title: Synchrotron white-beam X-ray topography of ribonuclease S crystals.
abstract: With careful experimental design, indexed synchrotron white-beam X-ray topographs of ribonuclease S crystals at ambient temperature could be recorded with a definition and contrast comparable to that of monochromatic beam topographs of other proteins reported in the literature. By excluding wavelengths longer than 1 A from the white beam with a filter, a radiation dose equivalent to that required to record about 18 topographs could be tolerated without appreciable radiation damage to the samples. Bragg angles of 0.5 degrees or less were required to select low-index harmonically pure reflections with high intensities and extinction lengths only several times the sample's thickness. The resulting X-ray topographs in some cases showed topographic detail and in others showed the even featureless background that has been considered characteristic of a protein crystal of low mosaicity. The ribonuclease S crystals were well ordered single crystals of a quality comparable to other protein crystals that have been studied by X-ray topography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY 11794-2275, USA. wvetter@ms.cc.sunysb.edu
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Vetter
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dudley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008958:Models, Molecular; D012260:Ribonucleases / Q000737:chemistry*; D017356:Synchrotrons
chemical_list: D012260:Ribonucleases; C022542:ribonuclease S