so-far underutilized de novo structure determination of challenging proteins at XFELs. Improvements presented in this work can be used in other types of SFX experiments that require accurate measurements of weak signals, for example time-resolved studies.
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- 2020
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6. Fabrication of ultrathin suspended polymer membranes as supports for serial protein crystallography
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Agnieszka Karpik, Isabelle Martiel, Per Magnus Kristiansen, and Celestino Padeste
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Free-standing membrane ,Nanoimprint lithography ,Additive manufacturing ,Serial crystallography ,Protein structure determination ,Electronics ,TK7800-8360 ,Technology (General) ,T1-995 - Abstract
We present a process sequence for the fabrication of ultrathin perforated membranes suspended in polymer frames. Nanoimprint lithography was used to imprint high-density pillar arrays into a double layer consisting of 300 nm of water-soluble PVP and 2–3 μm COC sequentially spin coated onto a silicon wafer. After an RIE step to remove the residual layer and 3D-printing of PLA frames onto the structured COC film, the assemblies were released from the wafer by dissolving the sacrificial PVP bottom layer in water. The suspended membranes were developed as supports for serial protein crystallography, where small amounts of protein microcrystals are deposited onto a membrane and separated from most of their mother liquor through the sieving function of the membranes (blotting). After plunge freezing in liquid nitrogen crystallographic data are collected sequentially from the individual crystals, using X-rays from a synchrotron or femtosecond X-ray pulses of an X-ray free electron laser. Preliminary experiments confirmed that the supports allow for collection of good quality crystallographic data at high resolution, taking advantage of adequate liquid blotting, high stability and low X-ray interaction.
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- 2020
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7. Design of ultra-swollen lipidic mesophases for the crystallization of membrane proteins with large extracellular domains
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Alexandru Zabara, Josephine Tse Yin Chong, Isabelle Martiel, Laura Stark, Brett A. Cromer, Chiara Speziale, Calum John Drummond, and Raffaele Mezzenga
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In meso crystallization of membrane proteins is limited to proteins with small extracellular domains (ECDs). Here, authors combine monoacylglycerols and phospholipids to design stable ultra-swollen bicontinuous cubic phases that allow in meso crystallization of proteins with large ECDs.
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- 2018
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8. SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
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Christopher J. Milne, Thomas Schietinger, Masamitsu Aiba, Arturo Alarcon, Jürgen Alex, Alexander Anghel, Vladimir Arsov, Carl Beard, Paul Beaud, Simona Bettoni, Markus Bopp, Helge Brands, Manuel Brönnimann, Ingo Brunnenkant, Marco Calvi, Alessandro Citterio, Paolo Craievich, Marta Csatari Divall, Mark Dällenbach, Michael D’Amico, Andreas Dax, Yunpei Deng, Alexander Dietrich, Roberto Dinapoli, Edwin Divall, Sladana Dordevic, Simon Ebner, Christian Erny, Hansrudolf Fitze, Uwe Flechsig, Rolf Follath, Franziska Frei, Florian Gärtner, Romain Ganter, Terence Garvey, Zheqiao Geng, Ishkhan Gorgisyan, Christopher Gough, Andreas Hauff, Christoph P. Hauri, Nicole Hiller, Tadej Humar, Stephan Hunziker, Gerhard Ingold, Rasmus Ischebeck, Markus Janousch, Pavle Juranić, Mario Jurcevic, Maik Kaiser, Babak Kalantari, Roger Kalt, Boris Keil, Christoph Kittel, Gregor Knopp, Waldemar Koprek, Henrik T. Lemke, Thomas Lippuner, Daniel Llorente Sancho, Florian Löhl, Carlos Lopez-Cuenca, Fabian Märki, Fabio Marcellini, Goran Marinkovic, Isabelle Martiel, Ralf Menzel, Aldo Mozzanica, Karol Nass, Gian Luca Orlandi, Cigdem Ozkan Loch, Ezequiel Panepucci, Martin Paraliev, Bruce Patterson, Bill Pedrini, Marco Pedrozzi, Patrick Pollet, Claude Pradervand, Eduard Prat, Peter Radi, Jean-Yves Raguin, Sophie Redford, Jens Rehanek, Julien Réhault, Sven Reiche, Matthias Ringele, Jochen Rittmann, Leonid Rivkin, Albert Romann, Marie Ruat, Christian Ruder, Leonardo Sala, Lionel Schebacher, Thomas Schilcher, Volker Schlott, Thomas Schmidt, Bernd Schmitt, Xintian Shi, Markus Stadler, Lukas Stingelin, Werner Sturzenegger, Jakub Szlachetko, Dhanya Thattil, Daniel M. Treyer, Alexandre Trisorio, Wolfgang Tron, Seraphin Vetter, Carlo Vicario, Didier Voulot, Meitian Wang, Thierry Zamofing, Christof Zellweger, Riccardo Zennaro, Elke Zimoch, Rafael Abela, Luc Patthey, and Hans-Heinrich Braun
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X-ray free electron laser ,linac ,X-rays ,undulator ,SwissFEL ,X-ray optics ,X-ray photon diagnostics ,ultrafast X-ray science ,X-ray detector ,JUNGFRAU ,serial femtosecond crystallography ,Technology ,Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,TA1-2040 ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 ,Physics ,QC1-999 ,Chemistry ,QD1-999 - Abstract
The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in 2018 on the Aramis hard X-ray branch. In the following sections we will summarize the various aspects of the project, including the design of the soft and hard X-ray branches of the accelerator, the results of SwissFEL performance simulations, details of the photon beamlines and experimental stations, and our first commissioning results.
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- 2017
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9. Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision
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Thomas Gruhl, Tobias Weinert, Matthew Rodrigues, Christopher J Milne, Giorgia Ortolani, Karol Nass, Eriko Nango, Saumik Sen, Philip J M Johnson, Claudio Cirelli, Antonia Furrer, Sandra Mous, Petr Skopintsev, Daniel James, Florian Dworkowski, Petra Båth, Demet Kekilli, Dmitry Ozerov, Rie Tanaka, Hannah Glover, Camila Bacellar, Steffen Brünle, Cecilia M Casadei, Azeglio D Diethelm, Dardan Gashi, Guillaume Gotthard, Ramon Guixà-González, Yasumasa Joti, Victoria Kabanova, Gregor Knopp, Elena Lesca, Pikyee Ma, Isabelle Martiel, Jonas Mühle, Shigeki Owada, Filip Pamula, Daniel Sarabi, Oliver Tejero, Ching-Ju Tsai, Niranjan Varma, Anna Wach, Sébastien Boutet, Kensuke Tono, Przemyslaw Nogly, Xavier Deupi, So Iwata, Richard Neutze, Jörg Standfuss, Gebhard FX Schertler, and Valerie Panneels
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basis-sets ,Multidisciplinary ,software ,energy-storage ,dynamics ,Photobiology ,isomerization ,rhodopsin ,excited-state ,retinal chromophore ,counterion displacement ,Visual system ,crystallography ,X-ray crystallography - Abstract
Vision is initiated by the rhodopsin family of light-sensitive G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). A photon is absorbed by the 11-cis retinal chromophore of rhodopsin, which isomerizes within 200 femtoseconds to the all-trans conformation, thereby initiating the cellular signal transduction processes that ultimately lead to vision. However, the intramolecular mechanism by which the photoactivated retinal induces the activation events inside rhodopsin remains experimentally unclear. Here we use ultrafast time-resolved crystallography at room temperature to determine how an isomerized twisted all-trans retinal stores the photon energy that is required to initiate the protein conformational changes associated with the formation of the G protein-binding signalling state. The distorted retinal at a 1-ps time delay after photoactivation has pulled away from half of its numerous interactions with its binding pocket, and the excess of the photon energy is released through an anisotropic protein breathing motion in the direction of the extracellular space. Notably, the very early structural motions in the protein side chains of rhodopsin appear in regions that are involved in later stages of the conserved class A GPCR activation mechanism. Our study sheds light on the earliest stages of vision in vertebrates and points to fundamental aspects of the molecular mechanisms of agonist-mediated GPCR activation., 視覚に関わるタンパク質の超高速分子動画 --薄暗いところで光を感じる仕組み--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2023-03-23.
