Radiation damage to biological macromolecules∗

EF Garman, M Weik - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review, we describe recent research developments into radiation damage effects in
macromolecular X-ray crystallography observed at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron …

Macromolecular room temperature crystallography

M Fischer - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2021 - cambridge.org
X-ray crystallography enables detailed structural studies of proteins to understand and
modulate their function. Conducting crystallographic experiments at cryogenic temperatures …

Radiation damage and dose limits in serial synchrotron crystallography at cryo-and room temperatures

E de La Mora, N Coquelle, CS Bury… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Radiation damage limits the accuracy of macromolecular structures in X-ray crystallography.
Cryogenic (cryo-) cooling reduces the global radiation damage rate and, therefore, became …

Doses for X‐ray and electron diffraction: New features in RADDOSE‐3D including intensity decay models

JL Dickerson, PTN McCubbin… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
New features in the dose estimation program RADDOSE‐3D are summarised. They include
the facility to enter a diffraction intensity decay model which modifies the “Diffraction …

On the reduction in the effects of radiation damage to two-dimensional crystals of organic and biological molecules at liquid-helium temperature

K Naydenova, A Kamegawa, MJ Peet, R Henderson… - Ultramicroscopy, 2022 - Elsevier
We have studied the fading of electron diffraction spots from two-dimensional (2D) crystals of
paraffin (C 44 H 90), purple membrane (bacteriorhodopsin) and aquaporin 4 (AQP4) at …

[PDF][PDF] Radiation damage to biological samples: still a pertinent issue

EF Garman, M Weik - Journal of synchrotron radiation, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
An understanding of radiation damage effects suffered by biological samples during
structural analysis using both X-rays and electrons is pivotal to obtain reliable molecular …

[PDF][PDF] Complementarity of neutron, XFEL and synchrotron crystallography for defining the structures of metalloenzymes at room temperature

T Moreno-Chicano, LM Carey, D Axford, JH Beale… - IUCrJ, 2022 - journals.iucr.org
Room-temperature macromolecular crystallography allows protein structures to be
determined under close-to-physiological conditions, permits dynamic freedom in protein …

[PDF][PDF] Integrated sample-handling and mounting system for fixed-target serial synchrotron crystallography

G Illava, R Jayne, AD Finke, D Closs… - … Section D: Structural …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
Serial synchrotron crystallography (SSX) is enabling the efficient use of small crystals for
structure–function studies of biomolecules and for drug discovery. An integrated SSX system …

Membrane protein crystallography in the era of modern structural biology

TOC Kwan, D Axford, I Moraes - Biochemical Society …, 2020 - portlandpress.com
The aim of structural biology has been always the study of biological macromolecules
structures and their mechanistic behaviour at molecular level. To achieve its goal, multiple …

Damage in electron cryomicroscopy: Lessons from biology for materials science

CJ Russo, RF Egerton - MRS Bulletin, 2019 - cambridge.org
The recent success of electron cryomicroscopy in biology has drawn the attention of the
materials science community, which is starting to employ similar techniques for imaging a …