A technique for high-throughput protein crystallization in ionically cross-linked polysaccharide gel beads for x-ray diffraction experiments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Sugahara, Michihiro ^a  

^a RIKEN SPring 8 Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CARRAGEENAN; LYSOZYME; ZEOLITE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; GEL; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; ION; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DERIVATIZATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; GEL; HEAT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGINATES; CARRAGEENAN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GELS; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HOT TEMPERATURE; IONS; MURAMIDASE; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; ZEOLITES;

EID: 84899721539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095017     Document Type: Article

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