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- 2023
10. Pink-beam serial femtosecond crystallography for accurate structure-factor determination at an X-ray free-electron laser
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Oleksandr Yefanov, A. Tolstikova, Demet Kekilli, Y. Gevorkov, Tobias Weinert, Claudio Cirelli, Camila Bacellar, Isabelle Martiel, Jörg Standfuss, Laura Vera, Dmitry Ozerov, Florian S. N. Dworkowski, Sven Reiche, Daniel James, Christopher J. Milne, Philip J. M. Johnson, Karol Nass, and Gregor Knopp
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Diffraction ,serial femtosecond crystallography ,Materials science ,de novo protein structure determination ,Physics::Optics ,single-wavelength anomalous diffraction ,Biochemistry ,law.invention ,law ,ddc:530 ,General Materials Science ,pink beams ,large bandwidths ,Crystallography ,Free-electron laser ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Laser ,xfels ,Research Papers ,Phaser ,Synchrotron ,Full width at half maximum ,data-quality indicators ,QD901-999 ,Femtosecond ,Structure factor - Abstract
IUCrJ 8(6), 905 - 920 (2021). doi:10.1107/S2052252521008046, Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) enables essentially radiation-damage-free macromolecular structure determination using microcrystals that are too small for synchrotron studies. However, SFX experiments often require large amounts of sample in order to collect highly redundant data where some of the many stochastic errors can be averaged out to determine accurate structure-factor amplitudes. In this work, the capability of the Swiss X-ray free-electron laser (SwissFEL) was used to generate large-bandwidth X-ray pulses [$����/��$ = 2.2% full width at half-maximum (FWHM)], which were applied in SFX with the aim of improving the partiality of Bragg spots and thus decreasing sample consumption while maintaining the data quality. Sensitive data-quality indicators such as anomalous signal from native thaumatin micro-crystals and de novo phasing results were used to quantify the benefits of using pink X-ray pulses to obtain accurate structure-factor amplitudes. Compared with data measured using the same setup but using X-ray pulses with typical quasi-monochromatic XFEL bandwidth (����/�� = 0.17% FWHM), up to fourfold reduction in the number of indexed diffraction patterns required to obtain similar data quality was achieved. This novel approach, pink-beam SFX, facilitates the yet underutilized de novo structure determination of challenging proteins at XFELs, thereby opening the door to more scientific breakthroughs., Published by Chester
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- 2021
11. Versatile microporous polymer-based supports for serial macromolecular crystallography
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Chia Ying Huang, Agnieszka Karpik, Juliane John, M. Wranik, Martin Högbom, Oskar Aurelius, Jonas Mühle, Meitian Wang, May Marsh, Laura Vera, Celestino Padeste, Ching-Ju Tsai, John H. Beale, Isabelle Martiel, and Natacha Olieric
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chemistry.chemical_classification ,Fabrication ,Materials science ,Serial communication ,Macromolecular Substances ,Data Collection ,Proteins ,Nanotechnology ,fixed target ,Polymer ,Laser ,Crystallography, X-Ray ,Research Papers ,law.invention ,Crystal ,Membrane ,chemistry ,Structural Biology ,law ,Deposition (phase transition) ,SFX ,serial crystallography ,Protein crystallization ,sample supports - Abstract
Using a number of model and real-life practical cases, the use of sample supports made of a thin perforated cyclic olefin copolymer membrane for serial crystallography that enable low-background serial data collection is described., Serial data collection has emerged as a major tool for data collection at state-of-the-art light sources, such as microfocus beamlines at synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers. Challenging targets, characterized by small crystal sizes, weak diffraction and stringent dose limits, benefit most from these methods. Here, the use of a thin support made of a polymer-based membrane for performing serial data collection or screening experiments is demonstrated. It is shown that these supports are suitable for a wide range of protein crystals suspended in liquids. The supports have also proved to be applicable to challenging cases such as membrane proteins growing in the sponge phase. The sample-deposition method is simple and robust, as well as flexible and adaptable to a variety of cases. It results in an optimally thin specimen providing low background while maintaining minute amounts of mother liquor around the crystals. The 2 × 2 mm area enables the deposition of up to several microlitres of liquid. Imaging and visualization of the crystals are straightforward on the highly transparent membrane. Thanks to their affordable fabrication, these supports have the potential to become an attractive option for serial experiments at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers.
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- 2021
12. A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam
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Claudio Cirelli, Rafael Abela, Thomas J. Schmidt, Vladimir Arsov, Eduard Prat, Leonardo Sala, M. Aiba, B. Keil, Gian Luca Orlandi, Karol Nass, Luc Patthey, Marco Calvi, F. Marcellini, Rolf Follath, Terence Garvey, Daniela Kiselev, Martin Paraliev, Alexander Dietrich, Christian Erny, Steven L. Johnson, Albert Romann, Arturo Alarcon, Peter Radi, Henrik T. Lemke, Micha Dehler, Pavel Chevtsov, Bruce D. Patterson, Martin Huppert, Maik Kaiser, J. Alex, Jean-Yves Raguin, S. Redford, Christoph Kittel, Mathias Sander, Fabian Märki, Christopher Arrell, Jens Rehanek, Zheqiao Geng, Thomas Schietinger, A. Wrulich, Claude Pradervand, Simona Bettoni, Roger Biffiger, Simon Ebner, Elke Zimoch, Cigdem Ozkan Loch, Sladana Dordevic, Majed Chergui, C. Svetina, Gregor Knopp, Vincent Esposito, D. Treyer, Roger Kalt, C. Gough, A. Trisorio, A. Hauff, Paul Beaud, Hans-Heinrich Braun, Alexandre Gobbo, G. Marinkovic, Roberto Dinapoli, Rasmus Ischebeck, Marco Pedrozzi, Daniel Llorente Sancho, W. Koprek, Alexander Malyzhenkov, Eugenio Ferrari, Leonid Rivkin, Philip J. M. Johnson, Yunieski Arbelo, Romain Ganter, Mike Seidel, Carlo Vicario, A. Citterio, Roman Mankowsky, Gerhard Ingold, L. Stingelin, F. Frei, M. Bopp, Carl Beard, Stephan Hunziker, Florian Löhl, Ariana Cassar, Volker Schlott, Philipp Dijkstal, Paolo Craievich, Didier Voulot, Giulia F. Mancini, Sven Reiche, Daniel Engeler, Aldo Mozzanica, Pavle Juranić, Andreas Dax, Uwe Flechsig, Christopher J. Milne, Serhane Zerdane, Markus Janousch, Yunpei Deng, M. Jurcevic, Isabelle Martiel, Nicole Hiller, Tine Celcer, T. Schilcher, Christoph P. Hauri, Michael Laznovsky, M. Stadler, Bill Pedrini, Camila Bacellar, and Marta Csatari Divall
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Brightness ,Population ,02 engineering and technology ,Radiation ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,010309 optics ,Optics ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Thermal emittance ,education ,single ,Physics ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,Free-electron laser ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Laser ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,radiation ,Cathode ray ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,statistical properties ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Lasing threshold - Abstract
We present the first lasing results of SwissFEL, a hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) that recently came into operation at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. SwissFEL is a very stable, compact and cost-effective X-ray FEL facility driven by a low-energy and ultra-low-emittance electron beam travelling through short-period undulators. It delivers stable hard X-ray FEL radiation at 1-A wavelength with pulse energies of more than 500 μJ, pulse durations of ~30 fs (root mean square) and spectral bandwidth below the per-mil level. Using special configurations, we have produced pulses shorter than 1 fs and, in a different set-up, broadband radiation with an unprecedented bandwidth of ~2%. The extremely small emittance demonstrated at SwissFEL paves the way for even more compact and affordable hard X-ray FELs, potentially boosting the number of facilities worldwide and thereby expanding the population of the scientific community that has access to X-ray FEL radiation. The first lasing results at SwissFEL, an X-ray free-electron laser, are presented, highlighting the facility’s unique capabilities. A general comparison to other major facilities is also provided.
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- 2020
13. Low-dose in situ prelocation of protein microcrystals by 2D X-ray phase-contrast imaging for serial crystallography
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Meitian Wang, Marco Stampanoni, Isabelle Martiel, Martin Caffrey, Oliver Bunk, Ezequiel Panepucci, Pablo Villanueva-Perez, Bill Pedrini, Chia Ying Huang, and Shibom Basu
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Materials science ,Serial communication ,030303 biophysics ,Phase (waves) ,membrane proteins ,Biochemistry ,Serial crystallography ,X-ray imaging ,Prelocation ,Automated data collection ,Structural biology ,Membrane proteins ,Macromolecular crystallography beamlines ,Flat geometry ,law.invention ,Crystal ,03 medical and health sciences ,Optics ,law ,structural biology ,General Materials Science ,serial crystallography ,lcsh:Science ,030304 developmental biology ,macromolecular crystallography beamlines ,0303 health sciences ,business.industry ,x-ray imaging ,prelocation ,General Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Synchrotron ,Beamline ,X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging ,X-ray crystallography ,flat geometry ,lcsh:Q ,automated data collection ,business ,Swiss Light Source - Abstract
Serial protein crystallography has emerged as a powerful method of data collection on small crystals from challenging targets, such as membrane proteins. Multiple microcrystals need to be located on large and often flat mounts while exposing them to an X-ray dose that is as low as possible. A crystal-prelocation method is demonstrated here using low-dose 2D full-field propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging at the X-ray imaging beamline TOMCAT at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). This imaging step provides microcrystal coordinates for automated serial data collection at a microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline on samples with an essentially flat geometry. This prelocation method was applied to microcrystals of a soluble protein and a membrane protein, grown in a commonly used double-sandwich in situ crystallization plate. The inner sandwiches of thin plastic film enclosing the microcrystals in lipid cubic phase were flash cooled and imaged at TOMCAT. Based on the obtained crystal coordinates, both still and rotation wedge serial data were collected automatically at the SLS PXI beamline, yielding in both cases a high indexing rate. This workflow can be easily implemented at many synchrotron facilities using existing equipment, or potentially integrated as an online technique in the next-generation macromolecular crystallography beamline, and thus benefit a number of dose-sensitive challenging protein targets., IUCrJ, 7 (6), ISSN:2052-2525
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- 2020
14. Dynamics and mechanism of a light-driven chloride pump
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Sandra Mous, Guillaume Gotthard, David Ehrenberg, Saumik Sen, Tobias Weinert, Philip J. M. Johnson, Daniel James, Karol Nass, Antonia Furrer, Demet Kekilli, Pikyee Ma, Steffen Brünle, Cecilia Maria Casadei, Isabelle Martiel, Florian Dworkowski, Dardan Gashi, Petr Skopintsev, Maximilian Wranik, Gregor Knopp, Ezequiel Panepucci, Valerie Panneels, Claudio Cirelli, Dmitry Ozerov, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, Meitian Wang, Chris Milne, Joerg Standfuss, Igor Schapiro, Joachim Heberle, and Przemyslaw Nogly
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Chloride transport by microbial rhodopsins is an essential process for which molecular details such as the mechanisms that convert light energy to drive ion pumping and ensure the unidirectionality of the transport have remained elusive. We combined time-resolved serial crystallography with time-resolved spectroscopy and multiscale simulations to elucidate the molecular mechanism of a chloride-pumping rhodopsin and the structural dynamics throughout the transport cycle. We traced transient anion-binding sites, obtained evidence for how light energy is used in the pumping mechanism, and identified steric and electrostatic molecular gates ensuring unidirectional transport. An interaction with the π-electron system of the retinal supports transient chloride ion binding across a major bottleneck in the transport pathway. These results allow us to propose key mechanistic features enabling finely controlled chloride transport across the cell membrane in this light-powered chloride ion pump. ISSN:0036-8075 ISSN:1095-9203
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- 2022
15. Advances in long-wavelength native phasing at X-ray free-electron lasers
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Camila Bacellar, Filip Leonarski, Ivan Usov, Shahrooz Nasrollahi Shirazi, Petr Skopintsev, Karol Nass, Dmitry Ozerov, Natacha Olieric, Michael Hennig, Tobias Weinert, Aldo Mozzanica, Christopher J. Milne, Florian S. N. Dworkowski, T. Geng, Gregor Knopp, M. Sharpe, S. Redford, Claudio Cirelli, Rafael Abela, R. Bohinc, Isabelle Martiel, Andrew S. Doré, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, Przemyslaw Nogly, Robert K. Y. Cheng, Daniel James, Luc Patthey, Michel O. Steinmetz, Shibom Basu, Laura Vera, Mathieu Rappas, C. Casadei, Robert M. Cooke, Jörg Standfuss, Meitian Wang, and Bernd Schmitt
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Free electron model ,serial femtosecond crystallography ,Materials science ,de novo protein structure determination ,02 engineering and technology ,single-wavelength anomalous diffraction ,Biochemistry ,Signal ,law.invention ,Reduction (complexity) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Optics ,law ,Serial femtosecond crystallography ,X-ray free-electron lasers ,Single-wavelength anomalous diffraction ,De novo protein structure determination ,Anomalous data-quality indicators ,General Materials Science ,lcsh:Science ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,anomalous data-quality indicators ,business.industry ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Laser ,Phaser ,Research Letters ,Wavelength ,x-ray free-electron lasers ,Femtosecond ,lcsh:Q ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Order of magnitude - Abstract
Long-wavelength pulses from the Swiss X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) have been used for de novo protein structure determination by native single-wavelength anomalous diffraction (native-SAD) phasing of serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) data. In this work, sensitive anomalous data-quality indicators and model proteins were used to quantify improvements in native-SAD at XFELs such as utilization of longer wavelengths, careful experimental geometry optimization, and better post-refinement and partiality correction. Compared with studies using shorter wavelengths at other XFELs and older software versions, up to one order of magnitude reduction in the required number of indexed images for native-SAD was achieved, hence lowering sample consumption and beam-time requirements significantly. Improved data quality and higher anomalous signal facilitate so-far underutilized de novo structure determination of challenging proteins at XFELs. Improvements presented in this work can be used in other types of SFX experiments that require accurate measurements of weak signals, for example time-resolved studies., IUCrJ, 7 (6), ISSN:2052-2525
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- 2020
16. X-ray fluorescence detection for serial macromolecular crystallography using a JUNGFRAU pixel detector
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Bill Pedrini, Bernd Schmitt, Isabelle Martiel, Nadia Opara, Celestino Padeste, Vitaliy A. Guzenko, Meitian Wang, Ezequiel Panepucci, Istvan Mohacsi, S. Redford, Aldo Mozzanica, Dmitry Ozerov, and Filip Leonarski
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Materials science ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,030303 biophysics ,X-ray fluorescence ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,Optics ,macromolecular crystallography ,law ,serial crystallography ,Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) ,Instrumentation ,030304 developmental biology ,Physics::Biological Physics ,Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules ,0303 health sciences ,Radiation ,Pixel ,business.industry ,Detector ,equipment and supplies ,Laser ,Research Papers ,Fluorescence ,Synchrotron ,XFELs ,Beamline ,JUNGFRAU detector ,fluorescence ,business ,silicon drift detectors - Abstract
Use of the charge-integrating JUNGFRAU detector for fluorescence detection is investigated, and its applications in macromolecular crystallography at synchrotron and X-ray free-electron laser sources are demonstrated., Detection of heavy elements, such as metals, in macromolecular crystallography (MX) samples by X-ray fluorescence is a function traditionally covered at synchrotron MX beamlines by silicon drift detectors, which cannot be used at X-ray free-electron lasers because of the very short duration of the X-ray pulses. Here it is shown that the hybrid pixel charge-integrating detector JUNGFRAU can fulfill this function when operating in a low-flux regime. The feasibility of precise position determination of micrometre-sized metal marks is also demonstrated, to be used as fiducials for offline prelocation in serial crystallography experiments, based on the specific fluorescence signal measured with JUNGFRAU, both at the synchrotron and at SwissFEL. Finally, the measurement of elemental absorption edges at a synchrotron beamline using JUNGFRAU is also demonstrated.
