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Richard Neutze is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Materials Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Spectroscopy, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas such as Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Enzyme Structure and Function, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling.

Richard Neutze has contributed to a number of publications across several respected venues. Frequent publication outlets include Structural Dynamics, Nature, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, and the Journal of Applied Crystallography.

  • Structural Dynamics
  • Nature
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Applied Crystallography

Several recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research. These include:

  • "Advances and challenges in time-resolved macromolecular crystallography," 2021, Science
  • "Ultrafast structural changes direct the first molecular events of vision," 2023, Nature
  • "Ultrafast structural changes within a photosynthetic reaction centre," 2020, Nature
  • "Nuclear envelope budding is a response to cellular stress," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A tool for visualizing protein motions in time-resolved crystallography," 2020, Structural Dynamics

Richard Neutze collaborates frequently with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple joint publications. These include Gisela Brändén, Adams Vallejos, Greger Hammarin, Giorgia Ortolani, and Swagatha Ghosh.

The breadth of their work encompasses experimental and theoretical approaches to understanding molecular and structural dynamics in biological systems, often using advanced crystallographic and spectroscopic techniques. The focus on photoreceptor research and photosynthetic processes links their efforts to broader themes in biochemistry and molecular biology associated with light-driven molecular events and enzymatic function.

Best Publications

  • Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses

    Richard Neutze;Remco Wouts;David van der Spoel;Edgar Weckert

  • Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography

    Henry N. Chapman;Petra Fromme;Anton Barty;Thomas A White

  • Structural mechanism of plant aquaporin gating

    Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield;Yi Wang;Kristina Hedfalk;Urban Johanson

  • High-Resolution Protein Structure Determination by Serial Femtosecond Crystallography

    Sébastien Boutet;Lukas Lomb;Garth J. Williams;Thomas R. M. Barends

  • Natively inhibited Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B structure determined by using an X-ray laser

    Lars Redecke;Lars Redecke;Karol Nass;Daniel P. DePonte;Thomas A. White

  • Overcoming barriers to membrane protein structure determination

    Roslyn M. Bill;Peter J. F. Henderson;So Iwata;Edmund R. S. Kunji

  • A three-dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin

    Eriko Nango;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Minoru Kubo;Takanori Nakane

  • High Resolution X-Ray Structure of an Early Intermediate in the Bacteriorhodopsin Photocycle

    Karl Edman;Peter Nollert;Peter Nollert;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Hassan Belrhali

  • Self-terminating diffraction gates femtosecond X-ray nanocrystallography measurements

    Anton Barty;Carl Caleman;Andrew Aquila;Nicusor Timneanu

  • Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond x-ray laser

    Przemyslaw Nogly;Tobias Weinert;Daniel James;Sergio Carbajo

  • X-Ray Structure of Sensory Rhodopsin II at 2.1 A Resolution

    Antoine Royant;Peter Nollert;Peter Nollert;Karl Edman;Richard Neutze

  • Helix deformation is coupled to vectorial proton transport in the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin

    Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant;Karl Edman;Thomas Ursby;Thomas Ursby;Eva Pebay-Peyroula

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

    Richard Neutze;Eva Pebay-Peyroula;Karl Edman;Antoine Royant;Antoine Royant

  • Time-resolved protein nanocrystallography using an X-ray free-electron laser

    Andrew Aquila;Mark S. Hunter;R. Bruce Doak;Richard A. Kirian

  • Lipidic cubic phase serial millisecond crystallography using synchrotron radiation.

    Przemyslaw Nogly;Daniel James;Dingjie Wang;Thomas A White

  • Linac coherent light source (LCLS) conceptual design report

    J. Arthur;W. Graves;M. Renner;J. Rosenzweig

  • Subangstrom Resolution X-Ray Structure Details Aquaporin-Water Interactions

    Urszula Kosinska Eriksson;Gerhard Fischer;Rosmarie Friemann;Giray Enkavi

  • Visualizing a protein quake with time-resolved X-ray scattering at a free-electron laser.

    David Arnlund;Linda C Johansson;Cecilia Wickstrand;Anton Barty

  • Crystal structure of a yeast aquaporin at 1.15 angstrom reveals a novel gating mechanism.

    Gerhard Fischer;Urszula Kosinska-Eriksson;Camilo Aponte-Santamaría;Madelene Palmgren

  • Time-resolved structural studies at synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers: opportunities and challenges

    Richard Neutze;Keith Moffat

  • Retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin captured by a femtosecond X-ray laser

    P. Nogly;T. Weinert;D. James;S. Carbajo

  • A three dimensional movie of structural changes in bacteriorhodopsin: structure obtained 40 ns after photoexcitation

    A. Royant;E. Nango;T. Nakane;T. Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Antoine Royant
Antoine Royant Institut de Biologie Structurale
Anton Barty
Anton Barty Universität Hamburg
Henry N. Chapman
Henry N. Chapman Universität Hamburg
Petra Fromme
Petra Fromme Arizona State University
John C. H. Spence
John C. H. Spence Arizona State University
Marc Messerschmidt
Marc Messerschmidt SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Gebhard F. X. Schertler
Gebhard F. X. Schertler Paul Scherrer Institute
Ilme Schlichting
Ilme Schlichting Max Planck Society
So Iwata
So Iwata Kyoto University
Michael Wulff
Michael Wulff European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

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