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Exploiting fourth-generation synchrotron radiation for enzyme and photoreceptor characterization
aDepartment of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA, bDepartment of Biology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, USA, cDepartment of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA, dEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France, and eEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Grenoble, France
*Correspondence e-mail: smarius@uwm.edu
The upgrade of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France to an Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS) is expected to enable time-resolved synchrotron serial crystallography (SSX) experiments with sub-millisecond time resolution. ID29 is a new beamline dedicated to SSX experiments at ESRF–EBS. Here, we report experiments emerging from the initial phase of user operation at ID29. We first used microcrystals of photoactive yellow protein as a model system to exploit the potential of microsecond pulses for SSX. Subsequently, we investigated microcrystals of cytochrome c nitrite reductase (ccNiR) with microsecond X-ray pulses. CcNiR is a decaheme protein that is ideal for the investigation of radiation damage at the various heme-iron sites. Finally, we performed a proof-of-concept subsecond time-resolved SSX experiment by photoactivating microcrystals of a myxobacterial phytochrome.
Keywords: structural biology; environmental chemistry; radiation damage; structure determination; macromolecular machines; time-resolved synchrotron serial crystallography.
1. Introduction
1.1. The ESRF–EBS ID29 beamline
X-ray crystallography, employed at synchrotron light sources, is a critical tool for determining the static structures of proteins at near-atomic resolution. Over 80% of all macromolecular structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank (Berman et al., 2002) have been elucidated at cryogenic temperatures, which can compromise the biological relevance of the protein structures while still retaining susceptibility towards radiation damage (Garman & Weik, 2011, 2017; Suga et al., 2015).
In the last decade, the introduction of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has transformed crystallography through the development of serial crystallography (SX; Chapman et al., 2011; Boutet et al., 2012; Redecke et al., 2013; Kern et al., 2012). SX allows data collection at physiological temperatures with minimal radiation damage (Lomb et al., 2011; Chapman et al., 2014; Nass et al., 2015; Chapman, 2017; Mehrabi et al., 2021) and also facilitates the initiation of reactions using an array of submicrometre-sized crystals. This capability makes SX an ideal choice for conducting time-resolved crystallography (TRX) studies, providing valuable insights into the dynamics of biological processes (Moffat, 1989, 2001; Schmidt, 2008, 2020, 2023a; Pearson & Mehrabi, 2020).
The remarkable capabilities of XFELs have led to a surge in demand for SX applications. Therefore, it is highly desirable that accessible X-ray light sources are available at which the experiments can be conducted. SX experiments can now be conducted at highly brilliant third-generation and, recently, at fourth-generation synchrotron light sources with serial synchrotron crystallography (SSX), as the success of the SX technique at XFELs prompted a swift adaptation to these facilities (Schmidt, 2023a; Gati et al., 2014; Martin-Garcia, 2021; Stellato et al., 2014; Beyerlein et al., 2017; Nogly et al., 2015; Meents et al., 2017; Mehrabi et al., 2021; Schulz et al., 2018; Caramello & Royant, 2024; Mehrabi, Schulz, Agthe et al., 2019; Mehrabi, Schulz, Dsouza et al., 2019).
At fourth-generation synchrotron light sources, multi-bend achromat (MBA) lattices are utilized that substantially improve the emittance of the electron beam and, related to this, the ; Khusainov et al., 2024), that can reach, with polychromatic X-ray sources, the of 100 ps available at the synchrotron (Meents et al., 2017; Martin-Garcia, 2021; Tolstikova et al., 2019) as a practical alternative to serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) at XFELs (Khusainov et al., 2024).
