Linac coherent light source: The first five years

C Bostedt, S Boutet, DM Fritz, Z Huang, HJ Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x-ray
free-electron laser (FEL), the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), at SLAC National …

Serial femtosecond crystallography: the first five years

I Schlichting - IUCrJ, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Protein crystallography using synchrotron radiation sources has had a tremendous impact
on biology, having yielded the structures of thousands of proteins and given detailed insight …

Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser

Y Kang, XE Zhou, X Gao, Y He, W Liu, A Ishchenko… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) signal primarily through G proteins or arrestins.
Arrestin binding to GPCRs blocks G protein interaction and redirects signalling to numerous …

Light-induced structural changes and the site of O= O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL

M Suga, F Akita, M Sugahara, M Kubo, Y Nakajima… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Photosystem II (PSII) is a huge membrane-protein complex consisting of 20 different
subunits with a total molecular mass of 350 kDa for a monomer. It catalyses light-driven …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of phosphorylation codes for arrestin recruitment by G protein-coupled receptors

XE Zhou, Y He, PW de Waal, X Gao, Y Kang… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate diverse signaling in part through interaction
with arrestins, whose binding promotes receptor internalization and signaling through G …

An oxyl/oxo mechanism for oxygen-oxygen coupling in PSII revealed by an x-ray free-electron laser

M Suga, F Akita, K Yamashita, Y Nakajima, G Ueno… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Photosynthetic water oxidation is catalyzed by the Mn4CaO5 cluster of photosystem II (PSII)
with linear progression through five S-state intermediates (S0 to S4). To reveal the …

Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser

P Nogly, T Weinert, D James, S Carbajo, D Ozerov… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Retinal is a light-sensitive protein ligand that is used by all domains of life
to process the information and energy content of light. Retinal-binding proteins are integral …

Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein

K Pande, CDM Hutchison, G Groenhof, A Aquila… - Science, 2016 - science.org
A variety of organisms have evolved mechanisms to detect and respond to light, in which the
response is mediated by protein structural changes after photon absorption. The initial step …

A three-dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin

E Nango, A Royant, M Kubo, T Nakane, C Wickstrand… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is a light-driven proton pump and a model membrane transport
protein. We used time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography at an x-ray free electron …

Optical control of ultrafast structural dynamics in a fluorescent protein

CDM Hutchison, JM Baxter, A Fitzpatrick, G Dorlhiac… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The photoisomerization reaction of a fluorescent protein chromophore occurs on the ultrafast
timescale. The structural dynamics that result from femtosecond optical excitation have …