Radiation damage in macromolecular cryocrystallography

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 624-629

  Ravelli, Raimond BG ^a   Garman, Elspeth F ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; SCAVENGER;

COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DECARBOXYLATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEATING; MACROMOLECULE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R FACTOR; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOCHEMISTRY; REVIEW; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FREEZING; HUMANS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; X-RAYS;

EID: 33749179561     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.08.001     Document Type: Review

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