Ultimate List on Cryocrystallography & Radiation Damage
The ultimate list of cryocrystallography and radiation damage, including websites, books, publications and databases. The title and author list of some resources have been shortened for ease of viewing.
Websites:
MiTeGen: Technical Notes (Reducing the Mosaicity of Flash-Cooled Crystals)
CCP4 wiki: Cryo
Kryger: Flash-Cooling: A Practical Guide
xtals.org Cryoprotection of delicate crystals.
Rigaku: 72 min webinar
Emerald Biosystems: Crystallization Hits
Hampton Research: Cryo and Cryocrystallography Literature
Řezáčová: Cryocrystallography of Biological Macromolecules
UCLA: Cryo-crystallography and Data Collection
Books:
Evolving Methods for Macromolecular Crystallography (Macromolecular cryo-crystallography pdf)
Doublie: Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols: Structure Determination
Macromolecular Crystallography Protocols (Vol. 364): Structure Determination
Publications: (first author: title)
Barker: Room-temperature scavengers for macromolecular crystallography: increased lifetimes and modified dose dependence of the intensity decay.
Berejnov: Cryoprotectant concentration & cooling rate on vitrification of aqueous solutions (pdf)
Chinte: Sample size: an important parameter in flash-cooling macromolecular crystallization solutions
Fernandez: A cryocooling technique for protein crystals grown by dialysis from volatile solvents
Gakhar: A possible additional role of mineral oil in successful flash cooling
Garman: Cryocooling and radiation damage in macromolecular crystallography (pdf)
Garman: ‘Cool’ crystals: macromolecular cryocrystallography and radiation damage.
Garman: Cool data: quantity AND quality (pdf)
Garman: Macromolecular Cryocrystallography (pdf)
Halle: Biomolecular cryocrystallography: Structural changes during flash-cooling (pdf)
Hanson: New techniques: macromolecular crystal annealing and cryogenic helium
Holyoak: Malonate: cryoprotectant & stabilizing solution for salt-grown macromolecular crystals
Kim: High-pressure cooling of protein crystals without cryoprotectants (pdf)
Kmetko: Quantifying X-ray radiation damage in protein crystals at cryogenic temperatures (pdf)
Kriminsk: Flash-cooling and annealing of protein crystals (pdf)
Massover: Radiation damage to protein specimens from electron beam imaging and diffraction: a mini-review of anti-damage approaches, with special reference to synchrotron X-ray crystallography
McFerrin: The development and application of a method to quantify the quality of cryoprotectant solutions using standard area-detector X-ray images
Parkin: Cooling, Mounting, Storage and Transportation of Crystals (pdf)
Pflugrath: Methods for cooling and mounting protein crystals at cryogenic temperatures
Ravelli: Radiation damage in macromolecular cryocrystallography (pdf)
Riboldi-Tunnicliffe: Cryocrystallography with oil – an old idea revived (pdf)
Rubinson: Cryosalts: suppression of ice formation in macromolecular crystallography (pdf)
Saraswathi: Effect of stabilizing additives on the structure & hydration of proteins: lysozyme (pdf)
Warkentin: Hyperquenching for protein cryocrystallography (pdf)
Yao: Flash-cooling of macromolecular crystals in a capillary to overcome increased mosaicity
Databases:
Cryoprotectant Database for Protein Crystals (post)
Biological Macromolecule Crystallization Database (post)
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