Ab Initio Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Micro-Beam Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (Μ-GISAXS) during Protein Crystal Nucleation and Growth - Archive ouverte HAL
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Ab Initio Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Micro-Beam Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (Μ-GISAXS) during Protein Crystal Nucleation and Growth

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Micro-beam Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-ray scattering (μ-GISAXS), exploiting both the advantages of elastic X-ray scattering and the highly focused third-generation synchrotron radiation micro-beams, is an advanced scattering technique that enables scientists to unravel the details of crystal growth processes and to investigate large-scale structures in thin films, including nanobiofilms or other different kinds of surfaces, such as surface gradients or confined surfaces. In this study, we analyze semi-quantitatively and we simulate our previously acquired μ-GISAXS experiments of Thaumatin and Lysozyme Langmuir-Blodgett (LB)-film, shedding light on nucleation and crystal growth processes. Here, we show that, during LB-thin film facilitated nucleation, the particle radius of Thaumatin and of Lysozyme crystal increases while the film thickness reduces. Structural re-organization inside and within the LB-thin film are likely to lead to the crystal nucleation and growth. These semi-quantitative findings are in agreement with the model previously hypothesized. New insights and implications for protein nanocrystallography are also discussed.
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hal-01243090 , version 1 (14-12-2015)

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Claudio Nicolini, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Eugenia Pechkova, Rémi Lazzari. Ab Initio Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Micro-Beam Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (Μ-GISAXS) during Protein Crystal Nucleation and Growth. Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 2014, 07 (02), pp.064--070. ⟨10.4172/jpb.1000303⟩. ⟨hal-01243090⟩
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