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ArticleeLife2015

Enabling X-ray free electron laser crystallography for challenging biological systems from a limited number of crystals.

Monarin Uervirojnangkoorn, Oliver B Zeldin, Artem Y Lyubimov, Johan Hattne, Aaron S Brewster, Nicholas K Sauter, Axel T Brunger, William I Weis

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Article in eLife, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Monarin UervirojnangkoornDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.
Oliver B ZeldinDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.
Artem Y LyubimovDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.
Johan HattneJanelia Research Campus, Ashburn, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8936-0912
Aaron S BrewsterPhysical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States.
Nicholas K SauterPhysical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States.
Axel T BrungerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5121-2036
William I WeisDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5583-6150

Funding

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) pp.711-759P41GM103393 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HODGSON, KEITH O · 2012 to 2019
$30.6M
Realizing New Horizons in X-ray Crystallography Data ProcessingR01GM095887 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI SAUTER, NICHOLAS K · 2011 to 2014
$1.5M
Towards real-time XFEL data reduction with CCTBXR01GM102520 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI SAUTER, NICHOLAS K · 2012 to 2015
$1.4M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS GM095887NIGMS NIH HHS GM102520NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103393NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095887NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is considerable potential for X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) to enable determination of macromolecular crystal structures that are difficult to solve using current synchrotron sources. Prior XFEL studies often involved the collection of thousands to millions of diffraction images, in part due to limitations of data processing methods. We implemented a data processing system based on classical post-refinement techniques, adapted to specific properties of XFEL diffraction data. When applied to XFEL data from three different proteins collected using various sample delivery systems and XFEL beam parameters, our method improved the quality of the diffraction data as well as the resulting refined atomic models and electron density maps. Moreover, the number of observations for a reflection necessary to assemble an accurate data set could be reduced to a few observations. These developments will help expand the applicability of XFEL crystallography to challenging biological systems, including cases where sample is limited.

Indexed as

Crystallography, X-RayElectronsLasersHydrogenaseModels, MolecularMyoglobinProteinsThermolysinX-RaysHydrogenaseMyoglobinProteinsThermolysinbiophysicsdata processingfree electron lasernonestructural biologyX-ray crystallography

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PMID25781634
PMCPMC4397907

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