• HYDERABAD, India - August 21st, 2017 - At the 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), Bruker today announces the new, high-performance D8 VENTURE BIOTOOLS TM for laboratory macromolecular crystallography. (bruker.com)
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  • Liquid microjets are a common means of delivering protein crystals to the focus of X-ray free-electron lasers (FELs) for serial femtosecond crystallography measurements. (iucr.org)
  • At the European XFEL, up to 27 000 pulses s −1 will be delivered to an experimental endstation, which is over 200 times more than the 120 Hz of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), where many serial femtosecond crystallography experiments have been conducted. (iucr.org)
  • Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) can potentially shine light on these conformational changes. (jyu.fi)
  • Here we report the room temperature crystal structure of the chromophorebinding domains of the Deinococcus radiodurans phytochrome at 2.1Å resolution.The structure was obtained by serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography from microcrystals at an X-ray free electron laser.We find overall good agreement compared to a crystal structure at 1.35Å resolution derived from conventional crystallography at cryogenic temperatures, which we also report here. (jyu.fi)
  • Serial femtosecond crystallography is a promising new technique for protein structure determination, where a liquid stream containing protein crystals is intersected with a high-intensity X-ray free electron laser beam that is 109 times brighter than traditional synchrotron X-ray sources. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • How did the combination of serial femtosecond crystallography and high-intensity X-ray free electron laser take place? (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Serial femtosecond crystallography was initially developed for room-temperature X-ray diffraction studies of macromolecules at X-ray free electron lasers. (lu.se)
  • The once-fringe method is now beating the usual darling of structural biology, X-ray crystallography, at its own game, thanks to advancements in technology. (asbmb.org)
  • We think - and this has been supported by many researchers in structural biology - that cryo-EM most likely will overtake or equal crystallography in the coming decade," says Jon Lorsch , the director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. (asbmb.org)
  • Neutron crystallography is emerging as a unique and highly promising technique for structural biology because, unlike other techniques, it can probe the locations of protons (or more specifically the heavier isotope deuterium) which are paramount for understanding biochemical processes, e.g. the hydrogen-bond pattern, the charge and tautomeric states, as well as the interactions with the surrounding solvent. (lu.se)
  • 1781 - Abbé René Just Haüy (often termed the "Father of Modern Crystallography") discovers that crystals always cleave along crystallographic planes. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1815 - Christian Samuel Weiss, founder of the dynamist school of crystallography, develops a geometric treatment of crystals in which crystallographic axes are the basis for classification of crystals rather than Haüy's polyhedral molecules. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1912 - Max von Laue discovers diffraction patterns from crystals in an x-ray beam. (wikipedia.org)
  • The facility provides instrumentation and expertise for collecting and processing x-ray diffraction data from macromolecular single crystals and is available to all the research groups inside and outside the campus. (umms.org)
  • Cryo-equipment includes an Oxford Cobra cryostream, an inverted phi axis for easy retrieval of cryo-cooled crystals from the X-ray goniometer head and a SAM cassette for long-term storage of crystals under cryo-conditions. (cedars-sinai.edu)
  • This ability to strongly bind metal ions was also important for x-ray crystallographic purposes, as it enabled researchers to form crystals of the complex by relying on interactions between neighboring molecules' binding sites. (proteopedia.org)
  • While the crystals diffract and immediately after are destroyed by the intense X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) beam, the resulting diffraction patterns can be recorded with state-of-the-art detectors. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • The technique is able to yield high-resolution structural information from small micro- or nanocrystals, thus reducing the contribution of crystal defects and avoiding tedious (if not impossible) growth of large crystals as is required in traditional synchrotron based crystallography. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • The reason for this is the limited flux at neutron sources, which therefore require very long exposure times (weeks) and very large crystals compared to X-ray crystallography. (lu.se)
  • This method describes the cloning, expression, and purification of recombinant Nsa1 for structural determination by X-ray crystallography and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and is applicable for the hybrid structural analysis of other proteins containing both ordered and disordered domains. (jove.com)
  • Today, the company announced that it is publishing the structures of more than 200 million proteins - nearly all of those catalogued on the globally recognised repository of protein research, UniProt . (newscientist.com)
