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 …

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 …

Mechanism and dynamics of fatty acid photodecarboxylase

D Sorigué, K Hadjidemetriou, S Blangy, G Gotthard… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Photoenzymes are rare biocatalysts driven by absorption of a photon at
each catalytic cycle; they inspire development of artificial photoenzymes with valuable …

[HTML][HTML] Cheetah: software for high-throughput reduction and analysis of serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction data

A Barty, RA Kirian, FRNC Maia, M Hantke… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - scripts.iucr.org
The emerging technique of serial X-ray diffraction, in which diffraction data are collected
from samples flowing across a pulsed X-ray source at repetition rates of 100 Hz or higher …

Three-dimensional reconstruction of the giant mimivirus particle with an x-ray free-electron laser

T Ekeberg, M Svenda, C Abergel, FRNC Maia… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We present a proof-of-concept three-dimensional reconstruction of the giant mimivirus
particle from experimentally measured diffraction patterns from an x-ray free-electron laser …

[PDF][PDF] Recent developments in CrystFEL

TA White, V Mariani, W Brehm, O Yefanov… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - journals.iucr.org
CrystFEL is a suite of programs for processing data fromserial crystallography'experiments,
which are usually performed using X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) but also increasingly …

Serial femtosecond crystallography: the first five years

I Schlichting - IUCrJ, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Protein crystallography using synchrotron radiation sources has had a tremendous impact
on biology, having yielded the structures of thousands of proteins and given detailed insight …

Direct observation of ultrafast collective motions in CO myoglobin upon ligand dissociation

TRM Barends, L Foucar, A Ardevol, K Nass, A Aquila… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The hemoprotein myoglobin is a model system for the study of protein dynamics. We used
time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography at an x-ray free-electron laser to resolve …

Chromophore twisting in the excited state of a photoswitchable fluorescent protein captured by time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography

N Coquelle, M Sliwa, J Woodhouse, G Schirò… - Nature Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Chromophores absorb light in photosensitive proteins and thereby initiate fundamental
biological processes such as photosynthesis, vision and biofluorescence. An important goal …

Three-dimensional view of ultrafast dynamics in photoexcited bacteriorhodopsin

G Nass Kovacs, JP Colletier, ML Grünbein… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) is a light-driven proton pump. The primary photochemical event
upon light absorption is isomerization of the retinal chromophore. Here we used time …