The lab specializes in studying the structural properties of striated muscle using Small-Angle X-ray diffraction.musclexlab.com Illinois, USAJoined May 2015
#OPENACCESS: A higher ATP concentration turns thick myosin filaments into an ON state, leading to altered cross-bridge kinetics. These X-ray data correlate low ATP levels to the inactivated myosin state observed in certain heart diseases. buff.ly/6ZpKw3J
Excited to share BioCAT P30 grant received an outstanding overall impact score of 16! Grateful that the Fiber Core, which I lead, earned a perfect score of 10—a testament to the incredible work of our team and user community. We look forward to serve the field in the years ahead.
The PI of BioCAT, Thomas Irving, will give a talk today at 3:15-4:30pm CST titled “30 years of Muscle Diffraction at BioCAT - What have we learned about muscle contraction?”
Welcome to join
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It was very nice to welcome our muscle users @HesselAnthony@mikuehn8@vivekpjani back after two years for @advancedphoton upgrade. BioCAT remains the state-of-art facility for muscle X-ray diffraction.
Proposal for next run due in two days!
🚨📢Paper alert! Real progress on identifying why residual force enhancement occurs! This was a study I dreamed about since grad school. Please share!
The distinctive mechanical and structural signatures of residual force enhancement in myofibers | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Very productive run at @CHESS_user with @vivekpjani and Marcus. We collect patterns from human heart tissue (HFpEF, HFrEF, HCM, SVD) probably for the first time ever there, and more patterns from animal hearts. Looking forward to come back soon!!!
🎉The journal cover of our June 2024 issue nicely displayed by Dr Weikang Ma at the BioCAT, @argonne@illinoistech🎉
The cover image comes from X-ray diffraction patterns in Zhao et al.'s work examining differences in thick filament activation! 🔗buff.ly/3xkaB2x
We are glad to share that we got all the beam we expected from the new @advancedphoton into our experimental hutch, ~4 × 10^13 photons/sec at 250um ×250 um unfocused. We expect to welcome users back in the near future after the scientific commissioning.
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