Biological small-angle X-ray scattering facility at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

By I. Smolsky, Ping Liu, M. Niebuhr, Kazuki Ito, T. Weiss, H. Tsuruta. 2007

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Beamline 4-2 at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory is a small-angle X-ray scattering/diffraction facility dedicated to structural studies on mostly noncrystalline biological systems. The instrument consists of a pinhole camera, which covers the magnitude of the scattering vector Q in the range 0.004–1.3 A−1 [Q = (4π/λ)sin θ, where θ and λ are one half of the scattering angle and the X-ray wavelength, respectively], and a Bonse–Hart geometry ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering setup for the Q range an order of magnitude smaller. The pinhole camera allows quick automated distance and detector selection among any combination of five distances and three position-sensitive detectors. The double-crystal monochromator can have either Si 111 crystals or a pair of synthetic multilayer diffractive elements for higher flux applications. We have adopted a suite of software originally developed for macromolecular crystallography for integrated beamline control as well as static and slow time-resolved small-angle scattering data collection. This article outlines recent technological developments and specialized instrumentation for conducting noncrystalline scattering experiments in structural biology at improved time and spatial resolutions.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology

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