The 36th Mid-Atlantic Macromolecular Crystallography Meeting

The 2006 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association

Item 1: January 2006 Publications by Members:

1:  Jedrzejczak R, Dauter Z, Dauter M, Piatek R, Zalewska B, Mroz M, Bury K, Nowicki B, Kur J.
 Structure of DraD invasin from uropathogenic Escherichia coli: a dimer with swapped beta-tails.
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Jan 18. PMID: 16421447

2:  Suh JY, Cai M, Williams DC Jr, Clore GM.
 Solution structure of a post-transition state analog of the phosphotransfer
reaction between the a and b cytoplasmic domains of the mannitol transporter IImannitol of the Escherichia coli phosphotransferase system.
J Biol Chem. 2006 Jan 28. PMID: 16443929

3:  Gan J, Tropea JE, Austin BP, Court DL, Waugh DS, Ji X.
 Structural insight into the mechanism of double-stranded RNA processing by ribonuclease III.
Cell. 2006 Jan 27;124(2):355-66. PMID: 16439209

4:  Fritz TA, Raman J, Tabak LA.
 Dynamic association between the catalytic and lectin domains of human
UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide alpha -N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-2.
J Biol Chem. 2006 Jan 24. PMID: 16434399

5:  Yang W, Van Duyne GD.
 Protein-nucleic acid interactions: from A(rgonaute) to X(PF).
Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2006 Jan 23. PMID: 16439109

6:  Iwahara J, Clore GM.
 Direct observation of enhanced translocation of a homeodomain between DNA cognate sites by NMR exchange spectroscopy.
J Am Chem Soc. 2006 Jan 18;128(2):404-5. PMID: 16402815

7:  Swaminathan CP, Brown PH, Roychowdhury A, Wang Q, Guan R, Silverman N, Goldman WE, Boons GJ, Mariuzza RA.
 Dual strategies for peptidoglycan discrimination by peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs).
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jan 17;103(3):684-9. Epub 2006 Jan 9.
PMID: 16407132

8:  Prabakaran P, Gan J, Wu YQ, Zhang MY, Dimitrov DS, Ji X.
 Structural Mimicry of CD4 by a Cross-reactive HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibody with CDR-H2 and H3 Containing Unique Motifs.
J Mol Biol. 2006 Jan 9. PMID: 16426633

Item 2: Tips and Tricks

Suggested Reading: Rules for undulator data collection and guidelines for a satisfactory experiment.

This section is always open for contributions. Click for Introduction and tips and tricks in Crystallization, Post-crystallization treatments for improving diffraction quality of protein crystals, Derivatization, Diffraction, Symmetry, Structure Solution, Structure Refinement, and Structure Analysis.

Item 3: Topic Discussion - Radiation Damage

Contributions on the understanding, practical aspects, and applications of radiation damage are welcome.

Click for previous discussions on: PHASER, HKL2000, Parallel Protein Expression, Structural Genomics, NCS, Missing Atoms, Trends in Crystallography, and Absorption Correction.

Item 4: Lectures

Dr. Zbigniew Dauter's Lectures at the NIH (03/29-31)