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 …

Serial femtosecond crystallography: A revolution in structural biology

JM Martin-Garcia, CE Conrad, J Coe… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2016 - Elsevier
Macromolecular crystallography at synchrotron sources has proven to be the most influential
method within structural biology, producing thousands of structures since its inception. While …

[PDF][PDF] The coherent X-ray imaging instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source

M Liang, GJ Williams, M Messerschmidt… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
The Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) instrument specializes in hard X-ray, in-vacuum, high
power density experiments in all areas of science. Two main sample chambers, one …

Acoustic injectors for drop-on-demand serial femtosecond crystallography

CG Roessler, R Agarwal, M Allaire, R Alonso-Mori… - Structure, 2016 - cell.com
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide very intense X-ray pulses suitable for
macromolecular crystallography. Each X-ray pulse typically lasts for tens of femtoseconds …

Concentric-flow electrokinetic injector enables serial crystallography of ribosome and photosystem II

RG Sierra, C Gati, H Laksmono, EH Dao, S Gul… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We describe a concentric-flow electrokinetic injector for efficiently delivering microcrystals for
serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography analysis that enables studies of challenging …

Protein crystal structure obtained at 2.9 Å resolution from injecting bacterial cells into an X-ray free-electron laser beam

MR Sawaya, D Cascio, M Gingery… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
It has long been known that toxins produced by Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are stored in the
bacterial cells in crystalline form. Here we describe the structure determination of the Cry3A …

[PDF][PDF] Diverse application platform for hard X-ray diffraction in SACLA (DAPHNIS): application to serial protein crystallography using an X-ray free-electron laser

K Tono, E Nango, M Sugahara, C Song… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
An experimental system for serial femtosecond crystallography using an X-ray free-electron
laser (XFEL) has been developed. It basically consists of a sample chamber, fluid injectors …

Towards an optimal sample delivery method for serial crystallography at XFEL

RKY Cheng - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The advent of the X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) in the last decade created the discipline of
serial crystallography but also the challenge of how crystal samples are delivered to X-ray …

Graphene-based microfluidics for serial crystallography

S Sui, Y Wang, KW Kolewe, V Srajer, R Henning… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic strategies to enable the growth and subsequent serial crystallographic analysis
of micro-crystals have the potential to facilitate both structural characterization and dynamic …

Aminoglycoside ribosome interactions reveal novel conformational states at ambient temperature

ME O'Sullivan, F Poitevin, RG Sierra, C Gati… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit is a primary antibiotic target. Despite decades of
discovery, the mechanisms by which antibiotic binding induces ribosomal dysfunction are …