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Abstract A recent paper in BMC Biology presents a general method for mix-and-inject serial crystallography, to facilitate the visualization of enzyme intermediates via time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (tr-SFX). They apply their method to resolve in near atomic detail the cleavage and...

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Main Author: Allen M. Orville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-018-0533-4
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Summary:Abstract A recent paper in BMC Biology presents a general method for mix-and-inject serial crystallography, to facilitate the visualization of enzyme intermediates via time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography (tr-SFX). They apply their method to resolve in near atomic detail the cleavage and inactivation of the antibiotic ceftriaxone by a β-lactamase enzyme from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Their work demonstrates the general applicability of time-resolved crystallography, from which dynamic structures, at atomic resolution, can be obtained. See research article: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-018-0524-5.
ISSN:1741-7007