TheMCSGSuitehasbeendevelopedattheMidwestCenterforStructuralGenomics.AspartoftheProteinStructureInitiative,MCSGhasbeeninstrumentalinthedevelopmentofrapid,integratedandcost-effectivemethodsforproteinstructuredeterminationviaX-raycrystallography.
Throughextensivecrystallizationscreeningofmorethan40,000diverseproteinsfrombothprokaryoticandeukaryoticorganisms,researchersattheMCSGhavederivedthemostup-to-datesetofcrystallizationconditionsforinitialscreening.Thesenon-redundantconditionsconstitutethebroadestcoverageofcrystallizationspaceofanycommerciallyavailablescreenandaresupportedbyadecadeofexperimentalanalysisandvalidation.
ThecompleteMCSGsuite(384conditions)comprisesof4screensof96uniqueconditionsthatareavailableeitherasdeep-wellblocks(1.7mLperwell)ortubes(10ml). Conditions1-288areorganizedinorderofdecreasingcrystalproductivityinscreensMCSG-1,MCSG-2andMCSG-3. ThusMCSG-1:A1conditionhasyieldedthegreatestnumberofuniquecrystalsforalltargetsscreenedwiththesuitepredecessors. TheconditionsthatcompriseMCSG-4havebeenrationallyselectedtosystematicallysampleregionsofcrystallizationspaceforproteinsrequiringadditionalscreening.
Theendresultisthebest,first-passscreeningsuitepossIBLe,with:
SouthernBiotech/Goat Anti-Human Lambda-Alexa Fluor® 555/2070-32/1.0 mg
vectorlabs/Biotinylated Aleuria Aurantia Lectin (AAL)/B-1395/1 mg
vectorlabs/VECTASTAIN® Elite® ABC-HRP Kit (Peroxidase, Mouse IgG)/PK-6102/1 kit
vectorlabs/VECTASTAIN® Elite® ABC-HRP Kit (Peroxidase, Universal)/PK-6200/1 kit
vectorlabs/Unconjugated Musa Paradisiaca (Banana) Lectin (BanLec)/L-1410/5 mg
GiottoBiotech/Calmodulin N60D/5 mg/G02CLM60cn