of the X-ray beam. Concurrently, the integration of advanced detectors into the beamline enables highly sensitive and high-speed readout of the collected data. These collective upgrades help to enable serial crystallography at synchrotrons to offer serial and time-resolved crystallographic experiments with microsecond-to-millisecond time resolution (Pearson & Mehrabi, 2020The recent upgrade of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) with a custom multi-bend achromat lattice to an `Extremely Brilliant Source' (EBS; Raimondi et al., 2023) resulted in a that is at least thirty times higher than before. As a result, a very intense X-ray beam can be focused without substantial loss of X-ray photons to spot sizes of the order of a few micrometres. These beams are exquisitely suited to interrogate microcrystals in SSX experiments. The new ID29 beamline that has been developed to take advantage of the ESRF–EBS is dedicated to room-temperature and time-resolved SSX (TR-SSX) experiments on biological macromolecules. The ID29 beamline can deliver of the order of >3 × 1015 hard X-ray photons (see Section 2.2 for details) with 1% bandwidth. However, there is a concern that a broader bandwidth impedes experiments with lower quality crystals that display substantial mosaic spread. Diffraction patterns are sensitive to crystals with larger mosaicities that result in elongated (streaky) Bragg reflections which are difficult to analyze. Serial Laue crystallography (SLX) on microcrystals has been applied at BioCARS at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, which features a 5% bandwidth (Meents et al., 2017; Martin-Garcia, 2021), and on beamline ID09 at the ESRF using a multilayer monochromator to reduce the bandwidth to 2.5% (Tolstikova et al., 2019). Results suggest that serial crystallography with the Laue technique might be feasible at least with the high-quality, not too mosaic microcrystals interrogated during these experiments. Software developed for quasi-monochromatic data could be used for Laue data collected at BioCARS (Martin-Garcia, 2021) as well as on ID09 at ESRF (Tolstikova et al., 2019). Apparently, averaging over a large number of observations can circumvent the need to determine the spectrum of the incident (the so-called λ-curve) that is essential for merging Laue data (Ren & Moffat, 1995). One can expect that an X-ray bandwidth of 1% as implemented at ID29 will be beneficial for the successful collection of X-ray data from real-world crystals with large unit cells and elevated mosaicities.
1.2. Biological samples
Here, results from our early experiments at ID29 from February 2023 to September 2023 are reported that exploit the unique and special capabilities of this beamline. In these experiments, bacterial proteins with different functions were investigated. Microcrystals of photoactive yellow protein (PYP), a blue-light photoreceptor from Halorhodospira halophila, were used to explore the capability of microsecond X-ray pulses. A nitrite-reducing enzyme, cytochrome c nitrite reductase (ccNiR) from Shewanella oneidensis, was exploited to investigate potential damage, caused by 90 µs pulses, at heme centers. Finally, a first TR-SSX experiment was performed on the photosensory core module (PCM) of a bacterial phytochrome from the nonphotosynthetic myxobacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca.
PYP is a small protein (14 kDa, 125 amino acids) that covalently binds p-coumaric acid (pCA) to a conserved cysteine residue via a thioester bond. PYP (strain BN9626) forms highly diffracting crystals with various precipitants such as ammonium sulfate (Borgstahl et al., 1995), sodium malonate (Tenboer et al., 2014), polyethylene glycol (PEG) 2000 (van Aalten et al., 2000; Anderson et al., 2004) and PEG 4000 (Kort et al., 2003). PYP from a different strain (SL-1) of H. halophila has also been crystallized using PEG 4000 (Anderson et al., 2004). The photocycle of PYP has been extensively investigated by TRX (Ihee et al., 2005; Jung et al., 2013; Schotte et al., 2012; Genick et al., 1997) and time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (TR-SFX; Tenboer et al., 2014; Pande et al., 2016; Hosseinizadeh et al., 2021; Pandey et al., 2020).
CcNiR is a decaheme enzyme that catalyzes the six-electron reduction of nitrite to ammonia. It is an important enzyme in the nitrogen cycle and is essential in agriculture for ammonia generation from nitrate fertilizers. X-ray dose effects are expected to be detected at the ten heme iron sites when ccNiR is exposed to X-ray radiation. The structure of ccNiR has previously been solved at room temperature using Laue crystallography (Youngblut et al., 2012) at BioCARS and at cryogenic temperature using a home source (Ali et al., 2019). Serial crystallography is particularly important for the investigation of ccNiR. CcNiR has been featured as an example to motivate mix-and-inject experiments (Schmidt, 2013), in which substrate is mixed with microcrystals and, after a delay, injected into the X-ray interaction region. In this way, an enzymatically catalyzed reaction is triggered by diffusion and its progress is probed by an X-ray pulse (Schmidt, 2013, 2020; Stagno et al., 2017; Kupitz et al., 2017; Olmos et al., 2018; Dasgupta et al., 2019; Malla et al., 2023; Ishigami et al., 2019; Mehrabi, Schulz, Agthe et al., 2019; Pandey et al., 2021). With sub-millisecond time resolution, mix-and-inject experiments with ccNiR will become feasible, enabling observation of the reduction of nitrite in real time.
Phytochromes are red/far-red light receptor enzymes that were originally discovered in plants, with homologs in bacteria and fungi. They exist in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic bacteria, with a diversity of functions from the synthesis of light-harvesting complexes and ). Myxobacteria are distinctive among prokaryotes due to the presence of a multicellular stage in their life cycle known as fruiting bodies. In Stigmatella aurantiaca, the formation of fruiting bodies is controlled by red and far-red light, implicating bacteriophytochrome (BphP) signaling (Woitowich et al., 2018; Qualls et al., 1978; White et al., 1980). BphPs share a typical domain architecture comprising three conserved domains (PAS–GAF–PHY) known as the photosensory core module (PCM) and a C-terminal effector domain with enzymatic activity, usually a histidine kinase (HisK). BphPs sense red/far-red light and display a reversible photocycle triggered by the Z-to-E isomerization of a central chromophore, biliverdin (BV). This isomerization results in the formation of distinct states called Pr and Pfr (red and far-red light-absorbing states, respectively). The effector domain perceives structural changes caused by light absorption through a distance of about 110 Å. Well defined structural changes characterize the photocycle of this protein, involving the rearrangement of the water network in the BV-binding pocket and conformational changes of highly conserved regions of the protein that stabilize the BV chromophore. Most notable is the conformational change of a stretch of amino-acid residues called the sensory tongue that transitions from a β-strand in the Pr state to a an α-helical conformation in the Pfr state (Takala et al., 2014; Burgie et al., 2016). The conserved pyrrole water (PW) that stabilizes rings A to C of the BV chromophore is photo-ejected as early as a few picoseconds after photo-initiation in the absence of the sensory tongue, as revealed by TR-SFX experiments (Claesson et al., 2020). Crystal structures of BphPs in the Pfr state determined with sufficient resolution to resolve water molecules (Burgie et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2011) point to the PW returning back to the BV-binding pocket in the Pfr state. Full-length phytochromes are challenging to crystallize, but the PCM, lacking the effector domain, forms crystals that diffract to 2 Å resolution and beyond (Sanchez et al., 2019; Burgie et al., 2014; Woitowich et al., 2018; Essen et al., 2008). S. aurantiaca harbors two BphPs, SaBphP1 and SaBphP2, that bind BV and share similar domain compositions. Most recently, cryo-EM structures of the full-length and truncated PCM of SaBphP2 in the distinct red and far-red light-absorbing states have been determined (Malla et al., 2024). For the first time, a phytochrome heterodimer with individual subunits in distinct conformations was characterized when the protein was exposed to white light. While it has been hypothesized in the past that phytochrome heterodimerization may occur and be functionally relevant, direct structural evidence was missing until these cryo-EM structures of SaBphP2 were published. Recent TR-SFX experiments on SaBphP2-PCM microcrystals have been conducted at the Spring-8 Angstrom Compact X-ray Laser (SACLA) facility in Japan. BV isomerization was trigged by red-light pulses, and the resulting structures were probed 5 ns and 33 ms after light illumination (Carrillo et al., 2021). Significant structural displacements of the covalently bound bilin chromophore (Z-to-E isomerization of the BV chromophore) were observed that trigger a bifurcated signaling pathway that extends through the entire protein. However, the to the Pfr state is characterized by large domain reorientations (Malla et al., 2024) and the transition of the sensory tongue to an α-helix (Takala et al., 2014; Burgie et al., 2016). None of these events were observed even at 33 ms. To investigate longer time scales, the new ID29 beamline at ESRF is equipped with a tape drive that enables a method for the collection of structural information on longer-lived intermediates of SaBphP2-PCM.
to the control of cell motility (Auldridge & Forest, 20112. Methods
2.1. Sample preparation
PYP was overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified as reported previously (Kort et al., 1996; Tenboer et al., 2014; Borgstahl et al., 1995). The protein was concentrated to 100 mg ml−1 in a low-salt protein buffer consisting of 10 mM 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-1-ethanesulfonic acid (HEPES) and 50 mM sodium chloride (NaCl) at pH 7.5. PYP microcrystals, denoted PYPMal, were grown using sodium malonate as precipitant. Details are reported elsewhere (Tenboer et al., 2014). PYP microcrystals with PEG as precipitant (PYPPEG) were grown using a mix-and-stir method with a precipitant solution consisting of 100 mM 2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonic acid (MES) and 40%(w/v) polyethylene glycol (PEG) 4000 at pH 6.5. Briefly, 0.2 ml concentrated PYP was transferred into a glass vial and 0.8 ml of the precipitant described above was slowly added dropwise (1:4 protein:precipitant ratio) with vigorous stirring. The suspension was stirred for ∼4 h and incubated for a further 24 h at room temperature. PYP microcrystals with average dimensions of approximately 20 µm appeared within 24 h. The crystal density was determined using a Neubauer cell-counting chamber, revealing a density of 4 × 108 crystals per millilitre.