  • We cause the proteins to form into lattices, fire X-rays at them and get information from those X-ray diffraction patterns to see what the molecule looks like. (newscientist.com)
  • There are indeed other approaches to reducing sample waste, which all come at a price, such as either being too slow for very high XFEL repetition rates, not being compatible with time-resolved crystallography, not being compatible with many classes of proteins, or introducing large background. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Principles of X-ray crystallography, neutron crystallography, small angle X-ray and neutron scattering. (lu.se)
  • The purpose is to make neutron macromolecular crystallography at ESS world leading and available to the biotechnological and pharmaceutical industry in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • However, neutron macromolecular crystallography is still in its infancy with "only" 170 of the total 200 000 structures in the Protein Data Bank determined by this technique. (lu.se)
  • Moreover, the software required for getting from raw data to scientific results is inadequate and often tedious to work with, which is a major hindrance for the wider use of neutron macromolecular crystallography, particular for the life science community that does not have a tradition of developing software. (lu.se)
  • It is this latter aspect that is addressed in this proposal for the NMX (neutron macromolecular crystallography) instrument at ESS, which, combined with the high flux at ESS, will make NMX a truly world leading instrument attractive for industrial and academic research. (lu.se)
  • We focus on using scattering techniques to look at the structure and dynamics associated with these strong electron corrrelations, particularly neutron and X-ray methods. (lu.se)
  • Published 31 December 2018 LP3 was successful in its application for renewal of beamtime access at BioMAX (the X-ray macromolecular crystallography beamline of MAX IV). (lu.se)
  • Published 28 December 2018 LP3 has been granted beamtime at the X-ray macromolecular crystallography beamline of MAX IV, BioMAX. (lu.se)
  • Our method thus requires little to no adjustment compared to non-droplet approaches for the crystallographer and additionally can be adapted to time-resolved crystallography techniques, where sample requirements is a limiting factor. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • When combined with tools that initiate biological reactions within microcrystals, time-resolved serial crystallography allows the study of structural changes that occur during an enzyme catalytic reaction. (lu.se)
  • For experiments which may require a more intense X-ray beam, such as for high throughput data collection, or a tunable X-ray source, the facility also has rapid access to the SSRL synchrotron at Stanford University. (cedars-sinai.edu)
  • Would you explain for our readers what developments make the high-intensity XFEL beam a billion times brighter than traditional synchrotron X-ray sources. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Serial synchrotron X-ray crystallography (SSX), which extends serial crystallography methods to synchrotron radiation sources, is expanding the scientific community using serial diffraction methods. (lu.se)
  • The latest version of the Excillum METALJET TM , the brightest laboratory X-ray source today, is a powerful alternative to the compact, microfocus IµS DIAMOND . (bruker.com)
  • With no gaps and no charge sharing, the PHOTON III detector delivers the ultimate in laboratory crystallography data quality. (bruker.com)
  • Dr. Vernon Smith, the Business Development Manager for Macromolecular Crystallography at Bruker AXS, noted: "With the D8 VENTURE BIOTOOLS , Bruker has once again set new standards in crystallography systems for the home laboratory. (bruker.com)
  • Duties include maintaining laboratory health and safety, maintenance/repair of laboratory equipment, training of students in both health and safety and in basic laboratory techniques, supporting research groups as necessary. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Here we describe our first-hand experience of a savage laboratory fire, highlighting the detrimental effects that it had on the research group and the lessons learned. (nature.com)
  • He is director of research at CNRS and, since 2001, is the head of the Laboratory of Bacterial Envelopes and Antibiotics which, for more than 30 years, has been studying the biochemistry, genetics and physiology of the bacterial cell-wall peptidoglycan biosynthesis pathway as a whole. (degruyter.com)
  • Didier Blanot is director of research at CNRS and a member of the Laboratory of Bacterial Envelopes and Antibiotics, University Paris-Sud, Orsay. (degruyter.com)
  • The perfect addition to any synthetic chemistry laboratory, the XtaLAB mini II single crystal X-ray diffractometer will enhance research productivity by offering affordable structure analysis capability without the necessity of relying on a departmental facility. (rigaku.com)
  • The new home for the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick , which provides expanded teaching, laboratory and support space, is open for classes and research. (rutgers.edu)
  • This system was demonstrated by collecting SSX data at MAX IV Laboratory from microcrystals of the integral membrane protein cytochrome c oxidase from Thermus thermophilus, from which an X-ray structure was determined to 2.12 Å resolution. (lu.se)
