Low-dose fixed-target serial synchrotron crystallography

  • Robin L Owen
  • Danny Axford
  • Darren A Sherrell
  • Anling Kuo
  • Oliver P Ernst
  • Eike C Schulz
  • R J Dwayne Miller
  • Henrike M Mueller-Werkmeister

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.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
ISSN2059-7983
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.04.2017
PubMed 28375148