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6 Current news of max-planck-institut-fuer-struktur-und-dynamik-der-materie

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Time-resolved crystallography for the masses

“The Spitrobot will greatly accelerate research in enzymatic mechanisms"

08-May-2023 - Scientists from four research institutes in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld have joined forces to develop a ground-breaking experimental setup. Their new Spitrobot greatly simplifies observing changes in proteins as they carry out their functions. This makes time-resolved crystallography ...

crystallography laboratory robots protein analytics +3
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Ultrafast lasers protect adenine

Ultrafast lasers can protect DNA building block from light-induced dissociation

27-May-2021 - An international research team - with a key contribution bythe MPSD and led by DESY researcher Francesca Calegari - has demonstrated that ultrashort laser pulses can be used to protect one of the DNA building blocks against destruction induced by vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) radiation. The research ...

adenine DNA radiation damage
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A clear path to better insights into biomolecules

3D images with record-breaking resolution

06-Jan-2021 - An international team of scientists, led by Kartik Ayyer from the MPSD, has obtained some of the sharpest possible 3D images of gold nanoparticles. The resuts lay the foundation for obtaining high resolution images of macromolecules. The study was carried out at the European XFEL’s Single ...

3d imaging biomolecules gold nanoparticles +1
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'Breathing' enzymes in fast motion

Researchers watch work of an enzyme in unprecedented detail

23-Sep-2019 - Researchers from the Department of Atomically Resolved Dynamics of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg, the University of Potsdam (both in Germany) and the University of Toronto (Canada) have pieced ...

catalysis enzymatic catalysis enzymes +1
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Happy hour for time-resolved crystallography

Researchers simplify time-resolved X-ray crystallography

19-Sep-2019 - Researchers from the Department of Atomically Resolved Dynamics of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg, the University of Hamburg and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) outstation in the ...

biomolecules crystallography x-ray crystallography
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Unexpected flexibility found in odorant molecules

High resolution rotational spectroscopy reveals an unprecedented number of conformations of an odorant molecule – a new world record!

29-Jun-2016 - In a recent publication in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science and from the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) led by Melanie Schnell have ...

citronellal conformations microwave spectroscopy +2