Nanoflow electrospinning serial femtosecond crystallography

Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2012 Nov;68(Pt 11):1584-7. doi: 10.1107/S0907444912038152. Epub 2012 Oct 18.

Abstract

An electrospun liquid microjet has been developed that delivers protein microcrystal suspensions at flow rates of 0.14-3.1 µl min(-1) to perform serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) studies with X-ray lasers. Thermolysin microcrystals flowed at 0.17 µl min(-1) and diffracted to beyond 4 Å resolution, producing 14,000 indexable diffraction patterns, or four per second, from 140 µg of protein. Nanoflow electrospinning extends SFX to biological samples that necessitate minimal sample consumption.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray / economics
  • Crystallography, X-Ray / instrumentation*
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Equipment Design
  • Kinetics
  • Lasers
  • Sample Size
  • Thermolysin / chemistry

Substances

  • Thermolysin