Low-dose fixed-target serial synchrotron crystallography

Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 2017 Apr 1;73(Pt 4):373-378. doi: 10.1107/S2059798317002996. Epub 2017 Mar 31.

Abstract

The development of serial crystallography has been driven by the sample requirements imposed by X-ray free-electron lasers. Serial techniques are now being exploited at synchrotrons. Using a fixed-target approach to high-throughput serial sampling, it is demonstrated that high-quality data can be collected from myoglobin crystals, allowing room-temperature, low-dose structure determination. The combination of fixed-target arrays and a fast, accurate translation system allows high-throughput serial data collection at high hit rates and with low sample consumption.

Keywords: crystallography on a chip; fixed target; low dose; macromolecular crystallography; room-temperature crystallography; serial synchrotron crystallography.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Crystallization / instrumentation
  • Crystallography, X-Ray / instrumentation*
  • Equipment Design
  • Lab-On-A-Chip Devices
  • Models, Molecular
  • Myoglobin / chemistry*
  • Sperm Whale
  • Synchrotrons

Substances

  • Myoglobin