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17. Low-dose
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Isabelle, Martiel, Chia-Ying, Huang, Pablo, Villanueva-Perez, Ezequiel, Panepucci, Shibom, Basu, Martin, Caffrey, Bill, Pedrini, Oliver, Bunk, Marco, Stampanoni, and Meitian, Wang
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X-ray imaging ,prelocation ,structural biology ,serial crystallography ,membrane proteins ,flat geometry ,automated data collection ,Research Papers ,macromolecular crystallography beamlines - Abstract
A microcrystal-prelocation method is demonstrated using low-dose 2D full-field propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging on samples with an essentially flat geometry for automated serial crystallography data collection at a microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline., Serial protein crystallography has emerged as a powerful method of data collection on small crystals from challenging targets, such as membrane proteins. Multiple microcrystals need to be located on large and often flat mounts while exposing them to an X-ray dose that is as low as possible. A crystal-prelocation method is demonstrated here using low-dose 2D full-field propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging at the X-ray imaging beamline TOMCAT at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). This imaging step provides microcrystal coordinates for automated serial data collection at a microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline on samples with an essentially flat geometry. This prelocation method was applied to microcrystals of a soluble protein and a membrane protein, grown in a commonly used double-sandwich in situ crystallization plate. The inner sandwiches of thin plastic film enclosing the microcrystals in lipid cubic phase were flash cooled and imaged at TOMCAT. Based on the obtained crystal coordinates, both still and rotation wedge serial data were collected automatically at the SLS PXI beamline, yielding in both cases a high indexing rate. This workflow can be easily implemented at many synchrotron facilities using existing equipment, or potentially integrated as an online technique in the next-generation macromolecular crystallography beamline, and thus benefit a number of dose-sensitive challenging protein targets.
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- 2020
18. The TELL automatic sample changer for macromolecular crystallography
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Meitian Wang, James Leuenberger, Alexandre Gobbo, Jakub W. Kaminski, Peter Heimgartner, Nathalie Meier, Dominik Buntschu, Isabelle Martiel, Ezequiel Panepucci, Vincent Olieric, David Müller, Roman Schneider, Wayne Glettig, Kevin Bühlmann, and Mario Birri
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0303 health sciences ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Focus (computing) ,Radiation ,Computer science ,Macromolecular Substances ,030303 biophysics ,Macromolecular crystallography ,Reproducibility of Results ,02 engineering and technology ,Equipment Design ,Robotics ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Crystallography, X-Ray ,Sample (graphics) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Systems engineering ,Laboratory Notes ,0210 nano-technology ,Instrumentation ,Swiss Light Source ,Reliability (statistics) ,Synchrotrons - Abstract
In this paper, the design and functionalities of the high-throughput TELL sample exchange system for macromolecular crystallography is presented. TELL was developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute with a focus on speed, storage capacity and reliability to serve the three macromolecular crystallography beamlines of the Swiss Light Source, as well as the SwissMX instrument at SwissFEL.
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- 2020
19. Direct protein crystallization on ultrathin membranes for diffraction measurements at X-ray free-electron lasers
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Nadia Opara, Thomas Braun, Christian David, Celestino Padeste, Stefan A. Arnold, Mikako Makita, Isabelle Martiel, and Henning Stahlberg
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0301 basic medicine ,Diffraction ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Resolution (electron density) ,Nucleation ,02 engineering and technology ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Crystal ,03 medical and health sciences ,030104 developmental biology ,Optics ,Beamline ,X-ray crystallography ,Femtosecond ,0210 nano-technology ,Protein crystallization ,business - Abstract
A new era of protein crystallography started when X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) came into operation, as these provide an intense source of X-rays that facilitates data collection in the `diffract-before-destroy' regime. In typical experiments, crystals sequentially delivered to the beam are exposed to X-rays and destroyed. Therefore, the novel approach of serial crystallography requires thousands of nearly identical samples. Currently applied sample-delivery methods, in particular liquid jets or drop-on-demand systems, suffer from significant sample consumption of the precious crystalline material. Direct protein microcrystal growth by the vapour diffusion technique inside arrays of nanolitre-sized wells is a method specifically tailored to crystallography at XFELs. The wells, with X-ray transparent Si3N4windows as bottoms, are fabricated in silicon chips. Their reduced dimensions can significantly decrease protein specimen consumption. Arrays provide crystalline samples positioned in an ordered way without the need to handle fragile crystals. The nucleation process inside these microfabricated cavities was optimized to provide high membrane coverage and a quasi-random crystal distribution. Tight sealing of the chips and protection of the crystals from dehydration were achieved, as confirmed by diffraction experiments at a protein crystallography beamline. Finally, the test samples were shown to be suitable for time-resolved measurements at an XFEL at femtosecond resolution.
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20. Strategies for sample delivery for femtosecond crystallography
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Aina E. Cohen, Henrike M. Müller-Werkmeister, and Isabelle Martiel
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serial femtosecond crystallography ,Brightness ,Time Factors ,Computer science ,Electrons ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,Crystallography, X-Ray ,law.invention ,Crystal ,03 medical and health sciences ,Structural Biology ,law ,ddc:570 ,Animals ,Humans ,Acoustic droplet ejection ,Institut für Biochemie und Biologie ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Lasers ,sample delivery ,Macromolecular crystallography ,Proteins ,Acoustics ,Equipment Design ,Injector ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Research Papers ,Sample (graphics) ,Synchrotron ,XFELs ,protein microcrystals ,Flow Injection Analysis ,Femtosecond ,Crystallization ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
Strategies for sample delivery of macromolecular crystals at X-ray free-electron lasers are reviewed, covering injection methods, fixed-target approaches and hybrid methods., Highly efficient data-collection methods are required for successful macromolecular crystallography (MX) experiments at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). XFEL beamtime is scarce, and the high peak brightness of each XFEL pulse destroys the exposed crystal volume. It is therefore necessary to combine diffraction images from a large number of crystals (hundreds to hundreds of thousands) to obtain a final data set, bringing about sample-refreshment challenges that have previously been unknown to the MX synchrotron community. In view of this experimental complexity, a number of sample delivery methods have emerged, each with specific requirements, drawbacks and advantages. To provide useful selection criteria for future experiments, this review summarizes the currently available sample delivery methods, emphasising the basic principles and the specific sample requirements. Two main approaches to sample delivery are first covered: (i) injector methods with liquid or viscous media and (ii) fixed-target methods using large crystals or using microcrystals inside multi-crystal holders or chips. Additionally, hybrid methods such as acoustic droplet ejection and crystal extraction are covered, which combine the advantages of both fixed-target and injector approaches.
