Feb 07, 2024

Public workspaceStructural Analysis of 20S CPs and Assembly Intermediates by Electron Cryo-Microscopy

  • 1Department of Molecular Machines and Signaling, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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Protocol CitationFrank Adolf 2024. Structural Analysis of 20S CPs and Assembly Intermediates by Electron Cryo-Microscopy. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.x54v9px14g3e/v1
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,  which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
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Created: February 06, 2024
Last Modified: June 01, 2024
Protocol Integer ID: 94722
Keywords: ASAPCRN, proteasome, core particle, 20S proteasome, chaperone, molecular machine, multiprotein complex, POMP, PAC1, PAC2, PAC3, PAC4, propeptide, protease
Funders Acknowledgements:
Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP)
Grant ID: ASAP‐000282
Abstract
This protocol details methods for structural determination by transmission electron cryo-microscopy of 20S CPs and assembly intermediates.
Guidelines
Please familiarise yourself with the laboratory safety rules and guidelines and follow these while performing the experiment. Please wear appropriate PE while performing the experiment.
Materials
QUANTIFOIL R 1.2/1.3 Cu 200 - Quantifoil
Safety warnings
Liquid nitrogen (LN2) and other cryogens can cause severe damage to the skin and eyes. Always wear personal protective equipment when handling these cryogens.
Plung freezing of 20S CPs amd 20S CP assembly intermediates
Plung freezing of 20S CPs amd 20S CP assembly intermediates
1h
1h
Prepare Vitrobot and grids for plunging
  • Set up Vitrobot as follows: blot force = 3, blot time = Duration00:00:03 sec, humidity 100%, temperature Temperature4 °C
  • Plasma clean Quantifoil R1.2/1.3 Cu 200 grids for Duration00:00:45 sec , just before plunging


48s
Incubation
Apply Amount3.5 µL of purified 20S CPs at a concentration of Concentration0.5-0.6 mg/mL or purified and concentrated 20S CP assembly intermediates at a concentration of Concentration4.0-5.0 mg/mL with Fos8-cholin at a finale concentration of Concentration0.25 millimolar (mM) on grids, automatically blot and plunge in ethane/propane mix at Temperature-180 °C with a Vitrobot Mark IV

1h
Pipetting
Clipp and store grids in LN2 until screening/data collection
Pause
cryo-EM screening and data acquisition
cryo-EM screening and data acquisition
1d
1d
Screen cryoEM grids for particle density and ice quality on a Glacios cryo-TEM (Thermo Fisher
Scientific) or cryo-TEM of your choise
1d
Imaging
Data collection was carried out either on a Glacios cryo-TEM (Thermo Fisher Scientific) operated at 200 kV equipped with a K2 Summit direct electron detector (DED) camera (Gatan) or Titan Krios G2 cryo-TEM (Thermo Fisher Scientific) operated at 300 kV equipped with a Bio Quantum post-column energy filter (Gatan, 10eV) and K3 direct electron detector (DED) camera (Gatan)

Data collection on both on the Glacios and Titan Krios G2 cryo-TEM and was set up with SerialEM version 4.1 utilizing coma-corrected beam-image shift

CITATION
Mastronarde DN (2005). Automated electron microscope tomography using robust prediction of specimen movements..
Glacios datasets where recorded with one movie per hole in counting mode with a 3x3 or 5x5 multi hole record acquisition scheme at a pixel size of 1.181 Å/pixel with a nominal magnification of 36000x, or at a pixel size of 1.885 Å/pixel with a nominal magnification of 22000x

A total dose of 60 e-/Å2 was fractionated over 40 frames, with a target defocus range of -1.0 μm to -2.6 μm

Krios datasets where recorded with three movie per hole in counting mode with a 5x5 multi hole record acquisition scheme at a pixel size of 0.8512 Å/pixel with a nominal magnification of 105000x

A total dose of 68 e-/Å2 was fractionated over 30 frames, with a target defocus range of -1.0 μm to -2.6 μm

2d
Imaging
Processing
Processing
All data processing steps were performed with cryoSPARC version 4.266

CITATION
Punjani A, Rubinstein JL, Fleet DJ, Brubaker MA (2017). cryoSPARC: algorithms for rapid unsupervised cryo-EM structure determination..
Raw movies from Glacios datasets were patch motion corrected in cryoSPARC, and raw movies of the Titan Krios K3 dataset were on the fly motion corrected with FOCUS and subsequently imported into cryoSPARC

CITATION
Biyani N, Righetto RD, McLeod R, Caujolle-Bert D, Castano-Diez D, Goldie KN, Stahlberg H (2017). Focus: The interface between data collection and data processing in cryo-EM..
All subsequent processing steps were preformed in cryoSPARC, for detaied processing shemes see the Extended Data Figures in https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.27.577538v1.full

Final post-processing was preformed with DeepEMhancer

CITATION
Sanchez-Garcia R, Gomez-Blanco J, Cuervo A, Carazo JM, Sorzano COS, Vargas J (2021). DeepEMhancer: a deep learning solution for cryo-EM volume post-processing..

