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- Title
Structure from fleeting illumination of faint spinning objects in flight.
- Authors
Fung, Russell; Shneerson, Valentin; Saldin, Dilano K.; Ourmazd, Abbas
- Abstract
Moves are afoot to illuminate particles in flight with powerful X-ray bursts, to determine the structure of single molecules, viruses and nanoparticles. This would circumvent important limitations of current techniques, including the need to condense molecules into pure crystals. Proposals to reconstruct the molecular structure from diffraction ‘snapshots’ of unknown orientation, however, require ∼1,000 times more signal than available from next-generation sources. Using a new approach, we demonstrate the recovery of the structure of a weakly scattering macromolecule at the anticipated next-generation X-ray source intensities. Our work closes a critical gap in determining the structure of single molecules and nanoparticles by X-ray methods, and opens the way to reconstructing the structure of spinning, or randomly oriented objects at extremely low signal levels.
- Subjects
X-ray bursts; NANOPARTICLES; LIGHTING; ELECTRIC properties of crystals; MACROMOLECULES
- Publication
Nature Physics, 2009, Vol 5, Issue 1, p64
- ISSN
1745-2473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nphys1129