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21. Interaction of a Model Peptide on Gram Negative and Gram Positive Bacterial Sliding Clamps
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Vincent Olieric, Bernard Lorber, Jérôme Wagner, Dominique Burnouf, Annick Dejaegere, Gilles Guichard, Philippe Dumas, Marie Landolfo, C. Andre, Isabelle Martiel, Cyrielle Da Veiga, Philippe Wolff, Univ Bordeaux, CNRS UMR 5248, Inst Chim & Biol Membranes & Nanoobjets, INP Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (Bordeaux INP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GUICHARD, Gilles, Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron [Pôle Chimie Balard] (IBMM), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The Swiss Light Source (SLS) (SLS-PSI), Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN (ARN), Institut de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IBMC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de génétique et biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (IGBMC), Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CINaM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Immunologie et chimie thérapeutiques (ICT), Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biotechnologie et signalisation cellulaire (BSC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut de recherche de l'Ecole de biotechnologie de Strasbourg (IREBS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), and Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche de l'Ecole de biotechnologie de Strasbourg (IREBS)
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Models, Molecular ,DNA polymerase ,Protein Conformation ,[SDV.BBM.BP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biophysics ,Peptide ,DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase ,010402 general chemistry ,Crystallography, X-Ray ,Gram-Positive Bacteria ,Ligands ,Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Biochimie, Biologie Moléculaire ,01 natural sciences ,Microbiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Drug Development ,Escherichia coli ,kinITC ,[SDV.BBM.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biochemistry [q-bio.BM] ,Antibacterial drug ,[SDV.BBM.BC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biochemistry [q-bio.BM] ,030304 developmental biology ,Gram ,Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors ,sliding clamp ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,new antibacterials development ,0303 health sciences ,[CHIM.MATE] Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry ,DNA clamp ,biology ,[CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry ,ITC ,Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Microbiologie et Parasitologie ,[SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology ,0104 chemical sciences ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,[SDV.BBM.BP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry, Molecular Biology/Biophysics ,Infectious Diseases ,chemistry ,Mutation ,biology.protein ,[SDV.MP.BAC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology ,Peptides ,ligand−target interaction ,Protein Binding - Abstract
Bacterial sliding clamps control the access of DNA polymerases to the replication fork and are appealing targets for antibacterial drugs development. It is therefore essential to decipher the polymerase-clamp binding mode across various bacterial species. Here, two residues of the E. coli clamp binding pocket, EcS346 and EcM362, and their cognate residues in M. tuberculosis and B. subtilis clamps, were mutated. The effects of these mutations on the interaction of a model peptide with these variant clamps were evaluated by thermodynamic, molecular dynamics, X-rays crystallography and biochemical analyses. EcM362 and corresponding residues in Gram positive clamps occupy a strategic position where a mobile residue is essential for an efficient peptide interaction. EcS346 has a more subtle function that modulates the pocket folding dynamics, while the equivalent residue in B. subtilis is essential for polymerase activity and might therefore be a Gram positive specific molecular marker. Finally, the peptide binds through an induced-fit process to Gram negative and positive pockets but the complex stability varies according to a pocket specific network of interactions. The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:auth-address: 1 Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie , Université de Bordeaux-CNRS UMR 5248, CBMN , 2, rue Robert Escarpit , 33607 Pessac , France. 2 Swiss Light Source (SLS) , Paul-Scherrer-Institute (PSI) , 5232 Villigen , Switzerland. 3 Université de Strasbourg , CNRS, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, UPR 9002, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS , 15 rue René Descartes , F-67000 Strasbourg , France. 4 Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) , Département de Biologie Structurale et Génomique , 1 rue Laurent Fries , BP10142, 67404 Illkirch , France. 5 Biologie et Signalisation Cellulaire, ESBS , UMR7242 CNRS/Université de Strasbourg , Bld S. Brant , 67412 Illkirch Cedex , France.accession-num: 30912430
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22. Vitamin A degradation in triglycerides varying by their saturation levels
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Lennart Fries, Laurent Sagalowicz, Martin Michel, Cyril Moccand, Isabelle Martiel, Charlotte Gancel, and Frédéric Martin
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0301 basic medicine ,Vitamin ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,Triglyceride ,Radical ,Food fortification ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,medicine.disease ,040401 food science ,law.invention ,Dilution ,Vitamin A deficiency ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0404 agricultural biotechnology ,chemistry ,law ,medicine ,Organic chemistry ,Food science ,Crystallization ,Saturation (chemistry) ,Food Science - Abstract
Vitamin A deficiency has a widespread occurrence globally and is considered as one of the world's most serious health risk factors. Potential solutions to address this deficiency include dietary diversification or supplementation, but food fortification is generally accepted as the most cost-effective solution. The main issue with food fortification of this vitamin is related to its high instability in food matrices. Dilution of vitamin A in triglycerides is a natural and appropriate way to stabilize this compound. We show here that vitamin A palmitate stability increases with increasing concentration of triglycerides. Moreover, we found that vitamin A palmitate displays improved stability in more saturated oils. Using various temperatures, and Arrhenius plots of experiments performed at storage temperatures between 30 °C and 60 °C for oils varying by their saturation and crystallinity, we demonstrate that crystallization is not responsible for this phenomenon. Additionally, we show by centrifugation that vitamin A is preferably solubilized in the liquid phase compared to the crystalline phase, explaining that triglyceride crystallization does not stabilize vitamin A palmitate. It is proposed that unsaturated fats generate more oxidation products such as radicals and peroxides, leading to a quicker degradation of vitamin A.
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- 2016
23. Fast two-dimensional grid and transmission X-ray microscopy scanning methods for visualizing and characterizing protein crystals
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Meitian Wang, Martin Caffrey, Justyna Aleksandra Wojdyla, Simon Ebner, Isabelle Martiel, Oliver Bunk, Chia-Ying Huang, and Ezequiel Panepucci
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0301 basic medicine ,Diffraction ,scanning transmission X-ray microscopy ,030103 biophysics ,Materials science ,genetic structures ,Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,law.invention ,Crystal ,03 medical and health sciences ,fast grid scans ,Optics ,macromolecular crystallography ,law ,Microscopy ,visualization of protein crystals ,business.industry ,Research Papers ,Synchrotron ,030104 developmental biology ,Beamline ,Protein crystallization ,business ,Swiss Light Source ,oscillation images - Abstract
This article reports the incorporation of a fast continuous grid scan with both still and oscillation images into the Swiss Light Source macromolecular crystallography beamlines and its application in visualization of protein crystals with scanning transmission X-ray microscopy., A fast continuous grid scan protocol has been incorporated into the Swiss Light Source (SLS) data acquisition and analysis software suite on the macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines. Its combination with fast readout single-photon counting hybrid pixel array detectors (PILATUS and EIGER) allows for diffraction-based identification of crystal diffraction hotspots and the location and centering of membrane protein microcrystals in the lipid cubic phase (LCP) in in meso in situ serial crystallography plates and silicon nitride supports. Diffraction-based continuous grid scans with both still and oscillation images are supported. Examples that include a grid scan of a large (50 nl) LCP bolus and analysis of the resulting diffraction images are presented. Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) complements and benefits from fast grid scanning. STXM has been demonstrated at the SLS beamline X06SA for near-zero-dose detection of protein crystals mounted on different types of sample supports at room and cryogenic temperatures. Flash-cooled crystals in nylon loops were successfully identified in differential and integrated phase images. Crystals of just 10 µm thickness were visible in integrated phase images using data collected with the EIGER detector. STXM offers a truly low-dose method for locating crystals on solid supports prior to diffraction data collection at both synchrotron microfocusing and free-electron laser X-ray facilities.