2w
Computational step
Model building and refinement
Model building and refinement
1w
1w
AlphaFold2 models of PAC1-4 and POMP along with corresponding chains from a published
model of the 20S CP (PDB 5LE5) were manually docked with ChimeraX version 1.5


CITATION
Jumper J, Evans R, Pritzel A, Green T, Figurnov M, Ronneberger O, Tunyasuvunakool K, Bates R, Žídek A, Potapenko A, Bridgland A, Meyer C, Kohl SAA, Ballard AJ, Cowie A, Romera-Paredes B, Nikolov S, Jain R, Adler J, Back T, Petersen S, Reiman D, Clancy E, Zielinski M, Steinegger M, Pacholska M, Berghammer T, Bodenstein S, Silver D, Vinyals O, Senior AW, Kavukcuoglu K, Kohli P, Hassabis D (2021). Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold..

CITATION
Jumper J, Hassabis D (2022). Protein structure predictions to atomic accuracy with AlphaFold..

CITATION
Goddard TD, Huang CC, Meng EC, Pettersen EF, Couch GS, Morris JH, Ferrin TE (2018). UCSF ChimeraX: Meeting modern challenges in visualization and analysis..
Atomic models build in Coot version 0.9.8.7

CITATION
Emsley P, Lohkamp B, Scott WG, Cowtan K (2010). Features and development of Coot..

Refinment was carried out in Phenix version 1.19.2 and ISOLDE

CITATION
Liebschner D, Afonine PV, Baker ML, Bunkóczi G, Chen VB, Croll TI, Hintze B, Hung LW, Jain S, McCoy AJ, Moriarty NW, Oeffner RD, Poon BK, Prisant MG, Read RJ, Richardson JS, Richardson DC, Sammito MD, Sobolev OV, Stockwell DH, Terwilliger TC, Urzhumtsev AG, Videau LL, Williams CJ, Adams PD (2019). Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix..

CITATION
Croll TI (2018). ISOLDE: a physically realistic environment for model building into low-resolution electron-density maps..

1w
Computational step

Citations
Step 3
Mastronarde DN. Automated electron microscope tomography using robust prediction of specimen movements.
https://doi.org/
Step 5
Jumper J, Evans R, Pritzel A, Green T, Figurnov M, Ronneberger O, Tunyasuvunakool K, Bates R, Žídek A, Potapenko A, Bridgland A, Meyer C, Kohl SAA, Ballard AJ, Cowie A, Romera-Paredes B, Nikolov S, Jain R, Adler J, Back T, Petersen S, Reiman D, Clancy E, Zielinski M, Steinegger M, Pacholska M, Berghammer T, Bodenstein S, Silver D, Vinyals O, Senior AW, Kavukcuoglu K, Kohli P, Hassabis D. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2
Step 5
Jumper J, Hassabis D. Protein structure predictions to atomic accuracy with AlphaFold.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01362-6
Step 5
Goddard TD, Huang CC, Meng EC, Pettersen EF, Couch GS, Morris JH, Ferrin TE. UCSF ChimeraX: Meeting modern challenges in visualization and analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.3235
Step 5
Emsley P, Lohkamp B, Scott WG, Cowtan K. Features and development of Coot.
https://doi.org/10.1107/S0907444910007493
Step 5
Liebschner D, Afonine PV, Baker ML, Bunkóczi G, Chen VB, Croll TI, Hintze B, Hung LW, Jain S, McCoy AJ, Moriarty NW, Oeffner RD, Poon BK, Prisant MG, Read RJ, Richardson JS, Richardson DC, Sammito MD, Sobolev OV, Stockwell DH, Terwilliger TC, Urzhumtsev AG, Videau LL, Williams CJ, Adams PD. Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix.
https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798319011471
Step 5
Croll TI. ISOLDE: a physically realistic environment for model building into low-resolution electron-density maps.
https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798318002425