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Newsletter No. 238
May 2, 2011

The 2011 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (5/28-6/2/2011)



The 41st Mid-Atlantic Protein Crystallography Workshop (6/2-4/2011)



The XXII Congress and General Assembly of the IUCr (8/22-30/2011)


APRIL 2011 PUBLICATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE GROUP  

1: Hansman GS, Biertümpfel C, Georgiev I, McLellan JS, Chen L, Zhou T, Katayama
K, Kwong PD. Crystal Structures of GII.10 and GII.12 Norovirus Protruding Domains
in Complex with Histo-Blood Group Antigens Reveal Details for a Potential Site of
Vulnerability. J Virol. 2011 Apr 27. PubMed PMID: 21525337.

2: Bhaumik P, Horimoto Y, Xiao H, Miura T, Hidaka K, Kiso Y, Wlodawer A, Yada RY,
Gustchina A. Crystal structures of the free and inhibited forms of plasmepsin I
(PMI) from Plasmodium falciparum. J Struct Biol. 2011 Apr 20. PubMed PMID: 21521654.

3: Ren X,
Hurley JH. Proline-rich regions and motifs in trafficking: From ESCRT
interaction to viral exploitation. Traffic. 2011 Apr 21. doi:
10.1111/j.1600-0854.2011.01208.x. PubMed PMID: 21518163.

4: Ren X,
Hurley JH. Structural basis for endosomal recruitment of ESCRT-I by
ESCRT-0 in yeast. EMBO J. 2011 Apr 19. PubMed PMID: 21505419.

5: Botos I, Segal DM, Davies DR. The Structural Biology of Toll-like Receptors.
Structure. 2011 Apr 13;19(4):447-59. PubMed PMID: 21481769.

6: Ryabov Y, Schwieters CD, Clore GM. Impact of (15)n r(2)/r(1) relaxation
restraints on molecular size, shape, and bond vector orientation for NMR protein
structure determination with sparse distance restraints. J Am Chem Soc. 2011 Apr
27;133(16):6154-7. Epub 2011 Apr 4. PubMed PMID: 21462982.

7: Brzezinski K, Brzuszkiewicz A, Dauter M, Kubicki M, Jaskolski M, Dauter Z.
High regularity of Z-DNA revealed by ultra high-resolution crystal structure at
0.55 A. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Apr 1. PubMed PMID: 21459852.
TIPS AND TRICKS - Contributions?


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

TOPIC DISCUSSION - Low Resolution Crystallography (Click for PDF reader to view articles)


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

DR. ZBIGNIEW DAUTER'S LECTURE 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"


 LINKS - New Additions: DisProt, Phyre

Databases: BMCD, CryoD, DisProt, HAD, HIC-Up, NDBPDB, PDBe, Swiss-Prot
Programs: CCP4, COOT, HKLPHENIX, PyMOL, SOLVE, USF, XDS
Servers: Crystal, PHYRE, Dali, ESPript, Phyre, Probity, Protein
 
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