Inducing phase changes in crystals of macromolecules: Status and perspectives for controlled crystal dehydration

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 236-243

  Russi, Silvia ^a   Juers, Douglas H ^b,c   Sanchez Weatherby, Juan ^a   Pellegrini, Erika ^d   Mossou, Estelle ^e,f   Forsyth, V Trevor ^e,f   Huet, Julien ^a   Gobbo, Alexandre ^a   Felisaz, Franck ^a   Moya, Raphael ^a   McSweeney, Sean M ^d   Cusack, Stephen ^a   Cipriani, Florent ^a   Bowler, Matthew W ^d  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^e INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^f KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automation; Crystal dehydration; Humidity control device; Macromolecular crystallography; Synchrotron instrumentation; X ray diffraction improvement

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFRACTION; HUMIDITY; HUMIDITY CONTROL DEVICE HC1B; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SYNCHROTRON;

AMYLOID; COLD TEMPERATURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DESICCATION; HUMANS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; SYNCHROTRONS;

EID: 79959928951     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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