The DIALS project is a collaboration between Diamond Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory and CCP4 to develop a new software suite for the analysis of …

The protein α-synuclein is the main component of Lewy bodies, the neuron-associated
aggregates seen in Parkinson disease and other neurodegenerative pathologies. An 11-residue …

Inspired by the period-four oscillation in flash-induced oxygen evolution of photosystem II
discovered by Joliot in 1969, Kok performed additional experiments and proposed a five-state …

Light-induced oxidation of water by photosystem II (PS II) in plants, algae and cyanobacteria
has generated most of the dioxygen in the atmosphere. PS II, a membrane-bound multi-…

Synaptotagmin-1 and neuronal SNARE proteins have central roles in evoked synchronous
neurotransmitter release; however, it is unknown how they cooperate to trigger synaptic …

In natural photosynthesis, the light-driven splitting of water into electrons, protons and
molecular oxygen forms the first step of the solar-to-chemical energy conversion process. The …

The dioxygen we breathe is formed by light-induced oxidation of water in photosystem II. O
2 formation takes place at a catalytic manganese cluster within milliseconds after the …

X-ray crystallography at X-ray free-electron laser sources is a powerful method for studying
macromolecules at biologically relevant temperatures. Moreover, when combined with …

Rapid data collection and modern computing resources provide the opportunity to revisit the
task of optimizing the model of diffraction geometry prior to integration. A comprehensive …

In oxygenic photosynthesis, light-driven oxidation of water to molecular oxygen is carried out
by the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in photosystem II (PS II). Recently, we reported the …