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 …

Reaction dynamics studied via femtosecond X-ray liquidography at X-ray free-electron lasers

EH Choi, Y Lee, J Heo, H Ihee - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) provide femtosecond X-ray pulses suitable for pump–
probe time-resolved studies with a femtosecond time resolution. Since the advent of the first …

Atomic-scale observation of solvent reorganization influencing photoinduced structural dynamics in a copper complex photosensitizer

T Katayama, TK Choi, D Khakhulin, AO Dohn… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Photochemical reactions in solution are governed by a complex interplay between transient
intramolecular electronic and nuclear structural changes and accompanying solvent …

Tracking the ATP-binding response in adenylate kinase in real time

F Orädd, H Ravishankar, J Goodman, P Rogne… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The biological function of proteins is critically dependent on dynamics inherent to the native
structure. Such structural dynamics obey a predefined order and temporal timing to execute …

Light-induced protein structural dynamics in bacteriophytochrome revealed by time-resolved x-ray solution scattering

SJ Lee, TW Kim, JG Kim, C Yang, SR Yun, C Kim… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Bacteriophytochromes (BphPs) are photoreceptors that regulate a wide range of biological
mechanisms via red light–absorbing (Pr)–to–far-red light–absorbing (Pfr) reversible …

Form factor determination of biological molecules with X-ray free electron laser small-angle scattering (XFEL-SAS)

CE Blanchet, A Round, HDT Mertens, K Ayyer… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-electron lasers (FEL) are revolutionizing X-ray-based structural biology methods. While
protein crystallography is already routinely performed at FELs, Small Angle X-ray Scattering …

Cerium photocatalyst in action: structural dynamics in the presence of substrate visualized via time-resolved x-ray liquidography

Y Lee, H Ki, D Im, S Eom, J Gu, S Lee… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
[Ce (III) Cl6] 3–, with its earth-abundant metal element, is a promising photocatalyst
facilitating carbon–halogen bond activation. Still, the structure of the reaction intermediate …

Determining the charge distribution and the direction of bond cleavage with femtosecond anisotropic x-ray liquidography

J Heo, JG Kim, EH Choi, H Ki, DS Ahn, J Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Energy, structure, and charge are fundamental quantities characterizing a molecule.
Whereas the energy flow and structure change in chemical reactions are experimentally …

Tracking the structural dynamics of proteins with time-resolved X-ray solution scattering

K Pounot, G Schirò, M Levantino - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Relevant events during protein function such as ligand binding/release and interaction with
substrates or with light are often accompanied by out-of-equilibrium structural dynamics …

Filming ultrafast roaming-mediated isomerization of bismuth triiodide in solution

EH Choi, JG Kim, J Kim, H Ki, Y Lee, S Lee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Roaming reaction, defined as a reaction yielding products via reorientational motion in the
long-range region (3–8 Å) of the potential, is a relatively recently proposed reaction pathway …