Towards a 'universal' nucleant for protein crystallization

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-106

  Saridakis, Emmanuel ^a   Chayen, Naomi E ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC STRUCTURES; CRYSTAL NUCLEATIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; DRUG DESIGNS; HIGH QUALITY CRYSTALS; NUCLEANT; PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; STRUCTURED SURFACES;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NUCLEATION;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG DESIGN; ELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEINS;

EID: 58849146073     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2008.10.008     Document Type: Review

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