Instrumentation for synchrotron-radiation macromolecular crystallography.
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چکیده
X-ray diffraction is an extremely important tool for structure determination of biological macromolecules, to the extent that currently around 85% of Protein Data Bank entries result from X-ray measurements. Many of these structure determinations use synchrotron radiation for data collection. This article aims to give synchrotron users an overview of the functioning of a synchrotron beamline and how the performance of various instruments combines to allow the collection of diffraction data.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography
دوره 62 Pt 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006