  • The results indicate the feasibility for megahertz serial crystallography measurements with hard X-rays and give guidance for the design of such experiments. (iucr.org)
  • This paper covers aspects of research design for experiments, and methods for analysis of scientific data using modern statistical techniques. (waikato.ac.nz)
  • Perform X-ray crystallography experiments at a basic level, from which the participant can further develop the skills on his/her own. (lu.se)
  • McXtrace is an open source ray-tracing package designed for simulating X.ray scattering experiments at synchrotrons, FELs, and lab sources, but recently it has found use in other areas such as the astrophysics community for telescope design. (lu.se)
  • X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) are pulsed and since the protein suspensions are typically injected in a continuous flow, sample injected in-between the XFEL's pulses is wasted. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Edwards, DJ, Pritchard, RG & Wallace, TW 2005, ' Fine-tuning of biaryl dihedral angles: Structural characterization of five homologous three-atom bridged biphenyls by X-ray crystallography ', Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science , vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 335-345. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Mass spectrometry combined with X-ray crystallography allows the characterization of cap protein interactions. (biosyn.com)
  • Furthermore, this article provides optical images of X-ray-induced explosions together with Bragg diffraction from protein microcrystals exposed to trains of X-ray pulses repeating at rates of up to 4.5 MHz. (iucr.org)
  • This report presents a simple flow cell that can be used to deliver microcrystals across an X-ray beam during SSX studies. (lu.se)
  • One of the experimental methods that we use is X-ray crystallography," says Higgins. (newscientist.com)
  • Tests the new methods in well-controlled systems, determining x-ray crystal structures and measuring binding thermodynamics. (ucsf.edu)
  • The Anglo-German research team designed the two previously unknown de novo peptides using methods of computer-assisted protein design. (eurekalert.org)
  • Here, biophysical methods and X-ray crystallography were used to identify the real properties and behaviour of the peptides. (eurekalert.org)
  • The new peptide system makes it clear that de novo design is a promising research approach in the search for methods that enable drug or dye molecules to be introduced into mammalian cells in a targeted and gentle manner,' adds Dr Guto Rhys, postdoc at the Protein Design research group and one of the three first authors. (eurekalert.org)
  • This will be pursued by the development of sophisticated analysis software and by integrating methods from a Swedish expert research group in computational methods for crystallography into the pipeline. (lu.se)
  • Protein Expression and Purification, Computational Modeling, Molecular Dynamic Simulations, X-ray Crystallography, Enzyme Activity and Enzyme Inhibition Assays, Structure Aided Drug Design. (umassmed.edu)
  • Researching Cytochrome c' structure and function 2016 - p/t PhD Biological Sciences, University of Essex. (essex.ac.uk)
  • The aim of this research is to elucidate the structure and function of the c-beta of Methylococcus capsulatus Bath (MCCP Bath) and to study its ability to bind to and discriminate between gaseous ligands in comparison to the more conventional four-alpha-helical cytochromes c. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Protein X-ray crystallography is a high-resolution technique that allows us to study protein structure at atomic level. (csic.es)
  • The structure, properties, and applications of atomically precise gold nanoclusters are the object of active research worldwide. (jyu.fi)
  • Matt Higgins at the University of Oxford and his colleagues were researching a protein that they believed was key to interrupting the lifecycle of the malaria parasite , but were struggling to map its structure. (newscientist.com)
  • Birney says that using X-ray crystallography to map the structure of a protein is expensive and time-consuming. (newscientist.com)
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering investigators revealed its three-dimensional structure using x-ray crystallography. (mskcc.org)
  • Structural biologist Stephen Long talks about how his team used x-ray crystallography to discover the structure of an ion channel called K2P1. (mskcc.org)
  • His main research interests are the structure-based design, synthesis and evaluation of small-molecule enzyme inhibitors and receptor ligands. (degruyter.com)
  • For more than 30 years, his main research interests have been the functional and structural study of the enzymes of peptidoglycan biosynthesis, the determination of the structure of peptidoglycan from certain bacterial species, and the search for peptidoglycan biosynthesis inhibitors that could act as antibacterial agents. (degruyter.com)
  • The X-ray structures of trimers of the protein and their complexes with various metals, single-particle electron microscopic structure of iron-free and iron-loaded 24-subunit oligomers. (lu.se)
  • X-ray structure structure of human ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor complex. (lu.se)
  • The x-ray photons can also interact directly with the spin of the electrons, and so they can scatter off the magnetic structure. (lu.se)
