Annemarie B. Wöhri

TL;DR: Time-resolved wide-angle X-ray scattering is applied to visualize in real time the helical motions associated with proton pumping by bacteriorhodopsin and proteorhodopsins to establish that three conformational states are required to describe their photocycles and simplify the structural description to emerge from intermediate trapping studies.

TL;DR: A new crystallization method that makes use of a liquid analogue of the cubic phase, the sponge phase, which facilitates a considerable increase in the allowed size of aqueous domains of membrane proteins, and is easily generalised to a conventional vapour diffusion crystallisation experiment, including the use of nanoliter drop crystallization robots.

TL;DR: Time-resolved Laue diffraction was applied to study light-induced conformational changes in the photosynthetic reaction center complex of Blastochloris viridis to study the mechanism for stabilizing the primary charge separation reactions of photosynthesis.

TL;DR: The 'niche market' of lipidic phase crystallization is emerging as a powerful complement to the traditional approach of directly crystallizing detergent solubilized and purified protein and can be expected to deliver an increasing scientific impact as the field develops.

TL;DR: A sparse matrix crystallization screen consisting of 48 lipidic-sponge phase conditions and how the screen may be manipulated by incorporating specific lipids such as cholesterol is demonstrated; this modification led to crystals being recovered from a bacterial photosynthetic core complex.