Neutron Laue diffractometry with an imaging plate provides an effective data collection regime for neutron protein crystallography

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 909-914

  Niimura, Nobuo ^a,e   Minezaki, Yoshiaki ^a   Nonaka, Takamasa ^b   Castagna, Jean Charles ^c   Cipriani, Florent ^c   Høghøj, Peter ^d   Lehmann, Mogens S ^d   Wilkinson, Clive ^c  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^d INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; IMAGING SYSTEM; NEUTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHICKENS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; NEUTRONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOFTWARE; WATER;

EID: 0030694240     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb1197-909     Document Type: Review

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