The ccNiR protein was overexpressed in the S. oneidensis TSP-C strain and purified in accordance with previously reported methods (Youngblut et al., 2012; Ali et al., 2019). CcNiR microcrystals were prepared using the following conditions:
Condition 1. The protein was concentrated to 80 mg ml−1 in a buffer consisting of 150 mM NaCl, 50 mM HEPES, 30 mM ammonium sulfate at pH 7. A precipitant solution was prepared consisting of 40% PEG 4K, 200 mM sodium malonate, 100 mM MES buffer at pH 6.5. The crystals were prepared by mixing the protein solution and the precipitant solution in a 2:1 ratio. Crystal-like particles grew within a week. Despite appearing visually to be crystalline, the particles did not diffract [Supplementary Fig. S1(a)].
Condition 2. The protein was concentrated to 40 mg ml−1 in 20 mM HEPES buffer at pH 7. The precipitant solution was 28% PEG 4K, 100 mM triethanolamine at pH 7.5. The crystals were prepared by mixing equal amounts of protein solution and precipitant. The mixture was stirred for approximately 4 h and was subsequently incubated for an additional two days at room temperature. The resulting microcrystal suspension contained a large amount of unusable amorphous particles in addition to diffracting microcrystals [Supplementary Fig. S1(b)].
Condition 2-1. The crystalline particles from condition 1 were collected by mild centrifugation and dissolved in 20 mM HEPES buffer at pH 7. They were finally recrystallized using condition 2 [Supplementary Fig. S1(c)]. The resulting microcrystals were thin plates and were heterogenous in size [Supplementary Fig. S1(c)]. Most crystals were about 20 µm in edge length [Supplementary Fig. S1(c)]. The microcrystals were concentrated to approximately 4 × 106 crystals per millilitre for data collection.
The PCM of S. aurantica bacteriophytochrome 2 (SaBphP2-PCM) was overexpressed and purified as reported previously (Carrillo et al., 2021). Large crystals of SaBphP2-PCM with dimensions of 100 × 100 × 100 µm were grown by the hanging-drop vapor-diffusion method with a protein concentration of 30 mg ml−1, 425 µl of 0.17 M ammonium acetate, 0.085 M sodium citrate tribasic dihydrate pH 5.6, 25.5%(w/v) PEG 4000, 15%(v/v) glycerol (cryo-screen solution) and 75 µl 20%(w/v) benzamidine hydrochloride (an additive) under dark conditions at 16°C. For the preparation of microcrystals, 60 mg ml−1 protein was mixed in batch mode with the same precipitant as described above in a 2:3 protein:precipitant ratio. The mixture was seeded with a few microlitres of a slurry obtained by finely crushing a large crystal with a glass bead (Hampton Research). The mixture was incubated for four days in the dark at 16°C. The SaBphP2 microcrystals were thin plates and, in contrast to the ccNiR microcrystals, were quite uniform in size, approximately 25 µm across [Supplementary Fig. S1(d)]. The microcrystals were collected and concentrated to ∼109 crystals per milllilitre.
2.2. Data collection
Data were collected on beamline ID29 at the ESRF. The beamline was operating at a 231.25 Hz X-ray repetition rate at an energy of 11.56 keV with ∼1% (116 eV) bandwidth. The microcrystals were exposed to an X-ray pulse of 90 µs duration containing ∼1011 photons. The beam was focused to a spot size of 4 × 2 µm at the sample. Diffraction patterns were recorded using a JUNGFRAU 4M detector (Leonarski et al., 2018) placed 150 mm away from the sample (2 Å at the edges, 1.8 Å in the corners).
Complete data sets for PYP, ccNiR and SaBphP2 were collected using sheet-on-sheet (SOS) chips [Fig. 1(a)] (Doak et al., 2024). 3–5 µl of crystal slurry was sandwiched between two Mylar films (13 µm thickness) and sealed inside a metal mount. The portion of the chip containing the microcrystals was aligned in front of the X-ray beam. The chip was then continuously scanned with synchronized X-ray pulses with a step size of 20 µm horizontally as well as vertically. Data collection from each chip took about 8 min using this method, resulting in 81 800 detector readouts.
