Protein crystallization using microfluidic technologies based on valves, droplets, and slipChip

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-158

  Li, Liang ^a   Ismagilov, Rustem F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Free interface diffusion; High throughput; In situ diffraction; Phase diagram; Screening

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; INSULIN; LYSOZYME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFRACTION; FLUID TRANSPORT; HANGING DROP VAPOR DIFFUSION METHOD; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOANALYSIS; PLUG FLOW REACTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MICROFLUIDICS; PROTEINS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77952922120     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.050708.133630     Document Type: Review

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