A beginner's guide to radiation damage
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- 25 February 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
- Vol. 16 (2), 133-142
- https://doi.org/10.1107/s0909049509004361
Abstract
Many advances in the understanding of radiation damage to protein crystals, particularly at cryogenic temperatures, have been made in recent years, but with this comes an expanding literature, and, to the new breed of protein crystallographer who is not really interested in X-ray physics or radiation chemistry but just wants to solve a biologically relevant structure, the technical nature and breadth of this literature can be daunting. The purpose of this paper is to serve as a rough guide to radiation damage issues, and to provide references to the more exacting and detailed work. No attempt has been made to report precise numbers (a factor of two is considered satisfactory), and, since there are aspects of radiation damage that are demonstrably unpredictable, the `worst case scenario' as well as the `average crystal' are discussed in terms of the practicalities of data collection.Keywords
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