X-ray free-electron lasers for the structure and dynamics of macromolecules

HN Chapman - Annual review of biochemistry, 2019 - annualreviews.org
X-ray free-electron lasers provide femtosecond-duration pulses of hard X-rays with a peak
brightness approximately one billion times greater than is available at synchrotron radiation …

Recent notable approaches to study self‐assembly of nanoparticles with X‐ray scattering and electron microscopy

F Schulz, I Lokteva, WJ Parak… - Particle & Particle …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly of nanoparticles (NPs) has evolved into a powerful tool for the synthesis of
superstructures with tailored properties. The quality, diversity, and complexity of synthesized …

Megahertz single-particle imaging at the European XFEL

E Sobolev, S Zolotarev, K Giewekemeyer… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
The emergence of high repetition-rate X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) powered by
superconducting accelerator technology enables the measurement of significantly more …

Autocorrelation analysis for cryo-EM with sparsity constraints: improved sample complexity and projection-based algorithms

T Bendory, Y Khoo, J Kileel… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The number of noisy images required for molecular reconstruction in single-particle
cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) is governed by the autocorrelations of the observed …

[PDF][PDF] Single-particle imaging without symmetry constraints at an X-ray free-electron laser

M Rose, S Bobkov, K Ayyer, RP Kurta, D Dzhigaev… - IUCrJ, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
The analysis of a single-particle imaging (SPI) experiment performed at the AMO beamline
at LCLS as part of the SPI initiative is presented here. A workflow for the three-dimensional …

Electrospray sample injection for single-particle imaging with x-ray lasers

J Bielecki, MF Hantke, BJ Daurer, HKN Reddy… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The possibility of imaging single proteins constitutes an exciting challenge for x-ray lasers.
Despite encouraging results on large particles, imaging small particles has proven to be …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on single particle imaging with x rays at the advent of high repetition rate x-ray free electron laser sources

J Bielecki, FRNC Maia, AP Mancuso - Structural Dynamics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) now routinely produce millijoule level pulses of x-ray
photons with tens of femtoseconds duration. Such x-ray intensities gave rise to the idea that …

[PDF][PDF] Considerations for three-dimensional image reconstruction from experimental data in coherent diffractive imaging

IV Lundholm, JA Sellberg, T Ekeberg, MF Hantke… - IUCrJ, 2018 - journals.iucr.org
Diffraction before destruction using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has the potential to
determine radiation-damage-free structures without the need for crystallization. This article …

DNA-based construction at the nanoscale: emerging trends and applications

PL Xavier, AR Chandrasekaran - Nanotechnology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of structural DNA nanotechnology has evolved remarkably—from the creation of
artificial immobile junctions to the recent DNA–protein hybrid nanoscale shapes—in a span …

Low-energy electron holography imaging of conformational variability of single-antibody molecules from electrospray ion beam deposition

H Ochner, S Szilagyi, S Abb, J Gault… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Imaging of proteins at the single-molecule level can reveal conformational variability, which
is essential for the understanding of biomolecules. To this end, a biologically relevant state …