Synopsis

ID23-2 is a fixed energy beamline dedicated to MX. ID23-2 offers a standard MX sample environment, but with a focused microbeam (10x4 micron).

Disciplines

• Life Sciences

Applications

• Macromolecular crystallography

Techniques

• MX - macromolecular crystallography
• Microbeam

Sample environments

• Microdiffractometer MD3Up
• UNIPUCK+SPINE pins only (no SC3)

Detectors

• DECTRIS EIGER X 9M

Technical details

This beamline offers diffraction data collection on microcrystalline MX samples and on fine needle MX samples, as well as determination of the region of highest diffraction quality from larger MX samples.

ID23-2: an automated and high-performance microfocus beamline for macromolecular crystallography at the ESRF

Max Nanao ¹, Shibom Basu ², Ulrich Zander ², Thierry Giraud ¹, John Surr ¹, Matias Guijarro ¹, Mario Lentini ¹, Franck Felisaz ², Jeremy Sinoir ², Christian Morawe ¹, Amparo Vivo ¹, Antonia Beteva ¹, Marcus Oscarsson ¹, Hugo Caserotto ¹, Fabien Dobias ¹, David Flot ¹, Didier Nurizzo ¹, Jonathan Gigmes ¹, Nicolas Foos ¹, Ralf Siebrecht ³, Thomas Roth ¹, Pascal Theveneau ¹, Olof Svensson ¹, Gergely Papp ¹, Bernard Lavault ³, Florent Cipriani ², Ray Barrett ¹, Carole Clavel ¹, Gordon Leonard ¹

 

J Synchrotron Radiat​​​​​ 2022 Mar 1;29(Pt 2):581-590. doi: 10.1107/S1600577522000984