Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Resolving molecular diffusion and aggregation of antibody proteins with megahertz X-ray free-electron laser pulses

  • Mario Reiser,
  • Anita Girelli,
  • Anastasia Ragulskaya,
  • Sudipta Das,
  • Sharon Berkowicz,
  • Maddalena Bin,
  • Marjorie Ladd-Parada,
  • Mariia Filianina,
  • Hanna-Friederike Poggemann,
  • Nafisa Begam,
  • Mohammad Sayed Akhundzadeh,
  • Sonja Timmermann,
  • Lisa Randolph,
  • Yuriy Chushkin,
  • Tilo Seydel,
  • Ulrike Boesenberg,
  • Jörg Hallmann,
  • Johannes Möller,
  • Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez,
  • Robert Rosca,
  • Robert Schaffer,
  • Markus Scholz,
  • Roman Shayduk,
  • Alexey Zozulya,
  • Anders Madsen,
  • Frank Schreiber,
  • Fajun Zhang,
  • Fivos Perakis,
  • Christian Gutt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33154-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The European X-ray FreeElectron Laser Facility generates ultrashort hard X-ray pulses with megahertz repetition rate. Here, the authors probe the dynamics of dense antibody protein (Ig-PEG) solutions using megahertz X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy at the European XFEL.