Racemic protein crystallography

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-61

  Yeates, Todd O ^a   Kent, Stephen B H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrosymmetric; Chemical protein synthesis; Crystallization; Phase problem; Space group

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE; CRAMBIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; KALIOTOXIN; MONELLIN; OMWAPRIN; PLECTASIN; PROTEIN; RUBREDOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENANTIOMER; LIGAND BINDING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RACEMIC MIXTURE; RACEMIC PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THEORY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; PROTEINS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 84861378744     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-050511-102333     Document Type: Review

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