Hi all, My work is to solve huge complex containing 4 different proteins and total molecular weight is about 300 KD. I can purify the complex by co-expression them in E.coli. This complex contains 8 protein A, 2 protein B and 1 protein C and D. protein B and protein C have homology structures deposited in PDB database. No homology structure available for protein A and D, which contribute 60% of the whole molecular weight for the complex.
Now I am trying to find a way to solve the phase of this complex. I am thinking of use sad or mad with se-Met. There total 111 Met residues in this complex. Is it possible to solve this complex by se-Met? Does someone have experience to solve huge complex structure with se-met? It is also very welcome for all the suggestion. Thank you. All the best, Lisa