The use of ionic liquids as crystallization additives allowed to overcome nanodrop scaling up problems: A success case for producing diffraction-quality crystals of a nitrate reductase

Journal of Crystal Growth

Volumn 312, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 714-719

  Coelho, Catarina ^a   Trincão, José ^a   João Romão, Maria ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

A1. Biocrystallization; A1. Crystal morphology; A1. X ray diffraction; A2. Single crystal growth; B1. Proteins; B2. Ionic liquids

Indexed keywords

A1. X-RAY DIFFRACTION; A2. SINGLE CRYSTAL GROWTH; B1. PROTEINS; BIOCRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGIES;

ADDITIVES; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFRACTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IONS; MORPHOLOGY; PROTEINS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 74949128363     PISSN: 00220248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2009.11.060     Document Type: Article

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