Monitoring and scoring counter-diffusion protein crystallization experiments in capillaries by in situ dynamic light scattering

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Oberthuer, Dominik ^a   Melero García, Emilio ^b   Dierks, Karsten ^c   Meyer, Arne ^c   Betzel, Christian ^a   Garcia Caballero, Alfonso ^b   Gavira, Jose A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE ISOMERASE; SILICON DIOXIDE; ISOMERASE; XYLOSE ISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTER DIFFUSION PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES RUBIGINOSUS; VALIDATION STUDY; CAPILLARY TUBE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ENZYMOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; TIME;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; CAPILLARY TUBING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; LIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; QUARTZ; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STREPTOMYCES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861896243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033545     Document Type: Article

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