Microgravity protein crystallization: Are we reaping the full benefit of outer space?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 974, Issue , 2002, Pages 591-597

  Chayen, Naomi E ^a   Helliwell, John R ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microgravity; Nucleation; Protein crystallization

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLOW RATE; MICROGRAVITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPACE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037024536     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb05933.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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