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24. Fabrication of ultrathin suspended polymer membranes as supports for serial protein crystallography
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Isabelle Martiel, Celestino Padeste, Agnieszka Karpik, and Per Magnus Kristiansen
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Serial crystallography ,Fabrication ,Materials science ,Additive manufacturing ,Synthetic membrane ,lcsh:TK7800-8360 ,Nanoimprint lithography ,law.invention ,law ,lcsh:Technology (General) ,Wafer ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Free-standing membrane ,lcsh:Electronics ,Polymer ,Liquid nitrogen ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Protein structure determination ,Surfaces, Coatings and Films ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,Membrane ,Chemical engineering ,chemistry ,lcsh:T1-995 ,Layer (electronics) - Abstract
We present a process sequence for the fabrication of ultrathin perforated membranes suspended in polymer frames. Nanoimprint lithography was used to imprint high-density pillar arrays into a double layer consisting of 300 nm of water-soluble PVP and 2–3 μm COC sequentially spin coated onto a silicon wafer. After an RIE step to remove the residual layer and 3D-printing of PLA frames onto the structured COC film, the assemblies were released from the wafer by dissolving the sacrificial PVP bottom layer in water. The suspended membranes were developed as supports for serial protein crystallography, where small amounts of protein microcrystals are deposited onto a membrane and separated from most of their mother liquor through the sieving function of the membranes (blotting). After plunge freezing in liquid nitrogen crystallographic data are collected sequentially from the individual crystals, using X-rays from a synchrotron or femtosecond X-ray pulses of an X-ray free electron laser. Preliminary experiments confirmed that the supports allow for collection of good quality crystallographic data at high resolution, taking advantage of adequate liquid blotting, high stability and low X-ray interaction.
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- 2020
25. Chapter 1. Practical Approaches for In Situ X-ray Crystallography: from High-throughput Screening to Serial Data Collection
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Vincent Olieric, Meitian Wang, Isabelle Martiel, and Martin Caffrey
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Data collection ,Beamline ,Computer science ,Serial communication ,business.industry ,Macromolecular crystallography ,Systems engineering ,Instrumentation (computer programming) ,business ,Automation - Abstract
In situ data collection for macromolecular crystallography has undergone rapid development in the last decade. From routine crystal hit screening in X-ray-friendly SBS-format plates to serial data collection in dedicated setups, its field of application has expanded significantly. The in situ approach has benefitted from progress in beamline instrumentation and automation and from new modes of sample delivery, inspired by serial crystallography using X-ray free-electron lasers. In this review, the various in situ methods available at synchrotron facilities are described with a view to enabling users to make informed decisions regarding their applicability in structural biology or drug discovery projects.
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- 2018
26. SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser
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Bill Pedrini, Paul Beaud, Hans-Heinrich Braun, Edwin Divall, G. Marinkovic, Matthias Ringele, Roberto Dinapoli, Vladimir Arsov, H. Brands, Ralf Menzel, Christof Zellweger, Yunpei Deng, Christoph P. Hauri, Christoph Kittel, Marta Csatari Divall, Thomas Schietinger, Thierry Zamofing, Pavle Juranić, Rasmus Ischebeck, Roger Kalt, Markus Janousch, I. Gorgisyan, M. Stadler, Florian Gärtner, C. Lopez-Cuenca, Volker Schlott, Terence Garvey, Claude Pradervand, Gian Luca Orlandi, Meitian Wang, Leonid Rivkin, M. Jurcevic, Marie Ruat, Mark Dällenbach, Paolo Craievich, Nicole Hiller, Christian Erny, Martin Paraliev, Uwe Flechsig, Patrick Pollet, Wolfgang Tron, Bruce D. Patterson, B. Keil, Elke Zimoch, T. Schilcher, L. Stingelin, Rafael Abela, Sladana Dordevic, Ezequiel Panepucci, J. Alex, A. Hauff, Jean-Yves Raguin, Sven Reiche, Arturo Alarcon, Marco Pedrozzi, S. Redford, Peter Radi, A. Trisorio, Henrik T. Lemke, Alexander Dietrich, Didier Voulot, Michael D’Amico, Karol Nass, Ingo Brunnenkant, Hansrudolf Fitze, Albert Romann, Aldo Mozzanica, Rolf Follath, C. Ruder, Florian Löhl, Cigdem Ozkan Loch, Tadej Humar, Christopher J. Milne, Babak Kalantari, M. Aiba, Jakub Szlachetko, F. Marcellini, Gerhard Ingold, S. Vetter, Xintian Shi, Alexander Anghel, Isabelle Martiel, Carlo Vicario, Andreas Dax, Eduard Prat, Thomas J. Schmidt, Bernd Schmitt, A. Citterio, Luc Patthey, Marco Calvi, F. Frei, M. Bopp, Carl Beard, Stephan Hunziker, Zheqiao Geng, Manuel Brönnimann, Lionel Schebacher, R. Zennaro, D. Thattil, Maik Kaiser, Fabian Märki, Thomas Lippuner, W. Koprek, Werner Sturzenegger, Romain Ganter, D. Treyer, C. Gough, Daniel Llorente Sancho, Simona Bettoni, J. Rittmann, Simon Ebner, Jens Rehanek, Leonardo Sala, Gregor Knopp, and Julien Réhault
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X-ray photon diagnostics ,X-ray detector ,serial femtosecond crystallography ,Photon ,X-ray free electron laser ,linac ,X-rays ,undulator ,SwissFEL ,X-ray optics ,ultrafast X-ray science ,JUNGFRAU ,lcsh:Technology ,01 natural sciences ,Linear particle accelerator ,lcsh:Chemistry ,Optics ,0103 physical sciences ,General Materials Science ,010306 general physics ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Instrumentation ,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes ,Physics ,lcsh:T ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,business.industry ,Process Chemistry and Technology ,General Engineering ,Free-electron laser ,X-ray ,Undulator ,lcsh:QC1-999 ,Computer Science Applications ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,lcsh:QD1-999 ,lcsh:TA1-2040 ,lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) ,business ,lcsh:Physics - Abstract
The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in 2018 on the Aramis hard X-ray branch. In the following sections we will summarize the various aspects of the project, including the design of the soft and hard X-ray branches of the accelerator, the results of SwissFEL performance simulations, details of the photon beamlines and experimental stations, and our first commissioning results.
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27. Viscoelasticity and Interface Bending Properties of Lecithin Reverse Wormlike Micelles Studied by Diffusive Wave Spectroscopy in Hydrophobic Environment
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Raffaele Mezzenga, Isabelle Martiel, and Laurent Sagalowicz
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Microrheology ,Persistence length ,Chemistry ,Dispersity ,Analytical chemistry ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,Bending ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Micelle ,Viscoelasticity ,Chemical physics ,Electrochemistry ,General Materials Science ,Microemulsion ,Spectroscopy - Abstract
Upon the addition of minute quantities of water into a phosphatidylcholine (PC) solution in certain organic solvents, PC micelles elongate into giant reverse wormlike micelles that entangle and form highly viscous microemulsions, called lecithin organogels. We investigated the microrheological properties of concentrated PC-cyclohexane reverse wormlike micellar systems by diffusive wave spectroscopy (DWS) in apolar medium, combined with bulk shear rheology. We applied DWS to our oil-continuous system by using hydrophobic poly(hydroxystearic acid)-grafted PMMA particles as monodisperse tracer particles. Relevant parameters such as the micellar scission energy and persistence length were extracted from the microrheology data and interpreted according to the sphere-to-rod-to-sphere structural transition. On the basis of these quantities, we calculated the bending and saddle-splay moduli of the PC-covered water-cyclohexane interface. This approach represents a new method for the quantitative estimation of these fundamental parameters, which are thought to underpin the self-assembly of surfactants.
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28. Direct protein crystallization on ultrathin membranes for diffraction measurements at X-ray free-electron lasers. Corrigendum
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Thomas Braun, Isabelle Martiel, Celestino Padeste, Henning Stahlberg, Mikako Makita, Nadia Opara, Christian David, and Stefan A. Arnold
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Free electron model ,Diffraction ,Membrane ,Materials science ,law ,X-ray ,Analytical chemistry ,Protein crystallization ,Laser ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,law.invention - Abstract
Errors in the article by Opara, Martiel, Arnold, Braun, Stahlberg, Makita, David & Padeste [J. Appl. Cryst. (2017), 50, 909–918] are corrected.