TR-SSX data for SaBphP2-PCM [Fig. 1(b)] were collected with a tape-drive device (Beyerlein et al., 2017). The crystal slurry was applied at a rate of 1–3 µl min−1. By moving at a speed of 30 mm min−1, the tape delivers the microcrystals into the X-ray beam. Immediately before the X-ray beam, the microcrystals were illuminated for 200 ms with red light (λ = 640 nm) from a light-emitting diode (LED) that continuously illuminated the crystal slurry. The LED light was focused to a spot size of 100 µm. The total LED light energy density experienced by a microcrystal was 12 mJ mm−2. The time required by the crystals to travel from the center of the LED focal spot to the X-ray interaction region determines the time delay. With this setup, a 700 ms time-resolved data set was recorded. A dark data set (without LED illumination) was collected from PYP microcrystals using the tape drive to validate the feasibility of this data-collection method.
2.3. Data processing and analysis
Data collection was monitored and pre-processed in real time using the in-house nplive and autoCryst programs (Coquelle et al., 2015), which also provided general feedback on spatial resolution and hit rate. All data were re-processed with the CrystFEL (version 0.10.1) suite of programs (White, 2019; White et al., 2016). Indexamajig was used to index and integrate the diffraction patterns. The detector geometry and distance were refined by geoptimiser (Yefanov et al., 2015) using high-quality data collected from PYP samples (see below). Indexing ambiguities (when necessary) were resolved using the ambigator program. Merging and scaling of the intensities were performed with partialator. Figures of merit and other data statistics were calculated using compare_hkl and check_hkl. The full intensities were converted to structure-factor amplitudes using software based on the CCP4 suite of programs (Agirre et al., 2023). Exemplary shell scripts can be found in the supplementary material to Pandey et al. (2020).
For all data sets, the structures were refined with Phenix (Liebschner et al., 2019), with manual inspection and adjustments performed in Coot (Emsley et al., 2010). Statistics on data processing and are given in Table 1. The structural comparison and the generation of all protein-display figures were performed in UCSF ChimeraX (Pettersen et al., 2021). Difference electron-density (DED) maps were (if applicable) calculated from data collected after light excitation and reference data collected in the dark as described previously (Schmidt, 2023b; Pandey et al., 2020).
‡Multi-lattice indexing was turned on, which is why there are more indexed diffraction patterns than hits. §Refinement was conducted to 2.1 Å resolution, which is lower than the high-resolution limit of the data due to an irregular Wilson plot beyond this resolution. |
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Serial synchrotron crystallography (SSX) on beamline ID29 with PYP
We used both a fixed target and a tape drive to collect SSX data from PYP microcrystals on beamline ID29. The data-collection statistics are shown in Table 1. The PYPPEG crystals diffracted to higher resolution than the PYPMal crystals. The PYPPEG crystals belonged to P65. The previously published structure with PDB code 4wla was used as a search model for Using the X-ray data obtained with the fixed target and tape drive, structures were solved to resolutions of 1.8 and 1.9 Å, respectively (Table 1).
The PYPPEG crystals appeared to be superior compared with the PYPMal crystals. The PYPPEG microcrystals have sharper edges and visually appear more crystal-like. However, it is challenging for gas dynamic nozzles (GDVNs; DePonte et al., 2008) to flow high-viscosity PEG solutions. Therefore, the PYPMal crystals were used in previous XFEL experiments (Tenboer et al., 2014; Pande et al., 2016; Pandey et al., 2020). In fact, the XFEL experiments, conducted with GDVNs, might have been impossible with the PYPPEG crystals. Microcrystals suspended in viscous PEG are best used with fixed targets and tape drives, both of which were used in this study.
Structures from PYP crystals grown in PEG show differences compared with those grown from malonate [Figs. 2(a) and 2(b)]. The differences are essentially in accordance with a previous study (van Aalten et al., 2000), except for peak 4 in Fig. 2, which is absent in our comparison and very pronounced in the study by van Aalten and coworkers. Van Alten and coworkers speculated that the change of caused a significant reduction in intermolecular contacts between the symmetry-related molecules and might also account for the conformational heterogeneity (van Aalten et al., 2000). Crystal contact analysis of our structures in ChimeraX revealed that the P63 crystal form is the denser of the two, in accordance with van Aalten et al. (2000). PYP in P65 only forms four contacts between symmetry-related copies within 5 Å, while in P63 eight contacts are formed. It should be emphasized that our structures were both obtained at room temperature, while the structures of van Aalten and coworkers were obtained at cryogenic temperature, which might have an additional effect, in particular near amino acid Met100 (peak 4). Despite the denser packing of the P63 crystals, the crystals grown from PEG diffract to better resolution. Based on previous experiences with the malonate-grown crystals at BioCARS (unpublished work), we suspect that these crystals feature a larger mosaicity, which results in diffraction to lower resolution.
