Lipidic phase membrane protein serial femtosecond crystallography.

ABSTRACT: X-ray free electron laser (X-FEL)-based serial femtosecond crystallography is an emerging method with potential to rapidly advance the challenging field of membrane protein structural biology. Here we recorded interpretable diffraction data from micrometer-sized lipidic sponge phase crystals of the Blastochloris viridis photosynthetic reaction center delivered into an X-FEL beam using a sponge phase micro-jet.

SUBMITTER: Johansson LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3438231 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature