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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Since the first successful serial crystallography (SX) experiment at a synchrotron radiation source, the popularity of this approach has continued to grow showing that third-generation synchrotrons can be viable alternatives to scarce X-ray free-electron laser sources. Synchrotron radiation flux may be increased approximately 100 times by a moderate increase in the bandwidth ('pink beam' conditions) at some cost to data analysis complexity. Here, we report the first high-viscosity injector-based pink-beam SX experiments. The structures of proteinase K (PK) and A2A adenosine receptor (A2AAR) were determined to resolutions of 1.8 and 4.2 A using 4 and 24 consecutive 100 ps X-ray pulse exposures, respectively. Strong PK data were processed using existing Laue approaches, while weaker A2AAR data required an alternative data-processing strategy. This demonstration of the feasibility presents new opportunities for time-resolved experiments with microcrystals to study structural changes in real time at pink-beam synchrotron beamlines worldwide.

High-viscosity injector-based pink-beam serial crystallography of microcrystals at a synchrotron radiation source.,Martin-Garcia JM, Zhu L, Mendez D, Lee MY, Chun E, Li C, Hu H, Subramanian G, Kissick D, Ogata C, Henning R, Ishchenko A, Dobson Z, Zhang S, Weierstall U, Spence JCH, Fromme P, Zatsepin NA, Fischetti RF, Cherezov V, Liu W IUCrJ. 2019 Apr 5;6(Pt 3):412-425. doi: 10.1107/S205225251900263X. eCollection, 2019 May 1. PMID:31098022^[1]

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