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 …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] 3D printed devices and infrastructure for liquid sample delivery at the European XFEL

M Vakili, J Bielecki, J Knoška, F Otte… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
The Sample Environment and Characterization (SEC) group of the European X-ray Free-
Electron Laser (EuXFEL) develops sample delivery systems for the various scientific …

Heterogeneity in M. tuberculosis β-lactamase inhibition by Sulbactam

TN Malla, K Zielinski, L Aldama, S Bajt, D Feliz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
For decades, researchers have elucidated essential enzymatic functions on the atomic
length scale by tracing atomic positions in real-time. Our work builds on possibilities …

Evolving experimental techniques for structure-based drug design

C Aplin, SK Milano, KA Zielinski, L Pollack… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Structure-based drug design (SBDD) is a prominent method in rational drug development
and has traditionally benefitted from the atomic models of protein targets obtained using X …

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] Serial femtosecond crystallography approaches to understanding catalysis in iron enzymes

JAR Worrall, MA Hough - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Enzymes with iron-containing active sites play crucial roles in catalysing a myriad of
oxidative reactions essential to aerobic life. Defining the three-dimensional structures of iron …

[HTML][HTML] Room-temperature structural studies of SARS-CoV-2 protein NendoU with an X-ray free-electron laser

RJ Jernigan, D Logeswaran, D Doppler, N Nagaratnam… - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
NendoU from SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for the virus's ability to evade the innate immune
system by cleaving the polyuridine leader sequence of antisense viral RNA. Here we report …

A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done and will do for us

A Henkel, D Oberthür - Biological Crystallography, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Serial crystallography, born from groundbreaking experiments at the Linac Coherent Light
Source in 2009, has evolved into a pivotal technique in structural biology. Initially pioneered …