A guide to the crystallographic analysis of icosahedral viruses

Crystallography Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 3-56

  McPherson, Alexander ^a   Larson, Steven B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

crystallization; electron density averaging; icosahedral symmetry; non crystallographic symmetry; virus crystallography; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA HANDLING; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC SYMMETRY; DATA COLLECTION PROCESS; ICOSAHEDRAL SYMMETRY; MOLECULAR SUBSTITUTION; PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; VIRUS CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA;

VIRUSES;

EID: 84926188374     PISSN: 0889311X     EISSN: 14763508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0889311X.2014.963572     Document Type: Review

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