Analysis of solvent content and oligomeric states in protein crystals - Does symmetry matter?

Protein Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 623-632

  Chruszcz, Maksymilian ^a   Potrzebowski, Wojciech ^a,b   Zimmerman, Matthew D ^a   Grabowski, Marek ^a   Zheng, Heping ^a   Lasota, Piotr ^a   Minor, Wladek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Matthews coefficient; Oligomerization; Protein crystals; Solvent content; Space group frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 41649093175     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.073360508     Document Type: Article

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