GPCR (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

GPCR (2 of 3)

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A team led by Vadim Cherezov of The Scripps Research Institute views an X-ray diffraction pattern, produced when SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser struck a crystallized sample of the human serotonin receptor. The team collected and analyzed more than 100,000 of these patterns to reproduce a 3-D structure of the receptor.

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Fabricio Sousa/SLAC

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