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ID23-1: Gemini - Macromolecular Crystallography

Synopsis

ID23-1 offers the opportunity to make highly efficient monochromatic measurements at energies from 6 Kev to 20 Kev with a flux of ~1-4 E12 photons/second and a variable beam size from 0.05 to 0.001 mm^2.
Status:  open

Disciplines

  • Medicine
  • Life Sciences
  • Chemistry
  • Environmental Sciences

Applications

  • Macromolecular crystallography

Techniques

  • MX - macromolecular crystallography
  • MAD - multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion

Energy range

  • 6.0 - 20.0  keV

Beam size

  • Minimum (H x V) : 10.0 x 10.0  µm²
  • Maximum (H x V) : 45.0 x 30.0  µm²

Sample environments

  • 100 K cryostream
  • Automatic sample changer FlexHCD

Detectors

  • Eiger 2 16M CdTe (Dectris)
  • Rontec Xflash X-ray fluorescence detector

Technical details

ID23-1 offers diffraction data collection between energies going from 6 Kev to 20 Kev capable of MAD/SAD experiments with a variable beam size from 0.05 to 0.001 mm^2.

The ID23-1 structural biology beamline at the ESRF

Latest publications

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Proteorhodopsin insights into the molecular mechanism of vectorial proton transport

Bukhdruker S., Gushchin I., Shevchenko V., Kovalev K., Polovinkin V., Tsybrov F., Astashkin R., Alekseev A., Mikhaylov A., Bukhalovich S., Bratanov D., Ryzhykau Y., Kuklina D., Caramello N., Rokitskaya T., Antonenko Y., Rulev M., Stoev C., Zabelskii D., Round E., Rogachev A., Borshchevskiy V., Ghai R., Bourenkov G., Zeghouf M., Cherfils J., Engelhard M., Chizhov I., Rodriguez-Valera F., Bamberg E., Gordeliy V.,
Science Advances 11, eadu5303-1-eadu5303-21 (2025)