Newsletter 151
July 2, 2007


The NIH X-Ray Diffraction Interest Group

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

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: June 2007 Publications by Members

1: Wang J, Wlodawer A, Dauter Z.
What happens when the signs of anomalous differences or the handedness of
substructure are inverted?
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2007 Jul;63(Pt 7):751-8. PMID: 17582166

2: Nakanishi S, Prasad R, Wilson SH, Smerdon M.
Different structural states in oligonucleosomes are required for early versus
late steps of base excision repair.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jun 18; PMID: 17576692

3: Leonard TA, Hurley JH.
Two kinase family dramas.
Cell. 2007 Jun 15;129(6):1037-8.PMID: 17574014

4: Li YF, Poole S, Rasulova F, McVeigh AL, Savarino SJ, Xia D.
A receptor-binding site as revealed by the crystal structure of CfaE,the CFA/I
fimbrial adhesin of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
J Biol Chem. 2007 Jun 14; PMID: 17569668

5: Palma N, Cinelli S, Sapora O, Wilson SH, Dogliotti E.
Ochratoxin A-Induced Mutagenesis in Mammalian Cells Is Consistent with the
Production of Oxidative Stress.
Chem Res Toxicol. 2007 Jun 14; PMID: 17567156

6: Bradley CM, Jones S, Huang Y, Suzuki Y, Kvaratskhelia M, Hickman AB, Craigie
R, Dyda F.
Structural Basis for Dimerization of LAP2alpha, a Component of the Nuclear
Lamina.
Structure. 2007 Jun;15(6):643-53.PMID: 17562312

7: Prag G, Watson H, Kim YC, Beach BM, Ghirlando R, Hummer G, Bonifacino JS,
Hurley JH.
The Vps27/Hse1 complex is a GAT domain-based scaffold for ubiquitin-dependent
sorting.
Dev Cell. 2007 Jun;12(6):973-86. PMID: 17543868

   
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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