Femtosecond nanocrystallography using X-ray lasers for membrane protein structure determination

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-516

  Fromme, Petra ^a   Spence, John CH ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NANOCRYSTAL;

CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMTOSECOND X RAY NANOCRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LASER; LIGHT; LINAC COHERENT LIGHT SOURCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION BEAM; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBMICRON SIZE CRYSTAL; X RAY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LASERS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 80052103348     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2011.06.001     Document Type: Review

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