Schmidt Marius
Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211, USA.
Struct Dyn. 2023 Aug 16;10(4):044303. doi: 10.1063/4.0000196. eCollection 2023 Jul.
The field of time-resolved macromolecular crystallography has been expanding rapidly after free electron lasers for hard x rays (XFELs) became available. Techniques to collect and process data from XFELs spread to synchrotron light sources. Although time-scales and data collection modalities can differ substantially between these types of light sources, the analysis of the resulting x-ray data proceeds essentially along the same pathway. At the base of a successful time-resolved experiment is a difference electron density (DED) map that contains chemically meaningful signal. If such a difference map cannot be obtained, the experiment has failed. Here, a practical approach is presented to calculate DED maps and use them to determine structural models.
自从硬X射线自由电子激光(XFEL)问世后,时间分辨大分子晶体学领域迅速发展。从XFEL收集和处理数据的技术传播到了同步辐射光源。尽管这些类型的光源在时间尺度和数据收集方式上可能有很大差异,但对所得X射线数据的分析基本上是沿着相同的路径进行的。成功的时间分辨实验的基础是包含化学意义信号的差分电子密度(DED)图。如果无法获得这样的差分图,实验就失败了。本文提出了一种实用方法来计算DED图并使用它们来确定结构模型。