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 …

Advances and challenges in time-resolved macromolecular crystallography

G Brändén, R Neutze - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Conformational changes are essential for the correct functioning of
biological macromolecules. Time-resolved x-ray crystallography extends an extremely …

Electron microscopy studies of soft nanomaterials

Z Lyu, L Yao, W Chen, FC Kalutantirige… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This review highlights recent efforts on applying electron microscopy (EM) to soft (including
biological) nanomaterials. We will show how developments of both the hardware and …

Features and futures of X-ray free-electron lasers

N Huang, H Deng, B Liu, D Wang, Z Zhao - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Linear accelerator-based free-electron lasers (FELs) are the leading source of fully coherent
X-rays with ultra-high peak powers and ultra-short pulse lengths. Current X-ray FEL facilities …

Crystal structure of rhodopsin bound to arrestin by femtosecond X-ray laser

Y Kang, XE Zhou, X Gao, Y He, W Liu, A Ishchenko… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) signal primarily through G proteins or arrestins.
Arrestin binding to GPCRs blocks G protein interaction and redirects signalling to numerous …

Linac coherent light source: The first five years

C Bostedt, S Boutet, DM Fritz, Z Huang, HJ Lee… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x-ray
free-electron laser (FEL), the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), at SLAC National …

SwissFEL: the Swiss X-ray free electron laser

CJ Milne, T Schietinger, M Aiba, A Alarcon, J Alex… - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul
Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in …

Androgen receptor: structure, role in prostate cancer and drug discovery

MH Tan, J Li, HE Xu, K Melcher, E Yong - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2015 - nature.com
Androgens and androgen receptors (AR) play a pivotal role in expression of the male
phenotype. Several diseases, such as androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) and prostate …

Protein X-ray crystallography and drug discovery

L Maveyraud, L Mourey - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the advent of structural biology in the drug discovery process, medicinal chemists
gained the opportunity to use detailed structural information in order to progress screening …

Fourier-transform ghost imaging with hard X rays

H Yu, R Lu, S Han, H Xie, G Du, T Xiao, D Zhu - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Knowledge gained through x-ray crystallography fostered structural determination of
materials and greatly facilitated the development of modern science and technology in the …