How to Avoid Premature Decay of Your Macromolecular Crystal: A Quick Soak for Long Life

Structure

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1099-1105

  Kauffmann, Brice ^a   Weiss, Manfred S ^a   Lamzin, Victor S ^a   Schmidt, Andrea ^a  

^a DESY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MURAMIDASE; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 33745822405     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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