Microcrystallization techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography using photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus as a model system

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1647, 2014, Pages

  Kupitz, Christopher ^a   Grotjohann, Ingo ^a   Conrad, Chelsie E ^a   Roy Chowdhury, Shatabdi ^a   Fromme, Raimund ^a   Fromme, Petra ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Femtosecond crystallography; Free electron laser; Nanocrystals; Photosystem II

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

NANOPARTICLE; PHOTOSYSTEM II;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTRON; LASER; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYANOBACTERIA; ELECTRONS; LASERS; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84902664473     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0316     Document Type: Article

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