TR-USAXS/SAXS investigation of Myelin Basic Protein liquid-liquid phase separation kinetics

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Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of intrinsically disordered proteins has attracted a wide attention in the biological and biophysical community. We suggest to investigate the kinetics of the LLPS of the intrinsically disordered myelin basic protein (MBP) and connected structural changes of the protein using time-resolved (TR) USAXS/ SAXS at ID02 with the stopped flow technique. MBP is essential for the integrity of myelin sheaths ensuring flawless neuronal signal propagation and it is assumed that LLPS is necessary for its physiological function. We propose to use 3 detector distances to investigate a q-range of 1∙10^-3 - 5∙10^0 1/nm in order to observe internal protein structure, droplet nucleation and droplet growth evolution. Our proposed experiments take 60 hours of pure X-ray beamtime, so we believe that 3 days of beamtime are necessary considering extra time required to set up the device, do cleaning, test-shots, find suitable exposure times and radiation intensities.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-804824551
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Provenance
Creator Irina APANASENKO ORCID logo; Igor GRAF VON WESTARP; Lauren MATTHEWS ORCID logo; Dmitrii VINOGRADOV; Andreas STADLER ORCID logo; Lingsam TEA ORCID logo; Benedetta Petra ROSI; Julio Martín PUSTERLA ORCID logo
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2025
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields