Fixed-target protein serial microcrystallography with an X-ray free electron laser

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hunter, Mark S ^a   Segelke, Brent ^a   Messerschmidt, Marc ^b   Williams, Garth J ^b   Zatsepin, Nadia A ^c   Barty, Anton ^d   Henry Benner, W ^a   Carlson, David B ^e   Coleman, Matthew ^a,f   Graf, Alexander ^a   Hau Riege, Stefan P ^a   Pardini, Tommaso ^a   Marvin Seibert, M ^b   Evans, James ^e,g   Boutet, Sébastien ^b   Frank, Matthias ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DESY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEVICES; ELECTRON; LASER; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; LASERS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84905983951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06026     Document Type: Article

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