Electron crystallography - The waking beauty of structural biology

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 514-519

  Pope, Christopher R ^a   Unger, Vinzenz M ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AUTOMATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MONOLAYER; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84865300840     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.03.006     Document Type: Review

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