  • Several experienced research group leaders can supervise your project, on master level or bachelor level You can click on the name of a supervisor in the list below, to get to each supervisor's web-page where you can for example read a short comment about what the research group is working with, read a recent publication from that group and get the email address to each supervisor. (lu.se)
  • Taking less time to determine individual protein structures will enable us to push forward in our overall research goals more quickly. (bruker.com)
  • Furthermore, we evaluate the ability of different fits to reproduce the amplitudes of internal fluctuations in X-ray ensembles from the B-factors in the corresponding single X-ray structures. (nih.gov)
  • The purpose of the X-ray Crystallography Shared Service is to provide equipment, training, assistance, and technological innovations for determining three-dimensional structures of protein and other macromolecules to understand the structural basis for biological function and dynamics. (umms.org)
  • The chief design requirement when creating the XtaLAB mini II single crystal X-ray diffractometer was that the structures produced would be publishable in the most demanding scientific journals. (rigaku.com)
  • The situation is similar when it comes to colour-marking certain structures inside cells for research or diagnostic purposes. (eurekalert.org)
  • X-ray and EM structures of magnesium chelatase. (lu.se)
  • Studies on iron homeostasis in mitochondria: X-ray structures of yeast frataxin, a mitochondrial protein involved in iron storage and detoxification, also known as a factor in the neurodegenerative disease Friedrich's Ataxia. (lu.se)
  • Her main research interests have been the study of Mur ligases from different bacterial species and the search for inhibitors of these enzymes. (degruyter.com)
  • In the search for a new, potential drug candidate for type 2 diabetes treatment, these new findings guided Implexion Pharma in their target selection for such a candidate during a research project in 2020-2021. (lu.se)
  • The journal will cover a broad range of systems and scales that significantly advance fundamental research, aid product and process development and explore new technological solutions, all in the context of core chemical engineering approaches. (nature.com)
  • Easily accessible chemical crystallography when you need it, due to compact, simplified design and easy to run software. (rigaku.com)
  • Perfect teaching instrument for chemical crystallography since students can easily be trained and trusted to run the instrument. (rigaku.com)
  • The Rigaku XtaLAB mini II is a research-grade chemical crystallography diffractometer that sits on the benchtop. (rigaku.com)
  • Interim Chancellor Molloy said, "Rutgers' chemistry and chemical biology research is discovering new ways to improve lives, from clean energy solutions, to potential new treatments for cancer and HIV, to high-speed computing. (rutgers.edu)
  • The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology educates thousands of undergraduates and graduate students, and produces research that benefits health, energy, and the environment," said School of Arts and Sciences Executive Dean Peter March. (rutgers.edu)
  • He also works as a Lund University Node Coordinator for InfraVis - a new Swedish National Research Infrastructure for Data Visualization with 9 Swedish partner universities, and as Coordinator and Application expert at CIPA - a cross faculty infrastructure for image processing and analysis at Lund University. (lu.se)
  • The drug discovery company Implexion Pharma and researchers from Lund University have explored new potential drug candidates for type 2 diabetes using X-ray crystallography research techniques at MAX IV. (lu.se)
  • Thanks to our world-class research infrastructure, Lund University is well equipped to help lead the way towards future scientific breakthroughs. (lu.se)
  • Below you can see some examples of the infrastructure for research on genes and cells, available for researchers at Lund University. (lu.se)
  • At Lund university in different research groups as well as at infrastructurs facilities, there are many light microscopes including for live cell imaging. (lu.se)
  • A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. (mdpi.com)
  • Rather, performing the important steps of mounting a crystal on the goniometer and physically centering the crystal in the position of the X-ray beam ensures that students learn the importance of mounting techniques and crystal selection. (rigaku.com)
  • The system incorporates the IµS DIAMONDTM, the world's brightest microfocus X-ray source and the PHOTON IIITM, a large area photon-counting X-ray detector. (bruker.com)
  • The new IµS DIAMOND TM is the world's brightest microfocus X-ray source. (bruker.com)
  • The original Nautilus software was written by Kevin Cowtan and this work is part of a PhD studentship funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) awarded to Jordan Dialpuri. (github.com)
  • Their research in evolutionary biology and cell biology contributes to advancements in medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology by unlocking the mysteries of biological molecules and developing new therapies. (freescience.info)
  • Our extremely bright and stable I µS DIAMOND X-ray source and our large area PHOTON III photon counting detector enable highly accurate data to be collected very quickly. (bruker.com)
  • Some of the energy from the X-ray photon works to separate the electron from the atom, and the rest sends the electron flying through space. (howstuffworks.com)
