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 …

Macromolecular room temperature crystallography

M Fischer - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2021 - cambridge.org
X-ray crystallography enables detailed structural studies of proteins to understand and
modulate their function. Conducting crystallographic experiments at cryogenic temperatures …

Time-resolved crystallography reveals allosteric communication aligned with molecular breathing

P Mehrabi, EC Schulz, R Dsouza… - Science, 2019 - science.org
A comprehensive understanding of protein function demands correlating structure and
dynamic changes. Using time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography, we visualized half …

Quantifying and comparing radiation damage in the Protein Data Bank

KL Shelley, EF Garman - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Radiation damage remains one of the major bottlenecks to accurate structure solution in
protein crystallography. It can induce structural and chemical changes in protein crystals …

Radiation damage and dose limits in serial synchrotron crystallography at cryo-and room temperatures

E de La Mora, N Coquelle, CS Bury… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Radiation damage limits the accuracy of macromolecular structures in X-ray crystallography.
Cryogenic (cryo-) cooling reduces the global radiation damage rate and, therefore, became …

Multimodal non-contact luminescence thermometry with Cr-doped oxides

V Mykhaylyk, H Kraus, Y Zhydachevskyy, V Tsiumra… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Luminescence methods for non-contact temperature monitoring have evolved through
improvements of hardware and sensor materials. Future advances in this field rely on the …

Liquid application method for time-resolved analyses by serial synchrotron crystallography

P Mehrabi, EC Schulz, M Agthe, S Horrell… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We introduce a liquid application method for time-resolved analyses (LAMA), an in situ
mixing approach for serial crystallography. Picoliter-sized droplets are shot onto chip …

Temperature artifacts in protein structures bias ligand-binding predictions

SYC Bradford, L El Khoury, Y Ge, M Osato… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
X-ray crystallography is the gold standard to resolve conformational ensembles that are
significant for protein function, ligand discovery, and computational methods development …

Mix-and-inject XFEL crystallography reveals gated conformational dynamics during enzyme catalysis

M Dasgupta, D Budday… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
How changes in enzyme structure and dynamics facilitate passage along the reaction
coordinate is a fundamental unanswered question. Here, we use time-resolved mix-and …

qFit 3: Protein and ligand multiconformer modeling for X‐ray crystallographic and single‐particle cryo‐EM density maps

BT Riley, SA Wankowicz, SHP de Oliveira… - Protein …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
New X‐ray crystallography and cryo‐electron microscopy (cryo‐EM) approaches yield vast
amounts of structural data from dynamic proteins and their complexes. Modeling the full …