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- 2019
29. SwissMX: a new versatile instrument for fixed-target femtosecond macromolecular crystallography at SwissFEL
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Robert Kaelin, Dominik Buntschu, Vincent Olieric, Chia-Ying Huang, Karol Nass, Jan Hora, Rafael Abela, Bill Pedrini, Laura Vera, Claude Pradervand, Meitian Wang, Aldo Mozzanica, Filip Leonarski, May Marsh, Bernd Schmitt, Isabelle Martiel, Vincent Thominet, Wayne Glettig, Henrik T. Lemke, Alexandre Gobbo, Oliver Bunk, Ezequiel Panepucci, S. Redford, and Thierry Zamofing
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Inorganic Chemistry ,Materials science ,Structural Biology ,Macromolecular crystallography ,Femtosecond ,General Materials Science ,Nanotechnology ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Biochemistry - Published
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30. Lipid self-assembled structures for reactivity control in food
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Martin E. Leser, Renata Negrini, Raffaele Mezzenga, Cyril Moccand, Imre Blank, Laurent Sagalowicz, Tomas Davidek, Reza Ghanbari, Martin Michel, and Isabelle Martiel
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General Mathematics ,General Physics and Astronomy ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Chemical reaction ,symbols.namesake ,X-Ray Diffraction ,Phase (matter) ,Amphiphile ,Scattering, Small Angle ,Microemulsion ,Reactivity (chemistry) ,Colloids ,Furans ,Phospholipids ,Aqueous solution ,Xylose ,Chemistry ,General Engineering ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,0104 chemical sciences ,Maillard Reaction ,Maillard reaction ,Chemical engineering ,symbols ,Monoglycerides ,0210 nano-technology ,Protein crystallization ,Oxidation-Reduction ,Food Analysis - Abstract
Lipid self-assembled structures (SASs) have recently gained considerable interest for their potential applications, especially for sustained nutrient release and protein crystallization. An additional property, which is underexploited, is their ability to control chemical reactions in food products. Here, we concentrate on SASs formed by phospholipids (PLs) and monoglycerides (MGs), those compounds being the most natural surfactants and therefore, the best compatible with food products, in view of providing new functionalities through the formation of SASs. In this work, the phase behaviour of these amphiphiles when mixed with oil and water is described and compared. Subsequently, we address the influence of these structures to the oxidation and Maillard-type reactions. Finally, we show that SASs formed by MGs can strongly increase the yield of key aroma impact compounds generated by Maillard-type reactions when compared with the reaction performed in aqueous precursor solutions. Various SASs are compared. In particular, addition of oil to a reversed bicontinuous structure formed by MG leads to a reversed microemulsion, which, considering its low viscosity, is particularly suitable for food products and act as a very efficient reactor system. The influence of oil and precursors on phase behaviour is discussed and related to the efficiency of the Maillard reactions. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Soft interfacial materials: from fundamentals to formulation’.
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- 2016
31. Oil and drug control the release rate from lyotropic liquid crystals
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Isabelle Martiel, Nicole Baumann, Raffaele Mezzenga, Jijo J. Vallooran, Laurent Sagalowicz, and Jotam Bergfreund
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Materials science ,Pharmaceutical Science ,Tocopherols ,Phase Transition ,Glycerides ,Surface-Active Agents ,Drug control ,Pulmonary surfactant ,Phase (matter) ,Caffeine ,Lyotropic ,Cyclohexenes ,Organic chemistry ,Lamellar structure ,Molecular Structure ,Terpenes ,Water ,Controlled release ,Liquid Crystals ,Drug Liberation ,Glucose ,Chemical engineering ,Models, Chemical ,Pharmaceutical Preparations ,Lyotropic liquid crystal ,Phosphatidylcholines ,Micellar cubic ,Thermodynamics ,Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ,Oils ,Limonene ,Proflavine - Abstract
The control of the diffusion coefficient by the dimensionality d of the structure appears as a most promising lever to efficiently tune the release rate from lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) phases and dispersed particles towards sustained, controlled and targeted release. By using phosphatidylcholine (PC)- and monolinoleine (MLO)-based mesophases with various apolar structural modifiers and water-soluble drugs, we present a comprehensive study of the dimensional structural control of hydrophilic drug release, including 3-d bicontinuous cubic, 2-d lamellar, 1-d hexagonal and 0-d micellar cubic phases in excess water. We investigate how the surfactant, the oil properties and the drug hydrophilicity mitigate or even cancel the effect of structure variation on the drug release rate. Unexpectedly, the observed behavior cannot be fully explained by the thermodynamic partition of the drug into the lipid matrix, which points out to previously overlooked kinetic effects. We therefore interpret our results by discussing the mechanism of structural control of the diffusion rate in terms of drug permeation through the lipid membrane, which includes exchange kinetics. A wide range of implications follow regarding formulation and future developments, both for dispersed LLC delivery systems and topical applications in bulk phase.
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32. Oil transfer converts phosphatidylcholine vesicles into nonlamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline particles
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Wye-Khay Fong, Laurent Sagalowicz, Stephan Handschin, Raffaele Mezzenga, and Isabelle Martiel
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Models, Molecular ,Liposome ,Materials science ,Small-angle X-ray scattering ,Vesicle ,Molecular Conformation ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Liquid Crystals ,Crystallography ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Chemical engineering ,chemistry ,Dynamic light scattering ,Phosphatidylcholine ,Lyotropic ,Emulsion ,Liposomes ,Electrochemistry ,Phosphatidylcholines ,General Materials Science ,Dispersion (chemistry) ,Oils ,Spectroscopy - Abstract
There is a need for the development of low-energy dispersion methods tailored to the formation of phospholipid-based nonlamellar lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) particles for delivery system applications. Here, facile formation of nonlamellar LLC particles was obtained by simple mixing of a phosphatidylcholine (PC) liposome solution and an oil-in-water emulsion, with limonene or isooctane as an oil. The internal structure of the particles was controlled by the PC-to-oil ratio, consistently with the sequence observed in bulk phase. For the first time, reverse micellar cubosomes with Fm3̅m inner structure were produced. The size, morphology, and inner structure of the particles were characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), dynamic light scattering (DLS), and freeze-fracture cryo scanning electron microscopy (cryo-SEM). These findings pave the way to new strategies in low-energy formulation of LLC delivery systems.
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- 2014
33. Facile dispersion and control of internal structure in lyotropic liquid crystalline particles by auxiliary solvent evaporation
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Stephan Handschin, Isabelle Martiel, Laurent Sagalowicz, and Raffaele Mezzenga
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Materials science ,Evaporation ,Glycerides ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Surface-Active Agents ,X-Ray Diffraction ,Phase (matter) ,Lyotropic ,Scattering, Small Angle ,Electrochemistry ,Organic chemistry ,General Materials Science ,Spectroscopy ,Micelles ,Tetradecane ,Aqueous solution ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Liquid Crystals ,Solvent ,chemistry ,Chemical engineering ,Lyotropic liquid crystal ,Phosphatidylcholines ,Solvents ,Dispersion (chemistry) - Abstract
Submicron sized, structured lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) particles, so-called hexosomes and cubosomes, are generally obtained by high energy input dispersion methods, notably ultrasonication and high-pressure emulsification. We present a method to obtain dispersions of such LLC particles with a significantly reduced energy input, by evaporation of an auxiliary volatile solvent immiscible with water, e.g. cyclohexane or limonene. The inner structure of the particles can be precisely controlled by the addition of a nonvolatile oil, such as α-tocopherol or tetradecane consistently with bulk phase diagrams,. Two different lyotropic surfactants were employed, industrial grade monolinoleine (MLO) and soy bean phosphatidylcholine (PC). The lyotropic surfactant and oil phase modifier were first dissolved in the volatile solvent to give a liquid reverse micellar (L2) phase, which requires significantly less energy input to be dispersed in an aqueous solution of secondary emulsifier compared to the corresponding gel-like bulk mesophase. The auxiliary volatile solvent was then removed from the emulsion by evaporation at room temperature, yielding LLC particles of the desired inner structure, Pn3̅m, H2, or Fd3̅m. The obtained particles were characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), dynamic light scattering (DLS), and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). Our method enables fine-tuning of the final particle size through the volatile-to-nonvolatile volume ratio and processing conditions.
