Crystal Structure Determination of Biological Macromolecular Assemblies; From Data Collection to Structure Determination.

Integrating diverse data for structure determination of macromolecular assemblies.

To understand the cell, we need to determine the macromolecular assembly structures, which may consist of tens to hundreds of components. First, we review the varied experimental data that characterize the assemblies at several levels of resolution. We then describe computational methods for generating the structures using these data. To maximize completeness, resolution, accuracy, precision, a...

Optimizing data collection for structure determination.

The ultimate purpose of diffraction data collection is to produce a data set which will result in the required structural information about the molecule of interest. This usually entails collecting a complete and accurate set of reflection intensities to as high a resolution as possible. In practice, the characteristics of the crystal and properties of the X-ray source can be limiting factors t...

Integrative structure modeling of macromolecular assemblies from proteomics data.

Proteomics techniques have been used to generate comprehensive lists of protein interactions in a number of species. However, relatively little is known about how these interactions result in functional multiprotein complexes. This gap can be bridged by combining data from proteomics experiments with data from established structure determination techniques. Correspondingly, integrative computat...

A new principle for macromolecular structure determination

Protein NMR spectroscopy is a modern experimental technique for elucidating the threedimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution. From the data-analytical point of view, structure determination has always been considered an optimisation problem: much effort has been spent on the development of minimisation strategies; the underlying rationale, however, has not been revised. C...

Dipolar couplings in macromolecular structure determination.