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Publication Abstract from PubMed

A liquid-droplet injector has been developed that delivers pristine microcrystals to an X-ray irradiation area for conducting serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) with an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). By finely tuning the pulsed liquid droplets in time and space, a high hit rate of the XFEL pulses to microcrystals in the droplets was achieved for measurements using 5 microm tetragonal lysozyme crystals, which produced 4265 indexable diffraction images in about 30 min. The structure was determined at a resolution of 2.3 A from <0.3 mg of protein. With further improvements such as reduction of the droplet size, liquid droplets have considerable potential as a crystal carrier for SFX with low sample consumption.

Microcrystal delivery by pulsed liquid droplet for serial femtosecond crystallography.,Mafune F, Miyajima K, Tono K, Takeda Y, Kohno JY, Miyauchi N, Kobayashi J, Joti Y, Nango E, Iwata S, Yabashi M Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 2016 Apr;72(Pt 4):520-3. doi:, 10.1107/S2059798316001480. Epub 2016 Mar 24. PMID:27050131^[2]

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