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Nature Research, Nature Communications, 1(9), 2018

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06156-7

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Megahertz serial crystallography

Journal article published in 2018 by Max O. Wiedorn ORCID, Dominik Oberthür, Richard Bean, Robin Schubert, Nadine Werner, Brian Abbey ORCID, Martin Aepfelbacher, Luigi Adriano, Aschkan Allahgholi, Nasser Al-Qudami, Jakob Andreasson, Steve Aplin, Salah Awel, Kartik Ayyer ORCID, Saša Bajt and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

AbstractThe new European X-ray Free-Electron Laser is the first X-ray free-electron laser capable of delivering X-ray pulses with a megahertz inter-pulse spacing, more than four orders of magnitude higher than previously possible. However, to date, it has been unclear whether it would indeed be possible to measure high-quality diffraction data at megahertz pulse repetition rates. Here, we show that high-quality structures can indeed be obtained using currently available operating conditions at the European XFEL. We present two complete data sets, one from the well-known model system lysozyme and the other from a so far unknown complex of a β-lactamase from K. pneumoniae involved in antibiotic resistance. This result opens up megahertz serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) as a tool for reliable structure determination, substrate screening and the efficient measurement of the evolution and dynamics of molecular structures using megahertz repetition rate pulses available at this new class of X-ray laser source.