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Time-Resolved Structural Enzymology At X-Ray Free Electron Lasers, Tyler Norwood

Theses and Dissertations

Within the last decade, X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs) have emerged across the world. These XFELs produce X-ray pulses with a duration on the order of femtoseconds, each of which contains 1012 photons. Before the XFEL, the brightest X-ray sources were 3rd generation synchrotrons. While these facilities are still very important for many experiments, XFELs allow for time-resolved experiments with femtosecond time resolution and mixing experiments that are not possible at the synchrotron. Enzymatic processes have promising prospects for medicine which use proteins as drug targets and enhance our understanding of these important biomolecules.

A number of procedures are involved …