Science Highlights
Experimental Advance Offers First Glimpse of Biophysics of Vision
Pande et al. Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein. Science 352, 725–729 (2016)
Cooperative Protein Structural Dynamics of Homodimeric Hemoglobin Linked to Water Cluster at Subunit Interface Revealed by Time-resolved X-ray Solution Scattering
Kim, J. G., Muniyappan, S., Oang, K. Y., Kim, T. W., Yang, C., Kim, K. H., Kim, J., and Ihee, H. Cooperative protein structural dynamics of homodimeric hemoglobin linked to water cluster at subunit interface revealed by time-resolved X-ray solution scattering. Structural Dynamics 3, 023610 (2016)
Watching a Signaling Protein Function in Real Time via Picosecond Time-Resolved Laue Crystallography
Schotte, F., Cho, H. S., Kamikubo, H., Kataoka, M., and Anfinrud, P. A. Watching a Signaling Protein Function in Real Time via Picosecond Time-Resolved Laue Crystallography. In Molecular Science of Fluctuations Toward Biological Functions (Terazima, M., Kataoka, M., Ueoka, R., and Okamoto, Y., Eds.), pp 65–85. Springer Japan (2015)
Light Signaling Mechanism of Two Tandem Bacteriophytochromes
Yang, X., Stojković, E. A., Ozarowski, W. B., Kuk, J., Davydova, E., and Moffat, K. Light Signaling Mechanism of Two Tandem Bacteriophytochromes. Structure 23, 1179–1189 (2015)
Towards Time-Resolved Serial Crystallography in a Microfluidic Device
Pawate, A. S., Šrajer, V., Schieferstein, J., Guha, S., Henning, R., Kosheleva, I., Schmidt, M., Ren, Z., Kenis, P. J. A., and Perry, S. L. Towards time-resolved serial crystallography in a microfluidic device. Acta Cryst. F Structural Biology Communications 71, 823–830 (2015)
Findings Point to Potential Approach to Treat Virus Causing Illness, Possible Paralysis
Liu, Y., Sheng, J., Fokine, A., Meng, G., Shin, W.-H., Long, F., Kuhn, R. J., Kihara, D., and Rossmann, M. G. Structure and inhibition of EV-D68, a virus that causes respiratory illness in children. Science 347, 71–74 (2015)
In Situ Serial Laue Diffraction on a Microfluidic Crystallization Device
Perry, S. L., Guha, S., Pawate, A. S., Henning, R., Kosheleva, I., Srajer, V., Kenis, P. J. A., and Ren, Z. In Situ Serial Laue Diffraction on a Microfluidic Crystallization Device. Journal of Applied Crystallography 47, 1975-1982 (2014)
A World′s Top-10 X-ray Crystal Structure
An x-ray crystal structure solved by Philip Coppens has been chosen as one of the world’s top 10 molecular structures ever solved. Coppens is a chemistry professor at the University at Buffalo (New York) and a founding member of ChemMatCARS, which operates an x-ray...
Shedding Light on the Photochemistry of Coinage-Metal Phosphorescent Materials: A Time-Resolved Laue Diffraction Study of an AgI −CuI Tetranuclear Complex
Jarzembska, K. N., Kamiński, R., Fournier, B., Trzop, E., Sokolow, J. D., Henning, R., Chen, Y., and Coppens, P. Shedding Light on the Photochemistry of Coinage-Metal Phosphorescent Materials: A Time-Resolved Laue Diffraction Study of an AgI–CuI Tetranuclear Complex. Inorg. Chem. 53, 10594–10601 (2014)