Application of femtosecond laser ablation for detaching grown protein crystals from glass capillary tube

Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 372-374

  Kashii, Masafumi ^a,b   Fujisawa, Ryo ^b   Adachi, Hiroaki ^b,c,d   Mori, Yusuke ^b,c,d   Sasaki, Takatomo ^b,c,d   Koga, Yuichi ^b   Takano, Kazufumi ^b,c,d   Kanaya, Shigenori ^b   Matsumura, Hiroyoshi ^b,c,d   Inoue, Tsuyoshi ^b,c,d   Murakami, Satoshi ^b,c,d   Sugamoto, Kazuomi ^a   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d 313 Photonics Center Building   (Japan)

Author keywords

counter diffusion technique; femtosecond laser; gel tube; laser ablation; protein crystal; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER PULSES; PROTEINS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COUNTER DIFFUSION TECHNIQUE; FEMTOSECOND LASER; GEL TUBE; PROTEIN CRYSTAL;

LASER ABLATION;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASER; PROTEIN ISOLATION; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GLASS; LASERS; PROTEINS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33751010213     PISSN: 13891723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1263/jbb.102.372     Document Type: Article

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