Serial protein crystallography in an electron microscope

oleh: Robert Bücker, Pascal Hogan-Lamarre, Pedram Mehrabi, Eike C. Schulz, Lindsey A. Bultema, Yaroslav Gevorkov, Wolfgang Brehm, Oleksandr Yefanov, Dominik Oberthür, Günther H. Kassier, R. J. Dwayne Miller

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-02-01

Deskripsi

For conventional three-dimensional microcrystal electron diffraction (3D ED/MicroED), a crystal is slowly rotated under an electron beam, leading to inevitable accumulation of radiation damage during data collection. In this work, the authors present a serial electron diffraction method, where still diffraction patterns from many protein nanocrystals are rapidly recorded and merged, which minimises radiation damage and only requires a slightly modified standard scanning transmission electron microscope.