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 …

Strategies for sample delivery for femtosecond crystallography

I Martiel, HM Müller-Werkmeister… - Biological …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
Highly efficient data-collection methods are required for successful macromolecular
crystallography (MX) experiments at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). XFEL beamtime is …

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 …

Enzyme intermediates captured “on the fly” by mix-and-inject serial crystallography

JL Olmos, S Pandey, JM Martin-Garcia, G Calvey… - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Ever since the first atomic structure of an enzyme was solved, the discovery of
the mechanism and dynamics of reactions catalyzed by biomolecules has been the key goal …

Towards an optimal sample delivery method for serial crystallography at XFEL

RKY Cheng - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The advent of the X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) in the last decade created the discipline of
serial crystallography but also the challenge of how crystal samples are delivered to X-ray …

A guide to sample delivery systems for serial crystallography

FZ Zhao, B Zhang, EK Yan, B Sun, ZJ Wang… - The FEBS …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Crystallography has made a notable contribution to our knowledge of structural biology. For
traditional crystallography experiments, the growth of crystals with large size and high …

[PDF][PDF] Specific radiation damage is a lesser concern at room temperature

G Gotthard, S Aumonier, D De Sanctis, G Leonard… - IUCrJ, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
Carrying out macromolecular crystallography (MX) experiments at cryogenic temperatures
significantly slows the rate of global radiation damage, thus facilitating the solution of high …

Microfluidic sample delivery for serial crystallography using XFELs

A Echelmeier, M Sonker, A Ros - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2019 - Springer
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) with X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) is an
emerging field for structural biology. One of its major impacts lies in the ability to reveal the …

[PDF][PDF] Reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins for RESOLFT nanoscopy

NA Jensen, I Jansen, M Kamper… - Nanoscale Photonic …, 2020 - library.oapen.org
Diffraction-limited lens-based optical microscopy fails to discern fluorescent features closer
than∼ 200 nm. All super-resolution microscopy (nanoscopy) approaches that fundamentally …

Viscosity-adjustable grease matrices for serial nanocrystallography

M Sugahara, K Motomura, M Suzuki, T Masuda… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) has enabled determination of room temperature
structures of proteins with minimum radiation damage. A highly viscous grease matrix acting …