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 …

[HTML][HTML] Serial synchrotron crystallography for time-resolved structural biology

AR Pearson, P Mehrabi - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The current state-of-the-art experiments in time-resolved structural biology are undoubtedly
the recent extremely impressive results that are emerging from XFEL-based experiments …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Sample delivery for serial crystallography at free-electron lasers and synchrotrons

ML Grünbein, G Nass Kovacs - Acta Crystallographica Section D …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
The high peak brilliance and femtosecond pulse duration of X-ray free-electron lasers
(XFELs) provide new scientific opportunities for experiments in physics, chemistry and …

Strategies for sample delivery for femtosecond crystallography

I Martiel, HM Müller-Werkmeister… - Biological …, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
Highly efficient data-collection methods are required for successful macromolecular
crystallography (MX) experiments at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). XFEL beamtime is …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Dose-resolved serial synchrotron and XFEL structures of radiation-sensitive metalloproteins

A Ebrahim, T Moreno-Chicano, MV Appleby… - IUCrJ, 2019 - journals.iucr.org
An approach is demonstrated to obtain, in a sample-and time-efficient manner, multiple dose-
resolved crystal structures from room-temperature protein microcrystals using identical fixed …

Growing and making nano-and microcrystals

RL Shoeman, E Hartmann, I Schlichting - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Thanks to recent technological advances in X-ray and micro-electron diffraction and solid-
state NMR, structural information can be obtained by using much smaller crystals. Thus …

Effect of X-ray free-electron laser-induced shockwaves on haemoglobin microcrystals delivered in a liquid jet

ML Grünbein, A Gorel, L Foucar, S Carbajo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) enable obtaining novel insights in structural biology. The
recently available MHz repetition rate XFELs allow full data sets to be collected in shorter …

[PDF][PDF] 3D-MiXD: 3D-printed X-ray-compatible microfluidic devices for rapid, low-consumption serial synchrotron crystallography data collection in flow

DCF Monteiro, D von Stetten, C Stohrer, M Sans… - IUCrJ, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
Serial crystallography has enabled the study of complex biological questions through the
determination of biomolecular structures at room temperature using low X-ray doses …