학술논문

Single-particle imaging without symmetry constraints at an X-ray free-electron laser
Document Type
article
Source
IUCrJ, Vol 5, Iss 6, Pp 727-736 (2018)
Subject
single-particle imaging
three-dimensional virus reconstructions
XFELs
Crystallography
QD901-999
Language
English
ISSN
2052-2525
20522525
Abstract
The analysis of a single-particle imaging (SPI) experiment performed at the AMO beamline at LCLS as part of the SPI initiative is presented here. A workflow for the three-dimensional virus reconstruction of the PR772 bacteriophage from measured single-particle data is developed. It consists of several well defined steps including single-hit diffraction data classification, refined filtering of the classified data, reconstruction of three-dimensional scattered intensity from the experimental diffraction patterns by orientation determination and a final three-dimensional reconstruction of the virus electron density without symmetry constraints. The analysis developed here revealed and quantified nanoscale features of the PR772 virus measured in this experiment, with the obtained resolution better than 10 nm, with a clear indication that the structure was compressed in one direction and, as such, deviates from ideal icosahedral symmetry.