'Hit and run' serial femtosecond crystallography of a membrane kinase in the lipid cubic phase

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1647, 2014, Pages

  Caffrey, Martin ^a   Li, Dianfan ^a   Howe, Nicole ^a   Shah, Syed T A ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; Enzyme; Membrane protein; Mesophase; Monoacylglycerol; X ray free electron laser

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIPID; MEMBRANE; PROTEIN;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LASER; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE; ELECTRONS; LASERS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84902665814     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0621     Document Type: Article

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