Progress in macromolecular crystallography depends on further miniaturization of crystallization experiments

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1505-1507

  Gorrec, Fabrice ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFRACTION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STANDARDIZATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS;

PROTEIN;

CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MINIATURIZATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84908567582     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: 18785832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2014.07.002     Document Type: Editorial

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