Drop-on-demand sample delivery for studying biocatalysts in action at X-ray free-electron lasers

Nature Methods

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 443-449

  Fuller, Franklin D ^a   Gul, Sheraz ^a   Chatterjee, Ruchira ^a   Sethe Burgie, E ^b   Young, Iris D ^a   Lebrette, Hugo ^c   Srinivas, Vivek ^c   Brewster, Aaron S ^a   Michels Clark, Tara ^a   Clinger, Jonathan A ^d   Andi, Babak ^e   Ibrahim, Mohamed ^f   Pastor, Ernest ^a   De Lichtenberg, Casper ^g   Hussein, Rana ^f   Pollock, Christopher J ^h   Zhang, Miao ^f   Stan, Claudiu A ⁱ   Kroll, Thomas ^j   Fransson, Thomas ⁱ   Weninger, Clemens ⁱ   Kubin, Markus ^k   Aller, Pierre ^l   Lassalle, Louise ^a   Bräuer, Philipp ^l,m   Miller, Mitchell D ^d   Amin, Muhamed ^a,p   Koroidov, Sergey ^g,i   Roessler, Christian G ^e,p,q   Allaire, Marc ^a   Sierra, Raymond G ⁱ   Docker, Peter T ^l   Glownia, James M ⁱ   Nelson, Silke ⁱ   Koglin, Jason E ⁱ   Zhu, Diling ⁱ   Chollet, Matthieu ⁱ   Song, Sanghoon ⁱ   Lemke, Henrik ^i,p,r   Liang, Mengning ⁱ   Sokaras, Dimosthenis ^j   Alonso Mori, Roberto ⁱ   Zouni, Athina ^f   Messinger, Johannes ^g,n   Bergmann, Uwe ⁱ   Boal, Amie K ^h   Martin Bollinger, J ^h   Krebs, Carsten ^h   Högbom, Martin ^c,o   Phillips, George N ^d   Vierstra, Richard D ^b   Sauter, Nicholas K ^a   Orville, Allen M ^l   Kern, Jan ^a,i   Yachandra, Vittal K ^a   Yano, Junko ^a   more..

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^j SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^k HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^l DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^o STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p Technology and Innovation   (Egypt)

^q F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^r PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOCHROME; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; PHOTOSYSTEM II;

ARTICLE; BIOCATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ACOUSTICS; CHEMISTRY; LASER; PROCEDURES; SPECTROMETRY;

ACOUSTICS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; LASERS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PHYTOCHROME; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION;

EID: 85014078259     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4195     Document Type: Article

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