MX2: a high-flux undulator microfocus beamline serving both the chemical and macromolecular crystallography communities at the Australian Synchrotron
MX2 is an in-vacuum undulator-based crystallography beamline at the 3 GeV Australian Synchrotron. The beamline delivers hard X-rays in the energy range 4.8 – 21 keV to a focal spot of 22 × 12 µ m FWHM (H × V). At 13 keV the flux at the sample is 3.4 × 1012 photons s − 1. The beamline endstation allows robotic handling of cryogenic samples via an updated SSRL SAM robot. This beamline is ideal for weakly diffracting hard-to-crystallize proteins, virus particles, protein assemblies and nucleic acids as well as smaller molecules such as inorganic catalysts and organic drug molecules. The beamline is now mature and has enjoyed a full user program for the last nine years. This paper describes the beamline status, plans for its future and some recent scientific highlights.
Source: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation - Category: Physics Authors: Arag ã o, D. Aishima, J. Cherukuvada, H. Clarken, R. Clift, M. Cowieson, N.P. Ericsson, D.J. Gee, C.L. Macedo, S. Mudie, N. Panjikar, S. Price, J.R. Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A. Rostan, R. Williamson, R. Caradoc-Davies, T.T. Tags: microfocus beamlines apertures undulators macromolecular crystallography remote access anomalous scattering EIGER detector long wavelengths collimators Source Type: research