Synchrotron Radiation in Structural Biology

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
An Introduction to the Symposium....Pages 1-2
Developments in X-Ray Technology and their Contribution to Structural Biology....Pages 3-14
MacCHESS — A Macromolecular Diffraction Resource at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source....Pages 15-18
Facilities Available for Biophysics Research at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory....Pages 19-33
Synchrotron Radiation Facilities for Biological Use at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Photon Factory....Pages 35-40
Biological Structural Studies at the Lure Synchrotron Radiation Facility....Pages 41-46
Synchrotron Beamlines at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Outstation in Hamburg....Pages 47-53
Research Facilities for Biology at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury Laboratory....Pages 55-61
Facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory....Pages 63-66
Synchrotron Radiation Time-Resolved Solution X-Ray Scattering: The Example of Clathrin Structure and Assembly....Pages 67-75
Large-Scale Structural Changes in the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ATP-ASE are Essential for Calcium Active Transport....Pages 77-82
Anomalous Scattering in Membrane Studies....Pages 83-92
Synchrotron X-Ray Studies of Biopolymers: Self-Assembly and Oscillations of Microtubules....Pages 93-109
Structural Studies of Ribulose-1, 5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase from Spinach....Pages 111-121
Data Collection from Very Thin HLA Crystals Using Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 123-131
Double-Stranded DNA Binding Protein Hu....Pages 133-140
Quaternary and Tertiary Structures of Isometric RNA Viruses....Pages 141-159
Iron Core Formation in Ferritins....Pages 161-167
X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of Vanado-Enzymes: Nitrogenase and Bromoperoxidase....Pages 169-175
X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Pseudomonas Cepacia Phthalate Dioxygenase....Pages 177-186
Fluorescence Spectral Characteristics and Fluorescence Decay Profiles of Covalent Polycyclic Aromatic Carcinogen-DNA Adducts....Pages 187-205
Time-Resolved Fluorescence in Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics....Pages 207-219
Vacuum Ultraviolet Photobiology with Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 221-241
Detectors for High Photon Rates....Pages 243-253
X-Ray Optics for Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 255-292
Sagittal Focusing Optics....Pages 293-301
Understanding the Performance of X-Ray Mirrors....Pages 303-316
Multiwavelength Anomalous Diffraction as a Direct Phasing Vehicle in Macromolecular Crystallography....Pages 317-324
Laue Photography from Protein Crystals....Pages 325-330
Laue Crystallography: Application to Virus Crystals....Pages 331-339
Preparation of Magnetically Oriented Specimens for Diffraction Experiments....Pages 341-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-362