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Newsletter No. 222
June 14, 2010
Mid-Atlantic Macromolecular Crystallography 40th Annual Meeting (06/10-12/2010)

   
GRC Diffraction Methods in Structural Biology (07/18-23/2010)

American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting (07/24-29/2010)
 
Advances in Protein Crystallography (11/9-10/2010)

MAY 2010 PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE GROUP  

1: Zhao H, Brown PH, Balbo A, Fernández-Alonso MD, Polishchuck N, Chaudhry C,
Mayer ML, Ghirlando R, Schuck P. Accounting for Solvent Signal Offsets in the
Analysis of Interferometric Sedimentation Velocity Data. Macromol Biosci. 2010
May 17. PubMed PMID: 20480511.

2: Batra VK, Pedersen LC, Beard WA, Wilson SH, Kashemirov BA, Upton TG, Goodman
MF, McKenna CE. Halogenated beta,gamma-Methylene- and Ethylidene-dGTP-DNA
Ternary Complexes with DNA Polymerase beta: Structural Evidence for
Stereospecific Binding of the Fluoromethylene Analogues. J Am Chem Soc.
2010 May 13. PubMed PMID: 20465217.

3: Subburaman P, Austin BP, Shaw GX, Waugh DS, Ji X. Cloning, expression,
purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of
macrophage growth locus A (MglA) protein from Francisella tularensis. Acta
Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun. 2010 May 1;66(Pt 5):554-7.
PubMed PMID: 20445258.

4: Ryabov Y, Clore GM, Schwieters CD. Direct use of 15N relaxation rates as
experimental restraints on molecular shape and orientation for docking of
protein-protein complexes. J Am Chem Soc. 2010 May 5;132(17):5987-9.
PubMed PMID: 20392103.
TIPS AND TRICKS Visualization

Visualization of multiple alignments, phylogenies and gene family evolution

Visualization of macromolecular structures

ARCHIVE: Introduction, Pre-crystallization, Crystallization, Post-crystallization, Derivatization, Cryoprotection, Diffraction, Symmetry, Structure Solution, Structure Refinement, Structure Analysis & Presentation.

TOPIC DISCUSSION - Resolution

Super-resolution biomolecular crystallography with low-resolution data

ARCHIVE: Test-set-and-R-free, Twinning, Low Resolution Crystallography, PHASER, HKL2000, Parallel Expression, Structural Genomics, NCS, Missing Atoms, Trends in CrystallographyAbsorption Correction.

 LINKS - Recommended Sites?

Databases: BMCD, CryoD, HAD, HIC-Up, NDBPDB, Swiss-Prot
Programs: CCP4, COOT, HKLPHENIX, PyMOL, SOLVE, USF, XDS
Servers: CrystalDali, ESPript, Probity, Protein

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