Macromolecular crystal twinning, lattice disorders and multiple crystals

Crystallography Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 189-250

  Helliwell, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystal growth; Lattice disorders; Macromolecules; Multiple crystals; Nucleic acids; Proteins; Synchrotron radiation; Twinning

Indexed keywords

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; CRYSTAL CUTTING; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MACROMOLECULES; MINERALOGY; MOLECULES; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLLUTION; POWDERS; PROTEIN FOLDING; REMEDIATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO-ACID SEQUENCES; CASE STUDIES; CHEMICAL ADDITIVES; CRYSTAL DISORDERING; CRYSTAL FRAGMENTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; GROWTH CONDITIONS; LATTICE DISORDERS; MICRO-CRYSTALLITES; MOLECULAR REPLACEMENTS; MULTIPLE CRYSTALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SUPER LATTICES; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X-RAY DATA;

TWINNING;

EID: 52149110331     PISSN: 0889311X     EISSN: 14763508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08893110802360925     Document Type: Article

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