Enabling X-ray free electron laser crystallography for challenging biological systems from a limited number of crystals

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Uervirojnangkoorn, Monarin ^a   Zeldin, Oliver B ^a   Lyubimov, Artem Y ^a   Hattne, Johan ^b   Brewster, Aaron S ^c   Sauter, Nicholas K ^c   Brunger, Axel T ^a   Weis, William I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Light sources; Post refinement; Structural biology; X ray free electron laser

Indexed keywords

HYDROGENASE; MYOGLOBIN; THERMOLYSIN; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DENSITY; DIFFRACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLARIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; LASER; X RAY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRONS; HYDROGENASE; LASERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEINS; THERMOLYSIN; X-RAYS;

EID: 84984876870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05421     Document Type: Article

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