Emerging time-resolved x-ray diffraction approaches for protein dynamics

DR Hekstra - Annual review of biophysics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Proteins guide the flows of information, energy, and matter that make life possible by
accelerating transport and chemical reactions, by allosterically modulating these reactions …

[HTML][HTML] BioCARS: Synchrotron facility for probing structural dynamics of biological macromolecules

RW Henning, I Kosheleva, V Šrajer, IS Kim… - Structural …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
A major goal in biomedical science is to move beyond static images of proteins and other
biological macromolecules to the internal dynamics underlying their function. This level of …

Time-resolved crystallography captures light-driven DNA repair

NE Christou, V Apostolopoulou, DVM Melo, M Ruppert… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Photolyase is an enzyme that uses light to catalyze DNA repair. To capture the reaction
intermediates involved in the enzyme's catalytic cycle, we conducted a time-resolved …

Watching the release of a photopharmacological drug from tubulin using time-resolved serial crystallography

M Wranik, T Weinert, C Slavov, T Masini… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The binding and release of ligands from their protein targets is central to fundamental
biological processes as well as to drug discovery. Photopharmacology introduces chemical …

Transient state measurements on proteins by time-resolved crystallography

TN Malla, M Schmidt - Current opinion in structural biology, 2022 - Elsevier
After decades of diligent development at synchrotron light sources, the field of time-resolved
crystallography (TRX) is elevating to new heights. Driven by the appearance of X-ray free …

[HTML][HTML] Application of density matrix Wigner transforms for ultrafast macromolecular and chemical x-ray crystallography

S Perrett, V Chatrchyan, T Buckup… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Time-Resolved Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (TR-SFX) conducted at X-ray Free
Electron Lasers (XFELs) has become a powerful tool for capturing macromolecular structural …

[PDF][PDF] TORO Indexer: a PyTorch‐based indexing algorithm for kilohertz serial crystallography

P Gasparotto, L Barba, HC Stadler… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Serial crystallography (SX) involves combining observations from a very large number of
diffraction patterns coming from crystals in random orientations. To compile a complete data …

Longitudinal phase space diagnostics with a nonmovable corrugated passive wakefield streaker

P Dijkstal, W Qin, S Tomin - Physical review accelerators and beams, 2024 - APS
Time-resolved diagnostics at free-electron laser (FEL) facilities, in particular electron beam
longitudinal phase space (LPS) and FEL power profile measurements, provide information …

Lipidic cubic phase serial femtosecond crystallography structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre

P Båth, A Banacore, P Börjesson… - Biological …, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
Serial crystallography is a rapidly growing method that can yield structural insights from
microcrystals that were previously considered to be too small to be useful in conventional X …

Resolving DJ-1 glyoxalase catalysis using mix-and-inject serial crystallography at a synchrotron

KA Zielinski, C Dolamore, KM Dalton, N Smith… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
DJ-1 (PARK7) is an intensively studied protein whose cytoprotective activities are
dysregulated in multiple diseases. DJ-1 has been reported as having two distinct enzymatic …