Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Lipidic cubic phase injector is a viable crystal delivery system for time-resolved serial crystallography

  • Przemyslaw Nogly,
  • Valerie Panneels,
  • Garrett Nelson,
  • Cornelius Gati,
  • Tetsunari Kimura,
  • Christopher Milne,
  • Despina Milathianaki,
  • Minoru Kubo,
  • Wenting Wu,
  • Chelsie Conrad,
  • Jesse Coe,
  • Richard Bean,
  • Yun Zhao,
  • Petra Båth,
  • Robert Dods,
  • Rajiv Harimoorthy,
  • Kenneth R. Beyerlein,
  • Jan Rheinberger,
  • Daniel James,
  • Daniel DePonte,
  • Chufeng Li,
  • Leonardo Sala,
  • Garth J. Williams,
  • Mark S. Hunter,
  • Jason E. Koglin,
  • Peter Berntsen,
  • Eriko Nango,
  • So Iwata,
  • Henry N. Chapman,
  • Petra Fromme,
  • Matthias Frank,
  • Rafael Abela,
  • Sébastien Boutet,
  • Anton Barty,
  • Thomas A. White,
  • Uwe Weierstall,
  • John Spence,
  • Richard Neutze,
  • Gebhard Schertler,
  • Jörg Standfuss

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12314
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Serial femtosecond crystallography using X-ray free-electron lasers has huge potential for time-resolved structural experiments. Here, the authors present a structure of the light-driven proton pump bacteriorhodopsin using these techniques.