Newsletter 150
June 18, 2007


The NIH X-Ray Diffraction Interest Group

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

APS's Joachimiak, Rosenbaum honored with 2007 Compton Award

     

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: May 2007 Publications by Members 

1: Phan J, Tropea JE, Waugh DS.
 Structure-assisted discovery of Variola major H1 phosphatase inhibitors.
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2007 Jun;63(Pt 6):698-704. PMID: 17505108
   
2: Ziolkowska NE, Shenoy SR, O'Keefe BR, McMahon JB, Palmer KE, Dwek RA,
Wormald MR, Wlodawer A.
 Crystallographic, thermodynamic, and molecular modeling studies 
of the mode obinding of oligosaccharides to the potent antiviral protein griffithsin.
Proteins. 2007 May 15;67(3):661-70. PMID: 17340634

   
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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