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ReviewTrends in biochemical sciences2017

A Bright Future for Serial Femtosecond Crystallography with XFELs.

Linda C Johansson, Benjamin Stauch, Andrii Ishchenko, Vadim Cherezov

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Review in Trends in biochemical sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed.

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  18. Serial femtosecond crystallography.Nature reviews. Methods primers · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Linda C JohanssonDepartment of Chemistry, Bridge Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-3303, USA.
Benjamin StauchDepartment of Chemistry, Bridge Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-3303, USA.
Andrii IshchenkoDepartment of Chemistry, Bridge Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-3303, USA.
Vadim CherezovDepartment of Chemistry, Bridge Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-3303, USA. Electronic address: cherezov@usc.edu.

Funding

HT structure determination of GPCRs by LCP serial femtosecond nanocrystallographyR01GM108635 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CHEREZOV, VADIM · 2014 to 2017
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108635
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) have the potential to revolutionize macromolecular structural biology due to the unique combination of spatial coherence, extreme peak brilliance, and short duration of X-ray pulses. A recently emerged serial femtosecond (fs) crystallography (SFX) approach using XFEL radiation overcomes some of the biggest hurdles of traditional crystallography related to radiation damage through the diffraction-before-destruction principle. Intense fs XFEL pulses enable high-resolution room-temperature structure determination of difficult-to-crystallize biological macromolecules, while simultaneously opening a new era of time-resolved structural studies. Here, we review the latest developments in instrumentation, sample delivery, data analysis, crystallization methods, and applications of SFX to important biological questions, and conclude with brief insights into the bright future of structural biology using XFELs.

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ElectronsLasersCrystallographyMacromolecular SubstancesTime FactorsX-RaysMacromolecular Substanceslipidic cubic phasemembrane proteinsmolecular moviesprotein complexesstructural biologyX-ray free electron laser

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PMID28733116
PMCPMC5600683

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