Ab initio structure determination from prion nanocrystals at atomic resolution by MicroED

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 40, 2016, Pages 11232-11236

  Sawaya, Michael R ^a,b   Rodriguez, Jose ^a,b   Cascio, Duilio ^a,b   Collazo, Michael J ^a,b   Shi, Dan ^c   Reyes, Francis E ^c   Hattne, Johan ^c   Gonen, Tamir ^c   Eisenberg, David S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron diffraction; MicroED; Nanocrystal; Phasing; Prion

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; NANOCRYSTAL; PRION PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; NANOPARTICLE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MACROMOLECULE; MICROELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOPARTICLES; PRIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84989940890     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606287113     Document Type: Article

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