In situ X-ray spectroscopies beyond conventional X-ray absorption spectroscopy on deciphering dynamic configuration of electrocatalysts

J Wang, CS Hsu, TS Wu, TS Chan, NT Suen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Realizing viable electrocatalytic processes for energy conversion/storage strongly relies on
an atomic-level understanding of dynamic configurations on catalyst-electrolyte interface. X …

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 …

Structural evidence for intermediates during O2 formation in photosystem II

A Bhowmick, R Hussein, I Bogacz, PS Simon… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In natural photosynthesis, the light-driven splitting of water into electrons, protons and
molecular oxygen forms the first step of the solar-to-chemical energy conversion process …

[HTML][HTML] DIALS: implementation and evaluation of a new integration package

G Winter, DG Waterman, JM Parkhurst… - … Section D: Structural …, 2018 - scripts.iucr.org
The DIALS project is a collaboration between Diamond Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory and CCP4 to develop a new software suite for the analysis of …

Structures of the intermediates of Kok's photosynthetic water oxidation clock

J Kern, R Chatterjee, ID Young, FD Fuller, L Lassalle… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Inspired by the period-four oscillation in flash-induced oxygen evolution of photosystem II
discovered by Joliot in 1969, Kok performed additional experiments and proposed a five …

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 …

Water networks in photosystem II using crystalline molecular dynamics simulations and room-temperature XFEL serial crystallography

MD Doyle, A Bhowmick, DC Wych… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Structural dynamics of water and its hydrogen-bonding networks play an important role in
enzyme function via the transport of protons, ions, and substrates. To gain insights into these …

Untangling the sequence of events during the S2 → S3 transition in photosystem II and implications for the water oxidation mechanism

M Ibrahim, T Fransson, R Chatterjee… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In oxygenic photosynthesis, light-driven oxidation of water to molecular oxygen is carried out
by the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in photosystem II (PS II). Recently, we reported the …

Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes

U Bergmann, J Kern, RW Schoenlein, P Wernet… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The metal centres in metalloenzymes and molecular catalysts are responsible for the
rearrangement of atoms and electrons during complex chemical reactions, and they enable …

[HTML][HTML] Recent results in time resolved serial femtosecond crystallography at XFELs

AM Orville - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (tr-SFX) probes structure and
function in each sample.•X-ray free electron lasers (XFELS) provide atomic and electronic …