Direct Observation of the Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance by Mix-and-Inject at the European XFEL
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Suraj Pandey and George Calvey and Andrea M. Katz and Tek Narsingh Malla and Faisal H. M. Koua and Jose M. Martin-Garcia and Ishwor Poudyal and Jay-How Yang and Mohammad Vakili and Oleksandr Yefanov and Kara A. Zielinski and Saša Bajt and Salah Awel and Katerina Dörner and Matthias Frank and Luca Gelisio and Rebecca Jernigan and Henry Kirkwood and Marco Kloos and Jayanath Koliyadu and Valerio Mariani and Mitchell D. Miller and Grant Mills and Garrett Nelson and Jose L. Olmos and Alireza Sadri and Tokushi Sato and Alexandra Tolstikova and Weijun Xu and Abbas Ourmazd and John H. C. Spence and Peter Schwander and Anton Barty and Henry N. Chapman and Petra Fromme and Adrian P. Mancuso and George N. Phillips and Richard Bean and Lois Pollack and Marius Schmidt
Citation
Pandey, S. et al., 2020. Direct Observation of the Mechanism of Antibiotic Resistance by Mix-and-Inject at the European XFEL. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.24.396689.
Abstract
AbstractIn this study, we follow the diffusion and buildup of occupancy of the substrate ceftriaxone in M. tuberculosis β-lactamase BlaC microcrystals by structural analysis of the enzyme substrate complex at single millisecond time resolution. We also show the binding and the reaction of an inhibitor, sulbactam, on a slower millisecond time scale. We use the ‘mix-and-inject’ technique to initiate these reactions by diffusion, and determine the resulting structures by serial crystallography using ultrafast, intense X-ray pulses from the European XFEL (EuXFEL) arriving at MHz repetition rates. Here, we show how to use the EuXFEL pulse structure to dramatically increase the size of the data set and thereby the quality and time resolution of “molecular movies” which unravel ligand binding and enzymatically catalyzed reactions. This shows the great potential for the EuXFEL as a tool for biomedically relevant research, particularly, as shown here, for investigating bacterial antibiotic resistance.One Sentence SummaryDirect observation of fast ligand binding in a biomedically relevant enzyme at near atomic resolution with MHz X-ray pulses at the European XFEL.
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NSF-STC Biology with X-ray Lasers (NSF-1231306)