Femtosecond X-ray coherent diffraction of aligned amyloid fibrils on low background graphene

Carolin Seuring; Kartik Ayyer; Eleftheria Filippaki; Miriam Barthelmess; Jean-Nicolas Longchamp; Philippe Ringler; Tommaso Pardini; David H Wojtas; Matthew A Coleman; Katerina Dörner; Silje Fuglerud; Greger Hammarin; Birgit Habenstein; Annette E Langkilde; Antoine Loquet; Alke Meents; Roland Riek; Henning Stahlberg; Sébastien Boutet; Mark S Hunter; Jason Koglin; Mengning Liang; Helen M Ginn; Rick P Millane; Matthias Frank; Anton Barty; Henry N Chapman

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Femtosecond X-ray coherent diffraction of aligned amyloid fibrils on low background graphene

Carolin Seuring, Kartik Ayyer, Eleftheria Filippaki, Miriam Barthelmess, Jean-Nicolas Longchamp, Philippe Ringler, Tommaso Pardini, David H Wojtas, Matthew A Coleman, Katerina Dörner, Silje Fuglerud, Greger Hammarin, Birgit Habenstein, Annette E Langkilde, Antoine Loquet, Alke Meents, Roland Riek, Henning Stahlberg, Sébastien Boutet, Mark S HunterJason Koglin, Mengning Liang, Helen M Ginn, Rick P Millane, Matthias Frank, Anton Barty, Henry N Chapman

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Here we present a new approach to diffraction imaging of amyloid fibrils, combining a free-standing graphene support and single nanofocused X-ray pulses of femtosecond duration from an X-ray free-electron laser. Due to the very low background scattering from the graphene support and mutual alignment of filaments, diffraction from tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) filaments and amyloid protofibrils is obtained to 2.7 Å and 2.4 Å resolution in single diffraction patterns, respectively. Some TMV diffraction patterns exhibit asymmetry that indicates the presence of a limited number of axial rotations in the XFEL focus. Signal-to-noise levels from individual diffraction patterns are enhanced using computational alignment and merging, giving patterns that are superior to those obtainable from synchrotron radiation sources. We anticipate that our approach will be a starting point for further investigations into unsolved structures of filaments and other weakly scattering objects.

Original language	English
Article number	1836
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Number of pages	10
ISSN	2041-1723
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04116-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018

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Seuring, C., Ayyer, K., Filippaki, E., Barthelmess, M., Longchamp, J.-N., Ringler, P., Pardini, T., Wojtas, D. H., Coleman, M. A., Dörner, K., Fuglerud, S., Hammarin, G., Habenstein, B., Langkilde, A. E., Loquet, A., Meents, A., Riek, R., Stahlberg, H., Boutet, S., ... Chapman, H. N. (2018). Femtosecond X-ray coherent diffraction of aligned amyloid fibrils on low background graphene. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 1836. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04116-9

Seuring, C, Ayyer, K, Filippaki, E, Barthelmess, M, Longchamp, J-N, Ringler, P, Pardini, T, Wojtas, DH, Coleman, MA, Dörner, K, Fuglerud, S, Hammarin, G, Habenstein, B, Langkilde, AE, Loquet, A, Meents, A, Riek, R, Stahlberg, H, Boutet, S, Hunter, MS, Koglin, J, Liang, M, Ginn, HM, Millane, RP, Frank, M, Barty, A & Chapman, HN 2018, 'Femtosecond X-ray coherent diffraction of aligned amyloid fibrils on low background graphene', Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 1836. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04116-9

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