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- 2014
34. Phospholipid-based nonlamellar mesophases for delivery systems: bridging the gap between empirical and rational design
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Laurent Sagalowicz, Raffaele Mezzenga, and Isabelle Martiel
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Materials science ,Microfluidics ,Normal Distribution ,Nanotechnology ,Micelle ,Surface-Active Agents ,Colloid and Surface Chemistry ,Drug Delivery Systems ,Phase (matter) ,Lyotropic ,Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared ,Scattering, Radiation ,Lamellar structure ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Micelles ,Phospholipids ,Phase diagram ,X-Rays ,Rational design ,Water ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,Lipids ,Liquid Crystals ,Cholesterol ,Chemical engineering ,Lyotropic liquid crystal ,Liposomes ,Phosphatidylcholines ,Thermodynamics ,Glycolipids ,Ternary operation - Abstract
Phospholipids are ubiquitous cell membrane components and relatively well-accepted ingredients due to their natural origin. Phosphatidylcholine (PC) in particular offers a promising alternative to monoglycerides for lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) delivery system applications in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, provided its strong tendency to form zero-mean curvature lamellar mesophases in water can be overcome. Higher negative curvatures are usually reached through the addition of a third lipid component, forming a ternary diagram phospholipid/water/oil. The initial part of this work summarizes the potential advantages and the challenges of phospholipid-based delivery system applications. In the next part, various ternary PC/water/oil systems are discussed, with a special emphasis on the PC/water/cyclohexane and PC/water/α-tocopherol systems. We report that R-(+)-limonene has a quantitatively similar effect as cyclohexane. The last part is devoted to the theoretical interpretation of the observed phase behaviors. A fruitful parallel is drawn with PC polymer-like reverse micelles, leading to a thermodynamic description in terms of interfacial bending energy. Investigations at the molecular level are reviewed to help in bridging the empirical and theoretical approaches. Predictive rules are finally derived from this wide-ranging overview, thereby opening the way to a future rational design of PC-based LLC delivery systems.
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- 2014
35. A reverse micellar mesophase of face-centered cubic Fm3m symmetry in phosphatidylcholine/water/organic solvent ternary systems
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Laurent Sagalowicz, Raffaele Mezzenga, and Isabelle Martiel
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Cyclohexane ,Small-angle X-ray scattering ,Surface Properties ,Dispersity ,Mesophase ,Water ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,Cubic crystal system ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Micelle ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Crystallography ,chemistry ,Electrochemistry ,Phosphatidylcholines ,Solvents ,Micellar cubic ,General Materials Science ,Organic Chemicals ,Ternary operation ,Spectroscopy ,Micelles - Abstract
We report the formation of a reverse micellar cubic mesophase of symmetry Fm3m (Q(225)) in ternary mixtures of soy bean phosphatidylcholine (PC), water, and an organic solvent, including cyclohexane, (R)-(+)-limonene, and isooctane, studied by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and oscillatory shear rheology at room temperature. The mesophase structure consists of a compact packing of remarkably large reverse micelles in a face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice, a type of micellar packing not yet reported for reverse micellar mesophases. Form factor fitting in the pure L2 phase and in the Fm3m-L2 coexistence region yields quantitative estimations of the PC interface rigidity. The compact Fm3m structure results mainly from release of lipid tail frustration and hard-sphere interactions between monodisperse micelles, as suggested by a comparison with the Fd3m structure found in the PC/water/α-tocopherol system.
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36. Macromolecular crystallography at SwissFEL
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Jörg Standfuss, Gerhard Ingold, Bill Pedrini, Ezequiel Panepucci, Rafael Abela, Christopher J. Milne, Claude Pradervand, Meitian Wang, and Isabelle Martiel
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Inorganic Chemistry ,Jet (fluid) ,Materials science ,Structural Biology ,Macromolecular crystallography ,Free-electron laser ,General Materials Science ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Atomic physics ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Biochemistry - Published
- 2016
37. Viscoelasticity and Interface Bending Properties ofLecithin Reverse Wormlike Micelles Studied by Diffusive Wave Spectroscopyin Hydrophobic Environment.
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Isabelle Martiel, Laurent Sagalowicz, and Raffaele Mezzenga
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LECITHIN , *VISCOELASTICITY , *INTERFACES (Physical sciences) , *MICELLES , *DIFFUSION , *SPECTRUM analysis , *HYDROPHOBIC surfaces , *ORGANIC solvents - Abstract
Upon the addition of minute quantitiesof water into a phosphatidylcholine(PC) solution in certain organic solvents, PC micelles elongate intogiant reverse wormlike micelles that entangle and form highly viscousmicroemulsions, called lecithin organogels. We investigated the microrheologicalproperties of concentrated PC–cyclohexane reverse wormlikemicellar systems by diffusive wave spectroscopy (DWS) in apolar medium,combined with bulk shear rheology. We applied DWS to our oil-continuoussystem by using hydrophobic poly(hydroxystearic acid)-grafted PMMAparticles as monodisperse tracer particles. Relevant parameters suchas the micellar scission energy and persistence length were extractedfrom the microrheology data and interpreted according to the sphere-to-rod-to-spherestructural transition. On the basis of these quantities, we calculatedthe bending and saddle-splay moduli of the PC-covered water–cyclohexaneinterface. This approach represents a new method for the quantitativeestimation of these fundamental parameters, which are thought to underpinthe self-assembly of surfactants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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38. Femtosecond-to-millisecond structural changes in a light-driven sodium pump
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Dardan Gashi, Xavier Deupi, Isabelle Martiel, Joachim Heberle, Jörg Standfuss, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, Karol Nass, Daniel James, Demet Kekilli, Antonia Furrer, Christopher J. Milne, D. Ehrenberg, Claudio Cirelli, Valerie Panneels, Gregor Knopp, Tobias Weinert, Christopher Arrell, Przemyslaw Nogly, Philip J. M. Johnson, S. Mous, Thomas Gruhl, Steffen Brünle, Roger Benoit, Dmitry Ozerov, Rajiv K. Kar, Igor Schapiro, Florian S. N. Dworkowski, Petr Skopintsev, and M. Wranik
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0301 basic medicine ,Time Factors ,Sodium ,Static Electricity ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Electrons ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Isomerism ,Rhodopsins, Microbial ,Schiff Bases ,Ion transporter ,Membrane potential ,Millisecond ,Binding Sites ,Crystallography ,Ion Transport ,Multidisciplinary ,biology ,Chemistry ,Lasers ,Spectrum Analysis ,0104 chemical sciences ,Microsecond ,030104 developmental biology ,Rhodopsin ,Femtosecond ,Retinaldehyde ,biology.protein ,Biophysics ,Quantum Theory ,Protons ,Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase ,Flavobacteriaceae ,Cation transport - Abstract
Light-driven sodium pumps actively transport small cations across cellular membranes1. These pumps are used by microorganisms to convert light into membrane potential and have become useful optogenetic tools with applications in neuroscience. Although the resting state structures of the prototypical sodium pump Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2) have been solved2,3, it is unclear how structural alterations over time allow sodium to be translocated against a concentration gradient. Here, using the Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser4, we have collected serial crystallographic data at ten pump–probe delays from femtoseconds to milliseconds. High-resolution structural snapshots throughout the KR2 photocycle show how retinal isomerization is completed on the femtosecond timescale and changes the local structure of the binding pocket in the early nanoseconds. Subsequent rearrangements and deprotonation of the retinal Schiff base open an electrostatic gate in microseconds. Structural and spectroscopic data, in combination with quantum chemical calculations, indicate that a sodium ion binds transiently close to the retinal within one millisecond. In the last structural intermediate, at 20 milliseconds after activation, we identified a potential second sodium-binding site close to the extracellular exit. These results provide direct molecular insight into the dynamics of active cation transport across biological membranes. ISSN:0028-0836 ISSN:1476-4687
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