Improvements in serial femtosecond crystallography of photosystem II by optimizing crystal uniformity using microseeding procedures

Structural Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Ibrahim, Mohamed ^a,b   Chatterjee, Ruchira ^c   Hellmich, Julia ^a,b   Tran, Rosalie ^c   Bommer, Martin ^a   Yachandra, Vittal K ^c   Yano, Junko ^c   Kern, Jan ^c,d   Zouni, Athina ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTRONS; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; RADIATION DAMAGE; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FEMTOSECOND X-RAY PULSE; INTERMEDIATE STATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN COMPLEX; MONODISPERSE MICROCRYSTALS; OXYGEN-EVOLVING COMPLEXES; PSII CORE COMPLEX; SERIAL FEMTOSECOND CRYSTALLOGRAPHIES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

MICROCRYSTALS;

EID: 84944088542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23297778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4919741     Document Type: Article

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