Newsletter 169
March 24, 2008


The NIH X-Ray Diffraction Interest Group

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

38th Mid-Atlantic Macromolecular Crystallography Meeting
22 - 24 May 2008, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

2008 Meeting of the American Crystallography Association
31 May - 5 June 2008, Knoxville, TN, USA

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

 

Item 1: February 2008 Publications by Members of the Group

1: Inoue K, Negishi M.
Nuclear receptor CAR requires early growth response 1 to
activate the human cytochrome P450 2B6 gene.
J Biol Chem. 2008 Feb 25; PMID: 18303024

2: Lin DY, Tanaka Y, Iwasaki M, Gittis AG, Su HP, Mikami B,
Okazaki T, Honjo T, Minato N, Garboczi DN.
The PD-1/PD-L1 complex resembles the antigen-binding Fv
domains of antibodies and T cell receptors.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb 26;105(8):3011-6.
PMID: 18287011

3: Hu J, Hu K, Williams DC Jr, Komlosh M, Cai M, Clore GM.
Solution nmr structures of productive and non-productive
complexes between the A and B domains of the cytoplasmic
subunit of the mannose transporter of the Escherichia coli
phosphotransferase system.
J Biol Chem. 2008 Feb 11; PMID: 18270202

4: Wickner RB, Dyda F, Tycko R.
Amyloid of Rnq1p, the basis of the [PIN+] prion, has a
parallel in-register beta-sheet structure.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb 19;105(7):2403-8.
PMID: 18268327

5: Ramakrishnan B, Boeggeman E, Qasba PK.
Applications of glycosyltransferases in the site-specific
conjugation of biomolecules and the development of a
targeted drug delivery system and contrast agents for MRI.
Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2008 Feb;5(2):149-153.
PMID: 18248315


Item 2: Tips and Tricks

Need an image processing software that builds three-dimensional profiles? Try XDS. For an easy start, see INTEGRATE by Kay Diederichs.

Item 3: Topic Discussion

Click for previous discussions on: Twinning, 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 (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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