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  1. From femtoseconds to minutes: time-resolved macromolecular crystallography at XFELs and synchrotrons

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, January 2024, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  2. Slow protein dynamics probed by time-resolved oscillation crystallography at room temperature

    Article • IUCrJ, September 2022, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  3. Millisecond time-resolved serial oscillation crystallography of a blue-light photoreceptor at a synchrotron

    Article • IUCrJ, June 2020, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  4. Specific radiation damage is a lesser concern at room temperature

    Article • IUCrJ, June 2019, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  5. Structural analysis of the bright monomeric yellow-green fluorescent protein mNeonGreen obtained by directed evolution

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, November 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  6. Gas-sensitive biological crystals processed in pressurized oxygen and krypton atmospheres: deciphering gas channels in proteins using a novel `soak-and-freeze' methodology

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, August 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  7. Structural Determinants of Improved Fluorescence in a Family of Bacteriophytochrome-Based Infrared Fluorescent Proteins: Insights from Continuum Electrostatic Calculations and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Article • Biochemistry, July 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoine Royant

  8. Serial Femtosecond Crystallography and Ultrafast Absorption Spectroscopy of the Photoswitchable Fluorescent Protein IrisFP

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, March 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoine Royant

  9. Experimental Determination of Single- and Two-Photon Excitation Transition Moments in Representative Fluorescent Proteins

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  10. Rational design of a monomeric and photostable far-red fluorescent protein for fluorescence imaging in vivo

    Article • Protein Science, December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Antoine Royant

  11. Structural basis for sensitivity of fluorescent proteins to molecular oxygen investigated by high-pressure crystallography

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, August 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  12. The status of the macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

    Article • The European Physical Journal Plus, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Matthew W Bowler, Dr Antoine Royant, Didier Nurizzo

  13. Bacteriorhodopsin: Would the real structural intermediates please stand up?

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  14. In crystallooptical spectroscopy (icOS) as a complementary tool on the macromolecular crystallography beamlines of the ESRF

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, January 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  15. Experimental Determination of Transition Dipole Moment Directions in Representative Fluorescent Proteins

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  16. Direct Evidence for a Peroxide Intermediate and a Reactive Enzyme-Substrate-Dioxygen Configuration in a Cofactor-free Oxidase

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Antoine Royant

  17. Direct Evidence for a Peroxide Intermediate and a Reactive Enzyme-Substrate-Dioxygen Configuration in a Cofactor-free Oxidase

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, October 2014, Wiley

    Dr Antoine Royant, Pablo G. Jambrina

  18. Nanoparticle Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering of Bacteriorhodopsin Stabilized by Amphipol A8-35

    Article • The Journal of Membrane Biology, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Antoine Royant

  19. In crystallo optical spectroscopy as a complementary tool to crystallography

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, August 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  20. Pressure and high-pressure macromolecular crystallography at the ESRF

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, August 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  21. Structures of a human blood group glycosyltransferase in complex with a photo-activatable UDP-Gal derivative reveal two different binding conformations

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications, July 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  22. An improved monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for neuronal and tumour brain imaging

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lily Jan, Dr Antoine Royant

  23. In-house UV radiation-damage-induced phasing of selenomethionine-labeled protein structures

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  24. Alteration of fluorescent protein spectroscopic properties upon cryoprotection

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, October 2012, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  25. Structural Characterization of Bacterioferritin from Blastochloris viridis

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2012, PLOS

    Dr Antoine Royant, Professor Gergely Katona

  26. Structure of a fluorescent protein fromAequorea victoriabearing the obligate-monomer mutation A206K

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, July 2012, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  27. Structure-guided evolution of cyan fluorescent proteins towards a quantum yield of 93%

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2012, Nature

    Dr Antoine Royant

  28. Laser-Triggered Single Molecular Gating Motions of the KcsA Potassium Channels Recorded in a Sub-Millisecond Time Resolution

    Article • Biophysical Journal, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  29. Raman-assisted crystallography of biomolecules at the synchrotron: Instrumentation, methods and applications

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  30. Stabilizing role of glutamic acid 222 in the structure of Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  31. Raman-Assisted Crystallography Suggests a Mechanism of X-Ray-Induced Disulfide Radical Formation and Reparation

    Article • Structure, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  32. Intrinsic Dynamics in ECFP and Cerulean Control Fluorescence Quantum Yield

    Article • Biochemistry, October 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoine Royant

  33. Mammalian Expression of Infrared Fluorescent Proteins Engineered from a Bacterial Phytochrome

    Article • Science, May 2009, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Antoine Royant

  34. Simultaneous Measurements of Solvent Dynamics and Functional Kinetics in a Light-Activated Enzyme

    Article • Biophysical Journal, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  35. Crystal structure of plant light-harvesting complex shows the active, energy-transmitting state

    Article • The EMBO Journal, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Werner Kühlbrandt, Dr Tiago Barros, Dr Antoine Royant

  36. Advances in spectroscopic methods for biological crystals. 2. Raman spectroscopy

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, November 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  37. Advances in spectroscopic methods for biological crystals. 1. Fluorescence lifetime measurements

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, November 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  38. Use of a `caged' analogue to study the traffic of choline within acetylcholinesterase by kinetic crystallography

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, October 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  39. Spectroscopic Characterization of Bacteriorhodopsin's L-intermediate in 3D Crystals Cooled to 170 K¶

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, May 2007, American Society for Photobiology

    Dr Antoine Royant

  40. X-ray radiation-induced damage in DNA monitored by online Raman

    Article • Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, December 2006, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  41. Advances in kinetic protein crystallography

    Article • Current Opinion in Structural Biology, October 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  42. Structure of Superoxide Reductase Bound to Ferrocyanide and Active Site Expansion upon X-Ray-Induced Photo-Reduction

    Article • Structure, September 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  43. Temperature Derivative Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Tool to Study Dynamical Changes in Protein Crystals

    Article • Biophysical Journal, May 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  44. Deformation of Helix C in the Low Temperature L-intermediate of Bacteriorhodopsin

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 2003, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Antoine Royant

  45. Structural basis for sensory rhodopsin function

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, October 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  46. Bacteriorhodopsin: a high-resolution structural view of vectorial proton transport

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, October 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant

  47. Early structural rearrangements in the photocycles of bacteriorhodopsin and sensory rhodopsin II

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography, August 2002, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  48. Detection and characterization of merohedral twinning in two protein crystals: bacteriorhodopsin and p67phox

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, April 2002, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Antoine Royant

  49. Early Structural Rearrangements in the Photocycle of an Integral Membrane Sensory Receptor

    Article • Structure, April 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant, Peter Nollert

  50. Structural Determinants of Spectral Tuning in Retinal ProteinsBacteriorhodopsin vs Sensory Rhodopsin II #

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, October 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Antoine Royant

  51. X-ray structure of sensory rhodopsin II at 2.1-Å resolution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2001, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Antoine Royant

  52. Spectroscopic Characterization of Bacteriorhodopsin's L-intermediate in 3D Crystals Cooled to 170 K¶

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2001, Wiley

    Dr Antoine Royant

  53. Article • Nature, August 2000, Nature

    Dr Antoine Royant

  54. Article • Nature, October 1999, Nature

    Dr Antoine Royant

  55. Detergent-free membrane protein crystallization

    Article • FEBS Letters, August 1999, Wiley

    Dr Antoine Royant, Peter Nollert

  56. Protein, lipid and water organization in bacteriorhodopsin crystals: a molecular view of the purple membrane at 1.9 Å resolution

    Article • Structure, August 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Antoine Royant, Peter Nollert