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. 2019 May 28;75(Pt 6):545–553. doi: 10.1107/S2059798319006545

Table 2. Sample details, data-collection parameters, structural parameters and molecular-mass determination of SpeG_Ec in solution by SAXS.

SpeG concentration (mg ml−1) 0.65 1.7 3.9 7.5
Sample details
 Organism E. coli
 Source E. coli expressed
 NCBI reference sequence ID NC_000913.3 (1–186)
 Extinction coefficient [A 280, 0.1%(w/v)] 1.006
 Partial specific volume (cm3 g−1) 0.74
 Partial contrast from sequence and solvent constituents, ρprotein − ρsolvent (1010 cm−2) 2.79 (12.28–9.48)
Data-collection parameters
 Beam size at sample (µm) 266 × 266
 Wavelength (Å) 1.2398
q-range (Å−1) 0.0013–0.48
 Detector Rayonix MX170HS and LX170HS
 Absolute scaling method Comparison with Milli-Q water scattering in the same cell
 Normalization To transmitted intensity by beam-stop counter
 Monitoring for radiation damage X-ray dose maintained below 210 Gy, frame-by-frame comparison
 Detector distance (m) 8.5 and 1.0
 Exposure time per image (s) 8
 Sample volume (µl) 250
 Sample configuration 1.4 mm path-length capillary-flow cell at 4 µl s−1
 Data-collection temperature (K) 295
Structural parameters from Guinier plot
I(0) (cm−1) 0.12 0.14 0.15 0.15
R g (Å) 42.1 43.1 43.2 42.0
q min−1) 0.0014 0.0014 0.0014 0.0014
qR g max (q min = 0.0082 Å) 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3
Structural parameters from P(r) plot
I(0) (cm−1) 0.118 0.142 0.150 0.155
R g (Å) 42.7 42.9 42.7 42.1
D max (Å) 115.7 131.5 126.6 120.8
 Porod volume estimate (nm3) 293 339 359 371
 Volume of correlation (Å3) 345 1090 2070 2410
Molecular-mass determination
 Molecular mass M r [V c 2/(0.1231R g)] (kDa) 253 283 290 300
 Calculated monomeric M r from sequence (kDa) 21.9