Selecting temperature for protein crystallization screens using the temperature dependence of the second virial coefficient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a   Yin, Da Chuan ^a   Guo, Yun Zhu ^a   Wang, Xi Kai ^a   Xie, Si Xiao ^a   Lu, Qin Qin ^a   Liu, Yong Ming ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN; HEN EGG LYSOZYME; LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRYSTALLIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MURAMIDASE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEINS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79953319627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017950     Document Type: Article

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