Funding Organization(s): National Science Foundation (NSF, United States), National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS), National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI), Department of Energy (DOE, United States)
Primary Citation of Related Structures:   6MH6, 6MH8
PubMed Abstract: 
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 ...
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 ∼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 A 2A adenosine receptor (A 2A AR) were determined to resolutions of 1.8 and 4.2 Å using 4 and 24 consecutive 100 ps X-ray pulse exposures, respectively. Strong PK data were processed using existing Laue approaches, while weaker A 2A AR 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.
Organizational Affiliation: 
School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, 551 East University Drive, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.