The highly diffracting PYPPEG crystals were used for calibration and detector geometry and for optimizing the key parameters for data collection from other proteins.
3.2. Structural characterization of ccNIR with room-temperature SSX
With the ccNiR microcrystals a full data set with 3106 indexed diffraction patterns was obtained, resulting in the first room-temperature structure [Fig. 3(a)] of ccNIR determined by SSX. CcNiR crystallized in P212121 with a dimer in the This is similar to the previously published (room-temperature) Laue structure (Youngblut et al., 2012) and another structure collected at cryogenic temperature (Ali et al., 2019). The third axis, c, however, is longer by 5 Å (228.2 Å versus 223 Å) compared with the previous structures [Fig. 3(c), Table 1]. The packing of the ccNiR molecules within the is also different [Fig. 3(c)]. Due to this disparity, was required to determine the phases. The Laue structure (PDB entry 3ubr) was used as a search model. A single solution was identified and refined.
Despite the limited resolution (3.3 Å), the side chains, including the heme cofactors, are clearly resolved [Figs. 3(a) and 3(b)]. Upon a strong positive difference density appears next to one of the protomers [Figs. 3(c) and 3(d)]. This density traverses parallelly through the width of the unit cell (axis b). It is likely that the PEG 4000 used for crystallization weaves around the ccNiR molecules and is potentially involved in stabilizing the crystal lattice.
It is unlikely that the presence of PEG hinders the activity of ccNiR. The PEG is situated far away from the opening of the channels that guide ions, electrons and water into the active heme coordination sites. A thorough analysis requires time-resolved mix-and-inject experiments (Schmidt, 2013) to pinpoint the actual path taken by the substrate.
3.3. Pump–probe TRX with SaBphP2
For the SaBphP2 crystals, 83 000 indexed patterns were obtained from the chips as a reference (dark) data set (Table 1). Similarly, 36 000 patterns were obtained from the pump–probe (700 ms) experiment using the tape drive. A reference model was refined against the dark data (Table 1) using the SaBphP2 room-temperature structure with PDB entry 6ptq as the initial model. A weighted DED map was calculated from the pump–probe TR-SSX data and the reference data as described in detail previously (Schmidt, 2019, 2023b). The DED map showed the presence of difference electron density at 700 ms [Fig. 4(b)]. The signal is weaker in this data set than in previous experiments conducted at SACLA (Carrillo et al., 2021), despite the higher total red-light energy used to excite the reaction (5 mJ mm−2 at SACLA versus 12 mJ mm−2 applied here). The deterioration of the signal might have to do with the different modes of data collection (fixed target for dark and tape for the 700 ms data). Clearly, more experiments are necessary to examine this behavior. Nevertheless, the signal is distinguishable from the noise and makes chemical sense. The DED features, localized to the BV chromophore, indicate displacement of the BV and its moieties. For illustrative purposes, a chromophore structure with ring D in the E configuration determined 33 ms after reaction initiation (Carrillo et al., 2021; PDB entry 5c5k) is overlayed on the reference structure determined here [Fig. 4(b)]. The structure explains many of the positive DED peaks. The strong negative DED feature at the position of one of the waters, known as the pyrrole water (PW), reaffirms earlier observations of the same PW, which was also absent at the earlier time points of 5 ns and 33 ms determined at SACLA (Carrillo et al., 2021). At 700 ms, the photo-ejected PW has not returned back to its original position. Instead, a positive signal below the D ring indicates a putative relocation site [Figs. 4(b) and 4(c)]. The returning PW is attracted by a hydrophilic environment [Fig. 4(c)] that might be important for the transition to the Pfr state, including the formation of an α-helical sensory tongue.
Although not observed here, the transformation of the β-stranded sensory tongue to an α-helical conformation [Fig. 4(a)] is essential for photosignal transfer from the BV chromophore to the PHY domain. The helical transformation is likely to begin with displacements of residues in the (conserved) PRXSF motif, which is part of the sensory tongue [Fig. 4(a)] and is located near the chromophore [Fig. 4(c)]. The side chain of Arg457, which initially forms a salt bridge with Asp192 in the Pr state, turns away in the Pfr state [Fig. 4(c)]. This has been observed in crystal structures and cryo-EM structures of pure Pfr states (Burgie et al., 2016; Takala et al., 2014; Wahlgren et al., 2022; Malla et al., 2024). Concurrently, the side chain of Ser459, which was initially oriented outwards in the Pr state, rotates inwards and forms a hydrogen bond to Asp192 in the Pfr state [Fig. 4(c)]. However, the precise molecular mechanism of this action is not well understood, necessitating further investigation. Since Arg–Asp salt bridges are generally stronger and longer-lasting than Ser–Asp hydrogen bonds, an additional trigger mechanism is required to break this connection.
