Newsletter 180
October 6, 2008


The NIH X-Ray Diffraction Interest Group

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

Special Item: Photos and Reports of IUCr 2008

     

Item 1: September 2008 Publications by Members of the Group

1: Xiao T.
Innate immune recognition of nucleic acids.
Immunol Res. 2008 Sep 23. PMID: 18810334

2: Sobhany M, Kakuta Y, Sugiura N, Kimata K, Negishi M.
The chondroitin polymerase K4CP: Molecular mechanism of selective
bindings of donor substrates to two active sites.
J Biol Chem. 2008 Sep 19. PMID: 18806260

3: Shaw G, Gan J, Zhou YN, Zhi H, Subburaman P, Zhang R, Joachimiak A,
Jin DJ, Ji X.
Structure of RapA, a Swi2/Snf2 protein that recycles RNA polymerase
during transcription.
Structure. 2008 Sep 10;16(9):1417-27. PMID: 18786404

4: Klein MM, Gittis AG, Su HP, Makobongo MO, Moore JM, Singh S, Miller LH,
Garboczi DN.
The cysteine-rich interdomain region from the highly variable plasmodium
falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein-1 exhibits a conserved structure.
PLoS Pathog. 2008 Sep 5;4(9):e1000147. PMID: 18773118

5: Doucleff M, Clore GM.
Global jumping and domain-specific intersegment transfer between DNA cognate
sites of the multidomain transcription factor Oct-1.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Sep 16;105(37):13871-6. PMID: 18772384


Item 2: Tips and Tricks

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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