@article{d736054b8f47486a867b1847e8cb9b16,
title = "Grease matrix as a versatile carrier of proteins for serial crystallography",
abstract = "Serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography (SFX) has revolutionized atomic-resolution structural investigation by expanding applicability to micrometer-sized protein crystals, even at room temperature, and by enabling dynamics studies. However, reliable crystal-carrying media for SFX are lacking. Here we introduce a grease-matrix carrier for protein microcrystals and obtain the structures of lysozyme, glucose isomerase, thaumatin and fatty acid-binding protein type 3 under ambient conditions at a resolution of or finer than 2 {\AA}.",
author = "Michihiro Sugahara and Eiichi Mizohata and Eriko Nango and Mamoru Suzuki and Tomoyuki Tanaka and Tetsuya Masuda and Rie Tanaka and Tatsuro Shimamura and Yoshiki Tanaka and Chiyo Suno and Kentaro Ihara and Dongqing Pan and Keisuke Kakinouchi and Shigeru Sugiyama and Michio Murata and Tsuyoshi Inoue and Kensuke Tono and Changyong Song and Jaehyun Park and Takashi Kameshima and Takaki Hatsui and Yasumasa Joti and Makina Yabashi and So Iwata",
note = "Funding Information: The XFEL experiments were carried out at the BL3 of SACLA with the approval of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) (proposal nos. 2012B8036, 2013A8039, 2013A8040, 2013B8044, 2013B8045 and 2014A8032). This work was supported by RIKEN, by the X-ray Free-Electron Laser Priority Strategy Program (MEXT) and partly by Research Acceleration Program of Japan Science and Technology Agency. The sample preparation of FABP3 was supported by the JST-ERATO Murata Lipid Active Structure Project. The authors thank the SACLA beamline staff for technical assistance, K. Diederichs for help with data analysis and A. Nisbet for careful reading of the manuscript.",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/nmeth.3172",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
pages = "61--63",
journal = "Nature Methods",
issn = "1548-7091",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "1",
}