The effect of temperature and solution pH on the nucleation of tetragonal lysozyme crystals

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1585-1593

  Judge, Russell A ^a   Jacobs, Randolph S ^b   Frazier, Tyralynn ^c   Snell, Edward H ^a   Pusey, Marc L ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EGG; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PH; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0032839451     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77006-2     Document Type: Article

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