The suitability of multi-metal clusters for phasing in crystallography of large macromolecular assemblies

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 513-518

  Thygesen, Jesper ^a   Weinstein, Shulamit ^b   Franceschi, Francois ^c   Yonath, Ada ^a,b  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; METHYLMERCURY DERIVATIVE; ORGANOGOLD COMPOUND; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA; TETRAKIS(ACETOXYMERCURI)METHANE; UNDECAGOLD;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GOLD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; ORGANOGOLD COMPOUNDS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; RNA, TRANSFER, ILE; RNA, TRANSFER, PHE;

EID: 0030585115     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00057-3     Document Type: Article

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