Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Coherent diffractive imaging of microtubules using an X-ray laser

  • Gisela Brändén,
  • Greger Hammarin,
  • Rajiv Harimoorthy,
  • Alexander Johansson,
  • David Arnlund,
  • Erik Malmerberg,
  • Anton Barty,
  • Stefan Tångefjord,
  • Peter Berntsen,
  • Daniel P. DePonte,
  • Carolin Seuring,
  • Thomas A. White,
  • Francesco Stellato,
  • Richard Bean,
  • Kenneth R. Beyerlein,
  • Leonard M. G. Chavas,
  • Holger Fleckenstein,
  • Cornelius Gati,
  • Umesh Ghoshdastider,
  • Lars Gumprecht,
  • Dominik Oberthür,
  • David Popp,
  • Marvin Seibert,
  • Thomas Tilp,
  • Marc Messerschmidt,
  • Garth J. Williams,
  • N. Duane Loh,
  • Henry N. Chapman,
  • Peter Zwart,
  • Mengning Liang,
  • Sébastien Boutet,
  • Robert C. Robinson,
  • Richard Neutze

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10448-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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XFEL radiation is providing new opportunities for probing biological systems. Here the authors perform nanoscale x-ray imaging of microtubules with helical symmetry, by using imaging sorting and reconstruction techniques.