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 …

Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser

P Nogly, T Weinert, D James, S Carbajo, D Ozerov… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Retinal is a light-sensitive protein ligand that is used by all domains of life
to process the information and energy content of light. Retinal-binding proteins are integral …

Multiscale simulations of biological membranes: the challenge to understand biological phenomena in a living substance

G Enkavi, M Javanainen, W Kulig, T Róg… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …

Infrared difference spectroscopy of proteins: from bands to bonds

VA Lorenz-Fonfria - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Infrared difference spectroscopy probes vibrational changes of proteins upon their
perturbation. Compared with other spectroscopic methods, it stands out by its sensitivity to …

Serial millisecond crystallography for routine room-temperature structure determination at synchrotrons

T Weinert, N Olieric, R Cheng, S Brünle… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Historically, room-temperature structure determination was succeeded by cryo-
crystallography to mitigate radiation damage. Here, we demonstrate that serial millisecond …

[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 …

Ultracompact 3D microfluidics for time-resolved structural biology

J Knoška, L Adriano, S Awel, KR Beyerlein… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To advance microfluidic integration, we present the use of two-photon additive
manufacturing to fold 2D channel layouts into compact free-form 3D fluidic circuits with …

[HTML][HTML] XFELs for structure and dynamics in biology

JCH Spence - IUCrJ, 2017 - scripts.iucr.org
The development and application of the free-electron X-ray laser (XFEL) to structure and
dynamics in biology since its inception in 2009 are reviewed. The research opportunities …

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 …