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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2018

Using sound pulses to solve the crystal-harvesting bottleneck.

Yasmin N Samara, Haley M Brennan, Liam McCarthy, Mary T Bollard, Denise Laspina, Jakub M Wlodek, Stefanie L Campos, Ramya Natarajan, Kazimierz Gofron, Sean McSweeney and 2 more

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Yasmin N SamaraOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Haley M BrennanOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Liam McCarthyOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Mary T BollardOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Denise LaspinaOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Jakub M WlodekOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Stefanie L CamposOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Ramya NatarajanOffice of Educational Programs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Kazimierz GofronEnergy Sciences Directorate, NSLS II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Sean McSweeneyEnergy Sciences Directorate, NSLS II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Alexei S SoaresEnergy Sciences Directorate, NSLS II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA.
Ludmila LeroyUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-4272-0298

Funding

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) pp.711-759P41GM103393 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI HODGSON, KEITH O · 2012 to 2019
$30.6M
Life Science and Biomedical technology Research center at NSLS-II LSBRP41GM111244 · NIGMS · BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOC-BROOKHAVEN LAB · PI MCSWEENEY, SEAN · 2014 to 2018
$16.4M
Overall (pp. 40-62)P41GM103485 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI CERIONE, RICHARD A. · 2012 to 2018
$15.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103393NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103485NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM111244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crystal harvesting has proven to be difficult to automate and remains the rate-limiting step for many structure-determination and high-throughput screening projects. This has resulted in crystals being prepared more rapidly than they can be harvested for X-ray data collection. Fourth-generation synchrotrons will support extraordinarily rapid rates of data acquisition, putting further pressure on the crystal-harvesting bottleneck. Here, a simple solution is reported in which crystals can be acoustically harvested from slightly modified MiTeGen In Situ-1 crystallization plates. This technique uses an acoustic pulse to eject each crystal out of its crystallization well, through a short air column and onto a micro-mesh (improving on previous work, which required separately grown crystals to be transferred before harvesting). Crystals can be individually harvested or can be serially combined with a chemical library such as a fragment library.

Indexed as

AcousticsCrystallizationEquipment DesignProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesSpecimen HandlingSynchrotronsTime FactorsProteinsSmall Molecule Librariesacoustic droplet ejectionautomationcrystal harvestingcrystallographycrystal mountingdrug discoveryhigh-throughput screeningmicrocrystals

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PMID30289409
PMCPMC6173054

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