Protein crystallography for non-crystallographers, or how to get the best (but not more) from published macromolecular structures

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-21

  Wlodawer, Alexander ^a   Minor, Wladek ^b,c   Dauter, Zbigniew ^d   Jaskolski, Mariusz ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Midwest Center for Structural Genomics   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Protein crystallography; Protein Data Bank; R factor; Resolution; Restraints; Structure determination; Structure interpretation; Structure quality; Structure refinement; Structure validation

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; METAL ION; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RANPIRNASE; SOLVENT;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY; ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 37349016530     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.06178.x     Document Type: Review

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