X-ray crystallography at the heart of life science

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 622-626

  Yonath, Ada ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 80053569602     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2011.07.005     Document Type: Review

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