Examples of artificially grown crystals
Protein crystals
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| Protein crystals grown at pH around 2 (buffer is KCl buffered with HCl!) showing three different crystal forms (needles, plates and cubes). All three crystal forms diffracted X-rays beyond 1.8Å resolution! |
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| Compound name | Protein crystals |
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| Keywords | biomac |
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| Technique | Hanging drop |
| Temperature | 293 |
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| Keywords | sol |
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| Application(s) | Structure determination of protein in complex with ligand. |
| Link(s) | http://www-dsv.cea.fr/lbc |
| Other remarks | Obtaining protein crystals at pH 2 is quiet rare. But here we obtained three different crystal forms. |
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