Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of the sensory rhodopsin II / transducer complex in 150 mM NaCl, 25 mM Na/Na-Pi, 1.0 mM EDTA, 0.05% DDM, pH 8 were collected on the BM29 beam line at the ESRF (Grenoble, France) using a Pilatus 1M detector at a sample-detector distance of 2.9 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.09918 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). One solute concentration of 0.57 mg/ml was measured at 4°C. 14 successive 0.500 second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.
The protein of study is a non-fused complex of sensory rhodopsin II (NpSRII, UniProt ID P42196) with its cognate transducer (NpHtrII, UniProt ID P42259) from Nartonomonas pharaonis. The NpSRII/NpHtrII complex in 0.05% (w/v) n-Dodecyl β-D-maltoside (DDM) detergent forms dimers at 150 mM NaCl. For the "straight" model of the NpSRII/NpHtrII dimer, chi-square of the fit is 5.1. Taking into account possible conformational flexibility associated with the HAMP1, HAMP2 and Gly flexible hinges, the chi-square value can be reduced to 3.4.
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