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ReviewIUCrJ2017

Progress in small-angle scattering from biological solutions at high-brilliance synchrotrons.

Anne T Tuukkanen, Alessandro Spilotros, Dmitri I Svergun

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Review in IUCrJ, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The BioSAXS laboratory of the ITACA.SB Research Infrastructure.Journal of applied crystallography · 2026
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  12. Medical contrast agents as promising tools for biomacromolecular SAXS experiments.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2022
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  15. Journal of applied crystallography · 2022
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  16. Small-angle scattering for beginners.Journal of applied crystallography · 2021
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  19. Physics of viral dynamics.Nature reviews. Physics · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anne T TuukkanenEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL Hamburg c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
Alessandro SpilotrosEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL Hamburg c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
Dmitri I SvergunEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL Hamburg c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0830-5696

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is an established technique that provides low-resolution structural information on macromolecular solutions. Recent decades have witnessed significant progress in both experimental facilities and in novel data-analysis approaches, making SAXS a mainstream method for structural biology. The technique is routinely applied to directly reconstruct low-resolution shapes of proteins and to generate atomistic models of macromolecular assemblies using hybrid approaches. Very importantly, SAXS is capable of yielding structural information on systems with size and conformational polydispersity, including highly flexible objects. In addition, utilizing high-flux synchrotron facilities, time-resolved SAXS allows analysis of kinetic processes over time ranges from microseconds to hours. Dedicated bioSAXS beamlines now offer fully automated data-collection and analysis pipelines, where analysis and modelling is conducted on the fly. This enables SAXS to be employed as a high-throughput method to rapidly screen various sample conditions and additives. The growing SAXS user community is supported by developments in data and model archiving and quality criteria. This review illustrates the latest developments in SAXS, in particular highlighting time-resolved applications aimed at flexible and evolving systems.

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small-angle X-ray scatteringstructural modellingtime-resolved SAXS

Identifiers

PMID28989709
PMCPMC5619845

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