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 …

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 …

Measurement of atom resolvability in cryo-EM maps with Q-scores

G Pintilie, K Zhang, Z Su, S Li, MF Schmid, W Chiu - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) maps are now at the point where resolvability of
individual atoms can be achieved. However, resolvability is not necessarily uniform …

Megahertz serial crystallography

MO Wiedorn, D Oberthür, R Bean, R Schubert… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The new European X-ray Free-Electron Laser is the first X-ray free-electron laser capable of
delivering X-ray pulses with a megahertz inter-pulse spacing, more than four orders of …

X-ray-based techniques to study the nano–bio interface

C Sanchez-Cano, RA Alvarez-Puebla, JM Abendroth… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
X-ray-based analytics are routinely applied in many fields, including physics, chemistry,
materials science, and engineering. The full potential of such techniques in the life sciences …

Diffraction before destruction

HN Chapman, C Caleman… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
X-ray free-electron lasers have opened up the possibility of structure determination of
protein crystals at room temperature, free of radiation damage. The femtosecond-duration …

[PDF][PDF] Radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography: what is it and why should we care?

EF Garman - Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological …, 2010 - journals.iucr.org
Radiation damage inflicted during diffraction data collection in macromolecular
crystallography has re-emerged in the last decade as a major experimental and …

Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements

A Barty, C Caleman, A Aquila, N Timneanu, L Lomb… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
X-ray free-electron lasers have enabled new approaches to the structural determination of
protein crystals that are too small or radiation-sensitive for conventional analysis. For …

Analysis of global and site-specific radiation damage in cryo-EM

J Hattne, D Shi, C Glynn, CT Zee, M Gallagher-Jones… - Structure, 2018 - cell.com
Micro-crystal electron diffraction (MicroED) combines the efficiency of electron scattering
with diffraction to allow structure determination from nano-sized crystalline samples in …

[PDF][PDF] Room-temperature macromolecular serial crystallography using synchrotron radiation

F Stellato, D Oberthür, M Liang, R Bean, C Gati… - IUCrJ, 2014 - journals.iucr.org
A new approach for collecting data from many hundreds of thousands of microcrystals using
X-ray pulses from a free-electron laser has recently been developed. Referred to as serial …