Cryo-cooling in macromolecular crystallography: Advantages, disadvantages and optimization

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-119

  Juers, Douglas H ^a   Matthews, Brian W ^b  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FREEZING; KINETICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BIOPOLYMERS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FREEZING; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 20944434880     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583504004007     Document Type: Review

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