Serial femtosecond crystallography. [PDF]
With the advent of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs), new, high-throughput serial crystallography techniques for macromolecular structure determination have emerged. Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) and related methods provide possibilities beyond canonical, single-crystal rotation crystallography by mitigating radiation damage and allowing ...
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A novel inert crystal delivery medium for serial femtosecond crystallography [PDF]
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) has opened a new era in crystallography by permitting nearly damage-free, room-temperature structure determination of challenging proteins such as membrane proteins.
Chelsie E. Conrad +23 more
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Chemical crystallography by serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction [PDF]
AbstractInorganic–organic hybrid materials represent a large share of newly reported structures, owing to their simple synthetic routes and customizable properties1. This proliferation has led to a characterization bottleneck: many hybrid materials are obligate microcrystals with low symmetry and severe radiation sensitivity, interfering with the ...
Elyse A. Schriber +26 more
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Lipidic phase membrane protein serial femtosecond crystallography [PDF]
X-ray free electron laser (X-FEL)-based serial femtosecond crystallography is an emerging method with potential to rapidly advance the challenging field of membrane protein structural biology. Here we recorded interpretable diffraction data from micrometer-sized lipidic sponge phase crystals of the Blastochloris viridis photosynthetic reaction center ...
Johansson L. C. +67 more
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Serial femtosecond crystallography: the first five years [PDF]
Protein crystallography using synchrotron radiation sources has had a tremendous impact on biology, having yielded the structures of thousands of proteins and given detailed insight into their mechanisms.
Ilme Schlichting
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Serial femtosecond crystallography: A revolution in structural biology [PDF]
Macromolecular crystallography at synchrotron sources has proven to be the most influential method within structural biology, producing thousands of structures since its inception. While its utility has been instrumental in progressing our knowledge of structures of molecules, it suffers from limitations such as the need for large, well-diffracting ...
Jose M, Martin-Garcia +4 more
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Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography [PDF]
X-ray free-electron lasers overcome the problem of radiation damage in protein crystallography and allow structure determination from micro- and nanocrystals at room temperature. To ensure that consecutive X-ray pulses do not probe previously exposed crystals, the sample needs to be replaced with the X-ray repetition rate, which ranges from 120 Hz at ...
Uwe Weierstall
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An outlook on using serial femtosecond crystallography in drug discovery. [PDF]
Introduction: X-ray crystallography has made important contributions to modern drug development but its application to many important drug targets has been extremely challenging. The recent emergence of X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) and advancements in serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) have offered new opportunities to overcome limitations ...
Mishin A +5 more
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Lipidic cubic phase injector facilitates membrane protein serial femtosecond crystallography [PDF]
Lipidic cubic phase (LCP) crystallization has proven successful for high-resolution structure determination of challenging membrane proteins. Here we present a technique for extruding gel-like LCP with embedded membrane protein microcrystals, providing a continuously renewed source of material for serial femtosecond crystallography. Data collected from
Weierstall, Uwe +36 more
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Structure of the Angiotensin Receptor Revealed by Serial Femtosecond Crystallography [PDF]
Angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT(1)R) is a G protein-coupled receptor that serves as a primary regulator for blood pressure maintenance. Although several anti-hypertensive drugs have been developed as AT(1)R blockers (ARBs), the structural basis for AT(1)R ligand-binding and regulation has remained elusive, mostly due to the difficulties of growing ...
Zhang, Haitao +27 more
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