Development of an alternative approach to protein crystallization

Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 193-198

  McPherson, Alexander ^a   Nguyen, Chieniang ^b   Larson, Steven B ^a   Day, John S ^a   Cudney, Bob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Hampton Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Additives; Cross links; Evaluation; Lattice; Screening; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEINS; TRYPSIN; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 41049097170     PISSN: 1345711X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10969-007-9034-3     Document Type: Article

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