Serial femtosecond crystallography

TRM Barends, B Stauch, V Cherezov… - Nature reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
With the advent of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), new, high-throughput serial
crystallography techniques for macromolecular structure determination have emerged …

The extremely brilliant source storage ring of the european synchrotron radiation facility

P Raimondi, C Benabderrahmane, P Berkvens… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS) is the experimental implementation of the
novel Hybrid Multi Bend Achromat (HMBA) storage ring magnetic lattice concept, which has …

Mechanism and dynamics of fatty acid photodecarboxylase

D Sorigué, K Hadjidemetriou, S Blangy, G Gotthard… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Photoenzymes are rare biocatalysts driven by absorption of a photon at
each catalytic cycle; they inspire development of artificial photoenzymes with valuable …

Serial millisecond crystallography for routine room-temperature structure determination at synchrotrons

T Weinert, N Olieric, R Cheng, S Brünle… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Historically, room-temperature structure determination was succeeded by cryo-
crystallography to mitigate radiation damage. Here, we demonstrate that serial millisecond …

[PDF][PDF] ZOO: an automatic data-collection system for high-throughput structure analysis in protein microcrystallography

K Hirata, K Yamashita, G Ueno, Y Kawano… - … Section D: Structural …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
Owing to the development of brilliant microfocus beamlines, rapid-readout detectors and
sample changers, protein microcrystallography is rapidly becoming a popular technique for …

Radiation damage to biological macromolecules∗

EF Garman, M Weik - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe recent research developments into radiation damage effects in
macromolecular X-ray crystallography observed at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron …

Chromophore twisting in the excited state of a photoswitchable fluorescent protein captured by time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography

N Coquelle, M Sliwa, J Woodhouse, G Schirò… - Nature Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Chromophores absorb light in photosensitive proteins and thereby initiate fundamental
biological processes such as photosynthesis, vision and biofluorescence. An important goal …

[PDF][PDF] New tools for calibrating diffraction setups

J Kieffer, V Valls, N Blanc, C Hennig - Journal of synchrotron …, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
New calibration tools in the pyFAI suite for processing scattering experiments acquired with
area detectors are presented. These include a new graphical user interface for calibrating …

[PDF][PDF] Serial millisecond crystallography of membrane and soluble protein microcrystals using synchrotron radiation

JM Martin-Garcia, CE Conrad, G Nelson, N Stander… - IUCrJ, 2017 - journals.iucr.org
Crystal structure determination of biological macromolecules using the novel technique of
serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) is severely limited by the scarcity of X-ray free …

[PDF][PDF] Sample delivery for serial crystallography at free-electron lasers and synchrotrons

ML Grünbein, G Nass Kovacs - Acta Crystallographica Section D …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
The high peak brilliance and femtosecond pulse duration of X-ray free-electron lasers
(XFELs) provide new scientific opportunities for experiments in physics, chemistry and …