  • A larger atom is more likely to absorb an X-ray photon in this way, because larger atoms have greater energy differences between orbitals -- the energy level more closely matches the energy of the photon. (howstuffworks.com)
  • The centre also stands out for large research installations, such as its animal facility, greenhouse and one of the few high-level biocontainment (BSL-3) laboratories currently operative in Spain. (csic.es)
  • Editors select a small number of articles recently published in the journal that they believe will be particularly interesting to readers, or important in the respective research area. (mdpi.com)
  • The aim is to provide a snapshot of some of the most exciting work published in the various research areas of the journal. (mdpi.com)
  • 1] Knudsen et.al, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2013. (lu.se)
  • His main research interests concern the identification of genes and enzymes involved in this pathway, the regulation of this metabolism, the mode of action of antibiotics and bacteriocins interfering with this pathway and the corresponding resistance mechanisms, as well as the molecular bases for the recognition of bacterial cell-wall peptidoglycan by host innate immunity mechanisms. (degruyter.com)
  • The core is equipped with a Rigaku MicroMax 007-HF X-ray generator and a Rigaku R-AXIS IV++ image plate detector. (cedars-sinai.edu)
  • and Dynamical Measurements in Soft Matter Research at the 2005 Users' Meeting of the Laboratorio Nacional de Luz Sincrotron, Campinas, Brazil. (iucr.org)
  • King's is committed to ensuring that all research with human participants is conducted with integrity and according to generally accepted ethical principles. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Several projects are generally available in Persson's research group. (lu.se)
  • The x-ray crystallography facility is operated jointly by the University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Pharmacy and the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. (umms.org)
  • Instead your research group can rapidly analyze new compounds as they are synthesized in the lab without having to queue up in the departmental core facility. (rigaku.com)
  • Zbynek Bozdech holds currently a position as Assistant Professor at the School of Biological Sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore leading a research team investigating molecular aspects of malaria parasite life cycle. (ntu.edu.sg)
  • 2015 - Member of Dr Hough's research group, University of Essex. (essex.ac.uk)
  • In the 1930s, he did a postdoc in London with the crystallographer and Nobel Prize winner William Bragg and received a research grant to work with the spectroscopist Víctor Henri at the University of Leija (Belgium) and with George Kistiakowsky at Harvard (United States). (rinconeducativo.org)
  • Please check out the links and information within these pages and I hope that they provide a useful tool to discover the great advantages that X-ray diffraction can have on the research performed here at Michigan State University and surrounding academic institutions. (msu.edu)
  • Rutgers University President Robert Barchi and Rutgers-New Brunswick Interim Chancellor Christopher Molloy on Friday unveiled the building that launches a new era in research and education. (rutgers.edu)
  • The building allows the university to expand upon its tradition of collaborative research with leading academic labs, federal agencies and private companies in New Jersey and around the world. (rutgers.edu)
  • This research will also investigate the relationship with cytochrome P460, a protein which co-purifies with MCCP Bath. (essex.ac.uk)
  • Therefore, the potential for drug compounds to be carried by this nucleotide complex requires further research with respect to binding affinity, solubility, toxicology, and specificity with other analogues. (proteopedia.org)
  • Co-founder of SARomics Biostructures , a company which provides X-ray crystallography and drug discovery services to the biotech industry and academic institutions. (lu.se)
  • Keith Willison at Imperial College London says that AlphaFold has unarguably "changed the world" of biological research, but that there are still problems to be solved in protein folding. (newscientist.com)
  • Our research involves using a range of biochemical approaches to address underlying mechanisms and processes in a range of biological and health related areas including innate immunity, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, virology (including COVID19) and parasitology. (keele.ac.uk)
  • In the next section, we'll see how X-ray machines put this effect to work. (howstuffworks.com)
  • An externally examined piece of written work that reports on the findings of supervised research. (waikato.ac.nz)
  • We were recently able to interview Prof. Alexandra Ros, a FACSS Innovation Award winner from the 2018 SciX conference regarding her research work on this subject. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Single Crystal, Powder Diffraction and High Pressure Crystallography. (msu.edu)
  • In many universities, the departmental single crystal X-ray diffractometer is considered off limits to students because of fear the instrument might be damaged by inexperienced users. (rigaku.com)
  • The XtaLAB mini II benchtop diffractometer provides the opportunity for students to learn single crystal X-ray analysis by actually using a fully functional diffractometer. (rigaku.com)