A beginner's guide to radiation damage

JM Holton - Synchrotron Radiation, 2009 - journals.iucr.org
Many advances in the understanding of radiation damage to protein crystals, particularly at
cryogenic temperatures, have been made in recent years, but with this comes an expanding …

[HTML][HTML] Cryocooling and radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography

EF Garman, RL Owen - Biological Crystallography, 2006 - journals.iucr.org
Advances in cryocrystallographic techniques for macromolecular crystallography have been
intimately intertwined with efforts to reduce the deleterious effects of X-ray damage inflicted …

Radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography: what is it and why should we care?

EF Garman - Biological Crystallography, 2010 - journals.iucr.org
Radiation damage inflicted during diffraction data collection in macromolecular
crystallography has re-emerged in the last decade as a major experimental and …

Experimental determination of the radiation dose limit for cryocooled protein crystals

RL Owen, E Rudiño-Piñera, EF Garman - Proceedings of the National …, 2006 - pnas.org
Radiation damage to cryocooled protein crystals during x-ray structure determination has
become an inherent part of macromolecular diffraction data collection at third-generation …

EDNA: a framework for plugin-based applications applied to X-ray experiment online data analysis

MF Incardona, GP Bourenkov, K Levik… - Synchrotron …, 2009 - journals.iucr.org
EDNA is a framework for develo** plugin-based applications especially for online data
analysis in the X-ray experiments field. This article describes the features provided by the …

Primary radiation damage in bone evolves via collagen destruction by photoelectrons and secondary emission self-absorption

K Sauer, I Zizak, JB Forien, A Rack, E Scoppola… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
X-rays are invaluable for imaging and sterilization of bones, yet the resulting ionization and
primary radiation damage mechanisms are poorly understood. Here we monitor in-situ …

The minimum crystal size needed for a complete diffraction data set

JM Holton, KA Frankel - Biological Crystallography, 2010 - journals.iucr.org
In this work, classic intensity formulae were united with an empirical spot-fading model in
order to calculate the diameter of a spherical crystal that will scatter the required number of …

Estimate your dose: RADDOSE‐3D

CS Bury, JC Brooks‐Bartlett, SP Walsh… - Protein …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We present the current status of RADDOSE‐3D, a software tool allowing the estimation of
the dose absorbed in a macromolecular crystallography diffraction experiment. The code …

Structural basis of ligand selectivity and disease mutations in cysteinyl leukotriene receptors

A Gusach, A Luginina, E Marin, RL Brouillette… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cysteinyl leukotriene G protein-coupled receptors CysLT1 and CysLT2 regulate pro-
inflammatory responses associated with allergic disorders. While selective inhibition of …

Practical macromolecular cryocrystallography

JW Pflugrath - Structural Biology and Crystallization …, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Cryocrystallography is an indispensable technique that is routinely used for single-crystal X-
ray diffraction data collection at temperatures near 100 K, where radiation damage is …