Newsletter 147
May 7, 2007


The NIH X-Ray Diffraction Interest Group

Newsletter web site: http://mcl1.ncifcrf.gov/nihxray


The 37th Mid-Atlantic Macromolecular Crystallography Meeting 
7-9 June 2007, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

The 2007 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Associstion
21-26 July 2007, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

The 9th International Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation 
13-17 August 2007, Manchester, England

The 21st Congress of the Internatinal Union of Crystallography
23 - 31 August 2008, Osaka, Japan


Item 1: April 2007 Publications by Members 

1:  Buchanan SK, Lukacik P, Grizot S, Ghirlando R, Ali MM, Barnard TJ, Jakes KS,
Kienker PK, Esser L. 
 Structure of colicin I receptor bound to the R-domain of colicin Ia:
implications for protein import.
EMBO J. 2007 May 16;26(10):2594-604. PMID: 17464289
  
2:  Xia D, Esser L, Yu L, Yu CA. 
 Structural basis for the mechanism of electron bifurcation at the quinol
oxidation site of the cytochrome bc (1) complex.
Photosynth Res. 2007 Apr 25; PMID: 17457691 
  
3:  Kostelansky MS, Schluter C, Tam YY, Lee S, Ghirlando R, Beach B, Conibear E,
Hurley JH. 
 Molecular Architecture and Functional Model of the Complete Yeast ESCRT-I
Heterotetramer.
Cell. 2007 May 4;129(3):485-498. PMID: 17442384
  
4:  Cohen CJ, Li YF, El-Gamil M, Robbins PF, Rosenberg SA, Morgan RA. 
 Enhanced antitumor activity of T cells engineered to express T-cell receptors
with a second disulfide bond.
Cancer Res. 2007 Apr 15;67(8):3898-903. PMID: 17440104
  
5:  Meijers R, Adolph HW, Dauter Z, Wilson KS, Lamzin VS, Cedergren-Zeppezauer
ES. 
 Structural Evidence for a Ligand Coordination Switch in Liver Alcohol
Dehydrogenase.
Biochemistry. 2007 May 8;46(18):5446-5454. PMID: 17429946
  
6:  Hu K, Vogeli B, Clore GM. 
 Spin-state selective carbon-detected HNCO with TROSY optimization in all
dimensions and double echo-antiecho sensitivity enhancement in both indirect
dimensions.
J Am Chem Soc. 2007 May 2;129(17):5484-91.PMID: 17417840

   
Item 2: Tips and Tricks

Item 3: Topic Discussion

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

 

Item 4: Dr. Zbigniew Dauter's Lectures at the NIH (03/29-31/2005)

Part 1: "How to read international tables?"

Part 2: "Data collection strategy" and "Twinning"

           "Phasing methods - a general introduction to all methods"

Part 3: "SAD phasing, Quick halide soaking, and Radiation damage 

           with possible use of it for phasing"
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