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 …

Nonplanar porphyrins: synthesis, properties, and unique functionalities

T Ishizuka, N Grover, CJ Kingsbury, H Kotani… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Porphyrins are variously substituted tetrapyrrolic macrocycles, with wide-ranging biological
and chemical applications derived from metal chelation in the core and the 18π aromatic …

Structural insights into photosynthetic cyclic electron transport

S Zhang, B Zou, P Cao, X Su, F **e, X Pan, M Li - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
During photosynthesis, light energy is utilized to drive sophisticated biochemical chains of
electron transfers, converting solar energy into chemical energy that feeds most life on earth …

Review of serial femtosecond crystallography including the COVID-19 pandemic impact and future outlook

S Botha, P Fromme - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) revolutionized macromolecular crystallography
over the past decade by enabling the collection of X-ray diffraction data from nano-or …

Primary donor triplet states of Photosystem I and II studied by Q-band pulse ENDOR spectroscopy

J Niklas, A Agostini, D Carbonera, M Di Valentin… - Photosynthesis …, 2022 - Springer
The photoexcited triplet state of the “primary donors” in the two photosystems of oxygenic
photosynthesis has been investigated by means of electron-nuclear double resonance …

Torsion angles to map and visualize the conformational space of a protein

HM Ginn - Protein Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Present understanding of protein structure dynamics trails behind that of static structures. A
torsion‐angle‐based approach, called the representation of protein entities, derives an …

Real‐time XFEL data analysis at SLAC and NERSC: A trial run of nascent exascale experimental data analysis

JP Blaschke, AS Brewster, DW Paley… - Concurrency and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray scattering experiments using free electron lasers (XFELs) are a powerful tool to
determine the molecular structure and function of unknown samples (such as COVID‐19 …

[PDF][PDF] Determining biomolecular structures near room temperature using X-ray crystallography: concepts, methods and future optimization

RE Thorne - Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology, 2023 - journals.iucr.org
For roughly two decades, cryocrystallography has been the overwhelmingly dominant
method for determining high-resolution biomolecular structures. Competition from single …

Impact of Peripheral Hydrogen Bond on Electronic Properties of the Primary Acceptor Chlorophyll in the Reaction Center of Photosystem I

L Luo, AP Martin, EK Tandoh, A Chistoserdov… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Photosystem I (PS I) is a photosynthetic pigment–protein complex that absorbs light and
uses the absorbed energy to initiate electron transfer. Electron transfer has been shown to …

How a Lightsource Uses a supercomputer for live interactive analysis of large data sets: Perspectives on the NERSC-LCLS superfacility

JP Blaschke, F Wittwer, B Enders… - Synchrotron Radiation …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
X-ray scattering experiments using free electron lasers (XFELs) are a powerful tool to
determine the molecular structure and function of unknown samples (such as new materials …