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Synchrotron radiation sources have allowed time-resolved crystallographic experiments with nanosecond time resolution to be conducted on myoglobin and photoactive yellow protein.
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Acknowledgements
From the many colleagues who have contributed to this area, I single out here W. Schildkamp, V. Srajer, T.-y. Teng, Z. Ren, J. Helliwell, D. Cruickshank, D. Bourgeois and M. Wulff; I thank them all. Supported by the NIH.
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Moffat, K. Ultrafast time-resolved crystallography. Nat Struct Mol Biol 5 (Suppl 8), 641–643 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/1333
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