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A miniature airlock system to aid the cryo-cooling of protein crystals grown under anoxic conditions

Abstract

Crystallographic studies of structures and mechanisms of dioxygen-employing enzymes or oxygen-sensitive proteins usually require these molecules to be prepared and crystallized under anoxic conditions in gloveboxes. Handling, cryo-cooling and extraction of these crystals from gloveboxes for X-ray data collection can be a tricky operation, during which samples might be ruined if they are accidentally exposed to atmospheric oxygen. This work reports the design of a new miniature airlock system and describes the associated method in order to simplify these tasks. The system allows flash-cooling of crystals harvested in a glovebox directly into an external liquid nitrogen container via a miniature airlock while maintaining strict anoxic conditions. The method was assessed using hen egg-white lysozyme crystals soaked in dihydroresorufin (an O2 indicator) and with the reduced tRNA-hydroxylase enzyme MiaE.
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hal-03833689 , version 1 (25-11-2022)

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Peter van der Linden, Sylvain Engilberge, Mohamed Atta, Philippe Carpentier. A miniature airlock system to aid the cryo-cooling of protein crystals grown under anoxic conditions. Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2022, 55 (5), pp.1212-1218. ⟨10.1107/S1600576722007580⟩. ⟨hal-03833689⟩
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