Time-resolved structural studies at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers: Opportunities and challenges

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 651-659

  Neutze, Richard ^a   Moffat, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER; LIGAND BINDING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SERIAL FEMTOSECOND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON; TIME RESOLVED LAUE DIFFRACTION; WIDE ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER;

BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; LASERS; SYNCHROTRONS; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS;

EID: 84867743209     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.08.006     Document Type: Review

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