The roles of key residues in the PRXSF motifs have been individually studied through point mutations (Anders et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2013). Most notably, an unusual near-red-shifted RpBphP3 from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris has a threonine instead of a proline in the PRXSF motif. It is the only phytochrome identified to date with such a variation in this critical motif. With a single point mutation placing proline back instead of threonine in the PRXSF motif, RpBphP3 becomes a classical red/far-red light-absorbing phytochrome (Yang et al., 2015). Arg457 has been identified as crucial for stabilizing the Pr state, with its mutation impeding the thermal reversion from the Pfr state to the Pr state (Zhang et al., 2013). Similarly, Ser459 is crucial for stabilizing the Pfr state and its mutation prevents the formation of Pfr. On the other hand, bathy phytochromes exist that are thermally stable in the Pfr state. With a mutation of the serine in the PRXSF motif to an alanine, the bathy phytochrome becomes a classical Pr- to Pfr-state phytochrome with a thermally stable Pr state (Anders et al., 2013). Interestingly, mutation of the phenylalanine prevents Pfr formation, although this residue is not directly involved in stabilization of the Pfr state (Anders et al., 2013). The importance of the sensory-tongue residues for the function of phytochromes warrants additional structural investigations of SaBphP2 mutants.
Our difference map at 700 ms provides additional insight. Fig. 4(c) illustrates the chromophore-binding pocket in the Pr and Pfr states observed by crystallography (Burgie et al., 2016) and recently obtained by cryo-EM (Malla et al., 2024). In the Pr state, Phe460 is buried close to the hydrophobic environment of ring D, stabilizing the Pr state. In the Pfr state, the polar side groups of Tyr248 and Asp192, and the nitrogen of the ring D pyrrole, form a hydrophilic site near the returning PW location [Fig. 4(c)]. We hypothesize that the robust hydrophilicity of the assembly may expel the hydrophobic side chain of Phe460 out of the chromophore pocket, which serves as the additional trigger mechanism mentioned above. The ensuing rotation of Phe460 potentially serves as a plausible catalyst for initiating the forward α-helical transformation process and the initiation of further conformational changes of the entire protein scaffold, as recently observed by cryo-EM (Malla et al., 2024).
4. Conclusion and outlook
Our data show that TR-SSX data can be collected at ID29 with high spatial resolution. For PYP and the phytochrome, excellent data were collected that rival the quality of data collected from the same proteins at XFELs (Tenboer et al., 2014; Sanchez et al., 2019; Carrillo et al., 2021). The data quality of ccNiR, with an Rsplit of 36% (Table 1), could have been improved further by collecting more diffraction patterns. At the time, we were limited by the amount of ccNiR sample available to us. In our opinion, in particular with respect to accumulating data for a high-resolution reference structure, it is better to collect high-multiplicity serial data which might be contaminated by some radiation damage than to collect a low-multiplicity data set with large Rsplit values. Accordingly, the same fixed target can be slightly displaced and the scan repeated, or large scanning steps can be replaced with smaller steps to increase the available number of detector readouts, even when some of the crystals are interrogated twice or even multiple times. In our experiment, the scanning steps were conservatively chosen to be 20 µm apart to prevent any contamination from the previous X-ray exposure. Decreasing the scanning step by 10 µm would have increased the number of diffraction patterns by a factor of four. A lower Rsplit value and a better resolution would likely be the result.
The uptake of an electron by ccNiR creates a current that can be used by sensors or exploited as an (exotic) energy source. CcNiR can be used as an amperometric electrode for the detection or measurement of unwanted chemical species (Strehlitz et al., 1996). Accurately quantifying nitrite concentrations has a direct application in monitoring nitrite in drinking water and wastewater-treatment facilities. Such a device would require an to function. Therefore, understanding the electron pathways of these reduction processes could also spark the design of novel artificial electron donors.
