First biannual SBIG postdoctoral symposium

Featured Speakers: Audray Harris, Junji Iwahara, Greg Miller, Vichetra Sam, Robert Havlin, Chun Tang, Ye Che, and Daniel Harries

Location: Cloister lecture hall and chapel

Date and Time: January 12, 2005

Item 1: December 2004 Publications by Members:

1:  Gu Y, Guo J, Pal A, Pan SS, Zimniak P, Singh SV, Ji X.
Crystal Structure of Human Glutathione S-Transferase A3-3 and Mechanistic Implications for Its High Steroid Isomerase Activity(,).
Biochemistry. 2004 Dec 21;43(50):15673-15679. PMID: 15595823

2:  Guan R, Roychowdhury A, Ember B, Kumar S, Boons GJ, Mariuzza RA.
Structural basis for peptidoglycan binding by peptidoglycan recognition
proteins.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Dec 7;101(49):17168-73. PMID: 15572450

3:  Agniswamy J, Lei B, Musser JM, Sun PD.
Insight of host immune evasion mediated by two variants of group a
Streptococcus Mac protein.
J Biol Chem. 2004 Dec 10;279(50):52789-96. PMID: 15466462

4:  Liang X, Young JJ, Boone SA, Waugh DS, Duesbery NS.
Involvement of domain II in toxicity of anthrax lethal factor.
J Biol Chem. 2004 Dec 10;279(50):52473-8. PMID: 15465830

Item 2: Tips and Tricks in Crystallography

This section is always open for contributions. Click for Introduction and tips and tricks in Crystallization, Derivatization, Diffraction, Symmetry, Structure Solution, Structure Refinement, and Structure Analysis.

Item 3: Topic Discussion - Protein Expression and High-throughput Expression Systems

Click for previous discussions on: Parallel Protein Expression, Structural Genomics, NCS, Missing Atoms, Trends in Crystallography, and Absorption Correction.