[HTML][HTML] Structure-guided evolution of cyan fluorescent proteins towards a quantum yield of 93%

J Goedhart, D Von Stetten, M Noirclerc-Savoye… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Cyan variants of green fluorescent protein are widely used as donors in Förster resonance
energy transfer experiments. The popular, but modestly bright, Enhanced Cyan Fluorescent …

[HTML][HTML] Current advances in synchrotron radiation instrumentation for MX experiments

RL Owen, J Juanhuix, M Fuchs - Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Following pioneering work 40 years ago, synchrotron beamlines dedicated to
macromolecular crystallography (MX) have improved in almost every aspect as …

Crystal structure of a light-driven sodium pump

I Gushchin, V Shevchenko, V Polovinkin… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Recently, the first known light-driven sodium pumps, from the microbial rhodopsin family,
were discovered. We have solved the structure of one of them, Krokinobacter eikastus …

Advancements in macromolecular crystallography: From past to present

I Rathore, V Mishra, P Bhaumik - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Protein Crystallography or Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) started as a new discipline
of science with the pioneering work on the determination of the protein crystal structures by …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal structure of a common GPCR-binding interface for G protein and arrestin

M Szczepek, F Beyrière, KP Hofmann, M Elgeti… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) transmit extracellular signals to activate intracellular
heterotrimeric G proteins (Gαβγ) and arrestins. For G protein signalling, the Gα C-terminus …

Stabilizing role of glutamic acid 222 in the structure of Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein

A Royant, M Noirclerc-Savoye - Journal of structural biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP) is a variant of wild-type Green Fluorescent
Protein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, whose mutations S65T and F64L increase …

[HTML][HTML] Snapshots of enzymatic Baeyer-Villiger catalysis: oxygen activation and intermediate stabilization

R Orru, HM Dudek, C Martinoli, DET Pazmiño… - Journal of Biological …, 2011 - ASBMB
Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenases catalyze the oxidation of carbonylic substrates to ester or
lactone products using NADPH as electron donor and molecular oxygen as oxidative …

Intrinsic dynamics in ECFP and Cerulean control fluorescence quantum yield

M Lelimousin, M Noirclerc-Savoye… - Biochemistry, 2009 - ACS Publications
Enhanced cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP) and its variant Cerulean are genetically encoded
fluorophores widely used as donors in FRET-based cell imaging experiments. First, we have …

[HTML][HTML] In crystallo optical spectroscopy (icOS) as a complementary tool on the macromolecular crystallography beamlines of the ESRF

D von Stetten, T Giraud, P Carpentier… - … Section D: Biological …, 2015 - scripts.iucr.org
The analysis of structural data obtained by X-ray crystallography benefits from information
obtained from complementary techniques, especially as applied to the crystals themselves …

Crystal structure of plant light‐harvesting complex shows the active, energy‐transmitting state

T Barros, A Royant, J Standfuss, A Dreuw… - The EMBO …, 2009 - embopress.org
Plants dissipate excess excitation energy as heat by non‐photochemical quenching (NPQ).
NPQ has been thought to resemble in vitro aggregation quenching of the major antenna …