The successful room-temperature ). MISC enables the visualization of the complete reaction cycle in order to better understand enzymatic mechanisms (Schmidt, 2013, 2020; Stagno et al., 2017; Kupitz et al., 2017; Olmos et al., 2018; Dasgupta et al., 2019; Malla et al., 2023; Ishigami et al., 2019; Mehrabi, Schulz, Agthe et al., 2019; Pandey et al., 2021) and capture intermediates that populate the reaction pathway. The reaction in ccNiR microcrystals can be triggered by mixing with a nitrite solution. With a proper such as methyl viologen (Schmidt, 2013), structural changes should occur from the binding of nitrite to the generation of the final product, ammonium. At room temperatures, the Shewanella ccNiR turnover time is 1.2 ms (Youngblut et al., 2012). Small molecules such as nitrite diffuse efficiently into the crystals. Assuming a of 2 × 10−5 cm2 s−1 and plate-like 10 × 10 × 2 µm crystals (Supplementary Fig. S1), we anticipate diffusion times around 200 µs (Schmidt, 2013), which match the 90 µs X-ray exposures well. Meaningful MISC experiments with ccNiR are likely to be feasible. The observation window should be increased by (i) maximizing the nitrite concentration to quickly reach a stoichiometric substrate concentration (Schmidt, 2020) in the unit cells and (ii) decreasing the temperature (Schmidt et al., 2013) as an attempt to slow down the ccNiR turnover rate.
of ccNiR opens avenues for future time-resolved mix-and-inject serial crystallography (MISC) experiments (Schmidt, 2013Concerns exist about X-ray radiation damage inflicted by the large number of X-ray photons during a single 90 µs pulse (Garman & Weik, 2011). At XFELs the diffraction-before-destruction principle (Neutze et al., 2000; Chapman et al., 2006, 2014; Nass et al., 2015) is the reason that structures are determined essentially free of (visible) radiation damage. It is a matter of intense and systematic study whether the X-ray pulses used at ID29 inflict substantial radiation damage, the disorder resulting from which would diminish the number of X-ray photons diffracted into Bragg reflections, in particular at high resolution. By comparing the electron density of an iron-containing protein (myoglobin) determined at an XFEL with that determined by SSX at the PETRA-III synchrotron at the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, radiation damage was observed at the iron site in the SSX data but not in the SFX data (Mehrabi et al., 2021). However, the SSX X-ray exposures that were used at PETRA-III were about 37 ms long, in contrast to those at ID29, which are about three orders of magnitude shorter. Very weak, if any, tell-tale DED is detectable near any of the ten heme irons in ccNiR Fo − Fc difference maps. In the light of the limited amount of data collected and the limited resolution, further experiments are required. Because of the many heme irons in the ccNiR that are easily photoreduced, ccNiR crystals are ideal for these investigations.
The pump–probe experiment on SaBphP2-PCM is particularly noteworthy. While XFELs have been used for pump–probe experiments with this phytochrome on various time scales, including milliseconds (Claesson et al., 2020; Carrillo et al., 2021), XFELS are mainly used to study ultrafast processes. Longer time scales are not prioritized, although longer-lived intermediates are present in phytochromes whose structures need to be determined (Carrillo et al., 2021). Pump–probe experiments on very long time scales are also feasible at XFELs using tape drives (Kern et al., 2018) and potentially using fixed targets with the hit-and-return technique (Schulz et al., 2018). It needs to be established whether the quasi-monochromatic, single 10–40 fs X-ray pulses available at XFELs bear an advantage in terms of resolution and radiation damage compared with the 90 µs exposures used here. Another method that can determine macromolecular structures at near-atomic resolution is single-particle cryo-EM (Cheng, 2015; Nakane et al., 2020; Yip et al., 2020). TR-cryo-EM (Frank, 2017; Dandey et al., 2020; Lorenz, 2024) is currently being developed. However, TR-cryo-EM is still in its early stages and may not be sufficient for detecting subtle conformational changes. As shown here, an essential knowledge gap left by both TR-SFX and cryo-EM can be filled in. The large number of synchrotrons worldwide and their completed or emerging upgrades (Caramello & Royant, 2024) are poised to open up room-temperature TR-SSX with a few-microsecond time resolution to a wider scientific community.
Supporting information
Supplementary Fig. S1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252524010868/ro5043sup1.pdf
Footnotes
‡Present address: Vaccine Research Center Unit, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge beamtime provision at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) granted from ID29 BAG proposals MX2429 and MX2541. We thank Mia Lahey-Rudolph, Leif Holthusen and Manfred Roessle for providing the tape-drive system, supported by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung project `Tape4SSX' under grant No. 05K19FM1. We thank the ESRF Structural Biology Group for continuous support.
Funding information
This research was funded by BioXFEL (NSF-STC-1231306), by BioXFEL Center sub-award 6227 and NSF-2423601. AAP and VM were supported by NSF-2032265.
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