Matthews coefficient probabilities: Improved estimates for unit cell contents of proteins, DNA, and protein-nucleic acid complex crystals

Protein Science

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1865-1871

  Kantardjieff, Katherine A ^a   Rupp, Bernhard ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Matthews coefficient; Matthews probabilities; Protein crystals; Solvent content

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MACROMOLECULE; MATTHEWS COEFFICIENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATABASES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 0042011224     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.0350503     Document Type: Article

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