Synchrotron Radiation in Structural Biology: Basic Life Sciences

An Introduction to the Symposium.- Symposium Lecture.- Developments in X-ray Technology and Their Contribution to Structural Biology.- Some of the Synchrotron Facilities for Biological Structural Studies.- MacChess — A Macromolecular Diffraction Resource at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source.- Facilities Available for Biophysics Research at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.- Synchrotron Radiation Facilities for Biological Use at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Photon Factory.- Biological Structural Studies at the LURE Synchrotron Radiation Facility.- Synchrotron Beamlines at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Outstation In Hamburg.- Research Facilities for Biology at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury Laboratory.- Facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.- Small Angle X-Ray Scattering.- Synchrotron Radiation Time-Resolved Solution X-ray Scattering: The Example of Clathrin Structure and Assembly.- Large-Scale Structural Changes in the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ATP-ASE Are Essential for Calcium Active Transport.- Anomalous Scattering in Membrane Studies.- Synchrotron X-ray Studies of Biopolymers: Self-Assembly and Oscillations of Microtubules.- X-Ray Crystallography.- Structural Studies of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase from Spinach.- Data Collection from Very Thin HLA Crystals Using Synchrotron Radiation.- Double-Stranded DNA Binding Protein Hu.- Quaternary and Tertiary Structures of Isometric RNA Viruses.- X-Ray Spectroscopy.- Iron Core Formation in Ferritins.- X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of Vanado-Enzymes Nitrogenase and Bromoperoxidase.- X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Pseudomonas Cepacia Phthalate Dioxygenase.- Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopyand Photobiology.- Fluorescence Spectral Characteristics and Fluorescence Decay Profiles of Covalent Polycyclic Aromatic Carcinogen-DNA Adducts.- Time-resolved Fluorescence in Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics.- Vacuum Ultraviolet Photobiology with Synchrotron Radiation.- Advances in X-Ray Instrumentation.- Detectors for High Photon Rates.- X-ray Optics for Synchrotron Radiation.- Sagittal Focusing Optics.- Understanding the Performance of X-ray Mirrors.- New Methods in Use of Synchrotron Radiation for Structural Biology.- Multiwavelength Anomalous Diffraction as a Direct Phasing Vehicle in Macromolecular Crystallography.- Laue Photography from Protein Crystals.- Laue Crystallography: Application to Virus Crystals.- Preparation of Magnetically Oriented Specimens for Diffraction Experiments.- Participants.