TY - JOUR
AU - Stransky, Michal
AU - E, Juncheng
AU - Jurek, Zoltan
AU - Santra, Robin
AU - Bean, Richard
AU - Ziaja, Beata
AU - Mancuso, Adrian
TI - Computational study of diffraction image formation from XFEL irradiated single ribosome molecule
JO - Scientific reports
VL - 14
IS - 1
SN - 2045-2322
CY - [London]
PB - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
M1 - PUBDB-2024-01638
SP - 10617
PY - 2024
AB - Single particle imaging at atomic resolution is perhaps one of the most desired goals for ultrafast X-ray science with X-rayFree-Electron Lasers. Such a capability would create great opportunity within the biological sciences, as high-resolutionstructural information of biosamples that may not crystallize is essential for many research areas therein. In this paper, we reporton a comprehensive computational study of diffraction image formation during single particle imaging of a macromolecule,containing over one hundred thousand non-hydrogen atoms. For this study, we use a dedicated simulation framework, SIMEX,available at the European XFEL facility. Our results demonstrate the full feasibility of computational single-particle imagingstudies for biological samples of realistic size. This finding is important as it shows that the SIMEX platform can be usedfor simulations to inform relevant single-particle-imaging experiments and help to establish optimal parameters for theseexperiments. This will enable more focused and more efficient single-particle-imaging experiments at XFEL facilities, makingthe best use of the resource-intensive XFEL operation.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - pmid:38720133
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001216325300001
DO - DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-61314-w
UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/606808
ER -